Full Course Description

Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Level 1 Certificate Course | Self-Study

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Determine how to adopt an attachment humanistic perspective on clients, problems, and interventions.
  2. Apply the overall EFT roadmap to guide decision-making and treatment planning.
  3. Develop and distill core emotional experiences and promote emotional balance.
  4. Investigate the protective, self-defining and interactional iatrogenic patterns and the core components of emotional disorders.
  5. Demonstrate ways to begin to implement the five moves of the EFIT Tango technique to shape corrective emotional experiences.
  6. Practice the micro-interventions of the EFIT model (e.g., heightening, interpretation).
  7. Use the three-stage roadmap to move clients toward the view of health as defined by attachment science.
  8. Practice the “choreograph the dramas” techniques that help clients expand their sense of self and be open to engagement with others.
  9. Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other.
  10. Use the key macro- and micro-interventions of the EFT/EFIT model to consolidate and integrate gains.
  11. Execute techniques designed to validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session.
  12. Use the steps of the EFIT model that enable clients to move toward increased security, confidence and to develop goals for ongoing therapeutic growth.

Outline

Part 1 | The EFT Model:  An Attachment-Based Humanistic Experiential Therapy

  • An Overview of the Attachment Perspective and Map
  • EFT and EFIT (EFIT versus EFCT)
  • Goals
  • Stages
  • Macro- and Micro-interventions
  • Key Change Events
  • Assessment and Building an Alliance in EFIT
    • Understanding Psychological Distress from an Attachment Perspective
    • Assessment and the Alliance in EFIT;
    • Case Formulation with Emotional and Trauma-Related Disorders
    • Guiding Principles for Clinical Decision-Making and Treatment Planning
Part 2 | Moving Through Stage One
  • Overview of the EFIT Process
  • Three Stages, with a Focus on the EFT Tango in EFIT in Stage One
  • Stage One Goals
  • Stage One Markers
  • Stage One Micro- and Macro-interventions
  • Case Examples
Part 3 | Moving Through Stage Two
  • Overview of the Experiencing Scale and Related EFT Research
  • Key change event(s) in Stage Two of EFIT
  • Stage Two markers in EFIT
  • The Experiencing Scale and EFIT
  • Case Example(s) in EFIT with a focus on Trauma
  • Processing Trauma and Expanding Model of Self
Part 4 | Stage Three and Consolidation
  • Consolidation - Overview and Summary of the EFIT Process
  • Stage Three: Consolidation
  • Guiding ongoing Growth
  • Intervention Practice and Therapist Strategies for Learning EFIT
  • Personal Goals for the Continuing Development of EFIT Expertise including Level 2 EFIT Training

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 05/12/2020

Week 1 | Panel Discussion Q&A | Live

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Assess the EFIT map and its application, using specific case examples. 
  2. Practice the steps of the 3-stage EFIT Model as it relates to clinical practice. 
  3. Incorporate the steps of EFIT into treatment planning.

Outline

  • Review of the content covered in Week 1 didactic training 
  • Discussion of the key elements and unifying themes 
  • EFIT techniques and applications 
  • Questions and answers/discussion from the participants 

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 04/15/2021

Session 2 | Moving Through Stage One | Self-Study

Copyright : 05/12/2020

Week 2 | Panel Discussion Q&A | Live

Program Information

Objectives

  • Analyze the EFIT Tango and application strategies. 
  • Practice the steps of Stage One of the EFIT Model as it relates to clinical practice. 
  • Evaluate how applying Stage One can improve client level of functioning. 

Outline

  • Review of the content covered in Week 2 didactic training 
  • Discussion of Stage One key elements and unifying themes  
  • EFIT techniques and applications 
  • Questions and answers/discussion from the participants 

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 04/22/2021

Session 3 | Moving Through Stage Two | Self-Study

Copyright : 05/12/2020

Week 3 | Panel Discussion Q&A | Live

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze the expanding model of self as it relates to processing trauma. 
  2. Evaluate key change events and markers associated with Stage Two.  
  3. Practice applying Stage Two techniques into clinical practice, using case examples.  

Outline

  • Review of the content covered in Week 3 didactic training 
  • Discussion of Week 3 key elements, techniques and applications 
  • Questions and answers/discussion from the participants 

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 04/29/2021

Session 4 | Stage Three & Consolidation | Self-Study

Copyright : 05/12/2020

Week 4 | Panel Discussion Q&A | Live

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Practice the steps of the 3-stage EFIT Model as it relates to clinical practice. 
  2. Incorporate the steps of EFIT into treatment planning. 
  3. Evaluate how applying the EFIT clinical strategies is improving client level of functioning. 

Outline

  • Review of the content covered in Week 4 didactic training 
  • Discussion of Week 4 concepts and themes 
  • EFIT techniques and applications 
  • Questions and answers/discussion from the participants

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 05/06/2021

Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals | Self-Study

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Determine the key elements of the attachment perspective on personality and its significance for clinical intervention.
  2. Apply the process of change and the elements of the EFT Tango in sessions.
  3. Apply the micro-interventions used by the EFT therapist to gradually move clients into transformative moments.
  4. Assess the applicability of EFIT for different clients with different symptomatology.

Outline

Introduction to Susan Johnson
Introduction to Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy

  • Summary of EFT w/ Couples 
  • The Focus of EFIT
  • Importance of Attachment Theory
  • Case Study Video 1: Natalie
Understanding the Theory Behind Emotionally Focused Therapy & Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy
  • Attachment Theory Implications for Practice
  • Core Tenets of Attachment Theory
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy
  • Goals of EFIT
  • How to Reach EFIT Goals
  • EFIT Stages & Steps
  • 5 Basic Moves of EFIT
  • Dancing the EFT Tango
  • Exercise: Tango Dance Move 3
  • Case Study Video 2: Natalie
Q&A

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 03/20/2020