What Advanced EFT Training Means for the Way I Support Clients

A behind-the-scenes look at how advanced Clinical EFT training helps me offer more personalised, carefully paced support when familiar reactions keep returning.

Updated August 3, 2026. This post was originally written after I completed trauma-informed Master Level 3 EFT Tapping Practitioner training with Jackie Viramontez. The original giveaway has ended, but I have kept and updated this reflection because it explains something important: what advanced training changes about the support a client receives.

Many women who consider Inner Harmony are not starting from zero. They have read, journalled, talked things through and may already tap on their own. They can often explain their patterns beautifully—and still find that a short reply, a mistake or a moment of uncertainty brings back the same tension, overthinking or self-doubt.

Because Inner Harmony offers personalised Clinical EFT support for patterns like these, I often hear a version of this question from women who are considering working with me:

If I already understand my patterns—and may even tap on my own—what would your advanced training add if we worked together?

Perhaps you have wondered this too.

It makes sense to ask. You want to know that private support will offer something more personal than another script or calming exercise. You may also want reassurance that “advanced” does not mean being pushed deeper, faster or towards an explanation that does not feel true for you.

The short answer is that advanced training gives me more ways to guide and adapt the Clinical EFT process while keeping your experience, language and pace at the centre. It helps me avoid assuming that similar-looking patterns need the same starting point.

I have written more fully about why insight alone does not always change a pattern. Here, I want to answer a different question: what my advanced training may change about your actual experience of working with me.

Let’s look at that gently and clearly.

The Short Answer: More Ways to Adapt the Process to You

Self-tapping can be a useful way to settle stress and work with a feeling in the moment. Personalised support becomes especially valuable when the same reaction keeps returning or the issue has several layers.

Take overthinking. One woman may notice that it becomes loudest around the fear of making a mistake. Another may recognise that her mind starts circling when she fears criticism or being misunderstood. The surface pattern may look similar, but what it means comes from the client—not from me assigning the same explanation to everyone.

Instead, I ask gentle questions, follow the client’s language and notice when the emotional focus changes, while continuing to check what feels manageable for her. Sometimes we stay with a recent event. Sometimes an earlier experience, belief, image, or younger part becomes relevant. I do not assume we need to find a childhood memory or one definitive “root cause.”

For the client, this means the session can respond to what is actually present. We can slow down when needed, change approach when words are not helping, and keep the work manageable enough for the client to stay connected to herself.

The aim is not to push for a breakthrough. It is to help the reaction become less overwhelming and more workable, while respecting what the client is ready to approach.

In everyday life, that may eventually mean less time lost to replaying a difficult moment, more space before an automatic reaction, or a familiar trigger that no longer feels quite as convincing. These are possibilities rather than promises, and the client remains the person who decides what any change means for her life.

More Options Do Not Mean Going Deeper Faster

A present-day reaction can sometimes carry the weight of an earlier experience. A small mistake, for example, may bring up shame that feels much bigger than the moment itself.

I do not begin by assuming that every reaction comes from childhood. We start with what is happening now. If an earlier memory or younger part emerges and feels relevant, inner child-informed work can help us meet that response with care—without forcing material to surface, blaming anyone, or asking the client to relive the past.

Many clients already understand a great deal about themselves. This part of the work is less about adding another explanation and more about helping the emotional response feel different in the present.

Advanced training means I have this option available when it arises naturally and feels relevant to the client. It does not mean I decide in advance that this is where the session needs to go.

When Words Are Not Enough: Picture Tapping Technique

Some experiences do not arrive in tidy sentences. They can feel enormous, messy, or so longstanding that a woman says, “This has always been here,” or, “I don’t think this will ever change.” Other experiences feel too embarrassing, shame-filled, or private to explain in detail. And sometimes she has analysed the pattern from every angle but still feels caught inside the same story.

Picture Tapping Technique gives us another gentle way in. Instead of having to find the perfect explanation, the client can use simple doodles, colours, lines, shapes, or images to show what the issue feels like. No artistic ability is needed. A few marks on the page are enough, and she can keep the details of the situation private.

If a client wants to try it, I guide the tapping using her own description of what she has drawn. I do not interpret the picture, decide what a colour means, or tell her what the image is revealing. She remains the expert on her own experience. As she taps and draws again, I ask what she notices now. A feeling, memory, or association may arise, the image may change, or something may simply feel less stuck. We follow what is actually present without forcing a particular insight.

This is one of the practical ways my advanced training supports the work. It does not mean every client needs Picture Tapping. It means I have another carefully guided, client-led option when an issue feels too big, too private, or too tangled for an ordinary conversation or a familiar tapping phrase.

A Hypothetical Example: When More Talking Is Not Helping

Imagine that a woman wants support with the shame that appears after a small mistake at work. She understands logically that the mistake was manageable, but every time she tries to describe what happened, she begins analysing whether she is “overreacting.”

We might begin with the present-day moment and her own words. As we tap, she may notice that talking through the details is making her feel more tangled rather than clearer.

