“I’ve been meaning to contact you for some time. I know you probably don’t remember me, but I took your TFT training at an ICISF conference in San Francisco about four years ago. I’ve been with the Minneapolis Fire Department for almost 26 years, both as a firefighter and a fire captain. I now manage our department’s internal EAP program, which I started almost seven years ago. I just wanted to let you know that TFT has been my treatment of choice for people who are in immediate crisis or who are having problems self-regulating due to a recent traumatic event or some other anxiety-producing event in their lives. While it may not make everything immediately better in their lives at the moment or make the problem go away, I’ve found that it calms them down enough so that they can think about the event more calmly or clearly without feeling overwhelmed emotionally and physically. I know I’ve easily used TFT dozens of times over the years, both with firefighters and civilians. People are usually very surprised at the results and feel very grateful afterwards. In most cases, one 20-30 minute session is all that is needed after assessing them. Even with my longer-term clients, it has proven useful when they seem stuck or would like to try something different. Again, they are usually surprised at the results. Overall, the TFT training I took from you has proven more useful than most of the other trainings I’ve attended mainly because I’ve been able to use it right away with positive results.”

—Mark, San Francisco, CA