Emotion Focused Therapy Approach

in Few Words!

  • Changing emotions is seen as central to the origins and treatment of human problems, but this does not mean that working with emotions is all that is focused on in EFT.
  • EFT in practice, ultimately adopts an integrative focus on motivation, cognition, behavior, and interaction.
  • In EFT, the focus is on people's emotions as the primary source of human functioning and dysfunction to change in therapy and to promote healthy coupling and living.
  • Key to practice is the importance of empathic attunement to affect, distinguishing between primary and secondary, and adaptive (healthy) and maladaptive (unhealthy) emotions, and following the pain compass to get to the client's chronic, enduring painful emotion.
  • Thereafter, the main tasks are to facilitate productive emotional processing, promote the transformation of maladaptive (unhealthy) emotion, and create new and more salutary narrative.

( Greenberg & Goldman, 2019)

Meet & Greet with

Dr. Les Greenberg 

Master of Emotions & Founder of Emotion Focused Therapy

 

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of

Emotion Focused Therapy

(Individuals & Couples)

 

September 19th, 2019 at 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

in Los Angeles

 

At The Olympic Collections

11301 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064

Click to reserve your spot

Dr. Greenberg will give an introduction on

* How to process emotions deeply and effectively.....

* How to change a mal-adaptive (unhealthy) emotion with an adaptive (healthy) emotion and change the mal-adaptive emotional and cognitive processing

that was developed in the past by traumatic experiences......

* How to use empathy more effectively.....

AND MORE!

7:00 Pm to 7:30 Pm welcoming and networking 

7:30 Pm to 8:30 Pm Intro to EFT by Dr. Greenberg 

8:30 pm to 9:30 Pm questions and answers, ending remarks

Only $15 per person including refreshments

Free for students

General model of Emotion Focused Therapy approach is based on that:

 

  • Emotions are an adaptive orienting system and a source of information about thoughts, feelings, action readiness, motivations, and interpersonal interactions.
  • Client experiencing (attention to and exploration of feelings and meanings) is the primary source of new information in therapy (as opposed to skills training, challenging maladaptive thoughts or interpretations). 
Learn More about Emotion Focused Therapy >>

You have to arrive at your emotions

before you can leave them.

Les. Greenberg, PhD.

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