One of the most exciting new strategies of change is Energy Psychology which explores the strong relationship between our body/ energy system and our thoughts/ feelings. This is a new paradigm for change combining clinical psychology with aspects of oriental medicine and applied kinesiology.

Energy Psychology is a new approach to therapy that dramatically reduces emotional distress and restores emotional well-being by clearing the flow of the body's electro-magnetic Energy System. When your energy is balanced and runs clear, your emotional distress disappears.

This changing and balancing your energy system through tapping and other processes is, in many ways, a type of "psychological acupressure". The idea is that these strategies remove blocks and constrictions thereby fading the unwanted stress, feelings, or urges which go with them thereby creating the space, emotions, and attitudes to be more positive, effective and successful.

This has been experienced dramatically by many who formerly suffered from anxiety, depression, phobias, panic and panic attacks, past trauma, histories of abuse, anger and rage, obsessions and other emotional distress.

It is well known that each of us has a powerful and complex system of Energy flow that permeates and radiates from our bodies. It is invisible to us, but it is concretely and demonstrably real. It has been known about for centuries and has recently been verified using special photographic techniques.

The condition of our Energy System affects us immediately and profoundly. It has everything to do with how we feel.

When the flow of our Energy is balanced and clear, we feel good, we "hum", our energy is strong and we have plenty of personal power.

When we consider a disturbing thought or painful issue in our lives, we actually feel the energetic weakening in our bodies in the form of negative emotion. When the flow of energy in our system is disrupted, we feel anger, fear, hurt, depression, shame, etc. This disturbance in our energy flow, associated with the thought, saps our natural strength and well-being.

But now, with Energy Psychology methods, we can clear this disturbance in the Energy System! When we do, the emotional distress disappears! Using very specific techniques, we have a precise way of restoring the flow of energy, and at the same time, restoring emotional well-being. When this is working, you can literally feel your painful emotions subside.

When your energy is clear around a thought or issue, you feel completely different:

- There is no more emotional distress.
- You feel better.
- You are able to think more clearly.
- You can see possibilities you couldn't see before.
- You are able to take action.
- You are able to act with more thought and wisdom
- You bring about better results in your life.

Thought Field Therapy (TFT), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Energy Medicine, etc., are just some of the names you may have heard of that are part of this exciting new field.

This is a very real phenomenon. Each session is a leap forward in your emotional well-being.

You do not have to be convinced about this in order for these methods to work for you. In fact, most people are healthily skeptical and it works anyway.

In a nutshell, Thought Field Therapy (TFT) and related techniques use the same Energy Meridian System of the body that is used in the medical treatments of Acupuncture and Acupressure. Instead of treating physical illness, though, these techniques use the energy meridians to treat emotional and psychological distress, often in a matter of minutes. (Even some physical symptoms can be relieved as well.)

It has been discovered that emotional distress is lodged in the body in the energy meridians. Using these techniques, we have a precise way of clearing the energy meridians, and thus, eliminating the emotional distress.

It may sound incredible, but we see rapid, if not instant, relief with at least 80-90% of the people we work with. These techniques really work. (No acupuncture needles are involved, by the way)

In dealing with painful emotions and psychological distress, talk therapy has been the traditional path for more than a century. Talk therapy produces much understanding, insight and effective coping strategies.

But talk therapy alone can be lengthy, expensive, and can involve re-living painful problems, adding even more suffering on the path toward health. It can be very emotionally demanding. People can gradually get better, but we have also seen them return again to struggle with different forms of the same issues. Often clients need to supplement therapy with medication.

Now, Energy Psychology is available. These techniques can relieve the psychological distress entirely, eliminating the need for more and more insight, understanding and coping strategies:.there is no longer any distress to cope with!

Thought Field Therapy (also known as the Callahan Techniques) was developed by Dr. Roger Callahan, a Clinical Psychologist, as a result of a major discovery 17 years ago.

Dr. Callahan was already a well established and seasoned Clinical Psychologist specializing in, among other things, the treatment of phobias. At that time he was treating a woman named Mary for her severe fear of water. This fear was so debilitating that she was flooded with fear and panic whenever she was confronted with any type of water. She had severe fearful reactions to puddles, baths, showers, even rain! Dr. Callahan was treating her at his home, where he had a swimming pool, in hopes of getting her used to the water gradually, using the usual Cognitive Behavioral and Desensitization Techniques. It was very slow and very painful for Mary.

