EFT Massachusetts

Guiding Couples through Attachment Injuries, Loss and Trauma into Growth and Resilience with Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT)

  

Navigating the potential impacts of attachment injuries, loss and trauma can be overwhelming for therapists and clients alike. Attachment theory and science provide the map, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) offers a method. Informed by more than 30 years of attachment science research and clinical experience, EFT gets to the heart of the matter. That is, the core elements of attachment that can either impact clients’ capacity to move into and through emotion toward resilience, or somewhere along a continuum characterized by recurring patterns of distress.

This training will provide you with the understanding and skills to join clients on their unique journeys through loss and trauma into growth and resilience. Deepening your capacity to harness the power and potency of emotion and the healing power of relationships in couple therapy will help you feel more competent and confident, and your clients more connected and complete! 

In this workshop, using real-life video case examples and other stories from the therapist’s chair, along with didactic instruction and skills building, you’ll learn how to harness the power of emotion and the wisdom of attachment science to:

  • Adopt an attachment frame for understanding health and resilience, how clients get stuck in the face of loss and trauma, and how they find their way home

  • Join with clients with CARE (i.e., attention to four key dimensions, context, attachment, relationship/therapeutic alliance, emotion) at therapy outset and throughout the therapy process

  • Create a ‘safe haven alliance’ and conduct an attachment-based experiential assessment to guide the therapy process 

  • Deepen your skills in working with emotion with attention to pacing, focus and momentum 

·         Outline and apply the steps of the Attachment Injury Resolution/Repair Model (AIRM)

  • Track the impacts of shame and loss in resolving attachment injuries and learn how and when to address them

·         Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other

·         Discern markers for next steps in helping couples resolve attachment injuries

·         Summarize basic tenets for how to work with Attachment Injuries across the three stages of EFCT

·         Apply and adapt AIRM to work with clients in resolving attachment injuries

  • Identify any blocks to moving with and through emotion (i.e., effective affect regulation), and implement the five moves of the EFT Tango to dissolve blocks and shape corrective emotional experiences 

  • Guide clients in integrating new meaningful emotional and relational experiences to shift and update models of self and other

  • Help clients consolidate, integrate, and celebrate gains and growth, live fully and love bravely in the present, and prepare for the future

Registration coming soon: EFT Massachusetts