How Emotion Release Technique Supports Chronic Stress
Chronic stress doesn’t just live in the mind it embeds itself in the body, behaviours, and belief systems. For clients who are stuck in survival mode, presenting with unshifting symptoms and stress-related patterns, addressing emotional and nervous system drivers is the missing piece. Thats where Emotion Release Technique (ERT) comes in.
Why Chronic Stress Is So Hard to Shift
You’ve likely seen it before. Clients who are doing all the right things but not feeling any better. Symptoms like fatigue, gut issues, hormonal imbalance, or brain fog persisting even after protocols. A tendency to self-sabotage or fall back into old habits during busy or emotional times. This isn’t just about non-compliance, it’s nervous system survival. Chronic stress trains the body to stay in a dysregulated state. Until that stress is processed and released, the body continues to repeat what it knows.
How ERT Supports Clients with Chronic Stress
ERT helps uncover and release the emotional drivers that are stored in the body and subconscious. These include unprocessed emotions tied to past experiences creating physical symptoms, affecting the entire physiology, mental health, behaviours, thought processes, belief systems. Subconscious beliefs about safety, success, failure, or identity. Nervous system responses that keep clients stuck in fight, flight, or freeze.
By working directly with the subconscious and assessing the nervous system, ERT gives practitioners a way to:
Identify stress patterns quickly
Help clients release what’s keeping symptoms in place
Support deeper regulation and recovery
See improved client results with less resistance
Protocols Alone Aren’t Enough
If your clients nervous system believes rest isn’t safe, no sleep supplement will be enough. If they hold the belief that it’s all up to me, they’ll keep burning out trying to fix everything alone. If they’ve been told their too sensitive, they may suppress emotions to the point of physical symptoms.
ERT allows you to go beyond symptom management and work at the level where real change begins- the emotional + nervous system response.
What Happens When You Use ERT for Chronic Stress?
Clients feel lighter often immediately after a session. They begin to shift patterns that have been stuck for years. They follow through with your guidance more consistently. They stop feeling frustrated by resistance, and start seeing the breakthroughs you know are possible.
Want to learn how to use ERT in your practice?
The ERT Certification is open now. Explore the pathway to becoming a practitioner who doesn’t just treat but transforms.