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Joan Kaylor, MSEd, LPC, DCEP (Diplomate in Energy Psychology), and International Certified Master EFT Trainer an expert in combining CBT with clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques. She is the host of the podcast: EFT Tapping Stories and a speaker whose enthusiasm for her students is well known. Joan has used EFT clinically and has been teaching EFT since 1994.

Her passion is to bring these gentle meridian and cognitive-based techniques into mainstream clinical mental health treatment.

The research in Clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques continues to grow. EFT has over 50 controlled double-blind studies and over 50 Meta Analyses.

Joan earned her Master of Science in Education degree from the Duquesne University. She earned certification in clinical EFT from the Association in Comprehensive Energy Psychology in 2013 and earned advanced practitioner status from EFT International in 2015 and Master Trainer status June 2023. Joan served on the board of directors of the International OCD Foundation from 1991-1997. She took the first behavior therapy institute in 1996; her more than thirty years of clinical practice includes private practice and using EFT in a not-for-profit community mental health agency in Pittsburgh called South Hills Interfaith Ministries. She speaks nationally and internationally on EFT and presents frequently for Canadian based Moving Forward Family Services, the Pennsylvania Counseling Association, and the Trichotillomania Learning Center Foundation for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors. She is a sought-after expert in working with anxiety spectrum disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders and body focused repetitive behaviors.