Dr. Callahan was becoming dissatisfied with the results of traditional therapy techniques and was searching for a faster, more pain-free, more effective way for his clients to be relieved of their symptoms. Among the theories he was exploring were Acupuncture and Acupressure of Eastern Medicine.

One day, Mary mentioned that when she looked at the water she felt sick to her stomach. Dr. Callahan knew that one of the major Acupunture points for the Stomach Meridian was just under the eyes. On a hunch, he asked Mary to tap firmly under both eyes. To the total amazement of both Mary and Dr. Callahan, her fear of the water rapidly disappeared! In minutes, Mary's fear of the water was totally gone, and has not returned to this day, more than 17 years later!

Needless to say, Dr. Callahan was fascinated! Mary's experience turned out to be just the starting point.He threw himself into finding out why this had happened and how to make it happen again with others, and how to apply it to other kinds of emotional and psychological distress.

Dr. Callahan has been developing these breakthrough techniques over the last two decades. He has developed a complex and very effective system for rapidly diagnosing and treating many forms of emotional distress (and sometimes their physical symptoms as well). These techniques have proven themselves to be highly effective and now they are available to all.

This kind of therapy treats a wide range of psychological problems by addressing the bio-energy system directly, using the same Energy Meridian System as Acupuncture and Acupressure. The therapist will have the client tap on a specific sequence of Acupuncture Meridian points while focusing on the issue. (The tapping takes the place of needles and other methods of stimulating the energy meridians, that acupuncturists use)

By directly addressing the energy flows established by their thoughts, clients are quickly able to end long-standing, overwhelming negative feelings in the mind and body. It does not involve prolonged re-living of a problem for clients to get better. Suffering is very often relieved in minutes.

Therapists can also easily teach their clients the tapping patterns so clients can continue to treat their problems away from the therapist's office.

This therapy is sometimes used to treat specific problems alone (which are often completely relieved very rapidly!) or with other approaches as a part of an ongoing therapy process.

You can think of Energy Psychology as therapy applied to "thought fields". We all experience the effects of "thought fields" in our everyday life:

By definition, a field is an "invisible sphere of influence", like a magnetic field or gravitational field. When we focus on a current problem or painful memory (or the object of a phobia, like Mary and water), we can tangibly feel the "invisible influence" of that thought in our bodies, its "field", especially if that thought is particularly distressing. Thinking about the problem or memory may make us uncomfortable, angry, fearful, sad, depressed, defensive or upset. These feelings can be very strong and be a powerful influence for us to act, or avoid acting, in some particular way. They can seriously limit our choices and positive experience of life.

What Dr. Callahan discovered is that when we "tune into"a distressing thought field, and experience the negative emotions that go with it, we are actually feeling a disturbance in the body's electrical energy system. You might think of it as static in a radio signal when you tune into a station where there is interference.

Energy Psychology eliminates the disturbance in the body's energy system! Once the disturbance is eliminated, the client no longer experiences the upsetting feelings! This opens the way for more comfort, more options, personal freedom, pleasure and personal power.

To use a simple example, consider a person with a phobia of snakes. When they are in touch with it, they can suffer intense fear. Even the thought or mental picture of a snake may provoke a severely uncomfortable reaction. Their life choices may be curtailed because of this fear: they might not go hiking, to the beach, into long grass, woods, or desert, for instance.

This tangible fear is the evidence of the disturbance in the thought field. When the phobia is treated with TFT, the disturbance in the thought field of snakes is eliminated and the person can think of snakes, and be in the presence of snakes, without distress.

When treating simple phobias, such as Mary's fear of water, or fears of snakes, heights, spiders, etc., even public speaking, it is very possible have relief in one session...and the relief is immediate, complete and lasting...likely with no relapse.

One great advantage of these techniques is that it removes the fear response but does not remove normal caution. In fact, it enhances the ability of the person to handle a situation in a calm, sensible and clear-minded way.

These techniques are also used successfully with many more complicated emotional problems. TFT and related therapies can treat the long-standing effects of past trauma, anxiety and panic, anger, depression, grief, obsessive thoughts, love pain, jealousy, performance blocks, addictive cravings, and more...

