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Less emotional charge
Take some of the force out of the feelings that keep getting triggered, so the same situation does not hit you quite so hard.
Practical EFT tapping from someone who has been there
When your emotions are running your life, talking about them is not always enough.
I know what it is like to understand a problem intellectually and still feel terrible inside. I use EFT and other practical tools to help people reduce the emotional charge behind stress, anxiety and old patterns.
You do not need to impress me, explain everything perfectly or pretend you are coping better than you are.
“For years I thought the outside world was the problem. What changed my life was discovering I could change my reaction to it.”
Notice · Tap · Let go
Does this sound familiar?
You know something is wrong, but you cannot seem to think your way out of it.
That was me for years. I could study, work and appear capable, while underneath I was angry, anxious, overwhelmed and not coping.
You go over conversations again and again, getting angry or upset long after they are over.
You know logically that you should be able to cope, but your emotions do not seem to listen to logic.
You have tried talking, analysing or pushing feelings down, but the same reactions keep coming back.
You are tired of managing symptoms and want something practical you can actually use when the feelings hit.
What can change
The aim is simple: feel less controlled by your reactions.
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Stop reacting on autopilot
When the emotional intensity comes down, you have more choice about what you say, what you do and what you make the situation mean.
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Something you can do yourself
EFT is practical. Once you understand the basics, you have a tool you can use yourself rather than being completely dependent on a practitioner.
A simple EFT sequence
- 1Notice
Gently identify what you are feeling right now.
- 2Tap
Tap lightly on a sequence of acupressure points.
- 3Reassess
Pause and notice whether the intensity has shifted.
What is EFT?
A practical way of working with what you actually feel.
EFT, or tapping, is a simple technique where you focus on what is bothering you while tapping on a sequence of points on the face and upper body.
I am less interested in giving you a clever explanation for why you feel the way you do than in helping you notice what is happening inside and see whether we can reduce its intensity. We work with what is actually there, one piece at a time.
EFT is a complementary wellbeing approach and is not a replacement for medical care, psychotherapy or emergency support.
My story
Dr Alex Chambers · EFT Practitioner
I did not come to this because I wanted to become a therapist. I came to it because I was desperate.
I trained as a doctor. I was bright, scientific and good at studying. But underneath that, I had struggled emotionally for most of my life.
I grew up in an alcoholic home and never really felt safe. I learnt to suppress what I felt and get on with things. That worked for a while. Then it did not.
By my twenties I was drinking heavily, in counselling and struggling badly with stress, relationships and work. I eventually left medicine. Over the years I tried counselling, medication, psychiatry and a lot of thinking about why I was the way I was. I understood plenty. I still felt awful.
The thing I had missed
The change started when I began to see that I had spent years fighting, suppressing and trying to escape my own feelings. I had assumed that people, jobs and circumstances were what made me feel the way I did.
“It was my reaction to the outside world that was causing so much of my distress — not simply the outside world itself.”
One small incident brought that home to me. I was sitting on a park bench in a very dark state when a friendly dog came over wagging its tail. For a moment my whole internal state changed. The circumstances of my life had not changed in those few seconds. My reaction had.
That sounds obvious when you read it. It was not obvious to me then. It gave me the first real sense that my inner state was not completely outside my control.
Then I started doing the work
I began learning ways of working directly with the feelings I had pushed down for years. EFT became one of the most useful tools. At first I was not sophisticated about it at all. I simply found what hurt, tapped on it and kept going.
Progress was not instant and it was not a straight line. But over time I became less angry, less anxious and less driven by old emotional reactions. The important thing for me was that I was no longer just analysing my problems. I finally had something practical to do with them.
That is the basis of how I work now. I am not interested in pretending life can be made permanently calm or that one technique fixes everything. I am interested in helping you identify what is really setting you off, work with the emotional reaction underneath it, and give you something useful you can practise yourself.
If you are intelligent, self-aware and thoroughly fed up with understanding your problems without actually feeling any better, you are the sort of person I understand very well.
— Dr Alex Chambers
Kind words
What clients have noticed
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I felt lighter after our first session. The situation had not changed, but it no longer felt as though it was controlling me.
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The sessions felt calm and safe. I never felt pushed to talk about more than I was ready to share.
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I now have something practical I can do when my thoughts start racing. That has made a real difference.
A practical starting point
Three sessions to see if this works for you
Rather than asking you to commit to months of sessions, we start with three. That is enough time to identify what is causing you the most trouble, use EFT on it and show you how to continue using the method yourself.
- ●Session one: work out what is actually causing you the most trouble and choose one thing to start with.
- ●Session two: follow what comes up and work with the feelings, memories or reactions underneath it.
- ●Session three: review what has changed, deal with anything obvious that remains and make sure you know how to use the tools yourself.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
No particular belief is required. You only need a willingness to notice your experience and try the tapping process.
We begin with a brief conversation, agree what feels useful to focus on and then tap together at a comfortable pace. You can stop or change direction whenever you choose.
No. We can often work gently with a feeling, body sensation or broad description without revisiting every detail.
People respond differently. Some notice a shift during one session, while longstanding patterns may need more time and appropriate wider support.
No. This service is not emergency or crisis care. Contact your GP, NHS 111, a local crisis service or emergency services when urgent help is needed.
If you are fed up with feeling the same way, send me a message.
Tell me briefly what is going on. I will tell you whether I think EFT is a sensible thing to try and what the next step would be. There is no hard sell.