EFT Masterclass: Advanced Topics in Couples Counseling
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Overview
Couples therapy is already challenging, but becomes even more so when addiction, sexual issues, pornography and grief enter the clinical frame. In this richly instructive four-volume course, EFT experts and trainers demonstrate how strengthening the bonds of attachment can heal relationship wounds in these complex cases.
Over time, couples with secure bonds of trust and attachment grow together. However, already insecure bonds become even more frayed and couples grow distant when complex issues like substance abuse, pornography addiction, sexual intimacy and grief enter the clinical frame. In these cases, clinicians can easily become mired in and distracted by these thorny issues. EFT, with its focus on attachment, is a proven and effective method that will guide you directly to the frayed bonds of attachment in the couples you work with so you can help them mend and grow.
By watching this talented team of EFT clinicians conduct four actual couples therapy sessions, you will learn how to directly address the pain and detachment fueling addiction, sexual disconnection and loss in the couples you work with. Your clinical competence and confidence with these couples will be deepened by watching this richly instructive and deeply moving set of clinical demonstrations. Treat yourself to a front row seat as these master clinicians demonstrate, narrate and teach you the powerful applications of key EFT principles and techniques with these challenging clients.
What’s Included
Get the skills you need to confidently handle tough issues in couples therapy.
Volume 1: Sexual Issues
Sexual intimacy is often a casualty of insecure relationships between partners who have grown emotionally distant from one another. With its unique focus on attachment, EFT offers unique advantages for couples struggling with sexual issues.
Because couples like Mark and Julie do not typically bring up their sex lives with their therapist, it is the therapist’s job to focus on the sexual relationship as bonds of trust, security and attachment are strengthened. Watch how master therapist Jeff Hickey uses key EFT principles to help this couple understand and break down the walls of resistance and rekindle the flames of their own intimacy.
Volume 2: Addiction
When addiction enters couples treatment, the focus on sobriety can be a distraction from core relationship issues and lead to further disconnection in the couple as the non-addicted partner often feels neglected. See how master EFT therapist and addiction specialist Michael Barnett uses attachment theory to help Mark and Julie embrace their biographical pain and build their emotional fluency skills within a safe yet challenging therapeutic space.
Volume 3: Porn Addiction
Pornography addiction is often destabilizing to a relationship, undermining the bonds of intimacy and trust between partners. But by focusing solely on the pornography addiction, a couples therapist can become sidetracked from the immense wounds and relational damage that comes with this behavior.
Learn to shift your clinical focus on the attachment roots of couple dysfunction by watching Michael Barnett humanize pornography use and frame the addiction in EFT terms. As he skillfully analyzes the couple’s distress pattern, you will observe how staying focused on attachment issues can strengthen a couple’s attachment bonds.
Volume 4: Grief and Loss
When the loss of a child compounds existing relational stressors of a couple, clinicians may feel daunted by the sheer depth of their emotional pain.
Learn from master EFT trainer Leanne Campbell, as she works with Sean and Jenn who are now expecting a child four years after the tragic loss of their newborn son. See how EFT can more quickly reverse destructive relational patterns and provide couples methods to deepen their attachment. As partners move closer, they are able to avoid the inevitable pitfalls associated with loss, grief and other traumatic experiences.
About the Experts
Michael Barnett, MA, LPC is an ICEEFT certified supervisor and trainer in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT), and is the founder and director of the Atlanta Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Leanne Campbell, PhD, Certified ICEEFT Trainer is co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group, and is an Honorary Research Associate of Vancouver Island University.
Jeff Hickey, LCSW, CST is the director and president of the Chicago Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Lisa Palmer-Olsen, PsyD is a Certified EFT Trainer and Supervisor and is a Founder and one of the Directors of the Emotionally Focused Couples Training and Research Institute at Alliant International University.
Disclosures
General Disclosure
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Therapist Disclosure
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Learning Objectives
- Explain how core EFT principles apply to sexual intimacy problems
- Describe specific EFT techniques for removing blocks to sexual intimacy
- Design relationally-based treatment plans for couples with sexual issues
- Discuss the use of EFT theory and techniques in clinical work around addiction
- Explain how to maintain clinical focus on attachment rather than addiction issues
- Describe the use of co-therapists in EFT when working with couples
- Describe the ways pornography addiction impacts relationship stability
- Explain how to integrate EFT into couples work around pornography addiction
- Create treatment plans that helps couples strengthen their interactive capabilities
- Describe some of the core elements of EFT theory and practice
- Explain the applicability of EFT in clinical work around loss
- Apply the concepts and strategies of EFT to your couples’ treatment planning
What you get in this course
On-Demand Access
Instant access to all course materials. Take the course at your own pace, whenever you want.
Real Sessions
Over 6 hours of videos including 4 sessions with 3 real life couples struggling with complex issues.
Therapist Commentary
Detailed commentary, skill building exercises and additional resources to dramatically improve your work with couples.
Continuing Education
Earn up to 6 CE Credits.
“Highly recommended! An excellent resource for anyone interested in deepening their skills and continuing their professional growth, this series covers topics not thoroughly covered beyond content-level knowledge in training programs, but incredibly important in many relationships.”
“An invaluable resource for anyone working with couples. These videos offer a rare look at clinicians with distinct styles applying the same EFT model—revealing how emotion can be accessed through multiple routes.”
“Discussion of sexual issues, addictions and grief can be intimidating for novice and seasoned counselors alike, but these videos clearly demonstrate how to talk about these dynamic and deeply personal challenges faced by our clients in the therapy room.”
