Trauma Training

Regulation, Processing, and Clinical Integration

Trainer: Robert Schwarz, PsyD, DCEP, ACAP-EFT
Live Training: July 17th | 10:00 AM Central Time | Available for synchronous, live learning
On-Demand: Available one week after the live event

You have clients who flood the moment you ask them to stay with a memory. Clients who freeze before you even approach Phase 2. Clients who are doing everything right in terms of engagement, and still can’t seem to move.

EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) offers something most bottom-up approaches don’t: a way to calm the nervous system and process traumatic material in the same framework, without overwhelming the client or abandoning the work.

It’s backed by more than 200 research studies. It’s been used successfully with veterans with PTSD, survivors of genocide, and clients across a wide range of presentations and cultures. And it’s far more than tapping on acupressure points. It integrates principles from memory reconsolidation, ACT, Ericksonian approaches, and somatic regulation into a single, learnable protocol.

If you’ve heard about EFT and wondered whether it’s legitimate, how it actually works, or whether it belongs in your clinical toolkit, this training was designed for that question.

In this live, full-day workshop, Dr. Robert Schwarz, one of the field’s most experienced EFT trainers and a licensed psychologist with four decades of trauma treatment experience, will walk you through both modes of EFT: using it for emotional regulation in Phase 1 and for carefully titrated trauma processing in Phase 2.

You’ll leave with a clear understanding of what EFT does, why it works, and exactly how to begin using it with your most complex clients.

• Basic EFT tapping protocol with clinical precision, including tapping points, set-up statements, and therapeutic presence, so you can apply EFT accurately from your very first session.
• Tearless trauma technique for accessing and processing traumatic material without flooding the client or re-exposing them to overwhelming content.
  
• Tell the story technique for titrated trauma processing, with detailed guidance on managing emotional intensity and staying within the window of tolerance throughout.
• Personal peace procedure as a treatment planning tool - how to use it systematically to map and sequence traumatic material across the course of treatment.
• Zipping up technique for building boundaries, strengthening emotional regulation, and supporting clients who need additional stabilization before or between trauma processing sessions.
• Phase 1 integration strategies for using EFT as a nervous system regulation tool - reducing negative affect, calming arousal, and expanding the window of tolerance before trauma work begins.
• Phase 2 trauma processing applications using EFT to engage traumatic memory carefully and systematically within a phase-oriented framework, without intensifying exposure or dysregulating the client.

Robert Schwarz, PsyD, DCEP, ACAP-EFT has been a licensed psychologist for 40 years. He served as Executive Director of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) from 2008 to 2024, and has organized more than 30 conferences on Ericksonian hypnosis, trauma treatment, and energy psychology.

Dr. Schwarz is the author of three professional books, including Tools for Transforming Trauma, and has published numerous articles and research papers on EFT and energy psychology. His recent online program, Transforming Trauma and Limiting Beliefs with EFT, reflects his continued focus on clinical precision and integrative trauma treatment.

He presents internationally on EFT, energy psychology, and trauma treatment, and is known for his ability to translate complex clinical concepts into specific, usable skills. Dr. Schwarz trains within an integrative model, grounding EFT in polyvagal theory, somatic regulation, and memory reconsolidation science rather than presenting it as a standalone technique.