Beyond the Basics in EFT: Dealing with Challenges in Couples Therapy
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Sue Johnson, EdD |
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| Date: | Friday, November 5, 2010 | ||
| Time: | 9:00 am to 4:30 pm | ||
| Location: | Koffler House/Multi-Faith Centre, University of Toronto 569 Spadina Avenue, Toronto (Click here for directions.) |
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| Fee: | $165 up to September 9 $175 after September 9 (Please see Fees page for multiple-registration discounts.) |
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If you are already familiar with EFT, this workshop will take you to the next level. It will offer specific interventions on overcoming the typical pitfalls encountered by couples therapists who are working with distressed couples dynamics and find themselves repeatedly caught up in the surface-level bickering and hostilities. You will receive practical feedback on how to use EFT, how to skillfully introduce and implement enactments, and how to troubleshoot when an enactment threatens to melt down and feed into existing demon dialogues. We now know what a secure, satisfying partnership looks like and how to help couples get there in theory. But in practice, the road to lasting and felt connection in couples therapy is rarely smooth.
We will explore the obstacles to creating a secure alliance, difficulties in de-escalating negative interactions, how to work with extreme numbing or lack of emotional response, what to do with difficulties in creating momentum in enactments, and resistance to forgiveness and the renewal of trust. All couple therapists encounter these. EFT offers ways through these blocks and the creation of a more secure bond.
You will learn —
- What are the major obstacles in the creation of change in couple therapy
- Ways of identifying and effectively working with each of these obstacles
- Specific interventions to dissolve stumbling blocks as they occur in session
- Ways to create momentum in enactments and role-plays between couples
- How to de-escalate negative interactions
Sue Johnson, EdD, is Director of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy and Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California, as well as Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
She has received numerous honours for her work, including the Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Couple and Family Therapy Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and the Research in Family Therapy Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Johnson’s best known professional books include The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors. Her most recent book is Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love.
She trains counsellors in EFT worldwide, and consults to Veterans Affairs, the US and Canadian military, and New York City Fire Department. For more information, see www.eft.ca or www.holdmetight.net.