The Science: Why CBT + Tapping Works
CBT is based on the understanding that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected. Change one, and you affect the others. It's highly effective—decades of research support its use for anxiety, depression, and many other conditions. But CBT traditionally works primarily at the cognitive level, which can sometimes feel like you understand a pattern but can't quite change it.
Tapping adds the body to the equation. While CBT addresses unhelpful thoughts and beliefs cognitively, Tapping simultaneously calms the nervous system and reduces the emotional charge attached to those thoughts. This combination can make CBT insights land more deeply—you're not just understanding a new perspective, you're feeling it in your body.
Dr. Claire Hayes brings her expertise in CBT to these sessions, combining cognitive restructuring techniques with EFT Tapping. The result is a powerful approach that addresses thoughts, emotions, and the body together.
Four core areas: These sessions cover the main areas CBT addresses—thought patterns, limiting beliefs, emotions, and habits. Together, they provide a comprehensive toolkit for psychological change.
The Sessions
Change Unhelpful Thought Patterns
We all have automatic thoughts that distort reality—catastrophizing, black-and-white thinking, mind-reading. This session helps you identify these patterns and, with Tapping, begin to change them at a deeper level than thought alone can reach.
Transform Limiting Beliefs
Beneath thought patterns are deeper beliefs—"I'm not good enough," "The world is dangerous," "I can't trust people." These beliefs formed early and resist change. This session combines CBT belief work with Tapping to access and transform these core beliefs.
Understand and Release Emotions
Emotions carry information, but they can also overwhelm. This session helps you understand what your emotions are telling you while using Tapping to release emotional intensity. You learn to work with emotions rather than being controlled by them.
Break Free from Unhelpful Habits
Habits form through repetition and often serve a purpose, even when they're harmful. This session uses CBT understanding of habit loops combined with Tapping to interrupt automatic patterns and create space for new choices.
Real Story: Jaci on Limiting Beliefs
Jaci
"This was amazing! It took me three sessions to get from 8 to 0 but it worked! And each time I did the session, I thought of another area of success that I felt I need to struggle in. Career, academics, family relationships and health."
Jaci discovered something unexpected during her Tapping—a strange belief surfaced that successful people get hurt, with JFK and Malcolm X coming to mind.
"I had no clue where that came from but this morning, while doing this meditation, I realized I was about 13 months old when JFK was shot and I bet that I saw the news clip about it over and over. The session helped me finally release a belief I didn't even know I had."
Dr. Claire Hayes CBT Collection
Four evidence-based sessions combining CBT and Tapping.