I help people get to the emotional root of what is keeping them stuck.
Not through talking it out indefinitely, but by working directly with the body and nervous system, where the real patterns live.
My name is Michael Hetherington. I am an EFT Tapping practitioner, trainer, and educator. I trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture, but I don’t practise acupuncture clinically these days. EFT Tapping is where my work is focused now.
My interest in natural medicine started in my early twenties through yoga and meditation. A trip to China in my early twenties to teach English opened the door to Tai Chi, Kung Fu, Taoism, Buddhism, and Chinese medicine. When I returned to Australia, that curiosity turned into formal study: a Bachelor of Health Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine, a 500-hour yoga teacher training, and eventually a Postgraduate Diploma of Counselling.
It was during my acupuncture studies that I first came across EFT Tapping. What struck me immediately was its speed and effectiveness, particularly with emotional patterns like stress, frustration, and overwhelm. I trained as an EFT practitioner in Melbourne, and over the following years it became clear that EFT was one of the simplest, fastest, and most effective tools I had ever encountered.
By 2015, I made the decision to focus full-time on EFT Tapping. That led to the creation of my practitioner training program, and eventually to the online programs and YouTube channel I run today.
My approach blends Clinical EFT with Traditional Chinese Medicine, somatic awareness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and mindfulness, not as a dogma, but as a set of lenses that help me meet each person where they are.
I am also known as The Taoist Tapper: the name behind my YouTube channel, where I share free EFT sessions, Chinese medicine insights, and nervous system education with over 42,000 subscribers.
Michael Hetherington, EFT practitioner and trainer
Qualifications & training
- Bachelor of Health Science: Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture)
- Postgraduate Diploma of Counselling
- MA in Education (in progress)
- 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training (Oki Do, Hatha, Vinyasa)
- EFT Practitioner: IICT Accredited
- EFT Trainer: delivering internationally accredited training
- Black Belt: Taekwondo
By the numbers
- 10+ years as an EFT practitioner & educator
- 1,000+ private client sessions conducted worldwide
- 500+ students enrolled in the EFT Practitioner Training
- 42,000+ YouTube subscribers · 1.7M+ views
- Guest speaker: Bali Spirit Festival & Omega Institute, New York
- Spoken alongside Donna Eden, Dr. David Feinstein, Dr. Sue Morter
My approach
Most healing modalities work on the mind (talk therapy) or the body (massage, physiotherapy, medication) in isolation. EFT works at the intersection, combining the body's acupressure meridian system with cognitive processing to release stored emotional material from the nervous system.
My Chinese medicine training adds another layer. TCM has a sophisticated framework for understanding which emotions correlate with which organ systems, and how unresolved emotion creates physical symptoms over time. When I bring this into an EFT session, it becomes much easier to identify where to focus and why a particular symptom is persisting.
The result is a method that addresses symptoms at the root, not by managing or suppressing them, but by clearing the underlying emotional and energetic pattern that was driving them in the first place.
Clients and students often describe my approach as calm, grounded, and practical. I am not interested in drama or performing healing. I am interested in results that last.
What people say
Ready to start?
Choose a self-paced program, a 90-minute class, or accredited practitioner training, whichever fits where you are right now.