Holistic Coaching & EFT

VO2MAX's holistic coaching and EFT service, led by Barbora Štefanová (lymphotherapist, psychotherapist, and certified coach), addresses the mind-body connection at the root of many chronic health and performance challenges. The first 90-minute session combines a thorough needs and goals assessment with foundational Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) — a body-based approach that uses gentle tapping on acupressure points to reduce the emotional charge attached to distressing memories, beliefs, and physical symptoms. Subsequent sessions build on this foundation with psychosomatic exploration, coaching goal-setting, breathing practices, and body awareness exercises. The service is suitable for adults navigating personal transitions, relationship challenges, stress-related physical symptoms, or simply seeking greater clarity and emotional regulation.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as tapping, is a clinically studied mind-body intervention that combines cognitive exposure with somatic stimulation of acupressure meridian endpoints. Research published in peer-reviewed journals has documented its effectiveness for reducing cortisol, lowering anxiety and depression scores, and resolving specific phobias and trauma responses more rapidly than traditional talking therapies alone. Barbora Štefanová applies EFT within a broader psychosomatic and coaching framework, using it as one tool within a repertoire that also includes somatic body awareness practices, breath regulation techniques, and structured coaching conversations. The initial 90-minute session is deliberately extended to allow space for a thorough intake assessment without rushing into technique application. Barbora explores the client's current challenges, background, and goals using a structured but conversational approach, building enough safety and trust for meaningful emotional work. The second half of the session introduces foundational EFT: the client learns to identify the specific emotional charge or physical sensation they want to work on, rate its intensity on a 0–10 scale, and apply the tapping sequence through a series of acupressure points on the face, collar bone, and hand while verbalising the target experience. Even an introductory EFT session typically produces a measurable reduction in subjective distress that the client can observe and verify in real time. Follow-up sessions focus on progressively deeper material: unresolved relationship patterns, core beliefs limiting performance or wellbeing, psychosomatic symptoms (physical pain or illness with a significant emotional component), life transitions such as career changes, grief, or parenthood, and personal development goals. Coaching techniques provide the structural scaffolding — clarifying values, setting specific behavioural targets, identifying obstacles, and building accountability — while the psychotherapeutic and somatic elements address the deeper patterns that prevent change from sticking at the conscious level alone. Breathing and body awareness practices between sessions support ongoing nervous system regulation. The service is not a substitute for psychiatric medication or crisis intervention, but for clients whose challenges sit in the space between clinical pathology and ordinary life — burnout, chronic stress, relationship friction, emotional eating, performance anxiety, and psychosomatic pain — it offers a practical and relatively rapid path to change.