Emotion Focused Therapy-Individuals Training level one |
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Trainer/Presenter: Dr. Robert Elliott Date: May 1st to 4th Plus May 8th to 11th, 2024
Time: From 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Pacific Day Time
Format: Live on Zoom Early Registration Discount extended to April 7th Provides 24 APA CE hours Limited spots are available | | |
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Dialectical Constructivist View of Dysfunction and The Change Process An EFT approach favors a phenomenologically based view of dysfunction in which the EFT clinicians privilege process diagnosis of in-session states over person diagnoses or diagnoses of disorders. Some major types of emotional processing difficulties that contribute to many forms of dysfunction are: 1) lack of awareness or avoidance of internal states, 2) emotion dysregulation, 3) maladaptive emotional responses based on traumatic learning or developmental deficits, 4) internal conflict, and 5) problems in narrative construction and existential meaning. According to this view, a person is viewed as a complex, ever-changing, organized collection of various part-aspects of self. These self-aspects or "voices" interact to produce experience and action. At any one time a person may be singularly organized, as "vulnerable" or "mellow", or more complicatedly, as multiply organized with more than one "voice", as when a child both loves and is afraid of an abusive parent, or one both loves and hates one's spouse. Therefore, it is important to work with the relationship a person has between parts of the self and between an "I part" and different aspects of self-experience. Seeing aspects of experience as part of oneself becomes a crucial aspect of change in EFT: It implies possibilities of alternatives because my fear or my sense of worthlessness or unlovableness is only a part of me. (Greenberg, 2011) EFT views one of the problems emerging when the relationship between different part-aspects of self is hostile or oppressive (e.g. critic and experiencer). Usually, this hostility causes emotional pain, blocks primary adaptive emotional responses and actions, or leads to stuck feelings about important issues. Another problem arises from suppressing or ignoring one part, or compartmentalizing the two conflicting aspects, because it robs the person of accessing the emotion schemes associated with the ignored or isolated self- aspects. Silencing self-aspects are typically implicit, undifferentiated, or inadequately symbolized and sometimes manifest themselves in impulsive acts or unwanted habits. Much of the client's therapeutic work involves various internal dialectical processes (Elliott & Greenberg, 1997). A dialectical process requires both separation and contact between two different aspects of self. The EFT therapist helps the client first to develop clear separation between the aspects of self, and then to bring them back into contact with one another. Treatment thus requires the EFT therapist to facilitate the emergence and evocation of implicit, silenced self-aspects, and to facilitate psychological contact between different aspects of self, so that the more dominant, vocal aspects can hear the previously ignored aspects. Most importantly it is done experientially rather than cognitively between the two aspects. The result of this process is a new, integrative experience leading to a new synthesis. This dialectical process can lead to change in both aspects or voices; that is, both assimilation and accommodation will occur and both self-aspects will "win". An example can be seen in a client presenting with depression having different self-aspects such as: 1) a depressed exhausted self who feels weighted down, stuck, powerless, 2) an undisciplined, messy, unfocused self who does not take care of things and feels lost in life, 3) a frustrated, critical, but ineffective part who tries to motivate the exhausted and messy selves and, when that fails, punishes. As therapy progressed, another self-aspect began to appear; a rebellious self who feels she has done enough and now wants to be free of commitments and burdens. Thus, the EFT therapist continues following and guiding this process, and encouraging each part to communicate their feelings and needs to the other part to reach more integration between the different self-aspects.
(Elliott, Watson, Goldman, Greenberg, 2007) |
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Different kinds of emotional responses in EFTProfessor Robert Elliot of the University of Strathclyde discusses the different types of emotional responses that EFT distinguishes. This video is part of Robert Elliott's DVD, Understanding Emotion-Focused Therapy, which can be purchased or rented from http://www.cpcab.co.uk/shop/understanding-emotion-focused-therapy-dvd |
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EFT trainings provides in-depth skill training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modelling, case discussions and extensive supervised role-playing practice. |
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Emotion Focused Therapy Support Group Monthly Gathering Sunday April 21st, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM PST on Zoom In this gathering we'll watch an APA video with a client using EFT by an expert EFT therapist, discuss the theory and skills used in the session & answer questions. If you are interested in joining our gathering please click on the link or RSVP to EFTSoCal@gmail.com This group is Free of charge but open to donations Open to all mental health clinicians with or without any EFT training |
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Continuing Education Hours SoCal Institute of EFT trainings are co-sponsored by the Insight Center. The Insight Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Insight Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts APA CEs. |
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For previous Newsletters with educational blogs please click below |
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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).
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You have to arrive at your emotions before you can leave them. Les. Greenberg, PhD. |
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