What is Pro EFT?

Ever since Dr. Roger Callahan PhD. “accidentally” stumbled on tapping acupuncture points while practicing clinical psychology over thirty years ago people all over the planet have begun using this wonderful advance in technology.  Dr. Callahan developed The Callahan Technique and then Thought Field Therapy (THT) which was amazingly more effective in resolving phobias, anxiety, fear, and trauma than any healing technique that had come before.  The downside of Dr. Callahan’s technique was in it’s complexity.  To clearly understand a system that required substantial knowledge of acupuncture, applied kinesiology, and psychology while containing complex algorithms for each problem to be treated was a bit overwhelming.  It became more complicated than many practitioners could handle and some prominent clinicians who learned it began to use it less and less.   They found it too difficult to practice their specialty, for example Wellness Promotion/Illness Prevention Medicine and keep track of all the material and techniques TFT demanded.

Two of Dr Callahan’s students refined his system making it more user friendly for both the practitioner and the client.  Gary Craig is easily the most well known.  He is a Stanford Engineering Graduate who became a life coach, studied TFT and developed the Meridian Tapping Technique called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).  Gary not only greatly simplified Dr. Callahan’s technique but kept it’s effectiveness.  Gary is also to be applauded for giving much of his knowledge to the world for free.  Charging only for sessions, practitioner training, and certification.   Most practitioner’s of “energy psychology” today owe their existence to his ground breaking work and his generosity.

Another prominent developer of what is becoming known as Meridian Tapping Techniques (MTT) is Dr. Patricia Carrington PhD.  Dr. Carrington is a professor at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and formerly a faculty member at Princeton University.  She also worked with Gary Craig and developed her own simplified system called the “Choices Method” which is one of the most effective Meridian Tapping Techniques ever developed.  It is practiced world wide in all kinds of different versions of MTT.  Both Patricia Carrington and Gary Craig are on the original 25 or so practitioner’s allowed a Master’s designation in traditional EFT.

Another of the original Master’s level practitioners is Lindsay Kenny. She was a student of both Gary Craig and Patricia Carrington.  She developed the technique known as Progressive Emotional Release and then Progressive Energy Field Therapy ( Pro ER/Pro EFT).   Both titles are Lindsay’s technique.   She not only incorporated the knowledge base of both Dr. Carrington and Gary Craig but developed new techniques that are even more effective while combining the components of both systems she is trained in.