A Couple in Crisis: Creating Rapid Change With EFT
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Overview
How can you work effectively with couples who have grown emotionally disconnected from each other, particularly in the face of complex issues such as illness and the specter of loss? Discover a simple framework that you can start using immediately in your practice, regardless of your approach, to guide couples through challenging sessions so they may experience each other in positive, growth-enhancing ways.
Because couples come together, struggle, and ultimately disconnect for emotional reasons, clinicians of all theoretical orientations need a flexible and emotionally focused therapeutic approach to help couples repair their frayed bonds. Watch Scott Woolley sensitively yet masterfully apply attachment-based techniques to create a safe space for Chris and Jeannetta to put aside their defensiveness, share their most vulnerable feelings, and learn that facing fears together can be far less threatening than facing them alone. Woolley’s relaxed and engaging interactional style and his facility with experiential techniques will help you more effectively connect with your own troubled couples so they may once again find safety in their relationship, reconnect, and grow together.
Couples who have grown apart are often defensive, isolated, and hopeless, only hesitantly entering counseling as a last resort. Watching Woolley masterfully navigate Chris and Jeannetta to a place of safety, openness, and hope will improve your own ability to help couples unite when facing major stresses—in this case, cancer. You will also learn to help your clients transform the energy it takes to suppress feelings and distance themselves into the courage required to face complex and demanding challenges together. Additionally, the enlightening and incisive pre-session conversation between Dr. Woolley and clinical educator Shea Dunham, and the post-session debriefing between Dr. Dunham and the couple around issues of race in therapy, will provide added dimensions of depth to the clinical session and provide insights you can take right into your own clinical work with couples.
What's Included
The Therapeutic Skills You Need to Help Couples Get Back To Love
A major crisis can distance partners and break them apart when they need each other the most. Our online course gives therapists and counselors an attachment-based framework to quickly bring couples together so they can meet life’s challenges united.
You’ll learn to…
- Use five EFT-based steps you can integrate with your own approach to quickly create change in a couples session
- Effectively apply this attachment-based framework through demonstrations and commentaries by watching EFT trainer Scott Woolley
- Facilitate in-session experiential exercises so partners can express their most vulnerable feelings
- Address diversity in clinical conversations with clients whose racial backgrounds differ from yours
Do I Have to Be an EFT Therapist to Use This Method?
No! This course is for all therapists, counselors, social workers, and other mental health professionals who work with couples. You don’t have to be an EFT therapist to harness the power of attachment theory and reunite couples in acute distress. Help couples facing crises such as a life-threatening medical diagnosis, grief, loss and more.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Clinical educator Shea Dunham, PhD and EFT expert Scott Woolley, PhD discuss the dysfunctional behavior patterns that ultimately push couples to their breaking points and why it is so important to explore the emotions behind these destructive patterns in couples work. Woolley adeptly summarizes the key concepts of Emotionally Focused Therapy, explains how it can be used to address issues of race and socioeconomic diversity, and outlines the five tango moves that you can begin using immediately to create corrective emotional experiences in any couples session.
Chapter 2: Clinical Session
You have a front-row seat to watch Woolley lead a powerful session with Chris and Janetta, who are seeking help because of Janetta’s very aggressive cancer, and the impact that that has had on their entire family. Watch as Woolley skillfully navigates Chris and Jeannetta to a place of safety, openness, and hope in a single session. Along the way he explains his methodology and clearly illustrates the steps and experiential exercises that you can use to help couples unite in the face of major stressors.
Chapter 3: Debriefing with Chris and Jeanetta
This enlightening post-session debriefing between Dr. Dunham and the couple explores how Chris and Jeanetta experienced the session — what worked and what didn’t — and delves into issues of race in therapy and provides added dimensions of depth to the clinical session. Candid and compelling, this discussion is rich with insights you can use to inform your own clinical work with all your clients, especially those with cultural or racial identities different from your own.
About the Experts
Scott Woolley, PhD is a founder and Director of the San Diego Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Training and Research Institute for EFT (TRI-EFT.) Dr. Woolley has trained therapists in EFT in many areas of the world, and worked closely with Dr. Susan Johnson, founder of EFT.
Disclosures
General Disclosure
This Disclosure Statement has been designed to meet accreditation standards; Psychotherapy.net does its best to mitigate potential conflicts of interest and eliminate bias in all areas of content. Experts are compensated for their contributions to our training videos; while some of them have published works, the purchase of additional materials are not required for any Psychotherapy.net training. Each experts’ specific disclosures can be found in their biography.
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Therapist Disclosure
Scott Woolley was compensated for his contribution to this course. None of his books or additional offerings are required for this course. Should such materials be referenced, it is only as additional resources.
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Learning Objectives
- Describe how attachment theory informs Dr. Woolley’s integrative therapeutic approach with couples
- Discuss how an emotionally focused approach to couples counseling is particularly well-suited for working with complex relational issues such as loss
- Prepare a couples therapy treatment plan that incorporates EFT’s 5 Tango moves
What you get in this course
Real Session
1.5 hours of videos featuring EFT trainer Scott Woolley conducting a powerful clinical session
Therapist Commentary
Thorough behind-the-scenes commentary to provide insight into Woolley’s therapeutic interventions
Clear Application
Step-by-step guidance for applying this effective intervention to your practice
Continuing Education
Earn up to 1.5 CE Credits
Bonus Resources
Supplemental skill-building resources to help you master the core skills demonstrated in the videos
“Dr. Woolley’s connection with the couple is truly sincere and culturally significant in the field of Multicultural Counseling.”
“The therapy session is so genuine and transparent that I felt I was sitting in the therapy room.”
“This course is a wonderful demonstration of the use of EFT with a couple. A very well done course that provides spot-on application of the technique, as well as addressing diversity and gender role expectations.”
“Dr. Wooley explains not only the steps in the EFT tango but also demonstrates how these steps become tangible in a session. A valuable course for educators and practitioners alike, it teaches real skills that any couples therapist can use.”
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