EFIT Essentials
EFIT Essentials is the foundational training in Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
When: October 3 - 5, 2024
Where: Fayetteville, AR
CEs: 24 Available
Cost: $850 Professionals/$700 Students
About the Training:
The training is structured to provide a solid foundation and an advanced understanding of the Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) model, embedded within an attachment science framework. Through a blend of theoretical instruction and experiential exercises, participants will be guided to apply the model with individuals in their practice, fostering their growth as adept, attuned, and responsive EFIT therapists.
This 3-day (24hr) training event is a didactic and experiential program where participants will be invited to apply the principles and interventions of Emotionally Focused Therapy with individuals. The training will delve into the heart of the empirically-validated EFIT model, presenting a coherent framework for understanding individual emotional processing and change.
*EFIT Essentials is a consolidated program that is an amalgamation of ICEEFT’s previous Level 1 and Level 2 trainings, now offered as a seamless, intensive learning experience as of 2024.
Learning objectives:
Describe the key elements of the attachment perspective on personality and its significance for clinical intervention
Set out clients within and between cycles and how they create each other and link to presenting problems that manifest as emotional disorders
Describe the core components of emotional disorders – depression and anxiety
Outline the process of change and the elements of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experience, such as affect assembly and deepening
Describe the micro-interventions used by the EFT therapist
Outline the applicability of EFIT for different clients with different symptomatology.
Adopt an attachment humanistic perspective on clients, problems and interventions
Discover and distill core emotional experiences and promote emotional balance
Outline protective, self-defining and interactional iatrogenic patterns
Implement the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experience and EFT micro-interventions.
Choreograph dramas that expand the self and open engagement with others
Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other
Validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session.
Email us with any questions: arkansaseft@gmail.com
About Our Trainer:
Ali Barbosa
Ali Barbosa is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified EFT Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. He is the founder and director of EFT México, the first ICEEFT affiliated Center in Latin America. Ali has a full-time private practice in Mérida México and works with adult individuals and couples, sometimes in a bilingual setting. Additionally, Ali has also been certified in CBT and Ericksonian psychotherapy. He has worked and trained with many different EFT trainers and appreciates the richness and integration that derives from collaboration. Ali is very passionate about training and has helped translate and bring the EFT model to Hispanic therapists all over Latin America and Spain.
Email us with any questions: arkansaseft@gmail.com
