This 4-part Introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy model is a comprehensive overview of the approach, its theoretical base/ Attachment theory, stages and steps, and skills and interventions to apply in clinical practice, with exercises, case examples, and video clips of real clients’ sessions.
Open for qualified psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, clergy who work with couples, individuals and families, and want to learn how to use the model in difficult clinical situations.
Built into Emotionally Focused Therapy approach is the science of human connection – how we reach for others and seek a Safe Haven and Secure Base with those most significant to us (J. Bowlby). Unique to EFT is identifying the “negative cycle” of relationship or insecurities associated with personal distress. The cycle often includes repetitive arguing with no resolution, painful personal emotional attacks towards each other and unbearable periods of withdrawal and silence (‘blame-defend’ or ‘attack-withdraw’ cycle), or on a personal level easily triggered anger, anxiety or plunging into the ‘darkness’ of depression. Using the power of emotion as a target and agent of change EFT provides a clear therapeutic map to helping partners, individuals and family members to restructure their emotional responses, and lead them into connectedness and a secure bond with each other, through in-session “corrective emotional experience”.
The Results:
- EFT has been applied to many different kinds of problems and diverse populations.
- A history of success: after 12 to 20 sessions, 70 to 75% of people move from distress to recovery; 90% show significant improvement.
This Introductory training will include an exploration of:
- The key concepts of Emotionally Focused Therapy approach for couples, individuals and families.
- Understanding of Internal Working Models and Attachment Styles.
- Stages and steps of the EFT model including the key change events in the process of therapy.
- EFT interventions on the basis of clinical material including video clips of live therapy sessions, and demonstrations.
All 4 parts of the training need to be attended to understand and experience the model in its entirety.
Course Content
Presenter
Gulya Diyarova MSc Tavistock, Cert. EFT therapist and supervisor, UKCP reg., Acc. COSRT, BACP, ICEEFT is an ICEEFT Certified Emotionally Focused therapist and supervisor, and a psychosexual and relationship therapist. Her first career in Moscow was as a medical doctor, paediatrician and clinical neurologist. She moved to the UK in 1993 and later retrained in Systemic therapy, Psychodynamic approach, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Early Attachment and Psychopathology, and as a Psychosexual therapist. Gulya was instrumental in bringing EFT to the UK and has been organising EFT training in London since 2009 in conjunction with ICEEFT. She is a founding member of the British EFT Community (BEFT Center). She supervises EFT therapists, leads EFT workshops, CPD groups and Advanced Externship training (Option 1 towards EFT Certification), and has a private practice in London. She is Director of the EFT International School and EFT Clinic in Central London, which she both set up, in 2015 and 2018.
Laura Vowels, PhD, clinical psychologist, BACP, ICEEFT is a fully qualified relationship therapist working with individuals, couples and families from a variety of backgrounds. She have received training in a range of therapeutic modalities, and work primarily from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) perspective. She is also currently working towards a PhD in Psychology. Her research broadly focuses on close relationships with special interest in how to help couples become more safe and secure with one another, how couples can help each other pursue life’s opportunities and can navigate sexual desire and instances of desire discrepancy in long-term relationships.
