For when your clients understand themselves, and still can’t shift.

It’s the most common first reaction, and it’s a reasonable one. When practitioners hear that anxiety can clear in weeks rather than years, curiosity isn’t usually the first response. It’s that sounds too good to be true, closely followed by why wasn’t this in my training?

The honest answer to the second one: it wasn’t in your training because your training was built around a delivery model where the work happens in the room. One hour, once a week, led by you. Everything about how you were taught follows from that constraint. HTC doesn’t ask you to abandon your modality; it changes where the work happens.

It changes what the hour is for. Because clients can run clearances themselves between sessions, one intervention a week stops being the ceiling, and the session becomes as much about supervising and steering as it is about delivering.

You can still run a clearance in the room; a clearance fits comfortably into half an hour or forty-five minutes. That leaves you time to check in on what they’ve been doing, and to set what they’ll work on before you see them next.

It also answers a question we hear a lot: what exercises can I give a client to manage their intrusive thoughts until I see them next week? You don’t need exercises to distract them. You give them the same tool you’re using in session, and they clear the thoughts themselves. That empowers the client and puts them in charge of their own healing, and they keep coming back because you’re guiding it.

None of this forces an end date. Most people have plenty of head trash. If a client wants to do one or two clearances a week in their own time, you could be working together for years. Alexia tends to compress things because she works with pregnant women who have a due date to aim at. You don’t have to.

This is the fear that surfaces for a lot of clinicians, and it’s a caring one. In practice it doesn’t play out that way, because the method is gentle and it closes things off rather than opening them up. Clients usually leave lighter, often emotionally spent because they’ve just put a lot down, but not raw.

The method also includes a self-directed dimension (the client’s relationship to themselves doing this) which lets you future-pace and close the loop rather than stopping at the purge. What is worth naming with clients is the grief: when something long-carried goes, some relationships and habits built around it fall away too.

This is an objection one of our clinically trained practitioners raised when she first encountered the method, and the culture behind it is real: a lot of clinical training carries an anxiety about stepping outside the frame and being blamed for what happens next.

The distinction we’d draw is between opening and closing. Plenty of good methods open the wound and let somebody walk out with it still bleeding. HTC dresses the wound before the client leaves the room: the clearance closes off what it opened, in the same session.

HTC is an energy psychology technique: a psychological framework paired with applied acupressure. That’s a recognised field with accumulating research. The component parts have substantial research behind them: the Tapas Acupressure Technique pose used in HTC is documented in clinical trauma literature, and polyvagal theory underpins the autonomic regulation. The integrated method as taught hasn’t been through large-scale randomised controlled trials. The case for it rests on the mechanism, the documented case outcomes with measurement, and practitioner observation across sixteen years. Read the Science page for more →

Only if you want it to. We actively want you to merge it. Take the principles behind the methodology, apply them to what you already do, and you accelerate your clinical training.

Some practitioners do end up making it the primary tool. We have clinically trained practitioners who now lead with HTC and draw on their therapy training underneath it, because it gets to results their original training was reaching for.

For other practitioners, HTC slots in alongside their existing modality and the toolkit broadens rather than narrows.

Either way: your clinical training doesn’t get wasted. It powers your HTC practice: your reading of what comes up, your case formulation, your clinical judgement. The active toolkit may narrow over time. That’s a choice each practitioner makes based on what’s producing results.

Risk assessment and crisis management stay exactly where they are: with you, inside your own scope, your own protocols and your own supervision. HTC doesn’t change any of that, and we’re not asking you to substitute it for clinical care.

What we do claim is narrower and useful. When emotion is right at the surface (raw, fully available, in the room now) the technique can be used in real time on the charge that’s presenting. Alexia developed that real-time use on herself during severe pregnancy anxiety, and clients are taught to put their hands in the TAT pose and clear the charge in the moment as it happens.

The caveat matters: this is for trained practitioners. The method is potent enough that beginners learn the rules properly before applying them in high-stakes situations. Within your scope, with your judgement making the call, its speed is most valuable exactly when material is most available.

It would be, if fast meant heading straight for the trauma. It doesn’t.

There’s a lot of emotional pressure built up around any one theme. You release it slowly from around the edges first, all the peripheral material that’s connected, and then when you finally go for the main event, there’s far less pressure there to begin with. It doesn’t blow up in anyone’s face. It’s a calm, gentle process, and it’s fast because the pressure has already gone, not because we skipped a step.

In our field, going slowly usually means conscious slow processing inside the session: letting things emerge at the pace the client can narrate them. This is something different. Here the pressure is released deliberately, with a technique, and the slowness lives in the order of the work (edges first), not in the pacing of the conversation.

The thing we’d push back on: clients aren’t generally offered the choice. There’s a lot of narrative built up around treading carefully and the nervous system not coping with change, and we don’t see the evidence for it. Ask the client what they want: head trash clearance, or talk therapy? A resolution, or another decade of managing it? Then give them that, rather than assuming there’s only one slow road.

The method is structurally trauma-aware. It doesn’t require the client to relive the wound, retell the trauma narrative, or stay in distressed material to process it. The polarity work clears charge across dimensions where the charge lives without excavating the wound itself. This is a protective feature for clients (less risk of retraumatisation) and for practitioners (less secondary traumatisation from carrying client material).

HTC’s deeper layer, Absolute Healing, addresses wound-level material including childhood, pre-verbal, in-utero, and intergenerational layers. Absolute Healing is taught at Level 3 of HTC training (post-certification), because the protocol complexity demands prior fluency in base clearance. For complex trauma work, you’d typically want full HTC Practitioner certification (Level 2) and then Level 3 Absolute Healing training. Read more on Absolute Healing →

You continue them. HTC training includes supervision-style mentoring with Alexia across Level 2, and ongoing peer supervision through the Licensed Practitioner Network. Most trained HTC practitioners also maintain their existing modality-specific supervision. The two coexist.