Learn EFIT: Emotionally Focused individual Therapy

Why learn EFIT?

Why EFIT?

A revolutionary attachment-based approach to individual therapy
EFIT is an attachment science-based approach to individual therapy that, like the other EFT interventions, offers an integration of humanistic experiential interventions focused on reshaping intrapsychic experience and systemic interventions focused on reshaping patterns of engagement with significant others. Emotion is given precedence because of its powerful role in structuring inner experience, motivation, and key interactional patterns in relationships. Emotion links and organizes core experience and interaction.

Emotion moves people. Understanding the intuition of emotion and how to use it to create potent and sustainable change moves both the client and therapist. Sessions become more focused and effective. Corrective emotional experiences transform, shift perspectives, shift thoughts about self, about trust, confidence and competence. It is an organic process: when emotions are tapped into and used effectively, a shift in thoughts naturally follows.

Emotion is a reliable guide post, and the destination is clear: secure attachment. The lens of attachment helps us to see and understand individuals in context. EFT provides us with the tools, a roadmap, to help each individual achieve a secure connection with themselves and their most important relationships.

Goals:
To offer corrective experiences that positively impact models of self and other and shape stable, lasting change.
To offer transformative moments where vulnerability is encountered with balance.
To enable clients to move into the accessibility/openness, responsiveness and full engagement that characterizes secure attachment with others.
To enable clients to shape a coherent sense of a competent self that can deal with existential life issues and become a fully alive human being.

Course Features

These workshops are presented live-online and include:

– Didactic presentations accompanied by recorded EFIT client sessions and experiential exercises.
– An outline of the theory and practice of EFIT, focusing on the primacy of emotion and the creation of a safe haven and secure base alliance.
– An exploration of core models of health and dysfunction from an attachment perspective including how within and between cycles interact and block growth and adaptation.
– A systematic sequence of interventions (called The EFT Tango) as well as numerous micro-interventions.
– Techniques to stay with present processes in session and shape key change events.

Introducing: EFIT Essentials

“EFIT Essentials” is, quite simply, our two-day Level 1 plus two-day Level 2 combined together into a four-day course.

For details on Levels 1 and 2, please read on.

CEs & Schedule

EFIT Essentials
24 CE hours are available for this course.
This course is 28 hours long (including breaks), and is taught over 4 days. Each day includes: 6 training hours + 40min lunch + two 10min breaks.

EFIT Level 1, EFIT Level 2
12 CE hours are available for each course.
Each course is 14 hours long (including breaks), and is taught over 2 days. Each day includes: 6 training hours + 40min lunch + two 10min breaks.

NEW: Sequence & Certification

Starting in 2024, ICEEFT.com is offering a new certification pathway in EFIT!

1. We recommend “Fundamentals of EFT” precede any other course. This is not a requirement.
2. Take 4-day “EFIT Essentials” –or– 2-day “EFIT Level 1” + 2-day “EFIT Level 2”.
Note: EFIT Level 1 is a pre-requisite for EFIT Level 2.
Note: Essentials is Levels 1 and 2 combined into a single course.
3. Take 10-hr “EFIT Consultation” (aka “Mastering Skills and Overcoming Challenges in EFIT: A Consultation Process”)
4. Complete additional steps through ICEEFT.com’s EFIT page.

A certificate of completion is available for all our courses.

Why EFIT Level 1?

This EFIT program teaches you how to tune into, order, and use the power of potent emotion to literally ‘move’ clients into a new sense of self. As they construct their inner emotional world in new ways, the results are:

– an increased sense of competence and worth,
– a sense of secure connection with self and others,
– and diminished symptoms of emotional disorders.

Immediately transform your practice and clients with EFIT.

Level 1 Objectives

EFIT Course Objectives
To offer corrective emotional experiences that positively impact models of self and other and shape stable, lasting change.
To offer transformative moments where vulnerability, that is “frightening, alien and unacceptable emotion,” is encountered with balance.
To validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session.
To enable clients to move into the accessibility/openness, responsiveness and full engagement that characterizes secure attachment with others.
To enable clients to shape a coherent sense of a competent self that can deal with existential life issues and become a fully alive human being.

