Transforming Trauma with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy is a proven effective approach to couples treatment that prioritizes the repair of attachment bonds. This webinar introduces EFIT, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy, which centers on helping individual clients shape a robust and resilient sense of self, able to resolve life-defining traumas.
EFIT shapes corrective emotional experiences in each session to restructure negative ways of defining the self, regulating and organizing inner experiences, and engaging with others. As in EFT for couples, attachment science offers a map that simplifies how we frame clients’ problems and shape their journey toward wholeness.
All orders include the entire presentation with handouts and a CE test.
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Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the key elements of the attachment perspective and its significance for understanding personality, the impact of trauma and clinical intervention
- Summarize and demonstrate how to conduct an experiential assessment and the associated C.A.R.E. model to chart the course for therapy Explain and begin to use the power of emotion in transforming trauma
- Define how to work with the body as the ‘gateway to emotion’ - the target and agent of change in EFIT
- Give examples of how to implement the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experience
- Apply the Tango - a proven sequence for creating key change events
- Apply the EFIT model and begin to implement some of the micro-interventions used by the EFIT therapist to gradually move clients into transformative moments.
- Describe the three stages of therapy that clients move through as barriers to growth are removed and the seeds of secure attachment are sown.
Topics
Why EFIT for trauma?
- The EFIT map
- The macro-intervention sequence
- The Tango and micro-interventions
Tuning in with the C.A.R.E. model
- Finding focus with the experiential assessment
- Clinical demonstration and exercise
- Working with Emotion in Stage 1 of EFIT
- Clinical demonstration
Transforming Trauma with EFIT in Stage 2
- Clinical demonstration and exercise
Working with Trauma in Stage 3 of EFIT
- Summary comments and Q&A