My Modalities
EFT and Personalized Coaching for Stress ManagementClinical EFT & Personalized Coaching
In 1:1 sessions, I use a blend of EFT, coaching, and a variety of effective techniques to transform the stressed part of you that feels anxious, insecure and fearful, to confident, calm and assured. life.
My 5 Step Process
1. Identify Roadblocks & Obstacles
- Recognize the feelings, beliefs, and behaviors that keep occurring on repeat and contribute to your stress
- Determine which obstacles are a priority to change
2. Discover Your Destination
- Define how you would like to react, respond or feel instead
- Identify benchmarks that prove you are making progress
- Attend 1:1 sessions to identify and neutralize past traumatic events that are contributing to your current distressing feelings and behaviors
- Use self-tapping in between sessions to enhance this process
4. Align with Your Destination
- Regularly connect with how you wish to feel through a simple exercise.
5. Embrace the Shift
- Experience a newfound shift from feeling stressed, insecure and fearful, to confident, calm and assured
- Notice how old responses and reactions are no longer show up for you
Are you ready to transform?
Join me on this empowering journey to reclaim your confidence and joy! Sign up for your free consultation here.
Cherie V.
I’ve spent a couple of years processing and healing my traumas on my own, so when I heard about EFT, I was so interested in seeing what it could do for me! I’ve gone to therapy, and I’ve definitely learned better coping skills throughout my adult life. I know that healing isn’t ever linear, so processing the bigger traumas in my life seemed a bit more difficult, and honestly took me years to even want to acknowledge them. Initially, I had no idea how EFT worked, and the idea of opening up to a stranger about my deep rooted traumas made me uncomfortable (who wouldn’t be!). Vannessa made space for me and all my emotions, and made me feel so safe that sharing dark parts of my past was far from difficult or uncomfortable. She made me feel heard, and allowed me to really feel all the emotions that would come up during our sessions. No emotion would be unaddressed! Having done a couple of EFT sessions now, I have noticed that I don’t react the same way I normally do with my triggers. Certain thought processes don’t come up like they normally would. EFT has definitely helped me process things I never could on my own! And I am so thankful that I had Vannessa with me through this experience. I am grateful to have found another tool in helping me process my emotions and experiences through this lifetime.
What is EFT?
EFT or “Emotional Freedom Techniques” is a powerful self-help stress reduction technique developed based on research conveying that emotional trauma contributes significantly to disease. Through clinical trials, EFT tapping has been shown to rapidly reduce the emotional impact of memories and incidents that trigger emotional distress.
EFT uses elements of Cognitive Therapy and Exposure Therapy, and combines them with Acupressure. We self-tap on specific acupressure points with the fingertips which makes this easy to do on your own and with a practitioner online.
Utilize this tutorial video on the basics of EFT whenever you want to reduce and work through unpleasant emotions on your own. In this video, you will learn the basic acupressure points that send signals of safety and calmness to the emotional centers of the brain. By gently tapping on these acupressure points while experiencing and paying attention to your difficult emotions, you can shift out of an emotionally distressed state and transition naturally into a state of calmness and clarity. These techniques can be applied to any unpleasant emotion like anxiety, overwhelm, grief, anger, frustration, disappointment, guilt, despair, rejection, and fear to name a few. Try it out for yourself when you desire to feel a shift!
Julie Bernier
I got so much out of my sessions with Vannessa. She helped me work through some repetitive thoughts that I wasn’t able to overcome through any of the other methods I had tried. The tapping helped to neutralize the grip these thoughts had on my mind…it’s quite amazing! Vannessa is a wonderful practitioner: kind, non- judgemental, and very insightful. It’s intimate work, and she is definitely a trustworthy guide.
What is EFT used for?
Over 100 papers published in peer-reviewed medical and psychology journals, including dozens of clinical trials, have demonstrated that EFT is effective for many problems caused by trauma. Here are just a few:
Stress Reduction
Phobias
Anxiety
Depression
PTSD
Pain
How does EFT work?
EFT is better understood when you understand how trauma gets stored in the body. In a nutshell, when we experience a trauma it gets interpreted by our body and downloaded and stored in our limbic system (brain’s emotional center) like software being downloaded on a computer system. Every trauma is its own software program, and whenever we get triggered by something that reminds our body of the original trauma, our computer (limbic system) runs that software program and makes us experience the same distress we felt when the original trauma occurred. Sometimes we don’t even know what the original trauma is until we start tapping.
When EFT is performed, we use a phrase that reminds us of the traumatic event and we tap just long enough to access the traumatic software program and delete it.
It is important to know that some traumas are big, memorable, traumatic events that a leave a noticeable impact on our lives whereas smaller traumas that were significant at the time, may not be consciously thought about regularly or if at all. It can be surprising how some unconstructive criticism from a 3rd grade teacher can affect self esteem present day and no one would’ve connected the dots. The point is that either way, big or small, EFT is a great tool to address traumas that are running their programs and affecting our lives.
Will I forget my trauma after EFT?
When a trauma is completely collapsed through EFT, you will be able to recall the event; however, you won’t experience the emotional distress associated with it because it will simply be gone. It will seem more like a movie; almost like it happened to someone else.
How does EFT affect my health?
When we experience mental and emotional stress regularly, it affects our bodies in a multitude of negative ways. Tapping enables our body to go from experiencing a stressful state like fear, anxiety and anger to a calmed state of rational, creative, solution-minded thinking.
Once the distress in the body is reduced or removed, the body can often rebalance itself and accelerate healing. Clinical studies have proven a whole host of health benefits from EFT. In addition to reducing fear, anxiety, depression and phobias, tapping can lower cortisol levels (our stress response hormone), help the body assimilate more nutrients, positively change the expression of genes, reduce pain and cravings to name a handful.
With regular and consistent tapping, your emotional state changes. It then sends a positive domino affect to your physiological state, then your chemical state all the way down to your genes just by simply changing your emotional state. That’s how powerful this is! It is a testament to true emotional freedom.
Why should I work with a Clinical EFT Practitioner?
Through several sessions, you’ll also learn basic self-tapping techniques, empowering you to manage emotional distress independently. This practice isn’t just a distraction; it’s an effective method for processing and metabolizing your emotions, similar to how you digest food. This powerful approach complements your 1:1 sessions, enhancing your overall results.
My goal is to help you address the underlying causes to your current feelings, behaviors, and beliefs, permanently changing your neural pathways and enabling your brain to develop more resourceful responses naturally.