Emotionally Focused Therapy as a Step-by-Step Intervention

Leanne Campbell & George Faller

National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM)

We know how trauma and shame constrict growth and connection. We see it every day in our therapy rooms — the way perception narrows, darkness overshadows light, and the contagion of helplessness and hopelessness spreads. We also know that all trauma involves loss, loss of connection with self and others, and various secondary losses such as identity, opportunity, and more. The question is: how do we meet these challenges with confidence and transform them into healing, and how do we track and honor the inevitable grief process?

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) offers a clear path out of the grips of trauma, shame, and loss—into growth, resilience, and renewed connection. In this experiential workshop, through powerful video examples of individual and couple sessions, you’ll learn to harness the power of emotion and the wisdom of attachment science to transform clients’ protective isolation into moments of connection, the antidote to trauma and the impetus for grief.

Through the five simple moves of the EFT Tango, therapists will learn to access the healing power of the attachment caregiving system to create transformative limbic revisions—shifting the survival strategies of trauma and shame into the secure moves of connection and care. Join Leanne and George as they guide you step by step through the moment-to-moment decisions that shape the treatment process, empowering you to integrate these powerful, proven methods immediately into your own clinical work.

· Help clients normalize and destigmatize trauma and shame by viewing it through an attachment lens.

· Articulate key interventions to help clients to reprocess key emotional responses.

· Identify common therapeutic impasses and how to address them.

· Follow a step-by-step EFT program for addressing, dissolving, and ultimately transforming shame into connection.

· Identify the positive cycle of responsiveness to replace the defensive and protective, negative cycle.

· Track and make space for the grief that inevitably follows transformative limbic revision and associated shifts in self and connection.

REGISTER HERE: Contact Us - NICABM