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Training

EFT training is available to professionals wanting to learn the model. The training events and the certification is regulated by ICEEFT (www.iceeft.com)

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4- Day Externship

Externships in EFCT: Four day externships in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy are held throughout the world. All externships are taught by certified EFT trainers.

General Objectives:

Participants will obtain a clear understanding of the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an “Emotionally Focused” approach to couples therapy.

Participants will be able to conceptualize couple distress and relationship repair based on theories of attachment and emotion.

Participants will develop skills in helping partners reprocess the emotional responses that maintain relational distress

Particpants will develop skills in helping partners shape new interaction patterns and bonding events

Participants will develop skills to overcome therapeutic impasses with couples.

An externship inlcudes observation of live interviews, presentations of theory and clinical techniques, skills training exercises and discussion of specific cases, clinical material and issues.

Core Skills

Pre-requisites: The 4-day externship. EFT Core Skills training sessions are offered by ICEEFT trainers. Training consists of small groups (6-10 people) learning skills essential to the practice of EFT.

Session 1

Assessment/Working with Emotion

Session 2

Cycle De-escalation

Session 3

Restructuring positions: Withdrawer Engagement

Session 4

Restructuring positions: Softening/Consolidation

EFT Supervision

Supervision in EFT/EFFT is offered by Registered EFT Supervisors and is avaiable on an individual or group basis. Group supervision can also be accessed through teleconference or core skills training. The key principles of EFT clinical supervision are:
 
These principles were formulated with the help of Lisa Palmer-Olsen and the work of Eugene Mead.

A positive working alliance between the supervisor and supervisee is fostered – safety enhances learning.

Modeling is available: the supervisor actively demonstrates EFT interventions (e.g. demonstrates attachment language and non-verbal behaviors of EFT).

Observation of therapy sessions occurs or transcripts are examined. Role plays with feedback give an opportunity for rehearsal.

Feedback to the supervisee is clear, focused, supportive, and congruent with the supervisee’s stage of learning.

Specific elements are pointed out for the supervisee to improve or work on.

Written theory and techniques of the EFT model are referred to and taught in relation to practice (e.g., steps, stages, interventions, experiential and non-pathologizing approach).