Faster EFT

1. Introduction

Version followed: the eutaptics® FasterEFT "Basic Recipe" (Aim, Tap/Release, Peace, Check, Repeat) as published by the founder, Robert Gene (also styled Robert G. Smith and Robert Gene Smith), in "How to Do the Faster EFT Tap — The Basic Recipe" (Medium, 2017), and by his company Skills To Change Institute, Inc. in its 2024 blog guides. Where the two differ, both are named. The re-imprinting steps come from the 2017 founder article only. [source: Gene, Medium 2017; Skills To Change, Basic Recipe 2024]

FasterEFT (now marketed as eutaptics® FasterEFT) is a self-applied tapping method. It grew out of the EFT tradition, but its founder rejects EFT's meridian and energy-disruption explanation. In his model, a problem has two parts: a stored memory or "reference" (the proof) and the emotional charge attached to it (the feeling). Remove the charge and what is left is "a fact". Change is said to come from aiming at how the person knows the problem is there, tapping four points while saying "let it go", anchoring a calm state with a wrist hold, a breath and the word "peace", then checking and repeating until the memory "flips" to a positive one. A new positive version of the memory is then "installed". The organisation describes the mechanism in its own neurological terms: subconscious records, a limbic "drug lab", and rewiring neural pathways. These are the organisation's explanations, not established findings. [source: Gene, Medium 2017; Skills To Change, How Does FasterEFT Work 2024]

The organisation does not frame the method spiritually or energetically. Its own pages state that "there is no disruption of energy" and that the person is not "broken". [source: Skills To Change, How Does FasterEFT Work 2024; FasterEFT blog, Truth and Science]

Health claims and evidence status: one Skills To Change page description repeats claims that FasterEFT tapping "cures" cancer, diabetes, Lyme disease and other conditions. Pages on robertgene.com assert that addiction is "physiological, not mental". These are the organisation's claims. FasterEFT is not a treatment for cancer or any other physical disease. The founder himself writes that the method does not "treat" or "diagnose" and that "If you're under a doctor's care, stay under it." The organisation's pages cite no peer-reviewed studies. Controlled trials of FasterEFT specifically are [uncertain: not verified], and evidence for classic or Clinical EFT should not be assumed to transfer. [source: Skills To Change, How Does FasterEFT Work 2024; robertgene.com Eutaptics Training; Gene, Medium 2017]

2. Framework

Structure of a round. The organisation describes a round of about 30 seconds: (1) Aim, (2) Tap / Release, (3) Peace, (4) Check, (5) Repeat. The founder groups these as the "A.R.T. of Change®": Aim, Release, Transform. Rounds are repeated until the target has "flipped" to its opposite. He says longer sessions use the same structure. [source: Gene, Medium 2017; Skills To Change, Basic Recipe 2024]

Versions differ on the Repeat step. The 2024 guide repeats steps 2–4. The 2017 article re-runs steps 1–4, which means re-aiming each time. This guide follows the 2017 wording (re-aim each round) because it matches the founder's warnings about drifting aim. [source: both; choice is synthesis]

Phases of work on one issue (assembled from the founder's sequence; the phase labels are [synthesis]):

1. Aim and elicit. Find how the person knows the problem is present: feeling, body location, images, sounds, the memory that comes up. Move to the next phase once the client can briefly contact the charge and then step out of it. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
2. Release rounds. Repeat Aim, Tap, Peace and Check, following whatever surfaces: the feeling moves, a different memory appears, or a new layer emerges. Move on when the charge on the original target, and on what surfaced, is reported as gone. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
3. Re-imprint and transform. If the basic rounds stall, work through the six re-imprinting steps in order. Then "finish the job" by building a positive version of the memory, "with smiles in it". Move on when the memory is experienced as positive or neutral-to-positive. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
4. Test. Say the problem aloud and check for any pull, tightness or an inner "yeah, right". If any remains, return to phase 1. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
5. Generalise and anchor. The client uses the wrist-and-breath anchor and self-tapping on daily triggers. The organisation's free course presents FasterEFT as a daily process: "Tap on everything that bothers you." [source: Gene, Medium 2017; Skills To Change free 5-day course]

