An Interactive Program for Tapping Practitioners
Understanding the Importance of Wording Is One Thing.
Building the Skill of Finding the Right Words Is Another.
That’s the Purpose of the Practice Program.
This program is structured around 144 choice points that may arise in any clinician’s practice. For each, you sense into the moment, choose from optional phrasings, and are shown the reasoning behind every option. With these focused exercises, the right words will begin to emerge on their own.
Built on the peer-reviewed Attune / Explore / Lead framework presented in Frontiers in Psychology. Developed by David Feinstein, PhD.
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The Client Is Distressed.
You Know Where to Tap.
What Do You Say?
In acupoint tapping, the words aren’t incidental to the technique — they’re woven through it, phrase by phrase. The words you choose can decide whether a session merely soothes or brings real change. And when arousal runs high, the stakes climb: the words can help or harm.
The language of effective tapping has never been systematically mapped. Practitioners have learned it by example, principles, and practice, but not through a systematic framework of the language variations themselves. That’s been left to intuition, developed over years of clinical experience.
There is no single perfect phrase — only wording that serves this client, in this moment, more or less well. The free Field Guide maps what makes wording work. This program builds the skill of finding it under pressure.
Try it
Read the moment, choose the phrase you’d offer, then
see the reasoning behind every option.
Her youngest left for college Saturday. “I’m being silly — it’s a good thing,” she says, blinking hard. SUD 6.
Which best fits this moment?
How it works
Sense the direction the next phrase should take — attune, explore, or lead.
Decide on the most effective wording for advancing in that direction.
Every option is explained — why one lands, why another subtly misfires — and every correct choice is named as one of the 21 variations of language from the Field Guide.
In this program, each item drops you into a real clinical moment. You don’t read about the skill — you make the call, then see the thinking behind every option, from clinical errors to solid choices to nuanced calls that ordinarily require years of experience.
The program
The path builds in the way that skills build — from recognizing the moment, to shaping the phrase, to the fine discriminations that mark seasoned work.
Tier One · Foundations
At the foundation: recognizing what the moment is asking for. You will learn to read the moment across a wide range of presentations, until direction comes more readily.
48 clinical choice points
Tier Two · Craft
More challenging: the direction is clear, but many wordings are possible. You practice distinguishing a phrase that merely fits from one that leads to genuine progress.
48 clinical choice points
Tier Three · Mastery
The finest grain: some choices so close that only timing, sequence, and a feel for the client tell them apart. You practice the discriminations that separate a wording that works from the one that lands best.
48 clinical choice points
By the numbers
144
clinical choice points
528
options, each with its own reasoning
138
distinct presenting issues
21
language variations, all practiced repeatedly
Across the three directions, coverage is deliberately balanced: 50 scenarios center on attuning, 48 on exploring, 46 on leading, with each of the 21 variations appearing in three to nine different clinical situations. The scenarios include a range of SUD levels, what has already unfolded in the session, and shifts in breathing, posture, and tone — including the moments when the most skillful use of language is to stop talking and simply tap.
Who it’s for
The first structured, deliberate-practice approach to language during tapping.
For most practitioners, the only place to practice these choices is in sessions, with real clients in front of them.
What’s inside
Varied clinical situations across the three tiers — no two the same.
Every incorrect option carries its own explanation — a well-intentioned move offered too early, a beginner’s overreach, a phrase that lands as theater instead of effective intervention. This is deliberate: fine discrimination is built one near-miss at a time. Threaded through the explanations are brief clinical asides — small, sharp observations that spark the small delight of a clinical insight arriving from a fresh angle.
See instantly how a phrasing would land — and what a better one would do.
Move tier by tier, returning to the moments that still give you pause.
Built directly on the Attune / Explore / Lead framework — and its 21 variations of language — from the peer-reviewed research. Each correct answer names the variation it reflects, so the framework becomes yours scenario by scenario.
The Field Guide gives you the map; the program builds the skill.
Scope
The program’s strengths, the evidence behind each, and the fuller account of what it does not claim are all in the Program Overview →
Practical questions
About an hour per tier, roughly three hours in all. There is no need to do it in one sitting — progress is saved and you can stop and return whenever.
No. Access is permanent, so you can come back before a difficult case or whenever you want to sharpen again. Updates to the program are included.
Any browser, on a computer, tablet, or phone. Nothing to install. You should already be familiar with at least one tapping protocol.
No, but it helps. The Field Guide is free, complete on its own, and maps the framework the program drills.
Yes. Ten scenarios — the one on this page plus nine more — are free to work through, with the full reasoning behind every option. About fifteen minutes, and it will tell you more than this page can.
The scenarios are written from clinical practice, but the skill applies to anyone who guides others in tapping, including peer supporters and those working with friends and family.
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If the program isn’t useful to you, email [email protected] for a full refund — no time limit, no explanation needed.
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Scenario 1 of 9