A typical Energy Psychology session involves several common steps:

1. First I use "energy checking" to see if you are centered in your energy system. This involves pressing lightly on your outstretched arm to check an "indicator muscle" that lets me know if (like a magnet) the North and South poles of your bio-field are in the proper places, whether both hemispheres of your brain are allowing you to fully think and feel at the same time, whether you are constantly speeding ahead of yourself or lagging behind. If energy checking finds some interference, I use simple exercises to bring you back into balance. Interferences can occur from dehydration, lack of sleep and emotional disturbances.
2. We identify some clear goals. Is it to stop compulsive eating? Stop losing our temper? Recover from depression or anxiety? Recover from cancer? Get rid of allergies and asthma? Stop procrastinating?
3. The core Energy Psychology System that I use is called "BEAM™" Therapy (Bio-Energetic Access Method). BEAM™ is a very simple way of releasing past unprocessed negative emotions along with associated toxins. It is chakra-based and directed by the person's inner self.
   

Picture each of us as being like a diamond, covered in layers of "mud" which is composed of unprocessed negative emotions and toxins. With BEAM™--we create a kind of energetic laser beam to clean up this negative residue, layer by layer and delete it from cellular memory.

In each weekly session, we use energy checking to identify what unprocessed negative emotions the person's inner self has indicated are in the outer layer and ready to be deleted from cellular memory that day. We activate the chakras while remembering (or not) the times he or she felt the designated emotion. If the person doesn't consciously remember anything, it still works. If they say nothing in the session, it still works. At the end of the session, the person will test strong for the emotions that have been cleared and had originally tested weak.

Intellectual understanding is not really necessary because the underlying negative core beliefs and dysfunctional programs with associated toxins, were laid down underneath the radar of adult rational thinking. They have been a kind of default subconscious ROM (Read-Only-Memory, to use a computer analogy) and are the cause for their distress. This un-editable program is simply deleted through the BEAM™ process and one simply no longer needs an adult left-brain, cognitive "override" because there is no longer anything to overcome with rational thinking. Addiction, compulsions, negative thinking have lost their reason for being! The impulse is no longer there.

In addition to the weekly session, there may be homework that the client is asked to do using other Energy Psychology techniques such as EFT, TAT, WHEE, BLT, and Acupressure, to treat a specific symptom such as a migraine, allergic reactions, compulsive behaviors and so forth.

Energy Psychology takes an average of 25 to 60 sessions. Often, children recover faster than adults. Energy Psychology has been successful even with people who are not able to express themselves. For instance, it has been used successfully on infants and animals, using surrogate muscle testing.

Energy Psychology is related to a host of new energy therapies that have come into being in the last two or three decades. Everything from Reiki to EMDR has contributed to a burgeoning field of healing called Vibrational Medicine [See Richard Gerber, M.D. 2001. Vibrational medicine: the #1 handbook of subtle-energy therapies. 3rd ed. Bear & Co.; David Feinstein, Ph.D. 2004. Energy Psychology Interactive. Innersource; and Donna Eden. Energy Medicine.1998, Penguin.]