Dr Shoshana Garfield, PhD

I started helping others officially when I was a teenager with workshops and peer counselling on date rape. I went on to do social work with homeless women and children, and developed a speciality in domestic abuse/domestic violence. This continued for a long time, interspersed with offering various healing methods. I eventually yearned to make an impact at a greater level, so I did a PhD in psychology, and my research was on treatment programmes for domestically abusive men. Now I've come full circle and work individually again, enriched by all the places I have been before and by the anticipation of what lies ahead.

Throughout this time, I was on my own healing journey. My personal journey and my professional development often overlapped; I developed skills in Reiki and spirit healing after benefitting from it myself, and was able to help others with serious conditions, from depression to neck pain to cancer. I used to think that the best I could hope for myself was that my own pain would lessen and that I would just have to make peace with my past - which is a very different thing to aim for than the more profound goal of being and living peace. Since I discovered the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), I undertook such a wonderful journey, and gleefully discovered that a lot of my own beliefs about healing were just horse manure. I had meditated on already being whole, and it was only with EFT that I came to truly feel it. I had never even allowed myself to really think it possible - I had just been going through the motions without any real belief. And here, with EFT, joy and peace and wholeness had just sort of snuck up on me. 

This was so EUREKA to me that I started sharing EFT with my friends, and so many of my friends had EUREKA moments from my efforts that I started sharing it with my friends' family and friends. They had so many EUREKA moments that I started writing about those moments for the EFT newsletter, and when the first one got published, people who read the article called me for help. And then they had so many EUREKA moments that it finally dawned on me that this is what I need to do.

Those EUREKA moments are incredibly precious, and I am always learning more and better ways to help others and myself remember that we are already whole.  The way of working I'm most excited about adding to my repertoire right now is Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) because it strengthens, seamlessly, everything I do.

And here I am, offering the blessing of what is collectively known as Energy Psychology to you.

I still do energy work on myself, and daily; as the founder of EFT, Gary Craig says, "You are never done."  I'm a work in progress. I also do exchanges with other UK practitioners for support and supervision as part of my own personal and intense commitment to always be the best I can be in this moment. My bar is always rising.