Session count and format. The founder's sources give no fixed number of sessions. One practitioner, reported in local press, describes two-hour sessions held in person or by video call. That practitioner says clients need not disclose the content of their memories. [source: The Review 2017; secondary] In psychotherapy, fitting rounds into a standard 50-minute session, with time left to close down and debrief, is [synthesis].

Training and certification route. Skills To Change Institute, Inc. (Robert Gene Smith) runs four levels [source: robertgene.com Eutaptics Training]:

• Level 1: a 7-day seminar on personal transformation, in person or online, with an optional mentoring group.
• Level 2: a 7-day seminar on working with others, practising with fellow students. This is the start of practitioner training.
• Level 3: a 7-day seminar on advanced techniques, taught in supervised practice.
• Level 4: complex issues, which the organisation lists as including addictions, PTSD, grief and loss, and weight loss.

All four levels plus "a minimum number of hours" of peer practice are required to become a certified Eutaptics Practitioner. The number of hours is not published on that page. Certification is issued by the founder's own organisation; no independent accrediting body is named. One trainee described the route as a four-year programme in Las Vegas. [source: The Review 2017; secondary]

Combining with psychotherapy. The founder's materials do not describe how to combine FasterEFT with psychotherapy or licensed practice. [source: robertgene.com Eutaptics Training] What follows is [synthesis]:

• Use FasterEFT as a brief, client-self-applied arousal-reduction and memory-reprocessing component inside an assessed treatment plan.
• Stay within your licence and competence.
• Do not present the Eutaptics certificate as a clinical qualification.
• For PTSD, keep a guideline-recommended trauma treatment as the primary offer.

Professional-body positions. No position statement on FasterEFT from a licensing board or professional body has been verified [uncertain: not verified]. Check your own regulator's rules on complementary methods and continuing-education approval. [synthesis]

Informed consent. Cover these points, then record the consent [synthesis built on the sources above]:

• FasterEFT is a complementary technique, not a psychotherapy model or a medical treatment.
• It involves the client tapping their own face and upper chest and holding their own wrist, briefly bringing a distressing memory or feeling to mind, and then deliberately recalling a pleasant one.
• The therapist does not need to touch the client. If any touch is ever proposed, it needs explicit consent beforehand, the client can stop it at any time, and it is never sexual. A hands-off alternative (modelling only) is always available.
• Evidence status in one line: the organisation cites no controlled research, and independent evidence for this specific method is unverified.
• The client can stop at any time.
• No medical treatment should be changed on the basis of this work.

