EFT is known as Emotional Freedom Technique or tapping.  While it was originally created to assist psychotherapists, a growing number of people have used it on themselves and their animals.  EFT can help because it is tapping on acupressure points, and these acupressure points correlate with certain emotions and organs. See the points used in the photo above.

• EFT can help reduce or resolve issues for people and animals such as anxiety, aggression, depression, known and unknown fears, pain, health issues, relationship problems, training issues, trauma, neglect and abuse. 
• Keep in mind that some issues people may not recall what happened to them, especially from childhood. If you adopted or rescued an animal, you will not have all of the details of what happened in their life prior to when you brought them into your life. And yes, it is possible that a person or animal can have past life issues that are affecting things. 
• Because EFT involves talking about the issue and the respective feelings to release emotional blockages while tapping is being done, it is helpful to have as much information as possible. You can certainly speculate as to what may have happened and incorporate that into your phrases. But another option it to get the help of a psychic or an animal communicator. Often they can shed light on a situation, which can make the EFT session even more powerful.

It is wonderful that anyone can learn how to do EFT, including a child.   But you always want to determine if you SHOULD do EFT in the first place on your animals!  

• While EFT is wonderful, for some people and animals, EFT may not be the best course of action. It is possible that EFT can be too much energy for animals.  Remember they are SO sensitive.  
• Sometimes a more gentler form of healing is better, especially with animals.  How do you know this? You muscle test of course! 
• While your goal is to heal using holistic methods, why would you not want to offer what is best for an individual person or animal? You should not take the approach that every holistic modality can help every person and animal or that one way is the best way. The reason we have so much success is because we muscle test to find out what holistic methods are best for that individual. We want them to have as positive an experience as possible and some times that means being able to release emotions in the most gentle manner other than EFT.

There are many steps to doing EFT with animals.  It is not like doing it with a person.  You must determine which of the 4 ways to offer it, then the frequency and duration.  Why is all of this so important?  Because you do not want a negative reaction from too much energy.