Many veterans live with memories and emotions that do not disappear when their service ends, causing anxiety, grief, poor sleeping pattern and the feeling of being on edge. Often there is little or no support to deal with these issues which can have devastating impacts in many areas of life. The EFT programme offers 10 sessions of EFT to help veterans develop tools for emotional balance and resilience, often resulting vastly improved quality of living.
What is Emotional Freedom Technique?
It is a non invasive method that involves tapping on specific pressure points while focusing on unwanted thoughts or emotions.
The method is based on the idea that emotional distress is linked to the body’s stress response. By tapping on certain pressure points while focusing on a self appointed issues, EFT can help to calm the nervous system, reduce emotional intensity and aid in reframing stressful memories, helping to support the individual in restoring calm and emotional balance. Many people report feeling more relaxed, clearer thinking, less reactive to triggers and improved patterns sleep after working with EFT.
What happens in your 10 Sessions?
You will be working with a therapist, qualified to work with veterans, in sessions tailored to your individual needs. Sessions are veteran led, meaning that it is the veteran that chooses the work to be done and they can be either in person or online depending on needs.
You would learn the standardised EFT protocols as well as how to work safely with emotions, with the aim of developing tools for coping with stress and anxiety as well as any situations coming up in daily life.
Therapists are nonjudgmental and, as you would expect, all sessions remain completely confidential between veteran and therapist.
Sessions are offered to any veterans in SWV programmes suffering with anxiety, PTSD , anger and and chronic pain. We have had over 100 hundred veterans through the programme with some strong results, ranging from improvements in recorded before and after SPRINT ( a NHS self assessment measure to assess severity of PTSD) forms of 10 % improvement to 80% improvement. Pain measure as reported by Defense and Veterans Pain Rating Scale has also seen a range between 15% and 7°% improvement.