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Shaping Secure Connection with EFT: Stage I Live Session - De-escalation
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EFT (Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy) is experiential and systemic. It focuses on inner experience, and how people dance together. It is what Fritz Perls calls a safe adventure. The therapist helps couples feel safe enough to move into an explore new elements of their emotional experience, create new signals to their partner, and then shape new, more responsive, more open dances with each other - dances that lead to bonds that last.
In this video, Dr. Sue Johnson discusses a Stage I case with her colleague, Dr. Marlene Best, pointing out the couple’s challenges as well as strengths.
In a live session, she will demonstrate Steps 2 & 3 (Step 1, assessment, has already been completed by Mark, their usual therapist):
Step 2: Outline the negative cycle/dance that both partners shape and which keeps them both off balance and disconnected.
Step 3: Access and reprocess underlying emotions, especially attachment fears, which prime each partner’s steps in their negative dance.
In EFT this process continues until in Step 4, when the couple will de-escalate these negative cycles, and begin to create a secure base so they can go on to Stage II of EFT – Restructuring of Bonding Interactions.
Following the live session, Drs. Johnson and Best will discuss and analyze the session.
OUTLINE:
- Introduction
- Case Presentation with Stage 1 Couple
- Live Session
- Discussion of Session
OBJECTIVES:
1. Explain how to constantly create safety during Stage I in EFT
2. Explain how the EFT therapist conducts a Stage I session and uses EFT interventions
3. Explain how to pinpoint and work to neutralize negative cycles in distressed couples
Susan Johnson, EdD
Dr. Sue Johnson, is an author, clinical psychologist, researcher, professor, popular presenter and speaker and a leading innovator in the field of couple therapy and adult attachment. Sue is the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Couples and Family Therapy (EFT), which has demonstrated its effectiveness in over 30 years of peer-reviewed clinical research.
Sue Johnson is founding Director of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California, and Professor, Clinical Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Canada, as well as Professor Emeritus, Clinical Psychology, at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Dr. Johnson is the author of numerous books and articles including Attachment Theory in Practice: EFT with Individuals, Couples and Families (2019), The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (3rd edition, 2019), and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors (2002).
Sue trains behavioral health providers in EFT worldwide and consults to the over 75 international institutes and affiliated centers who practice EFT. She also consults to Veterans Affairs and the U.S. and Canadian militaries.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sue Johnson has employment relationships with University of British Columbia, Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group, Alliant International, University Ottawa, Couple and Family Institute, and the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Johnson receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sue Johnson serves on the editorial board for the American Journal of Family Therapy (AJFT) and the journal Couple and Family Psychology: Research & Practice.
