Clients response to the session

After the session we (including my partner) sat and talked for a while, and the client did keep on "going back" and checking the feeling for herself to find that it was still comfortable, which she remarked on. Follow-up phone call to be made on 5/7/2006 as the client is not local to me.

Follow-up phone call: 5/7/2006

The client reports that what she can feel is still a little woolly but not as much as before. Now it is more "vacant".This seems to correlate to the empty feeling that we sometimes get during EFT treatments, where the client is not used to feeling no emotions for a particular issue.The client says that she will be in a similar situation this weekend and will see how she gets on and will call me back for an update on Monday 10/7/2006.

12/07/2006 Spoke with the client who says that over the weekend she was in exactly the same situation as previously, being around people she didn’t know. Previously she would have felt really negative and unable to talk to these people, but this time she found that she had no negative feelings and was comfortable being there even though she wasn’t talking to them. She says that she didn’t have to change the way she was thinking about things and in fact just didn’t have to even think about it, she just found that the negative feelings were not there, which is really good.

There was also mention of it linking to how she feels around the guys at work who have previously made her feel uncomfortable in the office, but now (so far) she has fount that she doesn’t seem to care about how they are talking/acting around her.She says that it feels strange that the feeling has gone, but it is a good feeling of being positive and not so much a woolly feeling any more.

26/07/2006 I emailed the client a couple of days ago and asked her if she minded sharing details of what her issue was to allow the case study to be clear in what we were treating. The client has responded and provided me with details of the issue for the purposes of the case study as well as more feedback. (names censored for confidentiality reasons)

My scenario was:

For as long as I can remember I've had grey moments around other people, one minute I'll be fine, but then when I get into company that I'm not confident around, people I don't know well or even a very large group of people, I do know I start thinking why would anyone want to talk to me, I'm boring (that comes from Mark G******** in the fourth year at******* High School) and I know logically that I'm at least as interesting as anyone else but feel myself shrinking and going grey and merging into the background and getting tongue tied and no-one would want to talk to anyone in that state.

The particular occurrence that I was thinking about was just the most recent, at Tatton Park beer tent, I was sat with a friend and had it in my head I wanted to be sociable and chat to other people – we ended up sitting on our own as we didn't see anyone we knew very well and I started feeling grey so chickened out and we just sat chatting to each other.

I don't get chance to talk to just her too often so it was a really good night, we had fun and a good catch up – so it was a positive night yet I turned it into something negative in my head and felt like it/I had been a failure.

The same scenario happened after the [FREEWAY] session, at Tewksbury – just me and L**** again, and it felt totally different, just a nice night catching up where it didn't matter that I didn't know anyone else well enough to chat much – it was just a good night all round.

I'm going to have a serious think about other issues as I think I would like you to help me work on other stuff too given how this has been, Thanks for all your help, really appreciate it"