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 issues.
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Maintain clinical focus on strengthening attachment rather than being distracted by the couples' 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.
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SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER: $149 per user (a $286 value)
6 CE Credits included
offer valid until November 24, 2019
Discounts available for organizations with multiple users. Contact us at [email protected] or call 1-800-577-4762.
"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 Pérez, 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 with this course:
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Permanent access to all course materials. Take the course at your own pace, whenever you want.
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Over 6 hours of videos including 4 sessions with 3 real life couples strugglings with complex issues.
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Detailed commentary for each session.
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Earn up to 6 CE Credits, included in the Course. Click here for the complete list of CE Approvals .
Our 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.
Get proven tools to be a more effective couples therapist
A $286 value available for $149. Special offer valid until Nov 24, 2019.
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.
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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.
Get the skills you need to confidently handle tough issues in couples therapy.
Special offer valid until November 24, 2019