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EFT in and of itself is not outcome orientated, because you are treating presenting problems all the while. With an amateur practitioner and a client who wishes to make generative, transformational or global changes in their lives, this obviously leads to problems and a very piecemeal approach to the therapy. The "Keys To An Achievable Outcome" for example can provide a very proactive and positive base from which to work; the relevant questions will bring up the negative beliefs around various subjects which can then be treated quickly and reliably with EFT, making this a very simple and basic yet enormously powerful and globally useful intervention. One other intervention which I personally use a lot is using a combination of values elicitations and EFT around a certain subject area.
I'm beginning to think that meta model violations are a direct linguistic device that functions as the indicator of underlying trauma. It seems to me that people have an ability to think clearly and logically naturally and that this ability is destroyed when strong emotions are present. I would suggest that you remain on the lookout or rather, the listen out, for any meta model violations in your client's comments or statements. They are an indicator that there is an issue which needs to be resolved. Tapping on the meta model violations "as are", ie just taking what the client just said and have them tap it, seems to always bring forth the required correction from the client themselves and without further input from the facilitator. For example, a client taps a round on "Even though my mother never loved me, I deeply and profoundly accept myself". After they're through and you ask them how this is different now, they will say, "Well I guess there were times when she tried to love me, after all, but she just had so many problems of her own, you know?" which to me indicates that the tapping corrected the faulty map all by itself, and in a most holistic and ecological way.
A key element of EFT treatments is that the client will be able to treat themselves at home after they have left your care. This is of course absolutely marvellous in so far that it will bring your success rates with clients to a whole new level and puts the client very definitely at cause regarding their own well being and future progress. It is crucial to all of this that the client should:
• have learned how to do EFT thoroughly,
• that the client should be comfortable with the technique,
• that a version of the basic technique was prescribed that fits in with clients existing belief systems;
• that they should have all they require to really remember to do it at home for general homework or in a moment of crisis,
• or in other words, that anchors were created that will fire off an EFT intervention, instant or otherwise (or a version of BSFF, of course) ... installed by the facilitator before they leave your office.
The difference between a good piece of teaching installation and future pacing and a mediocre one is the difference between a client who says on check back, "Oh yes, that EFT thing. I guess it helped a bit with that phobia I used to have.", and the client who says, "I don't know how to thank you! You've changed my life! I cannot believe the difference this has made to me, my family, my friends, my effectiveness at work - the other day I actually..."