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Annette Vaillancourt, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Motivational Speaker

Carbondale, IL and St. Louis, MO
Toll-free 1-877-949-5935

 
 
What is EFT?
EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique is best described as a form emotional acupressure. It clearly demonstrates the principles of mind/body medicine.  EFT is based on new discoveries regarding the connection between your body's subtle energies, your emotions, and your health. Click here to download an EFT Brochure.

How Does it Work?
By gently tapping on various points on the body (around the face, neck and hands) while focusing on some upsetting experience, physical pain, food or substance craving, or disturbing thought, the intensity of the upset of that pain,  craving, thought or experience is often significantly relieved or eliminated altogether.
 
What Can You Use It For?
Founder, Gary Craig, likes to say, "Try it on everything."  He describes is as a "self help method that often works when nothing else will."  Gary Craig's website is www.Emofree.com.  Dr. Vaillancourt has successfully used EFT with her clients to reduce or eliminate
  • panic
  • negative self-talk
  • anger/rage
  • suicidal thoughts
  • headache/neck pain
  • back pain
  • post-traumatic stress symptoms
  • fear of dentists
  • low self-esteem
  • internal barriers to success
  • projections
  • food cravings

In addition, she has used it to increase

  • hope
  • feelings of peace/calm
  • peak performance
  • feelings of euphoria
  • relaxation

EFT Testimonials

"Today I tapped on being left alone or at least feeling like I was left alone as a child at Disneyland. I remember crying and being away from my mother. I think I was still with family but I felt like I was away from my mother for the first time. I also tapped on my parents getting divorced. I remember that being real upsetting to me when I was 5. I don't feel upset at these things now but thought since they were some of the earliest hurt feelings I could remember that I would hunt for some of the biggest trees in the forest and buy cutting them down them possibly they would take down other trees on the way. Since I don't still feel the pain of those issues at a high level I'm not sure the tapping would work.

It did get rid of some if not all of any pain I could conjure up about those issues. Did it do any good...........I don't know. I do know I feel closer to my mom and feel a little more love for her so that's a plus, and I feel less pain about those issue. I also seem to feel more love for myself, hmmmmm......kewl : )" - name withheld

"I heard that Aisin Auto Manufacturing in Marion does tapping of some kind with it's workers in the morning before the shift. They all do a 15 minutes warm-up before and after their shift and I heard that tapping is offered. Paula a friend of mine who does some cleaning for us is married and the man she is married to works at Aisin. Paula's daughter is the one that has totally taken to EFT so her dad has seen it. He said they were doing the "tapping stuff" at his work. Soooo....Kewl : )" - name withheld

"...dare I say....life changing!"
"this s--t really works!"

"I never thought this could happen. My personality... my self-concept... has changed. And it continues to change though I ended therapy spring '07.

I was propelled into therapy during the summer of '06 when an ordinary sort of life event took on importance out of all proportion to reality. I was riddled with unsettling memories from childhood. I cried and sometimes trembled. My lifelong intellectualizing didn't work.

 In therapy, I was asked to picture the feeling. While I did that, I sobbed... heaving sobs... and Annette tapped on the accessible points as per EFT. I trusted and sobbed, sometimes for 45 minutes; Annette tapped, and I learned how to calm myself before leaving. As the most immediate storm passed, I learned to tap for myself. Yes, tapping sounds very strange. But I learned about EFT from Annette and from reading everything I could find about it. Try though I might, the learning did not take the place of feeling.

Frightening memories became matters of little interest to me. Imagine that? So I'd picture less frightening memories, which again gave way. Slowly, tapping gave way to my just talking with Annette. I'd refer to a trauma of the past, and yawn.

As I write, Christmas is approaching. Last year, I didn't put up a tree. This year, the tree is up and I'm starting to hang a million ornaments. My house has been painted outside and most of inside. Things are organized and cleaned up, including pets and my own medical needs. I wake up each day with too many things that I love to do. Just once has an event brought threatening tears. I went ahead and cried, and then tapped. As the British would say: done and dusted.

It's a miracle." - name withheld

"I was extremely skeptical about EFT because it was extremely simple. I used it initially to help me with panic attacks. I would start to tap when I first felt my anxiety rising. The process worked great so much so that I did not have any more panic attacks. The best experience was when I went to the dentist. I tapped while I waited for my appointment. When the assistant took my blood pressure, it was 20 points less than it had been six months prior to learning EFT! I thought it was a fluke until the next day. I had to return for some follow-up work so I was back in the same dentist chair. I tapped again while waiting and my blood pressure was still 20 points below and this was at the dentist!
 
I have tapped on my fingertips while walking or in public to help me stay grounded. I highly recommend that everyone learn this technique because it is a very powerful tool." - name withheld

Buy the EFT  DVD Library - I heartily endorse EFT for emotional freedom, physical freedom and performance freedom. Based on impressive new discoveries regarding the body's subtle energies, EFT has been proven successful in thousands of clinical cases. It applies to just about every problem you can name and it often works where nothing else will. You can learn all the basics for free by downloading the EFT Manual at http://www.emofree.com/a/?1283/1 . If you wish to save time and dive right in then explore the affordable EFT DVD Library at http://www.emofree.com/a/?1283/2

EFT and Sports Performance
 
Tap into your peak performance in any sport. Revolutionary techniques will transform your game.
  • EFT and Golf - read this article from Golf Week Magazine to learn what Stacy helped golfers accomplish
  • EFT and Baseball - read this interesting testimonial from pitcher Patrick Aherns on how EFT reduced his ERA from 3.33 to 0.87
  • EFT and Basketball - read this interesting article about how EFT helped improve free throw percentages
 
 
Preview of the video "Try It on Everything" << Click link to buy the video
 


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