Barbara Smith EFT Master
Psychotherapy & Trauma Relief
NZAP, NZAC, Certified Hakomi Therapist

Personal
daughter, life partner, mother, grandmother, friend, colleague and community member, living in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Professional
counsellor, psychotherapist, trauma resolution specialist, mentor, supervisor, trainer, EFT Master

all these roles in my life are enhanced through the use of EFT

Psychotherapy and Trauma Relief
I have a thriving psychotherapy practise in Palmerston North, New Zealand, where I divide my time between personal consultations, and EFT trainings. New Zealand is a small but beautiful country, with a mild climate. It has a clean green image, beautiful scenery, and friendly people. It is a wonderful place to live and a great place for an overseas holiday.

To learn more about this lovely country: click beautiful New Zealand.

New Zealand may be only a dot on the underside of the EFT world map, but EFT is alive and well here. We have more EFT Masters per capita than any country in the world. USA currently has 10 EFT Masters for 270 million people, while New Zealand has two EFT Masters for a population of 4 million people. That is an achievement of which we are very proud.

I bring to my work with EFT a wealth of previous experience. I am a body-mind psychotherapist with specialist skills in trauma recovery. I am a certified Hakomi Therapist, and a full practising member of both the NZ Association of Counsellors, and NZ Association of Psychotherapists. Alongside my trauma therapy speciality, I have a passion for creating change for children. Thirty-five years’ experience in community education, personal growth work and facilitating change, ensure a wide underststanding of human beings, and provide a solid base for my work with people today. I can say this without any doubt:

EFT is the most effective method I have ever learned. My clients make easy, effective, effortless changes in their lives more quickly than ever before.

Every day is different
My work with individuals may cover anything from a straightforward one session consultation, to a long term contract where the goal is to achieve deep physical, emotional and/or behavioural change that lasts.

Integrating EFT
I have found it a challenge to integrate EFT seamlessly, effectively and ethically into my previously conventional psychotherapy model. I wanted to take this EFT model that had been developed and grounded in American culture, and create a fit with the cultural and legislative requirements in New Zealand. I am now fully committed to using ‘NZ-friendly’ EFT. By doing so, I have been able to maintain my professional affiliations and registrations, and continue counselling and trauma relief work for institutions such as the New Zealand Accident Compensation Commission, NZ Victim Support, and other Government welfare agencies.

Professional Standards
A high priority for me is the maintenance of professional standards. I offer professional supervision for new EFT practitioners. I also customise each EFT training to fit the culture of the group with whom I am working, whether it is an in-house group, a hospital, a group of counsellors, sports and performance coaches, or the local Parents’ Centre.

What my clients tell me about their EFT experience

Counsellor:
Learning to use EFT has transformed my life and my practice. Previous problems are no problem. The best thing is that I feel so much lighter and relaxed at the end of my work day. I just don’t carry around other people’s problems after the session. Even the most challenging clients are getting better more quickly than ever before.

Sceptical client:
That ‘nudge, nudge wink wink’ stuff… It worked!

Thank you Barbara…
… for teaching me to tap. Yesterday, I was able to show a Mother how to tap with her child who still cries every day when she is left at school. This morning the little girl went in to ths school room quite happily.

Eight year old:
I just don’t get car sick any more.

Father of a six year old:
(after one session of EFT to address a recent sexual assault trauma)
“Its amazing! We’ve got our boy back”

Elderly gentleman with high blood pressure:
I went back to my doctor this morning and my blood pressure was right back to normal. I don’t have to start medication after all.

Trauma Specialty

When we update old theories with new information about the human brain, then add EFT to the mix, we can free people from their trauma more quickly and safely than ever before.

I have twenty years’ of experience working with traumatised people. Some have been in crisis, whilst others were suffering from long term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Ten years ago I graduated from training in the Hakomi™ model of somatic sequencing. Somatic sequencing is a mind-body model, so when I first learned EFT I already had a mindset that made it easy to combine the two. Gary Craig has said that we are on the ground floor of a healing high rise: this is true for me, not only in relation to EFT, but also for trauma resolution. As researchers continue to unlock the secrets of the body-mind, we will target the tapping process more accurately still, and free people from their distress more quickly than ever before.

You will find the first article of a trauma series on the Trauma page in this site. This trauma series is a work-in-progress. If you have new insights or experience I hope you will share them, so that we can learn from each other..
Email Barbara at EFTchanges@xtra.co.nz