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Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

4 Days of EFT Training with Sam Jinich, PhD.

March 10-11, 2017 and March 17-18, 2017

For Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors - All Levels.

30 CE Hours

Preservation Park, Oakland, CA

 In the EFT Externship, therapists will learn how to view relationship distress through an Attachment lens and to focus their attention on attachment needs and longings. During the four days of training, participants learn the theoretical foundations of EFT, Attachment theory and emotion regulation. Participants learn and practice powerful interventions and techniques to help couples to slow down and begin to really listen to each other. When couples are in distress, some partners disagree, fight and repeatedly engage in negative patterns of blaming, criticizing, defending and expressing contempt. Others avoid, distance, emotionally or physically withdraw or to become detached from each other. The focus of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is to understand the underlying, often unspoken reasons and attachment-related significance and impact of these patterns and to help partners to express this to each other. Traditional types of couples therapy tend to be open-ended, focus on behavior change, teach negotiation and communication skills or minimize the importance of interdependence. In contrast, the EFT approach hones in on increasing a couple's attunement and empathy in order to build trust and create a safe haven and secure base. In EFT, we focus on helping couples create and build more secure bonds with each other. We help partners turn to each other when they are most vulnerable, and we foster accessibility, responsiveness, and emotional engagement when partners take the risk of expressing their underlying feelings and needs.
 

Presenter


Sam Jinich, PhD
Sam Jinich, PhD is a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. He is the Director of the San Francisco Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy (SFCEFT) and the Instituto de Terapia Focalizada en las Emociones (ITFE). Dr Jinich received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University’s Joint Doctoral Program. He completed his internship and postdoctoral training at University of California San Francisco Medical Center. Sam is one of the Founders of the Northern California Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy (NCCEFT) and he is Past President of the San Francisco Psychological Association. Sam has been an Individual and Couples Therapist in San Francisco for over 20 years. He specializes in working with clients who are experiencing emotional distress and a desire to deepen their understanding of themselves and improve in the areas of communication, conflict resolution, commitment, relationship-building and parenting. Sam is active and engaging in his approach with clients. Sam loves helping couples at the Hold Me Tight Workshop for Couples that he co-leads with Michelle Gannon, PhD in San Francisco, Tiburon and Esalen. The SF Center for EFT offers Forgiveness Training for Therapists, Intros to EFT, the EFT Externship, EFT Core Skills and the EFT Core Skills Refresher. The SF center is actively planning and developing other special topic trainings that will be offered to the EFT community. For more information, please visit SFCEFT.com. Sam is bilingual and bicultural in Spanish and is leading EFT Externships and Core Skills in Spanish in Costa Rica, Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, Spain.
 

Workshop Description

The first step towards learning Emotionally Focused Therapy is the 4-day EFT Externship. During the four days, participants learn the theoretical foundations of EFT, Attachment theory and emotion regulation. Participants learn and practice powerful interventions and techniques to help couples to slow down and begin to listen to each other. Participants learn how to differentiate between different attachment styles in adults and how these play a major role in their conflictual interactions. By engaging in experiential and role play exercises, participants will have ample opportunities for hands-on practice. Participants learn how to work with highly escalated couples as well as couples that seem detached.


In the EFT Externship, therapists will learn how to view relationship distress through an Attachment lens and to focus their attention on attachment needs and longings.  Therapists will learn how to pay attention more closely to the emotions of their clients and to explore, heighten and expand underlying emotions.  Therapists will also learn and practice how to facilitate new couples therapy conversations that increase their couples’ feelings of secure attachment, closeness and connection. The goal of the San Francisco Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy is to train therapists to attune to their clients better, by tuning their therapeutic ear to the emotions of the relational dance. In the EFT Externship, you will learn how to help your couples deal with their feelings together, reach towards each other, and be responsive in more loving and positive ways. You will learn by watching videotaped and live demonstrations of the approach and then you will practice via experiential exercises and role-plays.

 

Pricing

Regular Registration (January 1 - March 10): $899

Early Bird Registration (Ends December 31, 2016): $849

Intern / Student Discount (Verification required on the first day): $650

 

Main Points of this Workshop

  • EFT is one of the most thoroughly researched, clearly delineated and empirically validated approaches in the field of couple therapy. It reflects the most recent research on the nature of relationship distress, adult love and emotion. Research studies find that after treatment with EFT couples therapy, 70-75% of couples move from distress to recovery and 90% of couples show significant improvement.
  • In the EFT Externship, therapists will learn how to view relationship distress through an Attachment lens and to focus their attention on attachment needs and longings in order to get to the heart of their clients’ problems. 
  • Therapists will learn how to pay attention more closely to the emotions of their clients and to explore, heighten and expand underlying emotions. 
  • Therapists will also learn and practice how to facilitate new couples therapy conversations that increase their couples’ feelings of secure attachment, closeness and connection.
  • Therapists will develop and practice skills towards helping partners to change the emotional responses that lead to relational distress and that maintain a repetitive negative cycle of interaction.
  • The training teaches participants how to shape new interactional patterns and create bonding events with couples. 
  • Participants learn to identify and overcome therapeutic impasses with couples and to treat attachment related injuries.
  • The Externship offers ample opportunities to observe and practice EFT interventions.
 

