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EFT - A "Cinderella" Subject in Hypnotherapy Training
by Morris Berg
Some Hypnotherapy training schools are teaching people EFT without qualifying them as practitioners
Years ago when I started to train in hypnotherapy, I enrolled in a course that also included NLP. This was in London in the early 1980s and NLP training was really in its infancy there - I don't think there even was a Practitioner or Master Practitioner course available anywhere in England. People who wanted to train in that new-fangled American thing called NLP went to the States. Our trainer, apparently, was one of the first people to introduce NLP into the UK.
However, the hypnotherapy course was a comprehensive one and included a lot of the NLP Practitioner syllabus as well as Ericksonian hypnotherapy. We practised NLP techniques on each other in class and in practice groups. There we were, reframing and swishing away and studying each others' eye movements and body language.
When it came to the eventual qualification, it was in "Therapeutic Hypnosis and Psychotherapy". There was no mention of NLP in the diploma title even though it was a key part of the course. Today, that simply would not happen: any hypnotherapy training that includes NLP usually leads to some sort of certificate or diploma in NLP as well. And there are NLP trainings that also give you a certificate in hypnosis.
I eventually took an intensive course in NLP and later went on to qualify as a Master Practitioner of NLP. But I had to do that with different training schools, not my original hypnotherapy school.
Today, it is EFT that is taking the place of NLP as a "Cinderella" subject in some hypnotherapy schools and other complementary therapy colleges, taught but without leading to a specialised certificate. EFT may be taught as a series of classes, as a one-day seminar or even as a two-day seminar - sometimes at an annual conference. I have even seen non-certificated distance learning EFT courses run by hypnotherapy schools.
Why are these programmes not certificated? Possibly because some trainers are not certified as EFT trainers by any major EFT or meridian therapy association, possibly because they are certified trainers and use the courses as "feeders" for their certificate trainings, and possibly because of confusion about the copyright status of the term "EFT" and the right to award certificates.
The result is that a person can become a fully qualified professional hypnotherapist who knows EFT, and can use it in his/her practice combined with hypnosis and NLP, without an EFT qualification. The student then has to spend hundreds of pounds or dollars, plus travel costs, on becoming certified in EFT in order to join one of the major EFT organisations.
Now there is an affordable solution. Know EFT but don't have a certificate? You can zip through our accredited EFT 1 and 2 distance learning course in a few hours and, at low cost, and become certified as an EFT Practitioner. You will be qualified to apply for Licentiate (or higher grade depending on your qualifications) Membership of the Institute for Meridian Psychotherapy, thereby gaining three certificates in all:. You will also be able to proceed to our forthcoming advanced Certificate/Diploma courses and later, to enrol for our special meridian therapy-based distance learning course for hypnotherapists.
And there is a good chance that when you do our fully comprehensive distance EFT course, you will find that you have forgotten or were never taught some key parts of EFT practice. In a non-certificated course, short cuts can be taken and you can learn enough EFT for excellent self-help or occasional use with hypnosis. There is nothing wrong with such a course, and learning basic EFT has done many people a lot of good. If you are a professional, though, you owe it to yourself and your clients to ensure that you have covered the full syllabus of a typical professional EFT course, at least equivalent to level 2, that will give you a firm basis for further training in meridian therapy. A non-certificated EFT course simply will not do.
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Morris Berg is an EFT Practtitioner and Meridian Psychotherapist and is the owner of this site (see the about us page for more information).
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