The Four Day Externship Training of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy ™

Are you skilled in relationship therapy but seek a fresh approach enabling you to be more successful with couples? If yes, then Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an effective solution..

Pioneered by Dr. Sue Johnson, EFT for couples is a therapy that is rigorously researched, based upon a science of adult love and attachment. EFT gives the therapist a clear guide through the confusing drama of couple conflict and distress. It recognises that relationship discord arises from the threat of adult needs for safety, security and closeness in intimate relationships. The EFT change process is mapped into a systematic sequence and framework that restructures interactional patterns that bring about relationship conflict. This structure reliably provides couples with a safe and effective path for long term relational healing. EFT is widely used and popular in Canada, the USA, Europe, the UK, Ireland, Israel, Australia & New Zealand.

EFT Externship Training® will take place from the 11th—14th July 2019 at the Maldron Hotel, Newlands Cross in Clondalkin, Dublin 22.

This is an invaluable opportunity to avail of this dynamic and effective training.

The EFT Externship training is suitable for professional therapists and counsellors new to couples’ therapy and for those who are experienced in this field.

Enquiries: James Parrin  info@eftireland.community

Link to online reservation: https://eftireland.community/eft-externship-training-july-2019/

Speaker bio: 

James Parrin is the founder of the Irish EFT Community, an EFT trainer, supervisor and therapist.  He is accredited member of IAHIP (Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy). Before specialising in EFT, James originally studied Process-Oriented Psychotherapy and is a Process Work Diplomate (an internally recognized level of excellence within the larger Process Work learning community and the International Association of Process-Oriented Psychology (IAPOP). He has a private practice in Dublin, Ireland, working with individuals, couples, EFT trainees, EFT supervisees and learning groups.

James’ focus is on the continuing development of training opportunities and supervision for the ever-expanding Irish EFT community of therapists, their communities and clients.

James has a deep and caring motivation for the transformative nature of relationships. He considers the ability to develop a fluid, relational awareness to be a profoundly psychological and spiritual path. This underlies his love for EFT and the development of a supportive community of therapists who are dedicated to mastering their relational and therapeutic skills and interventions.

Day 1: Introduction to Couple Distress, Attachment Theory, Process of EFT

1. Understand and describe the nature and causes of marital distress
2. Understand and describe basic Attachment Theory and how it informs working with couples in EFT.
3. Understand and describe the systemic and experiential elements of EFT.
4. Understand and describe change factors involved in a couple moving from distress to recovery.

5. Understand and describe the Nine Steps and Three Stages of EFT.
6. Learn and practice the basic empathy skills that are central to the therapeutic process in EFT.

Day 2: Assessment, Alliance Stage 1 (Steps 1-4 of EFT)

1. Understand and practice assessment skills in EFT (Steps 1 & 2).
2. Understand and practice how to create a therapeutic alliance using empathic attunement, validation, acceptance, genuineness.
3. Understand and practice how to enter experience of partners to find out how each constructs his/her experience of their relationship.
4. Understand and practice how to track and frame the sequences of interaction that perpetuate couple’s distress.
5. 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).

Day 3: EFT Interventions and Change Events Stage 2 (Steps 5-7 of EFT)

1. Understand and describe systemic and experiential theories that underlie EFT interventions.
   2. Learn and practice the basic EFT interventions for working with emotion, i.e. reflection, validation, evocative responding, empathic conjecture and heightening.
   3. Learn and practice how to use RISSSC to heighten emotional experience.
   4. Learn and practice how to facilitate interaction between partners by using enactments.
   5. Learn how to put the interventions together to facilitate change events.
   6. Be able to describe the three change events in EFT: de-escalation, withdrawer engagement and pursuer softening.
   7. Learn and practice the skills of accessing, exploring and deepening emotion.
   8. Learn and practice the skills of facilitating acceptance.
   9. Learn to choreograph change events using enactments.

Day 4: Becoming an EFT Therapist/Attachment Injuries

1. Understand attachment injuries from an Attachment Theory perspective.
   2. Understand the steps toward resolving attachment injuries, creating forgiveness.
   3. Understand affairs from the perspective of attachment theory.
   4. Learn and practice EFT skills toward resolving attachment injuries.
   5. Understanding an EFT approach to managing comorbidities such as depression and sexual dysfunction.

For more infrmation, please contact the organiser

Enquiries: James Parrin  info@eftireland.community

Link to online reservation: https://eftireland.community/eft-externship-training-july-2019/

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