3. Guiding principles

• A problem is a memory plus a feeling. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Practical meaning: target the felt charge and the memory or reference behind it, not the label or the story.
• The brain is not sabotaging you. It records experience without grading it, and what was wired can be rewired. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Practical meaning: use non-pathologising language and treat symptoms as learned responses.
• People are not "broken". The method says there is no energy disruption, and symptoms are treated as the mind's creations. [source: Skills To Change, How Does FasterEFT Work 2024; FasterEFT blog] Practical meaning: present the work as updating references, not repairing damage. Attribute this framing to the method.
• Aim before you tap. Tapping without aim "won't land on anything." [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Practical meaning: every round starts with a fresh check of how the client knows the problem is there.
• Confirm, then step away. Contact the charge briefly, then move attention off the memory; staying immersed can backfire. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Practical meaning: this is the method's built-in titration. Never ask for sustained, detailed re-living.
• No label, diagnosis or backstory is needed. [source: Gene, Medium 2017; Skills To Change, Basic Recipe 2024] Practical meaning: content-free work is possible, so the client may keep details private.
• Start vague; get specific only if it is not moving. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Practical meaning: begin with the general felt sense, and narrow down to details only when needed.
• Read the instrument without judging. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Practical meaning: check after every round and accept any change, including a feeling moving to a new place, as information.
• Consistency builds the anchor. Use the same peace sequence every time. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Practical meaning: do not improvise the wrist, breath and "peace" routine; a stable ritual becomes a portable calming cue.
• Aim for a flip, not just a quieter memory. Then install a positive version. [source: Gene, Medium 2017; Skills To Change, Basic Recipe 2024] Practical meaning: do not stop at a lower rating if the client can tolerate further work. Do stop if they cannot (see section 5).
• Always test; never assume. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Practical meaning: end each target with an out-loud test for residual pull.
• Persistence is essential. [source: Skills To Change, Basic Recipe 2024] Practical meaning: expect several rounds per target. Balance this against client consent and window of tolerance; in therapy, persistence never overrides a client's wish to stop. [synthesis]
• Stay under medical care. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Practical meaning: FasterEFT is never offered in place of medical or psychiatric treatment, and the therapist does not endorse the organisation's disease claims.

4. Intervention inventory

Who does what: in the founder's sources, the person taps on themselves. In psychotherapy, the client self-taps and the therapist models the points on their own body. The therapist does not tap on the client. Any proposed exception needs explicit consent before and during, the client's right to stop at any time, never sexual touch, and a hands-off alternative. [synthesis]

Ratings: the founder's basic recipe uses descriptive checks rather than a number. A 0–10 rating appears only on a third-party page (see Parts and Pieces below). Using a rating in therapy for tracking is [synthesis].

4.1 Aim ("How do you know it's a problem?")

• Purpose / when: Opens every round. It locates the felt charge and its sensory reference without needing a label, diagnosis or story. Use it whenever the client brings a trigger, feeling, memory, craving or belief. [source: Gene, Medium 2017; Skills To Change, Basic Recipe 2024]
• Steps:
  1. Ask the client to bring the problem to mind just enough to notice it.
  2. Ask what they feel, where in the body it sits, and what they see, hear, smell or sense (an image, a voice, tightness, pressure).
  3. Ask how they know it is a problem.
  4. Confirm the target is "live".
  5. Ask them to move their attention away from the memory before tapping.
  The founder's order is: aim, confirm, move away, tap. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Example language (illustrative): "Think of it just for a moment. How do you know it's there right now? Where is it in your body? Is there a picture or a sound with it? Good. Now let that go out of focus and come back to the room."
• Watch for: Long storytelling instead of sensing; the founder warns that aim drifts to "the story" or "the whole situation". [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Also watch for rapid escalation, freezing or spacing out, which means stop aiming and ground the client (section 5). [synthesis]
• Working when: The client can name a felt marker, contact it briefly and step out of it on request. [synthesis]

4.2 Release round (tap and "let it go")

• Purpose / when: The core release step, used straight after aiming. [source: Gene, Medium 2017; Skills To Change, Basic Recipe 2024]
• Steps:
  1. With two fingers, tap in sequence: between the eyebrows, beside the eye, under the eye, just below the collarbone.
  2. Use either side or both sides.
  3. Focus attention on the feeling of the fingers on the skin.
  4. Say "let it go" aloud or silently, optionally adding "it's safe to let it go".
  5. One pass through the four points is one round.
  [source: Gene, Medium 2017; Skills To Change, Basic Recipe 2024] The organisation gives no number of taps per point [uncertain: not verified].
• Example language (illustrative): "Tap along with me: between the eyebrows, beside the eye, under the eye, under the collarbone. Feel your fingers on your skin and say 'let it go'."
• Watch for: Clients re-running the memory while tapping. Redirect attention to the fingertip sensation. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Also watch for discomfort with face touch, skin conditions or eye-area sensitivity; offer the collarbone and wrist only, or tapping in the air. [synthesis]
• Working when: The client reports the feeling softening, shifting or changing during or after the round. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]

