Susan Johnson – Using the Science of EFT with Individuals: Bringing Your Clients to Life and Restoring Their Ability to Live Well

Description

Emotionally Focused Therapy is a well-known approach to couples treatment. But how can it translate to work with individuals? Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) will transform your clinical work by giving you a structured, targeted, effective roadmap for helping clients. EFT takes you to the heart of the matter in just 5 clear macro-interventions. The goal is not to simply modify symptoms, but to help people experience full, flexible aliveness. Use the power of emotion to make changes that last.

Objectives

• Build core emotional experiences to promote emotional balance in your traumatized, anxious, and depressed clients.
• Evaluate the EFT model as a secure base for effective therapy with individual clients.
• Analyze the three stages of the EFT model as an approach that offers clients a way out of destructive patterns.
• Employ evidence-based stages to increase closeness, safe attachment, and connection.
• Construct corrective emotional experiences for the individual client that create real forward movement in a single session.

Outline:

• How to focus your sessions on core defining factors – shape openness and engagement in every session
• Use the macro intervention EFT to move clients into change events.
• Consolidate new models of self and other and new ways to grow for your clients.

Susan Johnson, Ed.D.

Susan Johnson, EdD, is an author, clinical psychologist, researcher, professor, popular presenter and speaker and a leading innovator in the field of couple therapy and adult attachment. Sue is the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Couples and Family Therapy (EFT), which has demonstrated its effectiveness in over 30 years of peer-reviewed clinical research.

Sue Johnson is founding Director of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California, and Professor, Clinical Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Canada, as well as Professor Emeritus, Clinical Psychology, at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Dr. Johnson is the author of numerous books and articles including Attachment Theory in Practice: EFT with Individuals, Couples and Families (2019) The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (3rd edition, 2019) and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors (2002).

Sue trains behavioral health providers in EFT worldwide and consults to the over 75 international institutes and affiliated centers who practice EFT. She also consults to Veterans Affairs and the U.S. and Canadian militaries.

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