Learn an empirically validated roadmap to navigate the chaos of couples therapy

Volume 1: Core Concepts and Interventions

In the first volume Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen, EFT expert and sought-after trainer, gives a comprehensive overview of the core concepts, steps, stages, and key interventions of EFT. The theory and techniques come to life with numerous vignettes featuring six real-life couples with diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, and issues. Over 100 hours of actual couples therapy with four skilled EFT trainers and practitioners have been painstakingly distilled to demonstrate the essential components and subtleties of EFT.

Volume 2: EFT Stage 1

Learn in detail the four steps of EFT Stage 1 that lead to de-escalation. Through numerous excerpts from the sessions with our 6 couples, you will learn how to: identify the negative cycle, access primary emotions, recognize the markers of de-escalation, and ultimately lead the couple to an experiential understanding of the impact they have on each other. By the end of this volume, you will know how to guide your clients to take control of their negative cycle, giving them more hope and courage to go forward.

Volume 3: EFT Stage 2-3

In Stage 2, the therapist becomes a choreographer who restructures the clients’ interactions, guiding them through a process of becoming more open and responsive. Learn how to achieve EFT’s critical change events–withdrawer reengagement and pursuer softening; promote acceptance of new positions of the other partner and support partners being able to ask for their needs to be met. Once healthy, non-attacking, non-defensive communication can occur, clients and therapists are then able to move into Stage 3, consolidation, where clients can solidify their gains and apply their new skills to any unresolved problems.

Volume 4: Impasses and Challenges

In this final volume, Jorgensen and colleagues demonstrate how to handle an array of tough issues that can show up in the work. This includes both therapist and client issues, such as ruptures in alliances, trauma history, attachment injuries, intellectualizing, and more.

Multiple vignettes from actual cases combined with incisive commentary, offer invaluable tools and strategies to help you get your couples back on track. Building on the previous three volumes in the series, Jorgensen returns to major topics and themes for further depth and detail, such as maintaining the attachment frame, managing reactivity and dealing with shame.

BONUS VIDEO: John Bowlby on Attachment and Psychotherapy

In this rare 1984 lecture in London, John Bowlby, founder of Attachment Theory, presents his impactful ideas on the role of the early parent-child relationships in development across the lifespan.

Rebecca Jorgensen, PhD is Founder and Director of the Attachment Advancement Institute and Co-Director of The Training and Research Institute for Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is an EFT Supervisor and Trainer who has developed several streaming conferences and seminars and has hosted and/or co-presented with attachment theorists and researchers such as Sue Johnson, Phil Shaver and Jim Coan.  Her online educational programs and consultation groups are popular all around the globe. This “therapists’ therapist” is known for her presence, clarity and empathy.

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 works closely with Dr. Susan Johnson, founder of EFT.

Lisa Palmer-Olsen, PsyD is a licensed marriage and family therapist in San Diego California. She 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.

Mark Kaupp, PsyD, is a certified EFT Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. In addition to traveling  all over  North America training other therapists in EFT,  he is an adjunct professor at San Diego State University and Alliant International University, teaching couples therapy to students in their master’s and doctoral programs.

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• Discuss the applied foundations of EFT
• Describe core EFT interventions for accessing primary emotions
• Plan couples treatment that improves their communication
• Discuss the objectives and steps of EFT Stage 1
• Describe the core EFT interventions for identifying a couple’s emotional pattern
• Plan treatment around reframing couples’ communication patterns
• Discuss the objectives and steps of EFT’s Stages 2 and 3
• Describe the core EFT interventions for modifying the pursuer/withdrawer pattern
• Utilize EFT methods to help couples strengthen their relationships
• List the main obstacles EFT therapists face with couples
• Discuss EFT relationship interventions when working with trauma
• Plan couples treatment that strengthens their attachment base