Their volunteers try their best on a daily basis to improve the quality of life for existing street cats through feeding programmes, routine anti-parasite treatment, and veterinary care for ill or injured felines. Each year they get hundreds of stray cats in Athens neutered/ spayed (1,700 cats in 2020 alone) and help improve the quality of life of some 500 street cats through daily feeding programmes and veterinary care. They also try to find responsible homes for as many stray or abandoned cats and kittens as possible.

1. Safe and Gentle: EFT presents a low-risk, accessible way of enhancing the emotional well-being of kids and adolescents. It’s a non-invasive modality that is safe for children of all ages. When the stress is reduced to a low enough level using EFT, a child’s negative thinking about a particular stressor tends to shift to a more neutral or positive frame of mind. In EFT therapy, we call this a Client Cognitive Reframe. It happens organically as part of the therapeutic EFT process. 

1. Emotional Regulation: EFT helps children articulate their feelings and manage their emotions effectively. For instance, a child experiencing bullying can tap on specific points while they talk about their feelings of fear or sadness. This not only alleviates immediate distress but also fosters resilience in handling future emotional challenges.
2. Emotion-Focused Tapping: Working with an EFT Practitioner helps kids identify specific emotions (like anxiety or sadness) and tap through them together.
3. Specific Event Tapping: If necessary, an EFT Practitioner may also encourage kids to recall a specific upsetting event while tapping to neutralize the associated negative emotions.
4. Addressing Trauma: For older kids who may have experienced things like bullying or a traumatic meltdown in an important exam, EFT serves as a gentle therapeutic intervention that can help them process these events in a safe manner. Various play- based EFT strategies are used for younger kids to facilitate communication and the processing of trauma.
5. Increased Confidence: Regular tapping sessions can empower young people by enhancing their self-esteem and confidence. As they learn to manage their emotions using EFT, they become more equipped to face academic pressures and social situation without overwhelming anxiety.
6. Accessible Stress Management: Kids can easily integrate EFT into their daily routines by make tapping a regular practice. They can do EFT before exams or presentations to ease anxiety, or even before going to bed as many struggle with sleep issues due to anxiety or racing minds.
7. Improved Sleep: Adolescents often experience heightened stress levels when faced with increased academic demands or unkind peer behaviours. Working with a tapping specialist helps children address these concerns, which in turn improves their sleep.
8. Mindfulness and Self-Reflection: EFT encourages mindfulness by prompting teens to focus on their feelings while engaging in the tapping process. It’s a self-reflective practice that encourages emotional awareness and healthier coping strategies.
9. Tapping for Clearing Blocks to Achieving a Specific Goal: EFT for achieving goals is great for adolescents. They enjoy having that 1:1 support to clear any emotional or stress blocks to achieving a goal that is important to them regarding grades, exams, presentations, changing a bad habit, friendships goals, etc.
10. Rapid Results: Children often lack the emotional baggage adults carry, so EFT can yield even quicker results, enabling them to process negative emotions more efficiently. Plus, by learning tapping techniques, they gain valuable skills to manage their emotions in between sessions. This agency further increasing the speed of results as they don’t need to wait for their next session with their EFT Practitioner to make progress.