I would not interpret that as proof of a hidden memory or decide that she is avoiding something. I might ask what she notices and offer Picture Tapping as one possible way to continue. She can choose whether she wants to try it.

Perhaps she draws a dark shape pressing against a smaller one. I do not analyse the drawing or tell her what the shapes represent. We use her words—or very few words—and follow what she notices as she taps.

The image may change, the feeling may become less intense or something new may come to mind. If nothing changes, that is information too. We continue only with what feels manageable and relevant to her.

Then we return to the original work mistake and ask how it feels now. She may notice less shame, more perspective or simply a little more room to breathe before the familiar self-criticism takes over.

What the mistake means and what she chooses to do afterward remain hers. The value of the advanced training is that we had another gentle option available when words alone were not helping.

My Journey Into Clinical EFT

My EFT journey began in 2020, during the pandemic, when I came across a presentation by Dr Peta Stapleton. Her discussion of EFT and the stress response caught my attention because the method was practical, body-based, and did not rely only on talking or trying to think differently.

What began as curiosity became a deeper professional path. Since then, I have trained in Clinical EFT, trauma-informed EFT, inner child work, advanced EFT approaches, and Picture Tapping Technique.

That training now informs my work with capable, self-aware women who can often explain their patterns very clearly but want support that is more personalised than a script or quick calming tool.

For me, the value of that training is not the number of techniques I can name. It is having more thoughtful options available while remaining careful about whether any particular option fits the person in front of me.

A Note From My Mentor

When I completed trauma-informed Master Level 3 EFT Tapping Practitioner training with Jackie Viramontez, I was deeply moved to receive this feedback from her. Jackie is an EFT International Accredited Certified EFT Master Trainer and was my mentor throughout the training:

“You’re a true master! I would recommend you to anyone, especially those who need the tailored and loving guidance of a true pro. You’ve put so much heart into your work, and your diligence, thoroughness, and intuitive guidance are remarkable. I can’t begin to express my gratitude — this has been such a rich and celebratory journey!”

I’m sharing this because trust matters when the work is tender or long-standing. Clients deserve to know that the person supporting them has taken both the training and the pace of the work seriously.

How This Shapes the Inner Harmony Private Program

This attention to flexibility and pacing shapes the Inner Harmony Private Program from the beginning. We start with a Deep Discovery process and create a personalised Healing Roadmap together, based on what the client wants support with.

The roadmap gives us direction, but it is not a diagnosis, a fixed interpretation or a promise that every session will follow a predetermined sequence. It leaves room to respond to what actually emerges and what feels relevant to the client.

Across nine 90-minute sessions over 12–14 weeks, there is also continuity. We can notice what changes between sessions, return to a trigger when useful and adapt the process without treating every difficult moment as a separate failure.

That longer relationship is part of what allows the advanced training to matter in practice: there is time to use it thoughtfully rather than reaching for another technique simply because it is available.

What Matters Most to Me Now

Advanced training has not made the work more complicated for the client. It has made me more careful about the details: what is active now, what feels manageable, and which approach fits this person.

That is the part that matters most to me. The method should adapt to the client, not the other way around.

You Might Also Be Wondering…

“Does advanced training mean we will go deeper or faster?”

No. More training gives me more options, but it should also strengthen my judgment about when not to use them. The aim is not to reach the earliest memory or most intense emotion as quickly as possible. It is to work with what feels relevant and manageable to you.

“Would I have to talk about childhood or use Picture Tapping?”

No. We begin with what you want support with now. Earlier experiences or younger parts are followed only if they emerge naturally and feel relevant to you. Picture Tapping is also an option, not a requirement.

“What if self-tapping already helps me?”

That is valuable, and I would not want you to stop using something that supports you. Private work may add value when a pattern keeps returning, the emotional focus changes unexpectedly or you would like compassionate support with specificity and pacing.

Where to Begin Now

If you recognise yourself here—understanding a great deal, perhaps already tapping on your own, but still finding that certain reactions keep returning—you do not have to conclude that you have failed or simply need to try harder.

Inner Harmony is my 12–14-week private Clinical EFT program for women who want compassionate, personalised support with layered patterns of anxiety, overthinking, self-doubt, inner pressure or emotional overwhelm.

The advanced training described in this article does not mean I will take over your experience or lead you towards a particular explanation. It means I can bring more flexibility, careful pacing and thoughtful options to the process while keeping what matters to you at the centre.

If you would rather talk it through first, you are welcome to begin with a private 15-minute consultation and ask any questions you have about the process.

With deep care,

🌿 Kay

EFT International Accredited Certified Advanced EFT Practitioner
Mind-body coach offering gentle, trauma-informed support for anxiety, overwhelm, and nervous system regulation.

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A note of care

This article is educational and is not a substitute for medical or mental health care. If what you are experiencing feels severe, overwhelming, or unsafe, please seek support from a qualified healthcare or mental health professional.

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