Testimonials

I can’t believe how amazing I feel after just one session, I felt like I was really at a loss before I came and saw you. I am so much happier and actually enjoying everyday things without worry. Thank you so much, it’s the greatest gift I have ever been given.
Helen McGinty

I felt that I had achieved more in one session with Karen than in the three years I had of conventional talk therapies.
C.L.M. 

I have suffered from depression for many years. I have tried all sorts of things to relieve it including counseling, acupuncture and hypnotherapy. The counseling helped me understand why I had the depression, but it did nothing to relieve it. The other options failed miserably.

Then I met Karen. It took a few sessions, but soon I started to feel better. I no longer had this terrible feeling in my chest that was a symptom of depression and I became far more positive in both my business and personal life. 

Karen is a fantastic practitioner, professional and sensitive. I would recommend her to anyone wanting to improve their mental state for whatever reason, or just enhance their quality of life.
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Going to Karen Degen was the best decision that I could have made for my myself. Even if I thought it would be just a good tune-up to my life and set me on the right track to the future.

It was that and so much more. I have done the councilling thing before in my life and ended up stirring up alot more things than I put to rest, coming out feeling like someone had put me through the ringer. When I went to Karen I came out feeling like someone had lifted a tramping pack full of rocks off my shoulders and I didnt even know that I'd been carrying them.I also came out with a clearer understanding of who I am, where I've been and where I am going.

It meant that the next step that I had to take in my life both in work and personal things I had the strength and fortitude to take it and see it through.

Thank you so much Karen.What you do is worth it and totally awesome!
Liz James

 
A few years ago I was subject to a sexual attack, which led to me being raped. This had significant effects on my attitude towards life and myself. I felt that I was to blame for the situation that happened, and could barely think about what happened, which always led me to blocking my emotions and it always hanging in my subconcious. Primarily, it effected the way that I felt about myself. I could not, and did not feel that I should love myself. My confidence in my sexuality and my appearance was shattered. I felt that I was truely worthless and that I would never be with anyone or trust anyone again. After the EFT session I now feel that I am able to think about the situation that happened without shrinking inside or feeling disgusted with myself. I now realise how I blocked these feelings and emotions, and I am now able to work on starting to love and respect myself again. The techniques that I was shown are easy to use and helpful in tackling these breaks in our energy circuits. I would recommend EFT to anyone, as it helps illustrate what exactly are the factors from the situation that cause the pain, and therefore, use the technique directly on that to illiminate it. The way I feel EFT works, is that it directly heals the scars that have been caused in our personal energy systems, which then produce immediate positve effects. The added bonus to this is that it can be used on anything. Thank you for EFT!!' 
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As Grace would have it, I found Karen Degen by accident, looking for an EFT professional to help me when I was in a helpless and lifeless mode.  At that time, I experienced suicidal depression accompanied with constant panic attacks.  Prior to that, I never understood depression, always thinking that it was some kind of a laziness, people  who were not wanting to see the brightness of life.  Boy was I wrong…. 

Being a single mom of a beautiful teenager,  I knew I had to be ‘healthy’ for my son, yet I was on the edge, due to constant fights I had with my ex-husband, my high stress level job, the long winter and sudden loss of direction in life.  I knew that medication was an option, but believed that everything happens for a reason and my panicky state was for a reason too. And it was – my body was screaming for a freedom.

Karen went with me to my ditch and grabbed me from that hopeless place, walking with me back slowly at my own pace, crying with me and loving me all the way. I will never forget that. She took my hands and re-visited my soul with me, showing me that life is still there, waiting for me to take another chance. After several Skype sessions, I was on a recovery road.  Karen saved my life and I can only say that I cherish and love her and her work more than the words can describe.
Piano66

Before I had my one and only EFT session with Karen Degen I was on the brink of clinical depression. 

I had found out in March this year that my townhouse in New Brighton was a "leaky home" and all the horror that goes with that.  I already have a large mortgage and have been told all the windows and doors of the house and the cladding have to be removed and replaced at a cost of probably around $100,000.

My situation is that I am a woman on her own working in a parttime job while I bring up my 12 year old boy.  So, as you can imagine, my income isn't great.  When I was first told about the leaky home my body reacted by rocking back and forth for quite some time in what is recognised as a sign of trauma.  I remember sitting at my dining table alone in the evening just rocking and rocking. That's how traumatised I was.  When I went to my doctor and asked for help with my lack of sleep around this time he sent me to a councillor who told me I was on the edge of being clinically depressed.  So you can see the state I was in. Two lovely friends who had been attending sessions on EFT told me how simple and easy and successful EFT was so I went along to a session Karen was giving and after listening to her speak thought it was worth a try.  I then made an appointment to see Karen and spent one and a half hours with her feeling teary and upset at the beginning of the session; I learnt how to do tapping and say the right words and by the end of the session I felt stress free.  It was so remarkable that I actually told Karen I still felt I was stressed on a scale of four out of ten as I couldn't actually believe that after everything I had gone through in the past five months that I could feel nothing when I thought about my leaky home.  But, while driving home I could not stop myself from grinning and feeling a wonderful lightness and stress free feeling!  I immediately emailed Karen when I got home and changed my ration to zero out of 10.  Over the past weeks I have purposefully thought of my leaky home to try to remember what the stress felt like, and I just can't, it's gone.  I still have a leaky home, that's the reality, but it doesn't bother me any more.  I can't wait to go back to Karen to work on other aspects of my life. 
Jeanie Murtagh 

