Gulcan Arpacioglu
BSc, EFT trainer, TAT practitioner, NLP practitioner, Reiki and meditation teacher.

By profession I am an Industrial Engineer – sceptical, analytical and very, very curious.  After graduating from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, I worked extensively in the IT sector specializing in sales, marketing and training until 1997 when I gave it all up .... permanently!

Since 1992 I have been involved with various energy healing techniques and feel that I am now doing what I was really meant to be doing – at least for this lifetime!

I started with Transcendantal Meditation. For nine years I practiced Reiki – hands on energy healing - treating people and running a Reiki Group two nights a week. During this time I experienced the miracle of Reiki on many people for a wide range of conditions. In 2000 I received Reiki Teacher training from William Lee Rand of the International Centre for Reiki Training and since then I have been teaching Reiki at all levels.

My appreciation of Reiki has grown ever stronger, but at some point I had to accept the fact that some people healed easily but others had a huge resistance to healing at all. Also people just could not get totally healed unless the mental or emotional problem lying beneath their symptoms was cleared. They had to change their minds! In fact, we all have to clear ourselves of the emotional “stuff” that we carry around and train our minds in order to get healthy and happy.

I understood that there were both emotional and cognitive bases to these problems that people were not generally conscious of. I felt sure that somewhere there must be a solution to this problem... if I could only find it! 

One fortunate day in 2001, browsing on the internet I found Gary Craig’s Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and immediately knew that I had found what I had been looking for. I undertook the training and after having gained experience, I started to teach it. I became the first person to publicly introduce EFT through seminars and workshops in Turkey.

My second lucky discovery was Tapas Fleming’s Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT) and I’m simply fascinated by its effectiveness, simplicity and ease of use. Tapas’s book and videos have provided a great resource for me. I have been able to address many complicated problems in a smooth, easy way. In fact EFT and TAT have been my major tools, especially for my own healing! I send all of my thanks, respect and love to Gary and Tapas.

I also undertook a brief course in Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupressure, which helped me to understand in greater depth the basics of human energy anatomy, its relationship with our emotions and the techniques I was using.

In 2003 I undertook training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) with the INLPTA and became a certified NLP Practitioner. This training provided me with a very useful framework for working and communicating with my clients and students, how to handle their issues and how to help them to transform their thinking.

I have been teaching EFT to corporate clients and at the continuing education department of a prominent university, Bilgi, in Istanbul for over five years. My background in business allows me to understand stress in the workplace which led me to a new area that I’ve been researching for the past few years: Mobbing and Bullying. I’ve been writing articles about this form of “emotional harassment” in newspapers, HR magazines, giving interviews so as to create awareness in Turkey. In 2005 I contributed an article on mobbing to Ernst & Young’s book ‘New Directions in Human Resources Management’.

My training in Energy Psychology continues to expand as the discipline continues to evolve. I believe this revolution in the healing field will define the future in both practical and scientific ways that we can hardly begin to guess at. I am sooo excited about the research and its amazing results! As an engineer, I’m looking forward to the numbers and statistics to back up our already remarkable personal experiences. 

Again, my engineer part is curiously researching Quantum Physics and states of consciousness.  I love the close relationships between science and mind.

On the other hand, I’m no engineer. My purpose is to serve, help and love all beings. My path is illuminated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He embodies all of the wisdom and compassion that inspires me in my healing work. I had the great good fortune to attend his teachings in Denmark and Canada, and I’m looking forward to receiving more teachings.

I am an animal lover, a vegetarian. My dog Peanut has been my joy for fourteen years. I love reading, drawing, writing, cooking and cycling. That’s all about me really.

You may contact me on: 0532 503 1776 or gulcansr@superonline.com for further information, my schedule and course contents.