EFT - Emotionally Focused Therapy

"The most functional way to regulate emotions in love relationships is to share them." - Dr. Sue Johnson

Attachment theory demonstrates that there are three behavioral cycles in a romantic relationship: emotional, sexual, and caretaking. Together, they form the bond between the partners. Sex particularly comprises the excitement and vitality in a romantic relationship. Without it, the relationship can easily fall into jeopardy. In fact, 59 percent of divorces are attributed to sexual difficulties (Scott, Rhoades, Stanley, Allen, & Markman, 2013). Partners who experience sexual difficulties may even wonder if they’re loved or in love or be tempted to seek affairs. The power of sex in a relationship isn’t simply body parts and physiology; it’s a force of attachment. Therapists need to become versatile in dealing with the cycles simultaneously.

Date: March 3rd & 4th, 2023, Friday and Saturday $400 per person

Time: 9 am to 4:30 pm EST

Where: Online by Zoom; Link will be sent just prior to the event

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER https://www.foreplayrst.com/.../march-2023.../

Topics:

  • What is Great Sex?
  • Anatomy and Physiology
  • Integrate the Sexual and Emotional Cycles in Practice
  • Sexual Assessment
  • When/How/Why to Bring Up Sex
  • Stage 1 &2 EFT Change Events
  • Working with SAC (Sexual Attachment Cycle) Blocks

The workshop will include lectures and interactive break-out sessions.

12 CEU’s available for separate purchase for $39.99

Register for a 4 Day Externship

Details and Registration

A Four Day Externship

Learn the concepts and theory of Emotionally Focused Therapy to help restore and deepen the emotional bond between couples.
Registration Fee: $780-$947per person | Cost Includes: 4-day training, EFT Manual

  • Earn 28 CE hours

Through a combination of lecture, videotape, observation of live interviews and exercises, participants will learn the basic concepts and theory of Emotionally Focused Therapy; identify the stages and steps of treatment; begin to formulate problematic cycles of interaction; and help couples end cycles of blame and disengagement so that they can restore and deepen the emotional bond between them. Sue Johnson’s second edition of The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Creating Connections is recommended reading for all participants. Experienced, local EFT supervisors will be available to assist small group learning and practice.

One of the premier EFT trainers will combine lecture, filmed demonstration, and experimental exercises to teach the concepts behind Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples and give participants a sense of what it looks and feels like to work with couples using the framework of attachment theory.

EFT for couples is a model developed by Dr. Sue Johnson that draws from over 25 years of outcome research and translates attachment processes into precise clinical interventions

Program Objectives:

Participants working in the following fields will benefit from this training:

  1. Name 2 advances in the new current era of couples therapy
  2. Describe the attachment map of couple’s therapy process
  3. Describe the “within” and “between” processes of EFT
  4. Name the 4 “Ps” of the EFT process
  5. Name the 3 predominant theories that EFT is based upon
  6. Name the 4 attachment styles
  7. Describe the process of attachment distress
  8. Describe how EFT defines emotion
  9. Describe the process model of emotion as defined by Magda Arnold
  10. Name the 6 core emotions
  11. Describe how EFT clinically uses emotion to create connection
  12. Name the 9 steps of EFT
  13. Name the 3 stages of EFT
  14. Name the key change events in EFT
  15. Describe at least 3 elements of the EFT assessment process
  16. Recognize process assessment
  17. Discuss attachment assessment
  18. Describe how the systemic pattern (cycle) becomes THE relational problem
  19. Name the different structural elements/parts of the cycle
  20. Name the different types of cycles
  21. Describe 3 underlying emotions that withdrawers feel
  22. Describe 3 underlying emotions that pursuers feel
  23. Define the EFT clinical skills associated with De-escalation
  24. Define the EFT experiential interventions
  25. Describe RISSSC
  26. Describe the withdrawer engagement key change event
  27. Describe the pursuer softening key change event
  28. List the 6 themes of blamer softening
  29. Define what an Enactment is
  30. Describe what an Attachment injury is

Therapists working in the following field with benefit in this training

  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Professional Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

 

 

Select an Upcoming Training Session