EFIT Level 1 Objectives
Participation in EFIT Level 1 will enable you to:
Describe the key elements of the attachment perspective and its significance for understanding personality and development, as well as the impacts of trauma
Describe the key elements of the attachment perspective and its significant for clinical intervention
Describe the key elements of the humanistic experiential perspective and its significance for clinical intervention
Delineate clients’ within and between patterns of affect regulation, and how that impacts self-development and relationship functioning
Identify how repetitive patterns create and maintain each other and generate presenting problems that manifest as emotional and trauma-related disorders
Identify how repetitive patterns block growth and generate and maintain presenting problems that manifest as emotional and trauma-related disorders
Describe the core elements of emotional disorders such as depression, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders
Outline the three-stage process of therapy in EFIT
Describe and use the C.A.R.E. model in the initial sessions, and throughout the course of therapy
Identify the 5 moves of the EFIT Tango
Implement the 5 moves of the EFIT Tango to shape corrective emotional experiences
Describe the micro-interventions used by the EFT therapist
Outline the EFIT process of change
Validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session

Why EFIT Level 2?

Transform your practice – and your clients – with EFIT!

Deepen your understanding of EFIT while discovering effective ways to overcome barriers and obstacles to change. EFIT Level 2 expands on Level 1, delving deeper into objectives and providing more extensive discussion and practice. Level 2 also offers support for challenging clients and situations.

Participants are encouraged to prepare for this live-online course by identifying specific examples where you have encountered confusion or difficulty in implementing EFIT and/or the Tango.

Level 2 Objectives

EFIT Course Objectives
To offer corrective emotional experiences that positively impact models of self and other and shape stable, lasting change.
To offer transformative moments where vulnerability, that is “frightening, alien and unacceptable emotion,” is encountered with balance.
To validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session.
To enable clients to move into the accessibility/openness, responsiveness and full engagement that characterizes secure attachment with others.
To enable clients to shape a coherent sense of a competent self that can deal with existential life issues and become a fully alive human being.

EFIT Level 2 Objectives
The Level 2 objectives will be addressed in more depth and with more practice and discussion than in the Level 1 training and with more reference to specific kinds of clients and situations that participants find challenging. Participants are encouraged when they enrol to be prepared to pinpoint brief examples of places they become confused or stuck in the practice of EFIT and/or specifically in the Tango to bring into the training.

Participation in EFIT Level 2 will enable you to:
Adopt an attachment humanistic experiential perspective on clients, problems, and interventions
Outline the applicability of EFIT for clients with varying presenting problems
Tune into clients’ experiences with C.A.R.E. in initial sessions and throughout the therapy process
Outline protective, self-defining and interactional iatrogenic patterns
Describe and delineate the 5 moves of the Tango
Outline how the therapist uses the Tango within sessions and over the course of therapy
Discover and distil core emotional experiences
Implement the EFIT Tango to offer transformative moments where vulnerability is encountered with balance
Implement the 5 moves of the EFTI Tango to shape corrective emotional experiences
Pace and structure the EFIT process to move clients into the accessibility/openness, responsiveness and full engagement that characterizes secure attachment with others
Implement the EFT micro-interventions
Choreograph dramas that expand the self and open engagement with others
Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other
Validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session
Move clients into a felt sense of security with self and others – shape a coherent sense of a competent self that can deal with existential life issues and become a fully alive human being

What is the goal of EFIT?

What can EFIT do?

How does EFIT work?

What does EFIT look like?

How did EFIT come about?

What is different about EFIT?

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.

Required

“A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client” by Susan M. Johnson and T. Leanne Campbell, 2022.

Routledge offers this publication in paperback, hardcover or eBook.

Ready to start learning EFIT?

These live-online or pre-recorded “EFIT” training events are coming up next. Click through to register today!

15 January - 15 December

More from Dr Sue Johnson about EFIT

2023 ARTICLE: “A therapist’s guide to emotionally focused individual therapy (EFIT)“

Over the lifespan, the need for connection with others shapes our neural architecture, our responses to stress, our everyday emotional lives, and the interpersonal dramas and dilemmas that are at the heart of those lives.
– Dr. Sue Johnson, Attachment Theory in Practice (p. 5), 2019

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Learn EFIT: Emotionally Focused individual Therapy

Why learn EFIT?

Why EFIT?

Course Features

Introducing: EFIT Essentials

CEs & Schedule

NEW: Sequence & Certification

Starting in 2024, ICEEFT.com is offering a new certification pathway in EFIT!

Why EFIT Level 1?

Level 1 Objectives

Why EFIT Level 2?

Level 2 Objectives

Readings

Required

Recommended

Recommended

Ready to start learning EFIT?

Prerecorded EFIT Level 2: access now until 15/Dec/2024

Prerecorded EFIT Essentials: access now until 31/May/2024

Prerecorded EFIT Consultation: access now until 31/May/2024

2024 May | EFIT Essentials

2024 July | EFIT Essentials

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2024 Oct. | EFIT Essentials

More from Dr Sue Johnson about EFIT