Full Course Description

Transforming Trauma with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)

Don’t miss this new training from Drs. Sue Johnson and Leanne Campbell on applying EFIT, a new evidence-based approach, to the treatment of trauma.

Informed by more than 30 years of attachment science research and clinical experience, EFIT quickly gets to the heart of clients’ problems to guide them through their overwhelming vulnerability to healing and growth. And is now being used for trauma clients with excellent treatment outcomes.

There is no other individual trauma therapy available that is fully compatible and based in the attachment theory of human emotion... and you can be one of the first clinicians trained in this model.

Join treatment developer, Dr. Sue Johnson, and master EFIT clinician Dr. Leanne Campbell as they demonstrate step by step the proven interventions of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy – and watch extensive and heartwarming clinical videos, to show you the stages and steps of EFIT intervention to demonstrate the following:

  • Learn the therapeutic course of an individual client from the first stages of forming a secure attachment to the final resolution of an emotionally transformed individual.
  • Learn how to assess client readiness for each EFIT stage and the therapeutic steps to move them toward transformational emotional healing.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Investigate the history and development of attachment theory.
  2. Structure a supportive and secure therapy framework.
  3. Model safe attachment as surrogate attachment figure.
  4. Apply interventions as appropriate for progressive stages of EFIT therapy.
  5. Articulate the five steps of the EFIT Tango.
  6. Evaluate client readiness to move through the stages and steps of EFIT intervention.
  7. Construct corrective emotional experiences to resolve traumatic blocks to growth.
  8. Assess for contraindications and safety concerns when implementing EFIT.

Outline

  • Origins of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy 
    • Attachment theory in practice 
  • Attachment theory 
    • Bonding as essential survival strategy 
    • Focus on emotion and regulation of emotion 
    • Developmental nature of attachment theory 
  • Patterns of attachment 
    • Childhood styles 
    • Adult dimensions 
    • Secure attachment:  definition and benefits 
  • Trauma and the attachment perspective on the impact of trauma 
    • Case presentation:  Brad - facing issues of isolation and anger 
    • EFIT focus on the impact of trauma 
  • Attachment security:  risk or resilience  
  • Key goals and stages of EFIT 
    • Reprocessing emotion 
    • Creating new interactions 
  • Dancing the EFIT Tango – the five basic moves 
  • The three stages of EFIT 
    • Stabilization – tuning in with C.A.R.E. 
    • Case presentation:  Melissa dealing with abuse, both in history and currently 
  • Case conceptualization and treatment planning 
    • Contraindications and safety planning 
    • Pacing, building on momentum, and growth 
    • Integrating couple and individual therapy 
    • Case presentation:  Implementation of the first three Tango moves with Melissa 
  • Choreographing the encounter  
    • Case presentation:  Melissa progressing from Stage 1 to Stage 2 
    • Connecting with unprocessed events 
  • Shifting world view as treatment progresses 
    • Making model of self explicit 
    • Transition into Move 5 
  • Applying the CARE model to varied presentations of trauma 
  • Restructuring the self 
    • Generalizing gains beyond the therapeutic encounter 
    • Bringing attachment science into every session 
  • Stage 3:  Consolidation and integration 
    • Reinforcing gains with specificity 

Target Audience

  • Counselors 
  • Psychologists 
  • Psychotherapists 
  • Social Workers 
  • Marriage & Family Therapists 
  • Addiction Counselors 
  • Case Managers 
  • Psychiatrists 
  • Mental Health Professionals 

Copyright : 01/26/2023

Using the Science of EFT with Individuals: Bringing Your Clients to Life and Restoring Their Ability to Live Well

Emotionally Focused Therapy is a well-known approach to couples treatment. But how can it translate to work with individuals? Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) will transform your clinical work by giving you a structured, targeted, effective roadmap for helping clients. EFT takes you to the heart of the matter in just 5 clear macro-interventions. The goal is not to simply modify symptoms, but to help people experience full, flexible aliveness. Use the power of emotion to make changes that last.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Build core emotional experiences to promote emotional balance in your traumatized, anxious, and depressed clients. 
  2. Evaluate the EFT model as a secure base for effective therapy with individual clients. 
  3. Analyze the three stages of the EFT model as an approach that offers clients a way out of destructive patterns. 
  4. Employ evidence-based stages to increase closeness, safe attachment, and connection. 
  5. Construct corrective emotional experiences for the individual client that create real forward movement in a single session.

Outline

  • How to focus your sessions on core defining factors - shape openness and engagement in every session 
  • Use the macro intervention EFT to move clients into change events. 
  • Consolidate new models of self and other and new ways to grow for your clients. 

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 12/04/2020

Emotional Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Healing Attachment Wounds

Take your practice to a new level with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) created by Dr. Sue Johnson! Guided by attachment science and over three decades of research in EFT with couples, now learn to harness the power of emotion to move your individual clients to a place of safety.

Join Leanne Campbell as she shares Sue Johnson's clinical roadmap based on hundreds of studies – on human attachment, on emotion, and on the effectiveness of EFT/EFIT interventions...interventions of gripping emotional depth and effectiveness.

Learn a three-stage process –

  • Stabilization leading to symptom reduction, more emotional balance
  • Restructuring of models of self and other, the expansion and growth of a new sense of self
  • Consolidation - integrating changes into a new vision for life and an ever-stronger sense of self and relationships

EFIT taps into the primary vulnerabilities and needs of all clients, linking the therapist to what is universal – the basic structure of how we experience life, while respecting and honoring each individual as unique and entitled to empathy and responsiveness.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Evaluate the EFIT model as a secure base for effective therapy with individual clients.
  2. Implement evidence-based stages to increase closeness, safe attachment, and connection.
  3. Develop client interactions that expand the client’s sense of self and open engagement with others.
  4. Determine how working with emotion as a key change agent will help clients move toward secure attachment.

Outline

  • Employ the basic structure of emotion, as well as how we change models of self and others
  • Utilize the empirically validated EFIT “roadmap” to guide clients through their vulnerability and motivation to a clear picture of stability and growth
  • Validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session
  • Limitations, risks, and areas for further research

Target Audience

  • Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 05/07/2021