Three evidence-supported techniques that work together as one system — addressing the same emotional conflict at the level of the nervous system, stored memory, and meaning. Most therapists offer one. Sandy built a system from all three.
Most therapy approaches address what you think about your problem. The Tapping Matrix META addresses what your body has stored about it — the emotional charge, the imprinted memory, and the conflict that set the whole response in motion.
Each of the three techniques does a different job. EFT reduces the immediate physiological charge. Matrix Reimprinting works with the memory that holds that charge. Meta Consciousness provides the framework for understanding what the body was responding to in the first place — and why. Used together, they resolve the conflict at its root rather than managing its surface expression.
This is why Sandy's clients often experience relief that years of talk therapy, medication management, or cognitive approaches couldn't produce. Those approaches are not wrong — they address real dimensions of the problem. But they don't reach the layer where these techniques work.
Tapping combines elements of cognitive therapy with physical stimulation of specific points on the body to reduce the emotional charge associated with distressing memories, fears, and patterns. It is based on the idea that emotional distress is connected to disruptions in the body's energy system — a concept borrowed from traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture. Instead of needles, EFT uses gentle fingertip tapping on a series of meridian points, typically on the face, upper body, and hands.
What makes tapping distinct is the combination of mental and physical focus. While tapping the physical points, you bring attention to the issue you are working on. This calms the vagus nerve — the 10th cranial nerve, which regulates every organ in the body — and reduces activity in the amygdala, the part of the brain associated with fear and stress responses. The result is a measurable reduction in cortisol and a shift out of the stress response cycle — one that deepens with repetition, as the nervous system learns to recognize safety and respond accordingly.
"I have not found anything that EFT does not have a positive effect on."
— Sandra E. Hennies, M.Ed., LMFT
Sandy teaches every client "Band Aid Tapping" — a self-administered version of the technique that provides immediate, temporary relief for acute anxiety, anger outbursts, and emotional distress and overwhelm. Clients use this between sessions to manage day-to-day stress while the deeper work progresses. For stronger emotional issues — PTSD, childhood and adult trauma, phobias, accidents — working with a trained practitioner is strongly recommended.
Tapping is specifically designed to help process past experiences that carry traumatic emotional weight. Once the emotional intensity tied to a memory drops, thinking becomes clearer, decision-making improves, and responses become more considered rather than reactive. There is also a specific effect that clients frequently notice: the intrusive thought — the one that surfaces unbidden at odd moments — stops coming back.
Matrix Reimprinting is a therapeutic approach developed by Karl Dawson as an extension of Emotional Freedom Techniques. It combines memory reconsolidation, visualization, and tapping to work with emotionally charged past experiences in a way that standard EFT cannot reach alone. Memory reconsolidation — the brain's natural process of retrieving, modifying, and re-storing a memory — is the mechanism at the heart of this method.
The method is based on a specific understanding of how unresolved memories work: they are not inert recordings. They are stored with their original emotional intensity and sensory detail intact — and they continue to actively influence present-day emotional responses, beliefs, and behavior. In Matrix Reimprinting, these stored experiences are treated as active "imprints" that can be accessed and deliberately modified.
The process begins with EFT tapping to reduce the emotional charge associated with a specific memory. As that charge decreases, the session enters what Dawson calls the reimprinting phase. In this stage, the individual uses guided imagery to modify aspects of the memory — introducing new resources, altering the emotional environment, or changing the outcome in a way that transforms the distress associated with it. The goal is not to erase the factual memory or pretend the event didn't happen. The goal is to change the emotional and cognitive associations stored with it.
The memory itself doesn't disappear. What changes is what it means — and what it makes you feel when it surfaces. When the meaning changes, the behavior driven by it changes with it.
The result is what memory researchers call reconsolidation: the stored experience is retrieved, modified, and re-stored in a new form. Present-day emotional patterns and behavioral responses that were anchored to the original imprint are then free to shift — because the imprint that was anchored has changed.
The International Meta Consciousness Academy is the governing body of Meta Consciousness and was founded by Penny Croal — an extraordinary master trainer and practitioner to whom we owe a great deal for her extensive knowledge of human emotions and how they affect the body.
Through a specific protocol, Meta Consciousness connects the illness — behavioral or physical — to past traumas and emotional experiences. Working with the specific symptoms presented by a client, a practitioner determines the brain relay, the specific tissue in that brain relay, the phase (active or healing), and other pertinent data in order to provide a Soul-ution Map — a guide to understanding the root cause of all physical and behavioral issues.
Meta Consciousness is not meant to replace traditional medicine — rather, it is a powerful adjunct to be used alongside medical treatment and care.
Symptoms of dis-ease are seen as indicators of conditions that can be amended. What are these symptoms telling you about this specific client? Clearing the emotional trauma behind these symptoms forms the groundwork for transforming the symptom.
The body is an amazing organism — it does not make mistakes. Symptoms are biological responses shaped by your experiences and state of being. You have patterns, and those patterns can change.
Hypnosis works by guiding clients into a deeply relaxed, focused state in which the subconscious mind becomes more accessible. In ordinary waking awareness, the conscious mind acts as a gatekeeper — analyzing, judging, and often reinforcing the same patterns. In a hypnotic state, that gatekeeper steps back.
This deeper access allows deeply held beliefs, emotional patterns, and automatic responses to be examined and modified more directly. Sandy uses hypnosis as a complementary tool alongside the Tapping Matrix META — particularly useful for clients whose patterns feel especially automatic or resistant to conscious change.
Hypnosis is not loss of control or unconsciousness. Clients remain aware and can end the session at any time. The relaxed focus simply makes the inner work more efficient.
Sandy integrates guided meditation practices to help clients develop present-moment awareness and build a direct relationship with their own inner state — without judgment, without reactivity, and without needing to fix anything in the moment.
Chronic stress, anxiety, and trauma dysregulate the nervous system over time. Meditation is one of the most well-researched tools for reducing the physiological effects of that dysregulation — lowering baseline cortisol, improving sleep, and creating space between stimulus and response.
In Sandy's practice, meditation serves a specific function: it builds an inner resource clients can access between sessions and beyond therapy. The work done in sessions becomes more durable when clients have a daily practice that reinforces nervous system regulation and present-moment grounding.
Sandy speaks personally with every new client before their first appointment — to answer your questions, explain what the work looks like for your specific situation, and make sure it's the right fit. Reach out below to start that conversation.