Mental Health Academy Australia

Join Dr. Sue Johnson, key developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Dr. Leanne Campbell, co-author of the first book on the application of EFT to individuals in this four-hour master class.  Sue and Leanne will provide you with a glimpse into their therapy rooms as they describe and demonstrate the power and potency of EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy) in working with trauma with their individual therapy clients.  An attachment-based humanistic experiential model, this approach provides therapists with an empirically-validated three-stage roadmap, and a tried and proven set of interventions to move clients from suffering and stuck places to healing and growth.  Learn how to make sense of your clients’ difficulties through the lens of attachment, harness the power of emotion to transform trauma, and unleash an organic growth process.  A well-established model of therapy grounded in over thirty years of research, EFT is known to grow therapists and clients alike! Sue and Leanne look forward to growing with you!

In this course, participants will learn:

1.      How to join with clients as temporary attachment figures to create a safe haven alliance – the foundation of any successful therapy

2.      How to understand trauma from an attachment perspective, and the key roles of interventions such as tracking, reflection and validation in shifting clients from shame into compassion

3.      How to apply the simple five-move set of macro-interventions, the EFIT Tango, to create change in every session

DAY 1:  What is EFIT? Let’s see!

In the first half of this course, Sue will provide an overview of the essential nature of the EFIT model.  Participants will gain an understanding of why EFIT, with its focus on attachment and emotion, is particularly suited to working with trauma, and how the EFIT Tango provides a reliable guide for therapists in every session.  When Sue takes participants into her therapy space and demonstrates the Tango with her client who presents with a host of disorders ranging from depression and anxiety to PTSD and borderline personality disorder, participants will begin to see and feel the power of EFIT!

DAY 2:  Dancing Tango and Reshaping Self

The second half of the course will provide participants with a closer look at the EFIT Tango, and how the Tango is flexibly applied as the client moves through the three-stage model.  Participants will meet M., a client with a complex trauma history, who at the outset of therapy was at risk for suicide and highly skeptical of therapy.  Demonstrating the use of the Tango in Stage 2, Leanne will walk participants ‘move-by-move’ through a session with M., demonstrating the power of EFIT in reshaping self and relationship narratives.  This session will most certainly highlight what Sue and Leanne mean when they say, “EFIT goes beyond symptom reduction, it changes the client’s sense of who they are —the self – and their most important relationships!”

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