4.3 Peace anchor (wrist, breath, "peace", peaceful memory)

• Purpose / when: Closes every round. It is meant to anchor calm so that it can later be recalled without tapping. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Steps:
  1. The client grabs their own wrist.
  2. They take a deep breath, blow it out and say "peace".
  3. They briefly recall a peaceful memory, anywhere good.
  4. Use the same sequence every time.
  [source: Gene, Medium 2017; Skills To Change, Basic Recipe 2024]
• Example language (illustrative): "Hold your wrist, big breath in, let it out, and say 'peace'. Now go somewhere good for a moment, any memory where you felt fine."
• Watch for: Clients with no accessible peaceful memory. Before starting, help them find a calm image, an imagined safe place or a present-moment sensory anchor. [synthesis] Also watch for breathing cues that trigger panic; let them breathe naturally. [synthesis]
• Working when: A visible settling (posture, breath, face) and a quicker return to calm over successive rounds. [synthesis]

4.4 Check ("reading the instrument")

• Purpose / when: After every round, to see what has changed and to choose the next aim. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Steps:
  1. The client returns to the problem.
  2. They notice any change: a smaller feeling; a picture that shrinks, fades, loses colour or goes quiet; a different memory appearing; tension moving elsewhere in the body.
  3. They observe without judging.
  [source: Gene, Medium 2017; Skills To Change, Basic Recipe 2024]
• Example language (illustrative): "Go back to it. What's different? Bigger, smaller, further away, quieter? Has anything else come up?"
• Watch for: Any new memory or body location becomes the next aim. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Intensity that rises or returns usually signals a new layer or another feeling, not failure (section 5). [synthesis; see forum account in Sources]
• Working when: Successive checks show change in the target's sensory qualities or charge. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]

4.5 Repeat to the flip

• Purpose / when: Continue rounds until the memory "flips" to its opposite (Transform). [source: Gene, Medium 2017; Skills To Change, Basic Recipe 2024]
• Steps:
  1. Re-run Aim, Tap, Peace and Check (the 2017 version re-aims each time; the 2024 version repeats steps 2–4), following whatever surfaces.
  2. If several rounds do not move the target, go to re-imprinting (4.7–4.12).
  [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Example language (illustrative): "Let's go again. Find it, how do you know it's still there? Then tap."
• Watch for: Pressing for a flip beyond the client's tolerance or the session's time. In therapy, a partial reduction plus a safe close-down is an acceptable endpoint. [synthesis]
• Working when: The client spontaneously reports the memory now looks or feels different, neutral or even pleasant. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]

4.6 Finish the job: install the positive version

• Purpose / when: After the charge is cleared, build a new positive version of the memory, "with smiles in it". The founder warns the old "file" can otherwise reload under stress. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Steps:
  1. Invite the client to imagine the scene resolved in a way they would like.
  2. Enrich it.
  3. Tap and anchor with "peace" while holding the new version.
  The founder names the goal. The exact steps above are [synthesis] modelled on his peace and embellish steps.
• Example language (illustrative): "Now that it's calmer, how would you like that scene to look? Let's make it a version where people are smiling, and anchor it: wrist, breath, 'peace'."
• Watch for: Survivors of abuse may experience "making it happy" as invalidating or as erasing what happened. Frame it as updating the felt meaning, not denying the facts, and let the client decide. [synthesis]
• Working when: The client can hold the new version with positive or neutral affect. [synthesis]

Re-imprinting sequence (4.7–4.12)

Use this when basic rounds are not enough. The founder lists six steps to be worked in order, and states that steps 1–5 must be completed before step 6. He gives only short descriptions; the operational detail below is [synthesis]. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]

