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Michelle Walsh

EFT Practitioner · Nervous System Regulation Coach · Founder

I'm Michelle — an EFT practitioner and nervous system regulation coach based in Eastbourne, East Sussex. I work primarily with children, teenagers, and parents, and I've spent years developing methods that are simple enough for a child to use but grounded in real nervous system science.

The Journal Tapping Method was born out of one consistent pattern I saw in my practice: the most powerful tapping sessions happened when people used their own words. Not scripts I wrote. Theirs. So I built a method around that — and then built Nova to make it available to every family, not just the ones who could see me in person.

Accredited EFT Practitioner
Nervous System Regulation Coach
Specialising in children, teens and parents
Creator of the NeuroSomatics Framework
Based in Eastbourne, East Sussex
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EFT Practitioner · Eastbourne
Why I built this
"No mother should feel helpless when her child is struggling."
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I have sat with hundreds of parents who are doing everything right — seeking help, trying different approaches, showing up every single day — and still feeling powerless to help their child.

The Journal Tapping Method exists to change that. To put a real, evidence-informed tool directly into the hands of families — one that works in the living room, not just the therapy room.

And critically: it has a track for parents too. Because I know from my practice that a dysregulated parent cannot regulate a dysregulated child. The parent session came first in my thinking — and it remains the most important part of the method.

When you regulate, your whole home regulates. That's not just a nice idea. It's neuroscience.

The principles behind the method

What I believe about emotional regulation

Your words are the therapy
Generic scripts don't land the same way. When a tapping phrase uses your child's exact language — the words they chose, the way they described it — the nervous system recognises it as true. That's when the release happens.
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The negative must come first
Telling a dysregulated brain that everything is fine doesn't work. The brain knows it's not fine. Acknowledging the negative — fully, completely, without rushing to positivity — is what allows the charge to release.
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Parents regulate first
Children's nervous systems co-regulate with their parents. A parent who is anxious, overwhelmed, or dysregulated sends that signal to their child's body — even without words. Regulation has to start at the top.
Track the numbers
SUDS scores make the invisible visible. Watching a child go from an 8 to a 1 in twenty minutes is transformative — for them and for the parent watching. Data creates trust in the method.
Never stop too early
Most tapping guides stop after one round. The Journal Tapping Method keeps going until SUDS reaches 0 or 1 — no exceptions. Real completion changes how the memory is stored in the body.
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Simple enough for a child
If a nine-year-old can't follow it, it's too complicated. Every part of this method — the language, the steps, Nova's responses — is designed to be used independently by a child from age 9.
Nova
AI EFT Guide
Hi, I'm Nova ✦
Meet Nova

The AI guide at the heart of the method

Nova is the AI EFT guide I designed to deliver The Journal Tapping Method. She is calm, clear, and non-clinical — a steady presence that guides each session without ever feeling robotic or generic.

She was built around one core rule: every single phrase in every script comes from what the user wrote. Not from a database. Not from a template. From their journal.

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Exactly 3 rounds per script — always consistent, always structured
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Scripts 1 & 2 focus only on the negative — no positivity until the nervous system is ready
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SUDS check after every 3 rounds — "That was 3 rounds. Let's check your SUDS score now."
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SUDS above 1 → new script immediately, no question asked. 0 or 1 → session complete.
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