Healing Trauma and Other Issues Using Energy Psychology and Sound Healing and the Empirical Support for Efficacy

About this episode

The episode discusses the use of Energy Psychology and Sound Healing in psychotherapy, featuring insights from guest Rachel Michaelson.

In this episode, I speak with Rachel about using Energy Psychology (EP) and Sound Healing (SH) in her psychotherapy work. Rachel describes how she was originally trained psychodynamically and had been in psychodynamic therapy herself. After Rachel learned about EP from her acupuncturist she pursued training in the approach, and found it was very effective with clients. She also worked with an EP psychotherapist and experienced a significant shift. Rachel explains that EP facilitates changes in subtle energy resulting in shifts in behaviors, emotions, physical symptoms, anxiety, PTSD, performance and other issues. Rachel discussed the most well-known EP approach, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Many people have learned it as a technique to help regulate the nervous system. With more in depth training, EFT can be used for a variety of issues one might bring to a therapist. Rachel discusses how she integrates SH into other EP techniques. She has found that it often increases the speed and ease of change. Rachel discussed the significant research support for EP, including numerous double blind, randomized and controlled research studies. Lastly, Rachel shared practical strategies…

People in this episode

Host: W Keith Sutton PsyD

Guest: Rachel Michaelson

Topics covered

• Energy Psychology
• Sound Healing
• Trauma Healing
• Psychotherapy
• Emotional Freedom Technique
• Nervous System Regulation

Keywords

• Energy Psychology
• Sound Healing
• Emotional Freedom Technique
• psychotherapy
• trauma
• nervous system
• EFT
• Rachel Michaelson

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Energy Psychology, Sound Healing, Emotional Freedom Technique

Places: California

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