I used to be a "conventional" therapist. Clients liked me and came to weekly sessions for years and felt supported by me. I was always a "good" therapist (at least that's what most of my clients said) and I guess I was because I was rarely "fired" by the people who sought my services.

But there was a bit of a problem... As much as I loved "helping" people, I never truly saw anyone get totally over a trauma or a phobia. I saw my clients learn better how to cope with their problems, but not totally overcome them.

I was also a bit of a "snob" about the type of therapist I was. I had received excellent and formal training from a psychoanalytic institute and I truly believed that the method I learned was the best method.

So, when I began to learn some of the newer, more innovative methods of trauma and phobia reduction or resolution, such as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), and Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), I was very skeptical that they would work! They seemed "too easy" because people didn't have to be in therapy for years. They seemed too "hocus pocus" because they involved "tapping" on the face, or rolling the eyes and humming, or repeatedly telling about the trauma in a session longer than the conventional 50 minutes.

How did I get over my skepticism? Personal Experience!

I had a couple of sessions of TIR and EFT for myself! And issues that had plagued me all of my life that "conventional" therapy hadn't helped just disappeared!

My first TIR session took just 90 minutes. A memory that had "run" my life since I was three years old just disappeared!

And then I tried an EFT session on something that had been bothering me for six years. After seven minutes, the "thing" that I had suffered with for six years no longer bothered me!

Vanished! Both issues were no longer issues for me.

Well, I decided it was time to reassess my psychotherapy practice. I could no longer sit and just "listen" to clients talk for years and years about their same issues. I had to offer them these new techniques (that some of my colleagues still scoff at) because I thought I could help my clients get positive results faster than by the more "conventional" methods I had been using.

And it worked! People I had seen for years in therapy now needed just a few sessions to get over the challenges that had brought them to me in the first place.

It's a bit lonely for me now, because most people only feel a need for a few sessions, rather than years of therapy!

But that's ok with me. My goal is to help people as quickly as possible. My goal is to save my clients as much time, energy, and money as I can.

If someone wants to make an appointment to work on one simple phobia or one trauma, that's ok with me. I don't need to take six months to learn the person's history to help him or her. I quickly assess if the client is appropriate for short-term work (and some people are not). And if the client is appropriate for such an intervention, I explain the techniques and we get to work!

I would never give a "guarantee" of results, of course, but many people meet their goals in just a few sessions with me.

It makes me very happy to see my clients "graduate" from my office so quickly.

>>Read some client feedback to see how EFT and TIR have helped so many people.