EFFT ESSENTIALS-EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED FAMILY THERAPY TRAINING

In-Person:

Central YMCA

20 Grosvenor Street, Toronto, ON M4Y 2V5

Course Description:

Learn the tools to navigate and mend familial emotional landscapes, fostering the restoration of family bonds. Participants will delve into attachment frameworks and experiential realms, explore emotion regulation, and learn practical EFFT steps to facilitate corrective emotional experiences. Completion of EFFT Essentials provides therapists with the tools to drive lasting positive change in the family dynamics of their clients.

Participants will learn to:

• Understand the empirical support for EFFT.
• Outline the phases of EFFT treatment and key change events.
• Apply key interventions in EFFT through role-play.
• Identify markers and interventions for processing both adaptive and maladaptive emotions within family dynamics.
• Formulate cases using an attachment-based EFFT model.
• Work with emotional regulation strategies within a family context.
• Access and process emotional experience to facilitate transformative change within families.
• Develop a working alliance based on an attachment bond with each family member.
• Utilize the therapist’s relational presence within the family system.
• Develop a treatment plan and guide interventions using EFFT, based on markers and clinically relevant assessment.
• Access emotion to develop corrective emotional experiences that restructure maladaptive emotion schemes within family interactions.
• Work with and resolve fears and blocks to emotional engagement and processing within family dynamics.
• Heal relationships across generations with this EFFT course.

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