Name: Externship – Oct. 2023
Start: 2023-10-19
End: 2023-10-27
Location: Live-Online

Learn EFcT: Emotionally Focused couple Therapy

Why learn EFcT?

Why EFcT?

Immerse yourself in Emotionally Focused Therapy – a model backed by 30 years of empirical research – through our four-day “Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy®”.

Observe real couples undergoing therapy (live or recorded), practice your EFT skills with experiential exercises, discover which patterns keep clients stuck in distress, and learn how principles of attachment science translate into on-target interventions for individuals, couples and families.

Emerge empowered and ready for your clients to grow in every session.

Transform and deepen the way you work with clients to produce real change in every session
The EFT Externship is our flagship introductory 28-hour training in Emotionally Focused Therapy. During this 4-day workshop you will learn how to view relationship distress through an attachment lens and to focus on addressing your clients’ attachment needs and longings. More than just a discussion of theory, an Externship in EFT will provide you with a roadmap to work with your clients’ underlying emotions and facilitate therapy conversations that increase feelings of secure attachment, closeness and connection.

Features

This experiential training is presented live-online and includes:
– live therapy sessions demonstrating how to employ the EFT Tango methodology
– recorded therapy sessions (individual and couple) for discussion
– presentations of theory and clinical techniques
– skill training exercises
– discussion of cases

Course Objectives

Participants will gain a clear understanding of the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an “Emotionally Focused Therapy” approach.
Participants will be able to view clients in their negative interpersonal attachments and conceptualize relationship distress and repair based on theories of attachment and emotion
EFT is a relational therapy. The externship will focus on the general model of EFT as laid out in the 2019 book, Attachment Theory and Practice, and present the model as it is implemented in couple and individual therapy sessions.
Participants will develop skills in sharing, maintaining an engaged, open and collaborative alliance with clients.
Participants will develop skills in the 5 moves of the basic macro-intervention – the EFT tango – in order to change patterns of affect regulation, models of self and other, strategies for engaging with others and interactional patterns.
Participants will develop skills in EFT micro interventions taken from experiential and systemic models of intervention.
Participants will develop skills in overcoming common blocks and impasses in all three therapy modalities and so shaping core corrective emotional experience that lead to constructive dependency and what Rogers termed ‘existential living’.

Learning Objectives

Introduction to Attachment Theory & the Process of EFT
Outline attachment science as a guide to psychotherapy ― EFiT, EFcT, EFFT.
Describe the nature and causes of relationship distress.
Understand basic Attachment Theory and how it informs working with couples, dyads and individuals in EFT.
Understand and describe the systemic and experiential elements of EFT and the EFT Tango.
Understand and describe change factors involved in moving from distress to recovery.
Understand and describe the three Stages of EFT (refer to nine process Steps).
Learn and practice basic empathy and reflection of inner and between dramas that are central to the therapeutic process in EFT.

Stage One ― Assessment & Alliance
Understand and practice assessment skills in EFT.
Understand and practice how to create a therapeutic alliance using: empathic attunement, validation, acceptance, genuineness, and Stage One of the EFT Tango.
Understand and practice how to enter experience of partners to find out how each constructs his/her experience of their relationship.
Understand and practice how to track and frame the sequences of interaction that perpetuate distress and disconnection.
Understand and practice how to frame the negative cycle (e.g., pursue/withdraw) emphasizing attachment needs (e.g., closeness, connection, importance of the other, fear of loss).
Understand assessment and the EFT Tango as used with individuals in Stage One.

Stage Two ― EFT Interventions and Change Events
Understand and describe systemic and experiential theories that underlie EFT interventions.
Learn and practice the basic EFT interventions for assembling and deepening emotion, and micro interventions: reflection, validation, evocative responding, empathic conjecture, and heightening.
Learn and practice how to use RISSSC to heighten emotional experience.
Learn and practice how to facilitate Stage Two interaction between partners by using enactments.
Learn how to put the interventions together to facilitate change events.
Be able to describe the three change events in EFT for couples: de-escalation, withdrawer engagement and pursuer
Practice the skills of evoking, assembling, and deepening
Practice the skills of facilitating acceptance (Move 4 of the EFT Tango).
Learn to choreograph Stage Two change events using.

Becoming an EFT Therapist, Attachment Injuries
Learn the EFT Tango as applied to individuals in EFiT.
Understand attachment injuries from an Attachment Theory perspective.
Understand the steps toward resolving attachment injuries, creating forgiveness.
Describe key interventions with escalated couples.
Learn and practice EFT skills toward resolving attachment injuries.
Understanding an EFT approach to managing co-morbidities such as depression and sexual dysfunction.
Outline the process of becoming an EFT Therapist.

CEs & Schedule

28 CE hours are available for this course

This course is 32 hours long (including breaks), and is taught over 4 days. Each day includes: 7 training hours + 40min lunch + two 10min breaks

Sequence & Certification

For participants new to EFT, we recommend “Fundamentals of EFT” precede any other course. This is not a requirement.

An Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy® is the first step on the road to becoming a Certified EFT Therapist. You may learn more about the road to certification on ICEEFT.com. Please be aware that information about the new EFiT & EFFT certification streams is coming in Fall 2023.

A certificate of completion is available for all our courses.

Readings

Discount

Each publisher offers Courses attendees a discount of 20-25% off the following texts. Once you have registered for a course, you may access the relevant discount codes via the Courses Portal.

Membership Promotion

ICEEFT Courses includes a complimentary first year of ICEEFT Membership for eligible Externship graduates. You may learn about the benefits of membership on the ICEEFT Members site.

Details

After completing any Externship, every attendee is eligible for ICEEFT Membership.

Additionally, this ICEEFT Courses promotion includes a complimentary first year of ICEEFT Membership! What do we mean by complimentary first year? Well, if you do not currently hold an ICEEFT Membership, then we want to welcome you to experience our membership community at no additional cost!

Instructions

How to get your complimentary first year of ICEEFT Membership:
1. If you do not already have a members site login, please do not create one yet.
2. Register for a live-online Externship with ICEEFT Courses.
3. Once you complete the course, please submit your Exit Survey as soon as possible. This can be found within the Courses Portal under the “Post Event” section.
4. Please allow a couple days after the event ends for the courses team to verify everyone’s attendance and receipt of exit survey.
5. Look out from an email from ICEEFT Courses with special instructions, then sign up to the ICEEFT Members Site within 30 days of receipt.

“Membership in ICEEFT offers a supportive platform to learn, improve my skills using EFT, connect with different EFT communities around the world, and allows potential clients to find me.”

Aaron Oog, MCounsPrac., MFT

Joining ICEEFT has helped me personally and professionally. I have benefitted from growing my practice, learning more about stuck spots, and even improved my marriage. What a gift.

Dr. Dianna Troutt, LMFT, LPCC