If you have completed the EFT Externship, are legally allowed to practice psychotherapy in your State and are interested in deepening your understanding of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) while strengthening your confidence in practicing EFT, please join us!

Our Core Skills Additional Training in EFT offers therapists supportive opportunities for direct, hands­-on learning of the EFT approach. In a safe, positive, and fun environment, you will learn how to focus your attention on the emotions of your clients and to access, explore, deepen, and expand emotions.

We will practice how to facilitate new couples therapy conversations that increase the feelings of secure attachment, closeness, and connection. In a small group, you will study the EFT model and the heart of the steps, stages, and interventions through experiential exercises, role-plays, and watching videotaped examples (optional). Together, we will also observe your own work and your peers’ work via video recordings and offer you feedback and guidance. Throughout this process, you will receive personal attention from experienced EFT Therapists and Supervisors.

In this Core Skills Training, we get to the underlying essential strengths of EFT and Attachment Theory so you can learn to access them more instinctively and in a way that resonates with who you naturally are as a therapist and in ways that support your existing clinical strengths. We will provide an encouraging, positive, safe learning environment.

By viewing our relationships through the attachment lens, we can become more empathic and attuned to our clients. Attunement is a two-way street. Not only will you understand your couple’s emotions better, but they will also experience your attunement in emotional ways that are characteristic of helpful EFT couples therapy.

Emotion is the main show in town when it comes to EFT, so we need to learn how to work with emotions and how to access and deepen them. In the process of safe, positive experiential exercises, we will get in touch with emotions. One of our goals as EFT Therapists is to learn how to attune and drop down into our clients’ experience with curiosity, wonder, and compassion. Once we have that down, we can more easily track emotions and attachment-related themes and understand how the couple’s negative patterns are co-created and maintained. It can be quite helpful and important to understand what happens moment by moment within them and within you.

Emotions are the music of the relational dance. Our couples need our help changing the music of their distressed relationship so that they can begin to change the steps in their dance towards increased safety, connection, closeness, and intimacy. In our Core Skills Training, we will spend some time together learning how to tune our ears to the music of the relational dances.

Each participant has the option to present one couples therapy session audio or video (10-minute segment) for case consultation. Please do not sign up for core skills if you don’t currently see 1-3 couples regularly. We will discuss the details at our 1st Core Skills meeting. If you choose to pursue EFT Certification, only two modules are needed to fulfill some of the ICEEFT requirements for certification. However, to master EFT, we encourage you to sign up for all 4 modules. More details about EFT Certification are available at ICEEFT.com.

At the end of our Core Skills Series, we believe that you will feel a greater sense of confidence in your ability to help couples in distress and a renewed sense of enthusiasm and passion about your clinical work.

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