Certified EFT / Tapping Practitioner · Los Angeles, CA

Emotional Freedom Technique training in Los Angeles.

Tapping suits the embodied, self-regulating client LA turns out — people who already do the slow somatic work and want a tool they can use between sessions. The EFT training builds real session craft on top of the tapping points, with a trauma-informed scope that keeps you honest about where a Tapping session stops.

Emotional Freedom Technique certification training in Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles cohort at a glance

Tuition
$1,800

Same tuition in every city

Format
100% in person

In Los Angeles, CA

In-person teaching
6 days · 48h

8-hour days, two 4-hour half-days

Personal study
~38h

Between sessions, on average

Cohort size
10 students

Fixed cohort, start to finish

Credential
CEFTP

Private certification, not a state license

Download detailed program (PDF)

PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.

Your dates in Los Angeles

Jun 1 – Jul 8, 2027

Tue–Thu · 9 am–6 pm · 6 teaching days in 2 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort

  1. Module 1Jun 1–3
  2. Module 2Jul 6–8

Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the Los Angeles venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.

Seats

10 students

Enrolment closes

May 11, 2027

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Train where you live

Why Emotional Freedom Technique in Los Angeles?

EFT graduates in LA tend to work one-to-one over video and from small rooms in Pasadena or Santa Monica, often with entertainment clients managing audition stress and performance anxiety. It also pairs well if you already coach. Be straight with prospects, though: tapping looks strange to newcomers and the evidence base is still debated, so the practitioners who keep clients are the ones who explain the scope plainly and never overpromise.

If New York is where modalities are exported, Los Angeles is where many of them were first imported. The city's relationship with holistic practice goes back decades: Esalen is up the coast, the human-potential movement passed through here, and today LA holds the largest concentration of yoga teachers, energy practitioners, and somatic facilitators on the West Coast. Our Los Angeles students tend to be entertainment-industry professionals, healthcare workers, and parents — people whose sense of timing is intimate with the rhythms of attention and recovery.

For students of Emotional Freedom Technique specifically, Los Angeles's scene is a particularly good match: highest concentration of holistic professionals on the west coast. strong appetite for movement and somatic work. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Venice, Silver Lake, Pasadena, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

LA applicants are often 30-50, with backgrounds in entertainment (writers, producers, post-production professionals), tech, healthcare, or hospitality. Many already hold a yoga teacher certification (RYT-200 or higher) and want a complementary credential to broaden their offering and stabilize their income through varied modalities. Others are healthcare workers (nurses, OTs, physical therapists) seeking a non-clinical sister practice. The LA student tends to be process-oriented, embodied, and unusually willing to do the slow somatic work that distinguishes our program.

The modality

What you'll be training in.

For a deeper introduction to Emotional Freedom Technique as a practice tradition, see the full program page.

EFT — Emotional Freedom Technique, often called Tapping — combines a simple acupressure protocol with focused verbal work to address stress, anxiety, limiting beliefs, and emotional reactivity. The practitioner (or the client, in self-application) taps lightly on a specific sequence of meridian-related points on the body — top of the head, eyebrow, side of the eye, under the eye, under the nose, chin, collarbone, under the arm — while the client speaks aloud about a specific issue.

What is happening physiologically remains debated, but the evidence base for EFT specifically — particularly through the Gold Standard EFT protocol developed by Dawson Church and colleagues — is now substantial. Multiple randomized controlled trials suggest meaningful effects on stress, anxiety, PTSD symptoms (in clinical settings, with licensed practitioners), and food cravings. The technique is unusually well-studied for a holistic modality.

The program, day by day

The Emotional Freedom Technique curriculum in Los Angeles: 6 in-person days.

Six days from your first tapping round to calm, complete sessions you lead with ease.

Teaching days
6

days, 7h each

Teaching hours
48h

in the room

Cohort size
10

in your Los Angeles cohort

See every day in detail
Certified EFT / Tapping Practitioner (CEFTP) · 6 days · 48 hours
DayTheme
Chapter 1 · Days 1–2Tap in
01The Basic Recipe
02Getting specific
Chapter 2 · Days 3–4Going deeper
03Gold Standard EFT and core issues
04Trauma-informed tapping
Chapter 3 · Days 5–6Your practice
05The full session, groups and remote work
06Your practice and certification

Signature moment of the program

Cohort schedule

When Emotional Freedom Technique cohorts run in Los Angeles.

LA cohorts run on a tri-annual cadence (January, May, September), with year-round consistency thanks to the climate. The summer cohort tends to attract more entertainment-industry professionals between projects; the September cohort attracts more career-changers timing their pivot to a fall start. Every in-person session is a full day, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; there are no evening classes.

The right student

Who this Los Angeles cohort is for.

Coaches, healthcare-adjacent professionals, and career-changers who want a practical, evidence-leaning tool for stress and anxiety work.

Career outcomes

Where your Los Angeles training leads.

  • Open a private EFT practice (CEFTP)
  • Specialize in anxiety, stress, public speaking, or sports performance
  • Add EFT to a coaching, hypnosis, or breathwork practice
  • Lead EFT groups in corporate or community settings
Tuition

$1,800 for the full 6-day Emotional Freedom Technique program in Los Angeles.

Same tuition whether you study in Los Angeles or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Los Angeles cohort.

Tuition and financing details

$1,800

48h of teaching · 6 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified EFT / Tapping Practitioner in Los Angeles.

Talk with our admissions team about the next Emotional Freedom Technique cohort starting in Los Angeles, CA. Free, online, one hour.