EFT Masterclass: Advanced Topics in Couples Counseling
Learn how to work with couples facing seemingly insurmountable relationship challenges.
When addiction, sexual issues, pornography and grief enter the already complex world of couples therapy, you need specific expertise.
Learn how to:
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Apply key EFT principles and create relationally-based treatment plans for couples struggling with complex, yet common, issues.
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Maintain clinical focus on strengthening attachment rather than being distracted by the couple's destructive challenges.
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Use EFT to strengthen the bonds of engagement and help couples reconnect sexually.
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Apply different clinical styles to the same model of psychotherapy.
Get Permanent access today. Start anytime. Study at your own pace.
Special Introductory price $149 (a $268 value) now through November 24, 2019
Want to dig deeper into EFT?
We have another great Emotionally Focused Therapy course available. Check out the options below...
EFT Masterclass
$149
SAVE $30!
Learn to use attachment theory to tackle complex issues in couples counseling.
Great for all couples' therapists. You'll benefit from this class even if you're not an EFT Pro.
6 CE Credits included
EFT Step by Step + EFT Materclass
$348
SAVE $80 WHEN YOU BUY BOTH CLASSES!
Learn the EFT model AND how to apply it to advanced issues commonly encountered in couples counseling.
16 CE Credits included
EFT Step by Step
$199
SAVE $50!
A step-by-step course on Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples.
Learn an empirically validated roadmap that will greatly enhance your work with couples.
10 CE Credits included
"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. Well-produced, with clear guidance on developing advanced-level skills that are often underemphasized in training programs, especially within a clinical context."
Keith Klostermann, PhD, AAMFT
Approved Supervisor, Associate Professor, Medaille College
"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."
Javier F. Casado PĆ©rez, PhD,
Community Counseling Clinic Director, Marriage, Couples, and Family Counseling Program Co-Coordinator, Portland State University
"An invaluable resource for anyone working with couples. These videos are a rare opportunity to experience clinicians with very different styles apply the same model of psychotherapy. I especially loved seeing how very different therapeutic styles are a great fit with the EFT-model, and how emotion can be worked with through several routes. Both Michael Barnett and Leanne Campbell help their clients get in touch with their vulnerabilities, but they do so in different ways. Barnett shows us how the attachment cue and the cognitive appraisals open the door into vulnerability, while Campbell demonstrates how powerful it can be to use the bodily felt sense to access emotion. Any therapist who wishes to help clients gain deeper access to their emotional experience will find some gems here"
Dimitrij Samoilow
ICEEFT-certified EFT-trainer, clinical psychologist, Oslo, Norway.
What you get in these coursesĀ
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Permanent access to all course materials. Take the course at your own pace, whenever you want.
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Multiple full therapy sessions with real life couples.
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Detailed commentary for each session.
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Self-paced practice exercises to deepen your understanding of EFT.
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CE Credits, included in the Course. Click here for the complete list of CE Approvals .
Our EFT Masterclass 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. Michael has worked in inpatient addiction treatment centers, and in intensive outpatient addiction programs.
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. Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson in the early 1990s, she has continued to focus on trauma, grief, and couple and family therapy since that time.
Jeff Hickey, LCSW, CST is the director and president of the Chicago Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy. Jeff is also a certified sex therapist and has over 30 years of clinical experience working with a broad range of couples presenting with a wide variety of concerns, including trauma and sexuality.
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.
Which course is right for you?
EFT Step by Step + EFT Materclass
$348
BUY BOTH AND SAVE $80!
16 CE Credits included
EFT Masterclass Course content
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 wounding and relational damage that comes with this behavior.
Learn to shift your clinical focus on the attachment roots of a 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 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.
EFT Step by Step Course content
Volume 1: Core Concepts and Interventions
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 6 real-life couples with diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, and issues. Over 100 hours of actual couples therapy 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.
- Identify the negative cycle
- Access primary emotions
- Recognize the markers of de-escalation
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.
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.
Volume 4: Impasses and Challenges
In this final volume, Jorgensen and colleagues demonstrate how to handle an array of tough issues such as ruptures in alliances, trauma history, attachment injuries, intellectualizing, and more.
Multiple vignettes from actual cases combined with incisive commentary, offer tools and strategies to help you get your couples back on track.
Want to dig deeper into EFT?
We have other courses available. Check out the options below
EFT Masterclass
$149
SAVE $30!
Learn to use attachment theory to tackle complex issues in couples counseling.
Great for all couples' therapists. You'll benefit from this class even if you're not an EFT Pro.
6 CE Credits included
EFT Step by Step + EFT Materclass
$348
SAVE $80 WHEN YOU BUY BOTH CLASSES!
Learn the EFT model AND how to apply it to advanced issues commonly encountered in couples counseling.
16 CE Credits included
EFT Step by Step
$199
SAVE $50!
A step-by-step course on Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples.
Learn an empirically validated roadmap that will greatly enhance your work with couples.
10 CE Credits included
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What is Emotionally Focused Therapy?
EFT is the most researched and effective approach for distressed couples. It was developed in the '80s and has a very strong empirical base. It as been tested and shown to create improvements in 90% of the couples that come to therapy.
As its name suggests, it is an approach that focuses on how people deal with their emotions, how they send emotional signals to their spouse, and how this emotion becomes the music of their interactional dance. As an attachment-oriented approach it assumes that we all have very deep needs for safe connection and emotional contact, and that when we don't get those needs, we get stuck in very negative interactional patterns.
EFT gets right to the heart of the problems that keep relationships from being deeply satisfying. It is designed to stop the negative and stuck patterns in marriages and other primary relationships, transforming them into the loving, caring connection and understanding you desire.
Choose your course
EFT Step by Step + EFT Materclass
$348
BUY BOTH AND SAVE $80!
16 CE Credits included