EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES
PS-3 and PS-4 MENTORING and
CERTIFICATION PROGRAMs

Discover the Real Power of EFT and Make it Your Own

Why Get Mentored and Certified in EFT?

  • Increase your confidence and achieve better results working with complex cases
    Mentoring and Certification in EFT equips you to use this method in depth and with the competence required to work with complex problems and clients.
  • Upgrade your expertise
    Enjoy the confidence that comes from knowing how to provide ethical services within your scope of practice, and from having achieved a high level of competence in using EFT with your clients.
  • Make EFT Part of Yourself!
    Becoming a master of anything is a developmental process.  It takes time, practice,  training and mentoring.   If you want to have the clinical skill and nuance of the trainers and the facilitators of this program you need the training offered in PS 3 and P4.  You need to commit.  There is just no other substitute.  If you are even considering this, watch this 17 minute interview with Advanced EFT Practitioner Jenine Lamberton.
  • Amplify your professional credibility
    EFT is the most well-known energy psychology method. With increased visibility and use, also comes increased scrutiny. When you get certified, it tells your clients and referral sources that you've achieved a level of mastery. And it will be easier to get referrals.

Prerequisites for PS-3 ACEP Certified Practitioner of EFT

Currently, our EFT trainings and certification are only open to licensed mental health practitioners and other licensed practitioners who have counseling training. We plan to create a version of this training for allied health professionals.

  1. Enroll in ACEP's EFT Professional Skills 1, online course ($447)
    Register here
    -  Pass online exam
    -  Practice techniques
  2. Enroll in ACEP's EFT Professional Skills 2, online course ($447)
    Register here
    -  Pass online exam
    -  Practice techniques
  3. Document 25 client sessions using EFT exclusively (must be completed before you apply for the certification program)

Steps to Become An ACEP Certified Practitioner of EFT (ACP-EFT)

You may complete these steps in any order. (For example, you can take the ethics exam at any time in the process.)

The only exception to this: membership and the consultation/video reviews are essentially done simultaneously.

 1. Become an ACEP member  
($135 - U.S. residents) See web page for other options. 
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2.  Use this link to complete your EFT certification application ( you will need to login to your ACEP account). Pay for your consultant sessions and 3 video reviews ($1,190)
Once you complete this application, you will receive an email (allow 24-48 hours) with a packet of instructions on how to move forward.

3. Choose your mentor/consultant   View the consultant list 
Contact your consultant, get their approval, then email acepstaff@gmail.com with the name of your chosen consultant.

4. Complete 5 hours of online, one-on-one consultation sessions *
These mentoring sessions are semi-structured and include a specific focus for each session. Each participant will be asked to demonstrate a specific skill. Students are expected to bring specific cases. These mentoring sessions may be used to give feedback about videos submitted for review or your storyboard of video 2. Bring a challenge, issue or brag.Should you need additional consultation time beyond the 5 hours, the cost will be $125/hour, payable to ACEP. The need for additional consultation time is determined by your consultant. 

5. Submit three videos for review*
It's mandatory to send your signed client release to your consultant before they review any of your videos.

1st Video: Cover the tapping points, a pre-frame, Constricted Breathing, and explain the Personal Peace Procedure. This should show that you can explain the EFT basics to your client.

2nd Video: Show the Tearless Trauma Technique and Tell The Story Technique.

3rd Video:  Putting it all together. You will include a written configuration of your individual session.

6. Complete EFT Ethics Course and pass the exam. When you have completed the course and passed the exam, the Course Administrator will sent to you via email a Certificate of Completion. The Course Administrator will also copy ACEP on the email, notifying ACEP that you have successfully completed the ethics requirement for certification.

Purchase Ethics Course here ($150)

7. Pass written EFT exam

8. Complete an additional 25 hours of client sessions ( for a total of 50 hours). These must be documented and a sheet turned in before the end of the program. Client sessions can be documented at any time after you start EFT Professional Skills 1.

9. Complete 3 hours of personal EFT work with an ACEP certified Advanced EFT practitioner. The point of this is for you to have a direct experience of EFT from the inside. This makes you a better practitioner. ACEP has arranged for a list of advanced practitioners who have agreed to charge $120-150 per session for your three sessions. ($360-450)

When you reach this point, contact acepstaff@gmail.com or 484-380-2448 for the list of practitioners.

