How to Decrease Conflict and Increase Connection in Couples Sessions

1.50 CE Credits Available

by Scott Woolley

Couples therapy is challenging, but far more so when partners are locked into highly charged seemingly intractable conflicts. This webinar featuring Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer Scott Woolley, PhD, will provide you with five highly effective, straightforward EFT-based steps that you can use with your own couples clients regardless of your therapeutic approach.

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Couples locked into repetitive and unyielding cycles of conflict come to therapy at a loss for how to break these destructive patterns of relating. In these cases, effective therapy requires not only knowledge, experience, and clinical grit, but skills specifically designed to meet the needs of these clients. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) provides just that. Clinician and trainer, Scott Woolley will teach you how to apply its core 5 Tango Steps through a live demonstration with real clients.

From a good relationship to one suffering from lack of vulnerability and fear of isolation, Jeannetta and Chris find themselves disconnected in the wake of a devastating medical diagnosis. Using in-the moment work with the couple, Woolley will show you how to gently and safely break down barriers, repair relational wounds, and re-build connection through validation, empathy, intentionality, curiosity, attunement, and therapeutic engagement.

Watch as Woolley uses skill and compassion to work with this couple, and field questions from a global audience with moderator Travis Heath. By the end, you will come away with a new, or perhaps renewed, confidence in your ability to work with couples divided by conflict. You will learn to effectively dance through these challenging sessions by applying the 5 tango moves of EFT, which include:

tuning into the present emotional process
deepening clients’ emotional experience
setting up clinical enactments
processing the enactment
summarizing and consolidating what occurred

Be courageous––join the dance with us––and be prepared to take your clinical work with challenging couples to the next level.

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Length of video: 01:28:30

English subtitles available

Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-786-9

Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-786-5

Scott Wooley, 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.

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CE credits: 1.5

Learning Objectives:

Explain how to break the negative cycles of combative couples
Utilize five EFT-based steps in your own clinical couples’ work
Apply experiential exercises in session to create emotional safety

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