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EFiT
Emotionally Focused
individual Therapy

A revolutionary attachment-based approach to individual therapy

“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.”
— Attachment Theory in Practice, p. 5, 2019

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.

Modality

Individual Therapy

Features

This workshop is presented live-online and includes:

  • 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.

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 Lv1

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

EFiT Lv2

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

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.

EFiT Level 2 will build on and elaborate on Level 1 and is the final requirement for ICEEFT recognition of special training in EFiT. 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.

It is recommended that participants obtain and use the Becoming an EFT therapist – The Workbook, 2nd Edition, 2022 and complete the exercises in the EFiT chapter before or during the training.

Summary

Our 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 worlds 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.

Transform your practice and clients – immediately – with EFiT.

Duration: 2 days, 7 hours per day (includes breaks)

CE Credits: 12 hours

Recommended Reading

The following publication is recommended for EFiT (Level 1). For EFiT (Level 2) participants must complete the exercises in this publication before or during training.

  • “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 20% to registered attendees: find the discount code on the portal. This publication is available in paperback or eBook.

The following publications are recommended for EFiT (Level 1) and EFiT (Level 2).

  • “Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families” by Dr. Susan M. Johnson, 2019.
  • “Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook (2nd Edition)” by James L. Furrow, Susan M. Johnson, Brent Bradley, Lorrie L. Brubacher, T. Leanne Campbell, Veronica Kallos-Lilly, Gail Palmer, Kathryn Rheem, Scott R. Woolley, 2022.

Certification Track

This training does not currently lead to becoming a certified EFT Therapist. All participants will receive a certificate of completion. For more information on becoming a Certified EFT Therapist, please visit the ICEEFT website.

Upcoming EFiT Courses

EFiT courses starting in the next six months

24 - 25 March

Emotionally Focused individual Therapy (Level 1) – Mar, 2023
  • C.E. Credits: 12 CE Hours are available for this course. We work with two different Continuing Education Credit providers: TRIEFT – Alliant International University for APA-approved CEs and R Cassidy Seminars for NYSED-approved (and other) CEs (please peruse their CE language for details). If you wish to obtain CEs, please purchase on the relevant provider's site. Direct links are listed on our FAQ page.
  • Recommended Reading:
    • “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 20% to registered attendees: find the discount code on the portal. This publication is available in paperback or eBook.
    • "Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families" by Dr. Susan M. Johnson, 2019.
    • "Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook (2nd Edition)" by James L. Furrow, Susan M. Johnson, Brent Bradley, Lorrie L. Brubacher, T. Leanne Campbell, Veronica Kallos-Lilly, Gail Palmer, Kathryn Rheem, Scott R. Woolley, 2022.
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04 - 05 May

Emotionally Focused individual Therapy (Level 1) – May, 2023
  • C.E. Credits: 12 CE Hours are available for this course. We work with two different Continuing Education Credit providers: TRIEFT – Alliant International University for APA-approved CEs and R Cassidy Seminars for NYSED-approved (and other) CEs (please peruse their CE language for details). If you wish to obtain CEs, please purchase on the relevant provider's site. Direct links are listed on our FAQ page.
  • Recommended Reading:
    • “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 20% to registered attendees: find the discount code on the portal. This publication is available in paperback or eBook.
    • "Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families" by Dr. Susan M. Johnson, 2019.
    • "Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook (2nd Edition)" by James L. Furrow, Susan M. Johnson, Brent Bradley, Lorrie L. Brubacher, T. Leanne Campbell, Veronica Kallos-Lilly, Gail Palmer, Kathryn Rheem, Scott R. Woolley, 2022.

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02 - 03 June

Emotionally Focused individual Therapy (Level 2) – June, 2023
  • C.E. Credits: 12 CE Hours are available for this course. We work with two different Continuing Education Credit providers: TRIEFT – Alliant International University for APA-approved CEs and R Cassidy Seminars for NYSED-approved (and other) CEs (please peruse their CE language for details). If you wish to obtain CEs, please purchase on the relevant provider's site. Direct links are listed on our FAQ page.
  • Recommended Reading: Participants must complete the exercises in this publication before or during training:
      • “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 20% to registered attendees: find the discount code on the portal. This publication is available in paperback or eBook.
    The following publications are recommended for both EFiT (Level 1) and EFiT (Level 2).
      • "Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families" by Dr. Susan M. Johnson, 2019.
      • "Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook (2nd Edition)" by James L. Furrow, Susan M. Johnson, Brent Bradley, Lorrie L. Brubacher, T. Leanne Campbell, Veronica Kallos-Lilly, Gail Palmer, Kathryn Rheem, Scott R. Woolley, 2022.

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