Mentor’s Corner - EmoAlchemy

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Mentor’s Corner: Permission to Sequence Before You Prove

By Tre Lee April 26, 2026Mentor’s CornerNo Comments

In earlier Mentor's Corner posts, I have written about why knowing EFT is not the same as demonstrating proficiency, why session notes should show the clearest stretch of process, why testing methods matter, and...

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Mentor’s Corner: When Insight Starts Pulling You Away From the Working Thread

By Tre Lee April 19, 2026Mentor’s CornerNo Comments

Those are good questions. Usually they show up right when a mentee is becoming more perceptive, but not yet consistently more precise.

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Mentor’s Corner: What to Do When Bigger Trauma Material Feels Too Close

By Tre Lee April 12, 2026Mentor’s CornerNo Comments

Those are good questions. Usually they show up right when you are actually beginning to understand the next layer of the work.

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Mentor’s Corner: What Mentees Usually Miss About Testing Methods

By Tre Lee April 5, 2026Mentor’s Corner

In earlier Mentor's Corner posts, I have written about making the work visible, about why notes should show the clearest stretch of process, and about why the questions section matters more than many students...

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Mentor’s Corner: When a Student Says There Were No Challenges in the Session

By Tre Lee March 29, 2026Mentor’s Corner

In earlier Mentor's Corner posts, I have written about making the work visible, about why notes should show the clearest stretch of process, and about why structure comes before fluidity. Once the work is...

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Mentor’s Corner: You Have to Learn the Rules Before You Can Transcend Them

By Tre Lee March 22, 2026Mentor’s Corner

An accomplished student comes to learn, but he keeps filtering everything he is shown through what he already knows. He watches closely. He listens carefully. But every teaching is immediately compared, measured, and judged...

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Mentor’s Corner: Why Session Notes Should Show the Best Fifteen Minutes, Not the Whole Session

By Tre Lee March 15, 2026Mentor’s Corner

The best session notes are not full transcripts. They do not document everything. They isolate the clearest part of the work so your thinking becomes visible, trackable, and easier to adjust later.

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Mentor’s Corner: Knowing EFT Is Not the Same as Demonstrating Proficiency

By Tre Lee March 8, 2026Inner Peace, Mentor’s Corner

It is very understandable to assume that if you can explain EFT clearly, you are already demonstrating proficiency.

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Mentor’s Corner: From “I’m Overwhelmed” to One Specific Moment

By Tre Lee March 1, 2026Inner Peace, Mentor’s Corner

Overwhelm is real, but it is not yet specific enough to guide precise EFT work. This Mentor's Corner post explores how to help a client move from a global statement into one concrete moment so the session stays trackable, paced, and safe.

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Mentor’s Corner: Why We Get So Precise About Session Notes

By Tre Lee February 23, 2026Inner Peace, Mentor’s Corner

Mentor's Corner: Why We Get So Precise About Session Notes Mentor’s Note: As part of my role mentoring practitioners who are completing the EFT Universe Clinical EFT certification process, I…

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