Module 8

Question 1

When will you use the Tearless Trauma technique?

Answer 1

When the patient expects to have a hight SUD (7 or greater).

Question 2

What are the 7 steps for the Tearless Trauma technique?

Answer 2

1. Identify a specific bothersome event from the past (stay focussed on just one event, which might be hard in case of abuse over a few years).
2. Ask the client to GUESS what the intensity MIGHT be when they were to imagine the event. Without going through the move, make a guess. When they close their eyes, get them back to the guessing, they don’t go over it.
   As a tool you can ask them to put the experience in a box with a lid on it, and ask them what the intensity would be like if they were to open the box.
3. Develop a phrase or movie title to use for the EFT process and then do a few rounds of tapping on this (“Even though I have this… movie…). When this is too intense, just mention this movie.
4. After this round ask them to guess again and compare that guess to the original one.
5. Perform more rounds of EFT and keep checking in with the new intensity guesses. Again global: “Even though I’m guessing this movie will upset me ”
 “Even though I might have to imagine this movie ”
 “Even though I’m not thrilled about going through this event ”
6. Once your clients are down to a low guess (3 or lower), then ask them to actually imagine the incident and see how accurate the guess was.
7. When intensity is a 0, continue with additional testing (vivid visualisation) or move on te Tell the Story Technique.

Question 3

What is the primary use of the tearless trauma technique?

Answer 3

It is to take the edge off a very intense memory before getting into the details of that memory.