What to Expect

  1. Presentations of theory and clinical techniques that are clearly explained.

  2. Skills training and experiential / hands-on exercises.

  3. Observation of videotaped sessions and when possible, a live couple consultation.
 

Course Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

1. Summarize the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an “Emotionally Focused” approach to couple therapy.

2. Diagnose couple distress and relationship repair based on theories of attachment and emotion.

3. Demonstrate skills in helping partners to change the emotional responses that lead to relational distress and that maintain a repetitive negative cycle of interaction.

4. Describe how to help partners shape new interactional patterns and bonding events.

5. Practice EFT interventions to overcome therapeutic impasses with couples and to treat attachment related injuries.

 

Agenda

Day 1:

9:00 -10:30 Attachment Theory

10:30 -10:45 Break

10:45 -12:00 EFT Theory of Change

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 3:00 Assessment and Tracking the Cycle

3:00 – 3:15 Break

3:15 – 4:00 Steps 1 and 2 of EFT

4:00 – 5:30 Role Play Exercise

5:30 – 6:00 Discussion and Review

 

Day 2:

9:00 -10:30 Working with Emotions

10:30 -10:45 Break

10:45 -12:00 Accessing Underlying Emotions – Step 3 of EFT

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 3:00 EFT Reframes – Step 4 of EFT

3:00 – 3:15 Break

3:15 – 4:00 The EFT Tango

4:00 – 5:30 Role Play Exercise

5:30 – 6:00 Discussion and Review

 

Day 3:

9:00 -10:30 Reengaging Withdrawers, Steps 5,6,7 of EFT

10:30 -10:45 Break

10:45 -12:00 Video Demonstration

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 3:00 Pursuer Softening, Steps 5,6,7 of EFT

3:00 – 3:15 Break

3:15 – 4:00 Review and Demonstration

4:00 – 5:30 Role Play Exercise

5:30 – 6:00 Discussion and Review

 

Day 4:

9:00 -9:30 Case Discussion

9:30 -10:45 LIVE Demonstration

10:45 -11:00 Feedback to couple

11:00 -11:15 Break

11:15 – 12:00 Discussion and Q&A

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 3:00 Attachment Injury Repair Model (AIRM)

3:00 – 3:15 Break

3:15 – 4:00 Steps 8 and 9 of EFT

4:00 – 5:30 Role Play Exercise

5:30 – 6:00 Discussion and Evaluations

 

 

For more information about EFT, the San Francisco Center for EFT or Sam Jinich, PhD please visit: www.SFCEFT.com

 

Accreditations

This event is co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars

Satisfactory Completion
Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

Psychologists
R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists.  R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program. 30 CE hours.

Social Workers
R. Cassidy Seminars, ACE provider #1082, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for the program. Approval Period: April 15, 2015-April 15, 2018. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers participating in this course will receive 30 continuing education clock hours.
CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider (#0006) of continuing education for licensed social workers. This program is approved for 30 contact hours live.
OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (30 ) clock hours, #RCST110701

Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists
CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers.
Other States: If your state is not specifically listed, nearly all state Counselor and MFT boards accept either APA or ASWB approval, or are reciprocal with other state licensing board approvals, such as those listed below. Check with your board to be sure. The Ohio Board includes Counselors and MFTs.
IL: Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, #168-000141.  (30) hours.
OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (30 ) clock hours, #RCST110701
TX: Approved CE Sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists. 30 CE hours. Provider #151

Chemical Dependency Counselors
CA Provider approved by CCAPP; CCAPP Provider #4N-00-434-0218 for (30) CEHs. CCAPP is an IC&RC member which has reciprocity with most ICRC member states.
TX: Provider approved by the TCBAP Standards Committee, Provider No. 1749-06, (30) hours general. Expires 3/31/2017.  Complaints about provider or workshop content may be directed to the TCBAP Standards Committee, 1005 Congress Avenue, Ste. 460, Austin, Texas 78701, Fax Number (512) 476-7297.

Educators
TX: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider with the Texas Education Agency CPE# 501456. This course is (30) CE Hours.

Nurses
CA: Provider approved by the CA Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CeP12224, for (30) contact hours. Some state nursing boards are reciprocal. Check with your licensing board to be sure.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.