Diving Deeper into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
About Basic Core Skills
This streamlined EFCT Core Skills training is customized for clinicians seeking a condensed version of the core skills advanced training. The trainer prioritizes and provides the practical content over the experiential elements and assigns participation in study & practice groups with members of the Core Skills Bangalore clinical team to receive the experiential elements and practice designed to achieve the necessary skills of effective EFT.
The formal course instruction lead Dr. Jorgensen is held every other week and features lectures, dyadic presentations, tape demonstrations, clinical consultation and structured exercises.
Clinical skill practice exercises (role plays) are done in small groups, along with some tape reviews with the support of the Bangalore Clinical team on the weeks between trainer instruction.
The first six trainer lead course meetings will focus on Stage 1 of EFT – Deescalation.
The last five trainer lead course meetings will focus on Stage 2 of EFT- restructuring bond and the two final change events.
Attendance meets the ICEEFT course requirement (CEs provided by Alliant International University)* when applying for Certified Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist designation.
Participants of the Core skills will spend time learning the 5 moves of the tango, watching it being executed in EFT videos. At the end of this 24 hr training and 15 hours of practice group and home study you will have the knowledge and experience to complete a thorough EFT couple assessment and the skill to begin EFT Stage 2 treatment.
The only outstanding requirement for Certification after attending the Basic Core Skills Training is eight hours of supervision and demonstrating competence in the model. The application process is described on The Path to ICEEFT Therapist Certification in EFT.
When you sign up for the course you are committing your intention to complete the whole course.
The Path To Certification in EFT Couple Therapy
At the end of training, participants will be able to:
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Use the therapeutic relationship as a powerful attachment-based tool for creating safety in session and security in loving bonds
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Intervene successfully to keep the session on track and de-escalate negative interactional patterns
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Utilize the present moment in session for therapeutic change
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Use the EFT interventions and the EFT Tango to keep your focus and make in session progress
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Know what EFCT intervention or micro-skill you can rely on when you feel lost in session or need to get back to the present process
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Work confidently with therapeutic blocks and “stuck” patterns
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Deepen emotional engagement and gain mastery in choreographing engaged encounters (enactments) for on-target, powerful change
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Shape bonding moments in-session that restructure the attachment bond and revise internal working models of self and other
Your Trainer
Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen
Rebecca Jorgensen, PhD, Certified EFT Trainer and Supervisor, teaches the science of love to clinicians throughout the world. She has led EFT Externships and Core Skills for close to 20 years. She has taught and supervised EFT throughout North America, Scandinavia, Britain, Eastern Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Western Asia, South Korea and Africa. In addition to her best-selling video courses Emotionally Focused Therapy: Step by Step and Emotionally Focused Therapy: A Complete Treatment, she has produced numerous webinars and online courses on effective therapy, relationship treatment, and secure, lasting love. She co-developed the Lasting Connection System™ a tool that helps couples communicate for closeness and helps therapists learn to work with emotion. She regularly runs couple workshops, which are very helpful for therapists and their partners in the US and abroad. She sees couples at her office in Southern Utah in an intensive therapy format. She holds a faculty position at Alliant International University, and is Director of the San Diego Center for EFT/TRI EFT Alliant, the EFT Counseling and Education Center and Building A Lasting Connection™.
The first 12 hours: Stage One of EFT – Cycle De-escalation | Relationship Stabilization
EFT Tango in Stage 1
Alliance and Assessment and Identifying negative cycle and attachment issues
Skills training:
1. Building a positive alliance
2. Assessment
3. Treatment planning/the EFT map
4. Identifying negative cycle
5. EFT interventions – Heightening and RISSSC, Elements of Emotion and EFT tango.
6. Negative Cycle Reflections and Reformulations
7. Assessing for Cycle De-escalation
Method: didactic, video demonstration, practice, group discussion and handouts
The second 12 hours:
Stage Two – Implementing the Tango to restructuring the bond.
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Access implicit needs, fears, models of self
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Promote acceptance by other – expand dance
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Structure reach and respond – express attachment needs – create bonding interactions
Skills training:
1. Evocative Responses to expand emotion
2. Processing partner’s attachment fears and longings
3. Promoting acknowledgment and acceptance
4. Choreographing a partner’s reach
Stage 3 – Implementing the tango in Consolidation
Method: didactic, video demonstration, structured exercises and handouts
Qualifications
Participants are required to have completed an EFT Externship and be willing to participate in group work.
Dates & Times
Stage 1: 6:00-8:30 pm IST/7:30-10:00am ET
- Jan 20 & 23 Instruction
- Jan. 30 Group work
- Feb 3 & 6 Instruction
- Feb 13 Group Work
- Feb 17 & 20 Instruction
- Feb 27 Group Work
Stage 2: 6:30 – 8:30pm IST/8:00-10am ET (note the time change, starting 1/2 hour later)
- March 3 & 6 Instruction
- March 13 Group Work
- March 17 & 20 Instruction
- March 27 Group Work
- Mar 31 Instruction
- April 3 Group Work
Detailed Prerequisites to Register for this course:
- Have read Sue Johnson’s 2019 edition of The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Creating Connection.
- Have completed an ICEEFT approved externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFCT).
- Be using EFT with at least two couples regularly.
- Be recording, or willing to record, and share their couple therapy work and attend group work (a participant experiential skill review and practice group).
Limited Seats
Each cohort is limited to a maximum of 20-24 participants. Attendance based on first-come basis. Registration and payment must be complete to be enrolled.
Cost
42,000 INR (2000 INR discount if full payment is made up front)
$900 US ($50 discount if full payment is made up front)
If paying in 2 parts, the first payment is due upon enrollment, the second payment will be processed a month after your first payment.
***ATTENTION: If you are paying from India and the currency is showing up as USD, you will need to click “Proceed to Checkout” from the cart and once you enter your India billing details, the currency will switch to INR.***
Completing the registration and first payment commits the applicant to attend all sessions of the training and reserves space for the whole course.
CEs*
24 hours of continuing education units are available by attending all meetings and completing all requirements of this course. If you need CEs, there is a separate $40 fee for one certificate.
Questions?
Please email us at help@trieft.org or call us at 619-832-2297.
About registration and payment:
There are 2 payment options, the full course is 42,000INR or $900. You can save 2,000INR or $100 when you pay for the full series, or you can pay 21,000INR or $450 2 times on a subscription purchase.
If you want CE’s, you can get 24 for one optional payment of $40. Just add the CE’s to your cart before you check out.
If you prefer to pay by some other schedule, please let us know. We want to make this training as accessible to you as possible. The email address is below.
If you prefer to pay via check please contact Grace and Desiree at help@trieft.org
**Alliant International University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Alliant International University is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing to provide continuing education for Nurses (provider #CEP11235). Alliant International University maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
If you have completed Core Skills are would like to be on the clinical team, please complete this volunteer form and let us know of your availability.