I was a Gambler. I played the Pokies for over 10 years.  I was very lucky to start off with, won a lot of money and before I new it I was hooked.  Not having anyone else to answer to, I just kept on going and eventually lost my own home. Over this period I saw at least 3 different Specialist Gambling Counsellors, as I rang the 0800 gambling line for help.  After each period of counselling, going back through my childhood, and things that happened to me in adulthood, or learning about the chemical changes in the brain as I play the machines, I continued to gamble. I may have stayed away for 3 weeks at the most, then back to it.  I would go when happy or sad.  The Counsellors suggestions were to do something I really love doing at the times when I would normally gamble, but I was doing these things, and gambling as well.  I always came away from the sessions wanting something more in the way of help and knew there should be something more for me, but what? I needed something to make me stop!   I had friends who gambled as well who encouraged me to come along with them.  I did not want to share my problem with my friends or family as I was too embarrassed. So where to go from there? 

Lucky for me I moved away from my home town to Christchurch and through a friend here, I went along to hear Karen give a talk on EFT.  I had heard about EFT before but couldn’t fine any information on websites I looked at, where EFT had helped with gambling addictions, so wasn’t sure it could give me the help I was looking for. 

I enjoyed Karens’s talk and went along to some more meetings on EFT before I made up my mind I wanted a session with Karen, to see if she could help me.  I was very embarrassed and it was a huge thing for me to open myself up again. I am an intelligent and sensible person, and to have done what I had done to myself, quite shocked me. 

Well I had one and a half hours with Karen and went from a 10 (being so wanting to go gambling) down to a 1 in that time. I did my tapping homework to work on the last little bit.  I was on cloud nine for weeks, I have not played the pokies nor do I want to, since the day I saw Karen on June 25 09.  So do not hesitate to use EFT to help with ANY problem you may have, I use it all the time for whatever I need to, and it works, without a doubt. I am so grateful I found Karen! She is exceptionally good at what she does, she has a gift to get right onto the problem area to fix whatever is troubling you.
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When I first started to see Karen 3 months ago I was a wreck, both mentally and physically. I was at the lowest point of my life, it couldn’t get any worse. My body was giving up on me. I was suffering from a whole range of illnesses which included chronic reflux, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, candida, food intolerances (coeliac) not to mention the depression, despair, irritability & agitation which accompanied all of these. My coping mechanisms were shot. I had tried everything to cure myself which had cost a fortune over the past 6 years; doctors, neurologists, gastroenterologists, nutritionists, dieticians, naturopaths, homeopathists, spiritual healers. All sorts of medical explanations (Bacterial infections, parasites, environmental toxins, genetics & overuse of anti-biotics) & medication was offered, none of which I took as I firmly believed that these would only treat the symptoms and not the cause.

Both EFT sessions were very successful in releasing old/negative emotions I had been holding on to around certain events/people. I came away from both EFT sessions feeling either on top of the world or relaxed with a sense of freedom.

The first EFT session I was able to release strong resentment and anger I had towards an ex work colleague that I had been holding onto for some time.  I was surprised with how quickly I could release this.  I then moved onto emotions I had been holding onto from a past relationship that was having an impact on the potential of any current relationships.

The second EFT session (via Skype) was just as effective as being in person with Karen.  In this session I was able to clear up some old emotions I was holding onto around my Mother that were having an impact in my work situation.

In both EFT sessions I was given a set of tools from Karen that I could use at home, as well receiving a follow up email containing the summary of the session. 

I am very grateful to Karen and would highly recommend Karen and EFT as a tool in clearing out negative emotions which assist in living a life more in the flow.
Philippa Smith, Melbourne, Australia

I am one of the world's big cynics but I am also open to give things a try.  With Karen's money back guarantee I thought I had nothing to lose.  I went to see Karen because I was having trouble with my eating.  I felt out of control.  I could not stop eating.  I had forgotten what it felt like to be hungry.   

Working with Karen we pinpointed the trigger for this behaviour - a period in my life where money meant I was short of food.  Since then I had been in fear of going without.  One session with Karen and using her follow-up techniques a couple of times, I have lost the need to constantly eat.  I can wait until I am hungry.  If I am not hungry, I won't eat.  I have also become more discerning about what I eat.  If it isn't exactly what I need for that meal, I tend to go without.  I know - go without a meal!!  I am not deprived.  If I really want to eat something I will, and I don't have any guilt about it - nor do I feel I might as well carry on eating "crap" food.  My weight is slowly starting to come off, but I am happy with the progress I have made.  The feeling of being back in control - priceless!

EFT is such a simple but hugely effective tool to use.  I really don’t think I could have handled the pain of my recent relationship break-up and the ability to move in a new direction with my life if I hadn’t used EFT on myself and in counseling sessions with Karen.  It has been an absolute godsend and I would strongly recommend EFT and certainly Karen’s services as an EFT practitioner and counsellor.
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