april 28 - May 1, 2025, denver, colorado
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy Essentials
Attachment-based Interventions to Treat Trauma, Anxiety and Depression
Finally, there is a map offered to us by attachment science to work in an organic, on-target way to help clients with trauma, anxiety, and depression.
To that map, add the wisdom of 30 years of clinical experience and outcome studies on Emotionally Focused Therapy and you have the right way to tune into clients’ emotions and help them shift from numbing or agitation into emotional balance and the ability to trust the self and engage fully with others.
Building on Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and the work of Dr. Sue Johnson, we will show you the set of proven interventions to shape transformational emotional moments for your individual clients in every session.
Registration fees:
$745 Super Early bird Fee (Paid in full before December 28, 2024)
Military $645, Student $595 (2024/2025 full-time students, proof required)
$845 Early bird Fee (Paid in full before February 28, 2025)
Military $745, Student $695 (2024/2025 full-time students, proof required)
$945 Regular Fee
Military $845, Student $795 (2024/2025 full-time students, proof required)
$472.50 Repeating the Essentials - You must provide us with a scan of your certificate and we will invoice you directly
Some reduced fee places available, please see below for more information.
Registration:
Begin by paying via the link below then we will send a google form to complete the registration
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) will transform your clinical work by giving you:
A structured, on-target, effective roadmap for helping clients
Resolution for clients’ depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress
A more integrated coherent sense of self
EFT takes you to the heart of the matter in just 5 clear macro-interventions. The goal is not to simply modify symptoms, but to grow people into full, flexible aliveness.
The EFIT Process-Oriented Assessment
A non-pathologizing attachment perspective on emotional disorders
Using EFIT to work with core features of Anxiety and Depression
The process of first sessions – building a safe-haven alliance
The Core EFT Macro Interventions – the EFT “Tango”
Mirroring/reflecting present process
Negative Cycles of Coping Affect assembly and deepening
Choreographing engaged encounters with self and others
Processing these choreographed to create emotional balance
Integrating and validating new experience
The Tango across stages of change
Summary of Micro Interventions – Experiential and Systemic
In-session video and discussion of sessions
Play and Practice - the elements of the tango
Learning Objectives:
1. Adopt an attachment humanistic perspective on clients, problems and interventions
2. Discover and distill core emotional experiences and promote emotional balance
3. Outline protective, self-defeating and interactional patterns and the core components of emotional disorders.
4. Begin to implement the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experience
5. Describe the micro-interventions of the EFT/EFIT model, e.g., Heightening, Interpretation.
6. Choreograph dramas that expand the self and open engagement with others
7. Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other
8. Validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session.
The trainer:
ROBERT ALLAN, PHD, LMFT
Robert is an EFT Trainer, Supervisor, and Therapist based in Denver, Colorado. He is a Senior Lecturer and programme lead for the child, adolescent, and family MA program at University of Roehampton in London. Robert has helped train and supervise therapists and students in Emotionally Focused Therapy across Canada, the US, and Great Britain.
Robert’s interest in EFT extends to his research work where he has explored cultural adaptations of EFT. He is currently the co-Principal Investigator and supervising the Denver site for the first clinical trial of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). Robert completed his PhD at Dalhousie University, he is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Colorado, and an Approved Supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. Robert is a warm, knowledgeable, and engaged trainer with a passion for helping people learn EFT.