We find that we can take this even further. These techniques can change people's negative beliefs about life and themselves in favor of more positive and hopeful ones that naturally trigger positive emotions and behavior.

(You can see examples of the results people are experiencing on our Testimonials pages on this site.)

In our practices, we have seen Energy Psychology make real and lasting changes in many ways and in many kinds of situations.

FFT can dissolve the lingering effects of past trauma such as abuse, crime, accidents, and negative personal events large and small.

FFT significantly accelerate recovery from emotional issues such as depression, anxiety and panic disorders, phobias, grief and loss, love pain, jealousy, anger, obsessions, compulsive behaviors, etc.

FFT can remove blocks to success and personal performance in public speakers, actors, singers, teachers, salespeople, or anyone wishing to enhance their level of success.

FFT can dramatically reduce destructive patterns in personal relationships, parenting and families so they can be as enjoyable as they were meant to be.

FFT can reduce emotional issues that interfere with satisfaction and productivity on the job.

FFT can help people in recovery successfully manage addictive cravings and the ups and downs of life without returning to their addictive substances and behaviors.

FFT can help you conquer unwanted habits that you have not been able to change before.

You can also expect excellent results in, among other things:

- improving your self-esteem
- overcoming procrastination
- becoming more assertive
- overcoming fear or avoidance of conflict
- letting go of anxiety and worry
- having the courage to pursue your dreams
- improving negative or volatile relationships
- stopping your attraction to the wrong people
- changing old patterns in relationships
- dealing with difficult people
- handling the stress of the legal system
- handling the stress of financial issues
- fear of the dentist or other medical treatments
- dealing with chronic illness and pain
- dissolving test and interview anxiety
- turning around negative self-concepts
- controlling your emotions as a parent
- changing your belief that suffering is necessary...and more.

During the actual treatment of a problem, your therapist will ask you to focus on the distressing thought or feeling that you want relieved. (This will only last a few minutes.) She will then show you how to tap on precisely the correct points on the upper body in precisely the correct order that will introduce vibrational energy into specific Energy Meridians. In most cases, you will feel your distress level about that problem dissolve right then and there. And it will not return.

There are no needles, no lying down, no repeated emotional catharsis, and no medications required.

Sounds crazy, doesn't it? But it works. To read what other clients say about their experiences, go to our Testimonial page on this site.

Dr. Callahan has observed, through working with thousands of clients, that TFT is effective 80 to 90 percent of the time, unheard of in studies of traditional therapy approaches, and definitely beyond any "placebo" effect. Our experience confirms these estimates. We actually see them as conservative. Of course, no technique works with 100% of people all the time, but this is far beyond any other therapy technique we've seen.

For simple problems, such as a phobias of a single thing (snakes, heights, needles, the dentist, public speaking, etc.) 1-5 sessions. For more complex situations, we integrate these techniques into the therapy process. With these techniques included, therapy is far more short-term, rapid and effective than ever before. You can see some examples of both kinds of cases on our Testimonial page on this site.

Yes, they do. There may be more than one aspect to a problem, or there may be complexities that need to be addressed, but once the problem has been successfully treated the effects appear to be permanent. Dr. Callahan's client Mary has not had a return of her water phobia in over 17 years. i have followed up with a number of our clients who we have treated for a variety of problems and they report no return of the emotional distress we addressed.

I am treating the effects of the problem in your energy system as it stands in present time. How long you have had the problem is not what determines the treatments, how many treatments you will need, or whether they will be successful. Very long-standing problems can be cleared up as easily as problems that have begun very recently. Sometimes a problem you have had for a very long time can be relieved simply. Sometimes a problem that has begun recently can be more complex. I treat whatever disturbance is in the energy system now that is causing your distress.

Needless to say, I was extremely skeptical when I was first introduced to Energy Psychology. It is so different from my usual approaches to therapy. I would not fault anyone for having the same skepticism.

It was only with repeated and consistent results, that could not be explained in any other way, that my skepticism diminished and disappeared. I have been using these techniques for some time now, and with many, many people, and the results are consistent and dependable. Thankfully Energy Psychology works regardless of the belief of either the therapist or the client. It works with anyone, skeptical or not.

The more I use these techniques, the more I am amazed at the dramatically positive outcomes. When my clients are open to trying it, they are amazed too. It is so exciting to see the rapid healing and enjoyment of life emerging in our clients.