EFFT Essentials – In Person
Course Description
Learn the tools to navigate and mend familial emotional landscapes, fostering the restoration of family bonds. Participants will delve into attachment frameworks and experiential realms, explore emotion regulation, and learn practical EFFT steps to facilitate corrective emotional experiences. Completion of EFFT Essentials provides therapists with the tools to drive lasting positive change in the family dynamics of their clients.
Participants will learn to:
- Understand the empirical support for EFFT.
- Outline the phases of EFFT treatment and key change events.
- Apply key interventions in EFFT through role-play.
- Identify markers and interventions for processing both adaptive and maladaptive emotions within family dynamics.
- Formulate cases using an attachment-based EFFT model.
- Work with emotional regulation strategies within a family context.
- Access and process emotional experience to facilitate transformative change within families.
- Develop a working alliance based on an attachment bond with each family member.
- Utilize the therapist’s relational presence within the family system.
- Develop a treatment plan and guide interventions using EFFT, based on markers and clinically relevant assessment.
- Access emotion to develop corrective emotional experiences that restructure maladaptive emotion schemes within family interactions.
- Work with and resolve fears and blocks to emotional engagement and processing within family dynamics.
Heal relationships across generations with this EFFT course.
Recommended Reading
Register at the bottom of this page.
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy:
Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience
with Individuals, Couples, and Families.
New York, NY: Guilford Press. Johnson, S. M. (2019).
By James L. Furrow, Gail Palmer, Susan M. Johnson, George Faller,
Lisa Palmer-Olsen. (2019).
Attachment Theory in Practice:
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
with Individuals, Couples, and Families.
New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Johnson, S. M. (2019).
Speakers
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Robin Williams BlakeICEEFT Certified TrainerRobin is a certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer, supervisor and therapist. Presently, Robin is a faculty member in the graduate program for Sir Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ont.), as well as a guest speaker in their continued education program. This past January he designed and taught the first EFT Core Skills equivalency course to be offered at a Canadian University with his colleague, ICEEFT supervisor Debbie Wang at WLU. In the last few years, Robin has taught EFT at York University in their social work program and was invited by Mount Sinai Hospital to speak at their level two trauma clinic. He is a former adjunct faculty member at the Living Institute of Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy, where he taught EFT for 5 years. Robin trains EFT for local centres and communities in Fredericton, Cambridge, Toronto, York Region and Edmonton and he co-trained at the Toronto Externship with Sue Johnson in October 2020-2021. For the past 3 years, he has been a regular consultant for Hold Me Tight retreats organized by Toronto Beyond the Blue, a not-for-profit organization providing therapeutic services for the Toronto police force and their families. Robin is a co-founder of the Toronto Centre for Emotionally Focused Therapy and has been a director for the Centre since 2005. He recently joined ICEEFT’s certification team and enjoys helping in the EFT certification process. Robin is a registered psychotherapist and has been in private practice in Toronto for 20 years where he sees individuals, couples and families and provides supervision for therapists working towards certification in EFT.
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Gail PalmerICEEFT Certified TrainerGail Palmer, RMFT, MSW is one of the founding members of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute and Vice President of the International Centre of Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She holds a Masters degree in Social Work and is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in Canada. For over 30 years, Gail has worked closely with Dr. Sue Johnson, creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy, and is an experienced trainer and supervisor in EFT. She currently offers workshops, externships and core skills trainings to mental health professionals in a variety of different settings across the world.
