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Emotion-Focused Body Therapy (EFBT) TM

At The Lighthouse, we offer traditional individual and family counseling services, as well as psychiatry services for those seeking a traditional approach to mental and emotional health.

What is Emotion-Focused Body Therapy TM ?: Created and only offered at The Lighthouse, Emotion-Focused Body Therapy, or EFBT for short, is a specialized body therapy session which offers a "whole-istic" approach to emotional wellness by both directly and indirectly addressing the physical body's distress through the use of a variety of integrated healing modalities.

EFBT assists in releasing old patterns through the combined application of techniques such as hypnotherapy, eastern bodywork, sonic entrainment, energy healing, and therapeutic massage.

In an EFBT session, you will:

• Feel nurtured and experience cleansing, grounding and healing
• Release negative energy from your body, mind and spirit
• Create a long-lasting feeling of relaxation and peace
• Foster a positive outlook on your health
• Become educated on body awareness and how you can make changes to alleviate stress and tension

What is the basis of an EFBT session, and how would I benefit from one?
Daniel R. Condron writes in his book, "Permanent Healing", that "thoughts have power...you create your physical body each day by the thoughts and attitudes you create and maintain."

In essence, you carry a written emotional history of yourself in your physical body - in your cells, your tissues, organs, and body systems - based on your personal experiences, both past and present. As you continue through life, what you know and believe from your past is accumulated and stored in your physical being as stress, trauma, and thought patterns through cellular memory.

Author, biophysicist, and healer, Dr. Joyce Whitely Hawkes writes that, "...physical health begins in our cells. Likewise, healing must touch the cells, because illness also begins at the cellular level." (Cell-Level Healing: The Bridge from Soul to Cell, 2006).

When stress is stored, it commonly manifests as physical symptoms and conditions, or "dis-ease", such as frequent headaches or migraines, chronic muscular pain, anxiety, insomnia, etc. Because cells continually regenerate, making your body "new" again, receiving EFBT assists in rewiring your body to release these old, often negative and counter-productive patterns in your cells.

Emotional stress, and consequently physical discomfort, is then released. An EFBT session can also further prepare you to release everyday stress as it arises, thus feeling more free and healthy on a more regular basis.

How is this different from getting a regular massage?
Therapuetic massage on its own has been proven to alleviate many physical conditions, in addition to elevating one's overall mood. Sometimes, though, this relief is temporary, with symptoms and conditions resurfacing.

Much of this is due to not having an understanding and/or awareness of WHY a certain issue is recurrent. An EFBT session takes the therapeutic massage experience to the next level by assessing your physical complaints, and providing physical and emotional nurturing simultaneously. EFBT is NOT solely massage - rather, massage is just one tool used to assist in the healing process. EFBT sessios are focused sessions, in that they are not full-body massages. When massage is warranted and incorporated, it usually is to address only particular areas of the body that are relevant to the points of stress and discomfort that are occurring.

By doing so, deeper layers of accumulated stress are accessed as the body is gently assisted in the process of letting go of and clearing out these debilitating patterns. The result is a better understanding of how your body becomes unhealthy and what steps to take towards feeling more grounded in personal wellness.

In this way, EFBT complements counseling, coaching and psychiatric services and treatments as a vehicle towards personal growth and physical and emotional healing.

How do I know if I need EFBT vs. going somewhere to simply get a massage?
In tribal societies, there is usually a shaman, or medicine man or woman, to whom those in the community turn to when they are experiencing some sort of ailment, be it physical, spiritual, mental or emotional. They would pay a visit to this village healer when they are in need of some guidance or even a blessing and protection.

Having an EFBT session is similar to going to see a shaman for guidance or to alleviate some sort of ailment. Time is taken to discuss what you are feeling or experiencing, and then various techniques are employed to assist you in gaining the relief or clarity you seek. The EFBT clinician is like a shaman, in that he or she is a conduit for healing to occur. At its roots, and EFBT session is a healing session - for anyone who seeks to release and changeany emotional blocks or patterns that are manifesting physically.

With EFBT you are nurtured into a place of deep healing. It is centered around creating emotional awareness through and within the body. It is ideal if you want to make a change in your life and want to understand how your body communicates this need to change. For anyone experiencing symptoms of depression, anxiety, or past trauma, EFBT can be especially beneficial.

Is EFBT only for those going through serious or difficult issues?
No. EFBT is for anyone who would like to have a better understanding of him or herself, or anyone wishing to embark on a path of self-discovery. EFBT is also an opportunity for learning how to ease stress on a regular basis by becoming educated on propler breathing, how to regularly use visualization and imagery as a way to relax, and what you can do throughout your day to decrease physical aches and pains associated with stress.

How do I book an EFBT session?
There are two types of programs to choose from: The 90 Day Program, or the Wellness Maintenance Program.

The 90 Day Program

The 90 Day Program was exclusively developed at The Lighthouse Emotional Wellness Center, and is a unique program not offered elsewhere. In 90 days you will have 6 different 90-minute EFBT sessions to specificaly address your personal goal or intention towards wellness, growth and healing. This breaks down to 2 sessions per month, or one every other week in a 3 month period. The overall goal during this program is to facilitate greater clarity and understanding as you actively work towards healing. Each month will have a specific theme, and each session will have a specific focus corresponding to that theme:

• First 30 Days: Clarifying Goals & Clearing the Path
• Next 30 Days: Grounding & Centering
• Final 30 Days: Moving Forward

As part of the 90 Day Program, you will also receive a set of self-hypnosis DC's to help you focus on change in between sessions. Suggested reading material and "homework" may also be given during the 90 days to further strengthen and enhance the process of awareness and change within. Your commitment to your own healing plays an important part in this process.


This program has the potential to be very impactful on your life, as it can be the key to increasing your self-awareness and causing positive change. Because of the nature of this type of healing work, you may need some time to calibrate to what your've learned and what has been healed. For this reason, you may find that repeating the program soon after initial completion is not necessary. You may consider the Wellness Maintenance Program and schedule EFBT sessions on an as-needed basis at any time should you feel you need something to help you along, or to keep you tuned in to yourself. This is highly recommended since you may continue to "detox" well after you have completed the program. Down the road, as you gain more awareness and make changes, you may feel that you are ready for another cycle of the program.

The Wellness Maintenance Program

The Wellness Maintenance Program is ideal for anyone who has completed the 90 Day Program, or for anyone wishing to address emotional & physical issues on an as-needed basis. In any given month, you may book either a 60-minute session for $85, or a 90-minute sessin for $110, and every session thereafter in that month is $20 off. All sessions are customized to suit and address what you are working on (for example, decompressing from a major stressful event, relieving insomnia, anxiety from starting or ending a relationship, recovering from illness or surgery, etc.).


To Schedule a free consultation appointment, Call us at 847-253-9769 or Email Us At: Register@lighthouseofillinois.com

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