TFT – Thought Field Therapy®

Callahan Techniques® Thought Field Therapy (TFT) was developed by American clinical psychologist Roger Callahan, Ph.D.

Dr. Callahan came across what would become Thought Field Therapy in the course of working with a patient who had seemed to reach a plateau in her treatment for a debilitating water phobia.   At the time he was also studying a Chinese medicine energy healing technique and he suggested that his patient tap on the stomach meridian under her eye while discussing the phobia.

Surprisingly, her fear evaporated.  She was immediately able to go swimming and remains free of her phobia.

Thus began the work to build on and further develop Thought Field Therapy.  Word spread quickly and inspired other offshoots of the methodology, including Emotional Freedom Techniques

President of the American Academy of Psychologists in Marital and Family Therapy and the Michigan Society of School Psychologists, Dr. Callahan has taught at the University of Michigan and Syracuse University. He was an Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University, a Research and Clinical Psychologists at Michigan’s Wayne County Training School, and he is a current Fellow of the American Academy of Psychotherapists Treating Addiction. Dr. Callahan has had private psychotherapy practices in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, Indian Wells, and La Quinta, California.

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