Eric Almeida is a Mental Health Coach who specializes in the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as tapping. By tapping on specific acupressure points on the body, he helps individuals overcome their fight, flight, or freeze response and embrace their authentic selves. According to Eric Almeida, limiting beliefs and a lack of self-worth often hinder people's ability to achieve self-fulfillment. Through EFT, he helps clients replace negative thought patterns with positive ones and reconnect with their inner desires to lead a more purposeful life.

Amy Gaesser of New York College at Brockport compiled a collection of studies that focused on using the Emotional Freedom Technique to benefit students and staff in a school setting. Here is a bird’s eye view of the results of these various studies.

The Emotional Freedom Technique, also known as tapping, involves tapping on acupressure points on your own body in order to calm the amygdala, the fear center of the brain. The tapping allows for the Chi (emotional energy) to move more freely and bring a sense of relief and calm to the mind and body.

The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as tapping, is a mental health technique where the user will tap on acupressure points on their own body in order to calm the amygdala, the fear center of the brain, that activates the flight, fight and freeze response. We have all experienced this response.