4.7 Re-imprinting 1: tap on what you see and feel

• Purpose / when: The memory still carries charge after basic rounds. Target its sensory content directly. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Steps:
  1. Aim at one visible element of the memory, or one felt element.
  2. Run a round (tap, peace, check).
  3. Move to the next element.
  [synthesis on the founder's step]
• Example language (illustrative): "What do you see in that scene that bothers you most? Just notice it. Now tap."
• Watch for: Clients being pulled into re-living; keep contact brief. [synthesis]
• Working when: Elements lose charge one by one. [synthesis]

4.8 Re-imprinting 2: tap on the action

• Purpose / when: The charge is in what happens in the memory, the movement or event, rather than in a static image. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Steps:
  1. Aim at the moment of action, for example the worst moment.
  2. Tap and anchor.
  3. Check, and repeat on any remaining moments.
  [synthesis]
• Example language (illustrative): "Which moment of what happens has the most kick? Touch it for a second, step back, and tap."
• Watch for: Hot spots in trauma memories. Use the trauma-safety steps (4.19). [synthesis]
• Working when: The client can run past the moment without spiking. [synthesis]

4.9 Re-imprinting 3: trade places

• Purpose / when: The founder describes imagining being inside the other person in the memory and tapping out their pain from there. It is meant to shift the meaning of another person's behaviour. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Steps:
  1. Invite the client to imagine the other person's perspective.
  2. Aim at the pain that person may have been carrying.
  3. Tap from that position.
  4. Return fully to the client's own perspective, then check.
  [synthesis]
• Example language (illustrative): "If you were willing, could you imagine what was going on inside them at that moment? Only if that feels okay. You can say no."
• Watch for (risk): With abuse, violence or ongoing harm, this step can feel like being asked to empathise with an abuser. It can increase self-blame, or undermine protective anger and safety planning. Make it strictly optional, do not use it with current abusers or in the early phase of trauma work, and never use it to promote reconciliation. [synthesis]
• Working when: The client reports more distance or less personalisation, without increased self-blame. [synthesis]

4.10 Re-imprinting 4: every face happy

• Purpose / when: The founder says to tap until every face in the memory looks happy. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Steps:
  1. Scan the faces in the memory.
  2. Aim at any face that still looks unhappy, angry or threatening.
  3. Tap and check until it changes.
  [synthesis]
• Example language (illustrative): "Look around the scene. Is any face still upset or angry? Let's tap on that one."
• Watch for: The same validation concerns as 4.6; let the client set the target picture. [synthesis]
• Working when: Faces change spontaneously without the client forcing the image. [synthesis]

4.11 Re-imprinting 5: modality tapping

• Purpose / when: To adjust the memory's sensory qualities (submodalities): colour, distance, brightness, size, pitch, tone, volume, voice, pressure and body location. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Steps:
  1. Pick one quality, for example the brightness of an image, the volume of a voice, or where pressure sits in the body.
  2. Aim at it and tap.
  3. Check how it has changed.
  4. Repeat across qualities.
  [synthesis]
• Example language (illustrative): "How loud is that voice? Where's it coming from? Notice that, then tap."
• Watch for: Clients who cannot visualise. Work with felt or auditory qualities instead. [synthesis]
• Working when: The qualities shift, for example quieter, smaller, further away. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]

4.12 Re-imprinting 6: embellish

• Purpose / when: Only after steps 1–5, add whatever positive elements the client wants to the memory. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Steps:
  1. The client adds resources, people, colour or humour to the scene.
  2. Anchor the result with the peace sequence (see 4.6).
  [synthesis]
• Example language (illustrative): "What would you like to add to make this scene good for you? Anything at all."
• Watch for: Embellishing before the charge is cleared; the founder sequences it last for this reason. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] In forensic or legal contexts, imaginal alteration of memories may raise concerns about testimony; discuss this before working on events under investigation. [synthesis]
• Working when: The client spontaneously returns to the embellished version when recalling the event. [synthesis]

