I could move faster through trauma processing. A lot faster.

But speed is exactly what I sacrifice, intentionally, in service of something more important.

When I use tapping to help a client heal from trauma, the process is slow and deliberate. There are careful, step-wise safeguards built in to make sure the client is processing the trauma rather than reliving it. Because those are not the same thing, and the difference matters enormously.

I also take extra steps at the end to make sure the memory has been as completely processed as possible, so that traumatic memory no longer has the same impact on present-day life. That takes time too.

Could I skip those steps? Sure. Would it be more efficient? Yes. But the client would be at risk of retraumatization, and the healing would be incomplete.

My tapping clients aren't paying me to be fast. They're paying me to help them actually heal. That requires being effective, even when effective is slow.