Important Note: Your practitioner can not be the person who is running your consultant session and doing your video reviews. Your practitioner will only be required to attest that you have completed three sessions. They will not discuss anything that occurs during your session with them as a client. 

10. Complete the required reading.

ACEP Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Practice(PDF)

"Energy Psychology and Polyvagal Theory" by Robert Schwarz, PsyD

The EFT Manual third edition by Dawson Church

Optional: EFT Comprehensive Training Course, Level 1

11. Submit 2 professional reference letters from colleagues who can vouch for your work as an EFT practitioner. Please have your references submit a letter on their letterhead to attest to your qualifications and ethical behavior as an EFT practitioner. The letter should be sent via email as a Word document or PDF to acepstaff@gmail.com  or can be faxed to 484-418-1019.

12. Sign the EFT certification contract.


Total cost for your practitioner certification after Professional Skills 2: about $1675
(Plus cost of materials, such as books.)

Certification renewal every two years:  $125

*ACEP has the right to make final decision on the eligibility of any applicant.

Applying for certification if you have EFT training from other recognized programs.    

If you have EFT training from other recognized program.  Click here to learn the process for becoming certified by ACEP

PS-4:  ACEP Certified Advanced EFT Practitioner (ACAP-EFT)

Steps to Become an ACEP Advanced EFT Practitioner (ACAP-EFT)

  1. Complete ACEP EFT certification
  2. Use this link to complete your application for advanced EFT certification.
  3. Additional 50 hours of multi-session clients
  4. Integrated written Case and Video Presentation ($595)

    The main criteria of advanced certification are that the practitioner demonstrates advanced skills in:
      • identifying treatment goals,
      • discerning limiting beliefs & schema and discovering originating traumatic events
      • clarifying aspects of a traumatic/stressful event
      • assessing outcomes of EFT interventions and making adjustments based on those outcomes
      • tracking and managing the direction and intensity of the session

all while maintaining good rapport and engagement with the client so that the treatment is effective.

Basic certification focused on demonstrating that the practitioner knows how to perform the foundational skills of EFT.  ADVANCED certification focuses on how well the practitioner can put all basic skills together in an artful and competent PROCESS.  To this end, Advanced Certification is constructed somewhat differently than first level certification.

The student should be prepared to track the process of working with a client over several sessions from the beginning of treatment or the beginning of a section of treatment, where the client has a relatively vague complaint (presenting issue such as a public speaking phobia or anxiety) through the identification of beliefs/schemas/table tops to the identification of an originating event (table leg) from childhood/adolescence that supports those beliefs/schemas/table tops, through treatment of at least one of those legs and testing.

We would expect that this would take between 2-3 sessions.  The student should video record all of these sessions (more on this in a moment). The student will be expected to present a written report documenting the presenting issue, the underlying beliefs/schemas/table tops to the identification of specific events (table legs) that support each of those beliefs/schemas/table tops.   The identification of the emotional crescendos and aspects, the results of testing and follow up of at least one successfully treated specific event.

Depending on the length and number of videos, the student will either present the videos in their entirety or identify the time sequences in the various videos to demonstrate their interactions with the client.   The person being presented must be a client or remotely affiliated non-client such as a friend-of-a-friend or acquaintance.  (Cannot be a family member, personal friend or another student in the EFT training program)

5.  5 hours sessions of online one-on-one consultation ($695). These sessions are semi-structured and include a specific focus for each session. Each participant will be asked to demonstrate a specific skill. Students are expected to bring specific cases. You can bring a challenge, issue or brag).

6.  Enroll in the Science of Energy Healing online course and pass the CE exam (SPECIAL PRICE of $297 including CE hours if you have not taken the course previously. If you have, you'll just provide proof of passing the test.) Contact the office for a coupon code.

Total Basic Cost for Advanced Certification is $1587

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If you require accommodations for a disability, please contact us at 484-380-2448 or via email at  acepstaff@gmail.com  |

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About ACEP

ACEP works to establish the credibility and efficacy of energy psychology methods through its programs of educationcertificationethics, humanitarian aid and research. By upholding standards of practice and a code of ethics for energy psychology practitioners, ACEP raises the bar of professionalism for this emerging field. ACEP also has ongoing initiatives to increase public awareness of the effectiveness and cost efficiency of these methods. Formed as a non-profit in 1999, ACEP has a global membership of over 1,200 licensed mental health professionals and allied health practitioners.      energypsych.org

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