4.13 Testing your work

• Purpose / when: At the end of work on a target, to check that it is complete. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Steps:
  1. The client says the original problem out loud.
  2. They notice any pull, tightness, resistance or an inner "yeah, right".
  3. If any of these are present, go back to Aim.
  [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Example language (illustrative): "Say it out loud: 'Fluorescent light bothers me.' Notice what happens inside. Any 'yeah, right'?"
• Watch for: Social compliance ("it's fine now"). Add a real-life or imaginal test where safe, and review at the next session. [synthesis]
• Working when: The out-loud statement produces no pull and the client's behaviour changes between sessions. [synthesis]

4.14 Anchors and triggers between sessions

• Purpose / when: To give the client a portable calming cue. The founder distinguishes triggers (responses life wired in, such as a smell, song or tone of voice) from anchors (responses set deliberately). [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Steps:
  1. After the peace sequence has been rehearsed consistently in session, the client uses the wrist grab and breath alone in daily trigger moments, without tapping.
  [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Example language (illustrative): "When that tone of voice hits at work, just hold your wrist, breathe out, and think 'peace'."
• Watch for: Anchor use becoming avoidance or safety behaviour that blocks exposure work. [synthesis]
• Working when: The client reports using it and recovering faster from triggers. [synthesis]

4.15 Daily self-tapping practice

• Purpose / when: The organisation presents FasterEFT as a daily process and tells learners to "Tap on everything that bothers you." [source: Skills To Change free 5-day course]
• Steps:
  1. Agree one or two daily targets, or trigger moments, with the client.
  2. The client runs the basic recipe (4.1–4.4) on each.
  3. They note what changed.
  4. Review the notes in session.
  [synthesis on the source's instruction]
• Example language (illustrative): "This week, when something bugs you, run one or two rounds and jot down what shifted. We'll look at it together."
• Watch for: Solo tapping on major trauma memories between sessions. Agree that these are worked only in session. [synthesis] Also watch for compulsive tapping, or tapping used to avoid feelings or exposure. [synthesis]
• Working when: The client completes self-practice, and practice notes show change. [synthesis]

4.16 Content-free (private) work

• Purpose / when: For clients who cannot or do not want to disclose details. The founder says no label or backstory is needed. One practitioner reports that clients "don't need to tell me anything". [source: Gene, Medium 2017; The Review 2017]
• Steps:
  1. The client privately aims at the memory.
  2. They report only body markers or changes.
  3. Run rounds as usual.
  [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
• Example language (illustrative): "You don't have to tell me what it is. Just let me know where you feel it and whether it changes."
• Watch for: Undisclosed risk, such as current abuse, safeguarding issues or suicidality. Content-free work does not replace risk assessment. [synthesis]
• Working when: The client reports the body markers changing. [synthesis]

4.17 "Super Power Quick Tap" [uncertain: secondary, unverified]

• Purpose / when: A forum user's transcription attributes to Smith a "quick tap" that releases several emotional states at once (sadness, fears, emotional traumas, anger, guilt, shame and others), ending with a deep breath and "peace". The "Basic Procedure" it refers to is not reproduced there. Treat this as unverified. [source: InwardQuest forum thread]
• Steps:
  1. Run the basic recipe while naming a short list of general states to "release and let go of".
  2. Close with breath and "peace".
  [uncertain: secondary, unverified]
• Example language (illustrative): "Tap with me and say: 'I release and let go of the sadness, the fear, the anger.' Big breath, 'peace'."
• Watch for: Generic stacking can bypass specific aim, which the founder elsewhere warns against. Use it as a brief settling routine rather than as processing. [synthesis]
• Working when: The client feels calmer. Return to specific aim for lasting change. [synthesis]

4.18 "Parts and Pieces" routine for trauma memories [uncertain: source ownership not verified]

