EFIT – Level I Online with live Q&A
with 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!
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) has revolutionized couple therapy. This course will teach you how EFIT can revolutionize your individual therapy practice, including working with trauma.
Don’t miss this vital training & don’t forget to tell your colleagues!
Join Dr. Sue Johnson and Dr. Leanne Campbell in this 12 hour home-study certificate course, broadcast online on January 16th through 19th. Discover the same course material as is delivered live with world leading experts, including EFT’s founder, Dr. Sue Johnson. Each day’s session will remain available online for an additional two weeks, allowing you to study at your own pace with 24/7 access to content on our easy-to-use platform.
You will receive a certificate of completion after completing the course and be eligible to participate in EFIT Level 2 if you choose. You will also be eligible for 12 CE credits at an additional cost of $40 USD upon completion (more information below).
MEET THE TRAINERS…
Dr. Sue Johnson
Dr. Sue Johnson is a leading innovator in the fields of couple therapy and adult attachment. Sue is the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), which has demonstrated its effectiveness in over 35 years of peer-reviewed clinical research. Acknowledging her development of EFT and international training and certification program, Sue’s numerous awards include the APA’s Family Psychologist of the Year, Psychotherapy Networker’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Order of Canada.
Her best-selling book for the general public, Hold Me Tight (2008), has taught countless couples how to enhance and repair their love relationships. The book has since been developed into an interactive relationship enhancement program, Hold Me Tight Online. Both book and program have been translated into numerous languages, with the program also being adapted for specific groups such as for families with teens or adult children, and for couples facing cardiac disease.
Sue’s newest books for clinicians include A Primer in Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy — EFIT (2021) and Attachment Theory in Practice (2019), and her seminal text, Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy — Creating Connection (2019), is now in its third edition.
As the founding director of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT), Sue trains counselors in EFT worldwide and provides guidance to over 90 affiliated centers. She consults for the U.S. and Canadian militaries and is a popular presenter and speaker. You can find out more about Sue and her work at www.iceeft.com and www.drsuejohnson.com.
Dr. T. Leanne Campbell
Dr. Leanne Campbell is co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group and is an Honorary Research Associate of Vancouver Island University. Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson in the early 1990s, she has continued to work in the EFT model since that time, and has provided psychotherapy services to hundreds of individuals, couples and families over the past about three decades.
Known for her expertise in the area of trauma, Dr. Campbell has provided hundreds of psychological assessment reports for forensic/legal and personal injury matters being considered before various levels of Court. She also is regularly called upon to provide expert opinion surrounding Canadian Forces Base, Veterans Affairs Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police/RCMP (and other first responder) cases, as well as psychological evaluations for various insurance companies and bodies involved in adjudicating personal injury and other trauma-based claims.
In addition to maintaining an active and full-time private practice, with a primary focus in the areas of trauma, grief and loss, Dr. Campbell currently co-manages a two-site practice comprised of over twenty clinicians and is a site co-ordinator for an Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) outcome study.
An active ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Leanne has been providing trainings in EFT over the past many years and has similarly been involved in the development of various training materials including DVDs, on-line educational/training programs, books, workbooks and articles.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is best known as a cutting-edge couple intervention but has always, from its inception, been used in clinical practice with individuals and with families, especially with clients dealing with depression, anxiety and trauma- and stressor-related disorders.
At the end of the training, participants will be able to:
- Determine how to adopt an attachment humanistic perspective on clients, problems, and interventions
- Discover and distill core emotional experiences and promote emotional balance
- Outline 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 EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experiences
- Describe the micro-interventions of the EFT/EFIT model (e.g., heightening, interpretation)
- Choreograph dramas that expand the self and open engagement with others
- Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other
- Choose to validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session
TRAINING SCHEDULE
Day 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, and Key Change Events
Assessment and Building an Alliance in EFIT – Understanding Trauma 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
Day 2
EFIT and TRAUMA: 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
Day 3
EFIT and TRAUMA: 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
Day 4
Summary & General Discussion; Consolidation – Overview and Summary of the EFIT Process; Three Stages; 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.
At the conclusion of day four, all lessons will remain available through the course portal for two weeks.
Live Q&A
A live Q&A with Dr. Sue Johnson and Dr. Leanne Campbell is scheduled for 10 am to 11:30am Pacific Time, on Feb 4, 2023. A link to the session will be available to registrants via the course portal.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Who is this training for?
Registered (or Qualifying) Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists, LMFTs, RSW, Licensed Counselors, MDs, & Nurses. If you are a registered professional and do not find your designation above please contact us and we’ll let you know if it is an appropriate training for you.
Technical Requirements / Device Info
It is recommended to use computers (laptops or desktops) with Google Chrome as browser. Other modern browsers will work as well (Safari, Firefox) but we do not recommend and support older browsers such as Internet Explorer. I-pads, tablet and phones will also work; however, we do not recommend attempting to access the training on phones since the smaller screen size may reduce the overall viewing experience.
* There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program
Continuing Education Credits (CEs) – Optional
This course offers 12 CE credits. Credits are $40 US and may be purchased through TRI EFT Aliant by clicking here.
Trainers
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Sue JohnsonICEEFT Certified Trainer and FounderDr. Sue Johnson was an author, clinical psychologist, researcher, professor, popular presenter and speaker and a leading innovator in the field of couple therapy and adult attachment. Sue was 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 was founding Director of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California, as well as Professor Emeritus, Clinical Psychology, at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Sue’s book, “Attachment Theory in Practice: EFT with Individuals, Couples and Families”, shows the promise of attachment science in terms of making sense of and repairing our most precious relationships and thriving as strong resilient individuals. Attachment science offers us the most potent model for therapeutic change, especially when dealing with anxiety and depression, and that, of all models of intervention, EFT most closely captures the essence of the attachment perspective. It targets the defining feature of survival-oriented human connection, namely strong emotion, and systematically shapes core bonding interactions with others.
Sue trained counselors in EFT worldwide and consulted to the 65 international institutes and affiliated centers who practice EFT.
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Leanne CampbellICEEFT Certified TrainerDr. T. Leanne Campbell is co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group and is an Honorary Research Associate of Vancouver Island University. Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson in the early 1990s, she has continued to work in the EFT model since that time, and has provided psychotherapy services to hundreds of individuals, couples and families over the past about three decades.
Known for her expertise in the area of trauma, Dr. Campbell has provided hundreds of psychological assessment reports for forensic/legal and personal injury matters being considered before various levels of Court. She also is regularly called upon to provide expert opinion surrounding Canadian Forces Base, Veterans Affairs Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police/RCMP (and other first responder) cases, as well as psychological evaluations for various insurance companies and bodies involved in adjudicating personal injury and other trauma-based claims.
In addition to maintaining an active and full-time private practice, with a primary focus in the areas of trauma, grief and loss, Dr. Campbell currently co-manages a two-site practice comprised of over twenty clinicians and is a site co-ordinator for an Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) outcome study.
An active ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Leanne has been providing trainings in EFT over the past many years and has similarly been involved in the development of various training materials including DVDs, on-line educational/training programs, books, workbooks and articles.