Be Set Free Fast

Domain XII · Complementary, energy & biofield · Larry Phillip Nims

What it is

The published sources set out components and a processing sequence, not fixed phases or a session count. The phases below follow Stollnberger's chapter order (chapters 1–12). The phase labels, session estimates and criteria for moving on are.

Format

• The published sources set out components and a processing sequence, not fixed phases or a session count. The phases below follow Stollnberger's chapter order (chapters 1–12). The phase labels, session estimates and criteria for moving on are.
• Format. BSFF is presented as suitable both for self-help and for therapists working with clients. Individual sessions in person or online; the method needs no touch unless muscle testing is used.

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• Training and certification route. Nims named Alfred Heath, MA, LPC, as BSFF trainer in 2009 and as the only BSFF master trainer in 2015. In 2015 Heath founded the Be Set Free Fast Education and Training Academy, LLC to standardise professional training. The academy's "Introduction to Be Set Free Fast for Clinicians" (live Zoom, about 8.5 hours, 6.5 CE credits listed for social work, counselling, psychology and…
• Combining with psychotherapy. The academy describes BSFF as drawing on clinical neuroscience, psychodynamic, hypnosis, mind-body and cognitive psychotherapy principles. Nims's book advises non-clinicians who use it with clients to recognise the limits of their training and, where needed, to work under a psychologically trained supervisor. Specific integration protocols are. In this guide BSFF is an adjunct technique…
• Professional-body and licensing positions. No position statement on BSFF specifically is known.: treat it as a complementary technique within your licensed scope. Describe it to the client as complementary. Do not advertise it as a cure. Check whether your board or insurer has a view on energy-psychology methods and on CE credits for them.

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Informed consent ( built on the sources). Tell the client that BSFF is a complementary self-help technique. It involves reading or saying a set of instructions once, choosing a cue word, and then calling problems to mind while using the cue. Its evidence status is not established. Optional muscle…

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Is there physical contact? Was it explained beforehand, and do you feel free to say no or stop at any point?
• Does it involve any substance, plant preparation, remedy or supplement? Has your doctor or prescriber been told, especially about any medication you take?
• Does it involve intense or unusual breathing? Have you been told about the medical conditions for which that is not advised?
• Does it involve fasting, a special diet or 'detox'? Have you discussed this with your doctor?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• escalating ritual use.
• using it ritually instead of reformulating.
• global use replacing specific work on central problems.
• a partial drop is expected. The remainder guides steps 4–7.
• frequent cue-switching as a form of avoidance or perfectionism.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.