• Purpose / when: A page on faster-eft.org, a site of unverified relationship to the founder that sells training through affiliate links, gives a trauma routine. [source: faster-eft.org Trauma Relief Roadmap]
• Steps:
  1. Rate the distress 1–10.
  2. Tap the facial points while taking the mind completely off the memory.
  3. Pair a breath with a safe memory.
  4. Re-check.
  5. Repeat until the rating reaches zero.
  It advises not to get lost in details or "reliving the horror". [source: faster-eft.org Trauma Relief Roadmap]
• Example language (illustrative): "Just a number, 0 to 10, no details needed. Now take your mind right off it and tap."
• Watch for: The page gives no screening, dissociation or stopping guidance, so add 4.19. [synthesis]
• Working when: Ratings fall across rounds and the client stays present. [synthesis]

4.19 Trauma-safety framework (preparation, dissociation, titration)

The founder's built-in safety steps are: brief contact then step away; start vague; tap on sensation, not story; and a peace anchor after every round. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Level 4 training covers PTSD. [source: robertgene.com Eutaptics Training] Everything below is [synthesis].

• Purpose / when: Before and during any FasterEFT work on traumatic material.
• Steps:
  1. Assess first: PTSD and complex PTSD, dissociation, current safety and suicide risk, substance use, and medical conditions. Keep a guideline-recommended trauma therapy as the primary plan.
  2. Prepare: practise the peace anchor and grounding (feet, five senses, naming the date) on neutral material until the client can use them reliably.
  3. Titrate: use content-free aim; take only a brief "touch" of the memory, at the edge rather than the worst moment; work one fragment at a time; stop well before the end of the session.
  4. Monitor dissociation: watch for glazing, flat voice, slowed responses or loss of time sense. If they appear, stop tapping on the memory, ground, and resume only when the client is oriented.
  5. Close: finish with peace rounds on a positive memory, orientation to the present, and a plan for between sessions (no solo work on major memories).
  6. Document: record targets, changes, any distress and the consent given.
• Example language (illustrative): "We'll only touch the edge of it, a second or two, then come right back here. If at any point you want to stop, just say stop or hold up your hand."
• Watch for: Abreaction; the client becoming dissociative, which can look like calm; flashbacks or nightmares between sessions; and pressure, from the client or the method, to "get it to zero" in one sitting.
• Working when: Distress falls within sessions, the client stays oriented, and between-session symptoms reduce rather than spike.

Course topics named without verified procedures

The organisation's free course lists sessions on affirmations, the "Upper and Lower Model of the World", love and survival programming, and a belief system. Their procedures are [uncertain: not verified] and are not described here. [source: Skills To Change free 5-day course]

5. Handling problems

Source-based guidance is tagged. Everything else is [synthesis].

