(Winter 2023 self-study relaunch) Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Level 1 Certificate Course
Full Course Description
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Level 1 Certificate Course
Featuring Dr. Sue Johnson & Dr. Leanne Campbell
Take your practice and your skills to a new level with EFIT! Use attachment science and harness the power of deep emotion to move your clients into a place where they are FIT for life – robust – resilient – ready to engage fully with life and with love!
Dr. Sue Johnson’s evidence-based Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) revolutionized couple therapy. And now, in response to the urging of professionals for an attachment and emotionally focused way of working, there’s a model of therapy called EFIT.
The Level 1 course will teach you how EFIT can revolutionize your individual therapy practice, including working with trauma.
Don’t miss becoming an EFIT practitioner. Join thousands who are looking to this proven model to improve treatment outcomes!
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine how to adopt an attachment humanistic perspective on clients, problems, and interventions.
- Apply the overall EFT roadmap to guide decision-making and treatment planning.
- Develop and distill core emotional experiences and promote emotional balance.
- Investigate the protective, self-defining and interactional iatrogenic patterns and the core components of emotional disorders.
- Demonstrate ways to begin to implement the five moves of the EFIT Tango technique to shape corrective emotional experiences.
- Practice the micro-interventions of the EFIT model (e.g., heightening, interpretation).
- Use the three-stage roadmap to move clients toward the view of health as defined by attachment science.
- Practice the “choreograph the dramas” techniques that help clients expand their sense of self and be open to engagement with others.
- Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other.
- Use the key macro- and micro-interventions of the EFT/EFIT model to consolidate and integrate gains.
- Execute techniques designed to validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session.
- 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 :
06/27/2022
Module 3 | Part 1: Moving Through Stage Two
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06/27/2022
Module 3 | Part 2: Moving Through Stage Two
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06/27/2022
Module 4 | Part 1: Stage Three & Consolidation
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06/27/2022
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Traumatized Individuals: Shaping a New Sense of Self
Emotionally Focused Therapy is a well-known approach to couples treatment that foregrounds attachment in the relationship. What if we could take EFT’s successful framework and translate it to work with individuals? This session introduces EFIT, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy, which centers on helping individual clients shape a robust and resilient sense of self, able to explore and resolve life-defining traumas, especially those inflicted by attachment figures. As in EFT for couples, attachment science offers the EFIT model a map that simplifies how we frame clients’ problems and shape their journey toward wholeness. You’ll discover:
- The key elements of the attachment perspective on the development of a resilient self, and its significance for clinical intervention
- An on-target map for the creation of transformative moments where vulnerabilities can be faced with balance and competence
- A path to shape corrective emotional experiences to restructure negative ways of defining the self, regulating and organizing inner experience, and engaging with others
- How to apply EFIT to clients suffering from a range of symptoms and post-traumatic issues
Program Information
Objectives
- Investigate the history and development of attachment theory.
- Apply interventions as appropriate for progressive stages of EFIT therapy.
- Articulate the five steps of EFIT.
- Evaluate client readiness to move through the stages and steps of EFIT intervention.
- Construct corrective emotional experiences to resolve traumatic blocks to growth.
- Assess for contraindications and safety concerns when implementing EFIT.
Outline
- Origins of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy
- Patterns of attachment
- Trauma and the attachment perspective on the impact of trauma
- Key goals and stages of EFIT
- Dancing the EFIT Tango – the five basic moves
- The three stages of EFIT
- Case conceptualization and treatment planning
- Shifting world view as treatment progresses
- Applying the CARE model to varied presentations of trauma
- Restructuring the self
- Consolidation and integration
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/11/2022