Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Essentials Training

What will I learn in “EFIT Essentials”?

Participants will learn to:

• Describe the key elements of the attachment perspective on personality and its significance for clinical intervention
• Set out clients within and between cycles and how they create each other and link to presenting problems that manifest as emotional disorders
• Describe the core components of emotional disorders – depression and anxiety
• Outline the process of change and the elements of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experience, such as affect assembly and deepening
• Describe the micro-interventions used by the EFT therapist
• Outline the applicability of EFIT for different clients with different symptomatology.
• Adopt an attachment humanistic perspective on clients, problems and interventions
• Discover and distill core emotional experiences and promote emotional balance
• Outline protective, self-defining and interactional iatrogenic patterns
• Implement the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experience and 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.