• Nothing shifts (stuck). The founder names three common errors and their fixes. [source: Gene, Medium 2017]
  • No aim: re-aim. Focus may have drifted to the story or the whole situation.
  • Staying "in the trance": confirm the target, then step away from it.
  • Aiming too small: start vague, and narrow down only if it is not moving.
  Then move to the re-imprinting sequence (4.7–4.12). If the client is still stuck, consider secondary gain, a safety function of the symptom, or a different, earlier memory, and return to case formulation. [synthesis]
• Intensity rises or comes back. The founder treats a feeling that moves, or a new memory that appears, as information and as the next aim. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] A forum user suggests that returning intensity may be a separate underlying feeling such as doubt or fear. [uncertain: secondary, unverified] In therapy, slow down, shorten contact, use peace rounds on a positive memory, and check whether the window of tolerance has been exceeded. [synthesis]
• Overwhelm, abreaction or dissociation.
  1. Stop aiming at the memory.
  2. Ground: orient to the room, feel the feet, open the eyes, name objects.
  3. Use the wrist anchor and the breath only if these calm the client; otherwise use plain grounding.
  4. Resume only on the client's say-so, at a smaller "edge" of the memory, or not at all that session.
  5. Review the treatment plan, and consider a phase-based trauma approach with stabilisation first. [synthesis]
• Scepticism or resistance ("this is silly", "tapping on my face?"). Present it as an optional, experiential technique. Explain the founder's own model (a memory plus a feeling) without overclaiming. Offer a trial on a low-level irritation, and respect a no. Do not repeat the organisation's "backed by science" or cure claims. [synthesis]
• Non-adherence to self-practice. Shrink the task to one round in one trigger moment a day, link it to an existing routine, and review it without judgement. If the client avoids practice because of fear, take the target back into session. [synthesis]
• Rupture. For example, the client feels invalidated by "make every face happy" or "trade places", or feels pushed by "persistence is essential". Acknowledge it directly, name that these steps are optional, and invite the client to set the targets and the endpoint. Repair before continuing. [synthesis]
• The client wants to stop medication or medical care, or believes FasterEFT will cure a disease. The founder says to stay under a doctor's care. [source: Gene, Medium 2017] Do not advise on medicines; route the client to the prescriber. Explore what draws them to the claims (hope, control, distrust of medicine). Correct any impression that the therapist endorses disease claims. With consent, coordinate with the client's doctor. [synthesis]
• Physical or medical symptoms used as targets (pain, fatigue). Encourage medical assessment first and keep the work to the emotional and stress component. The organisation's statements that pain is a "signal" of something "beneath the surface" are its own claims. [source: robertgene.com Eutaptics Training; synthesis]
• Children. The sources reviewed give no child protocol. Use only with parental consent and the child's assent, in age-appropriate form (self-tapping, short rounds, play framing). Keep safeguarding duties intact, and never substitute it for medical care. [synthesis]
• Self-harm or suicidality. FasterEFT is not a risk intervention. Follow standard risk assessment and safety planning, and use tapping only as an adjunct for distress once the client is safe. [synthesis]
• Commercial pressure and conflicts of interest. The organisation sells tiered paid trainings, courses and audio tracks, and some FasterEFT-branded sites carry affiliate codes. [source: robertgene.com Eutaptics Training; Skills To Change free 5-day course; faster-eft.org] Do not sell courses or products to clients, do not earn affiliate income from client referrals, and disclose any training affiliation. Keep within the profession's ethics code on conflicts of interest and competence. [synthesis]
• Touch boundary issues. If a client asks the therapist to tap on them, first offer the hands-off approach. Any touch requires explicit consent before and during, the client can stop at any time, it is limited to the published points (face, collarbone, wrist), and it is never sexual. Document it and follow your professional body's guidance on touch and chaperones. [synthesis]
• Memories under legal investigation. Imaginal embellishment and re-imprinting may alter how events are recalled. Discuss this with the client, and with legal advisers where relevant, before working on such memories. [synthesis]

Sources

• How to Do the Faster EFT Tap — The Basic Recipe (Robert Gene, Medium, 2017)
• How to do the eutaptics™ FasterEFT® Tap – The Basic Recipe (Skills To Change Institute, 2024)
• How Does FasterEFT Work – The Science Behind FasterEFT (Skills To Change Institute, 2024)
• The In-depth Eutaptics Training System By Robert Gene Smith (robertgene.com)
• Discover and Learn the Truth and Science Behind FasterEFT (FasterEFT blog)
• Free 5 Day Course 2024 (Skills To Change, TalentLMS course page)
• At Yes, Women Can: work on your mind-body connection (The Review, Vankleek Hill, 2017) — secondary; practitioner account
• Trauma Relief Roadmap: Rewire Subconscious Patterns with Tapping (faster-eft.org, 2026) — ownership [uncertain]
• Has anyone tried Faster EFT? (InwardQuest forum) — user accounts [uncertain: secondary, unverified]
• Is it natural for feelings to get stronger while tapping with Faster EFT? (InwardQuest forum) — user accounts [uncertain: secondary, unverified]
• The organisation's practitioner directory and main FasterEFT landing pages: [uncertain: not verified]