Dr. Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)

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The late Susan Johnson, EdD, was a best-selling author, clinical psychologist, distinguished research professor, dynamic speaker, and recognized innovator who changed the field of couple therapy. Sue was the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), which has demonstrated its effectiveness in over 30 years of peer-reviewed clinical research. She was the director of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy and a distinguished research professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California, as well as professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She trained behavioral health providers in EFT worldwide and is still recognized as one of the most prominent researchers and presenters in the couple therapy field.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sue Johnson had employment relationships with University of British Columbia, Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group, Alliant International, University Ottawa, Couple and Family Institute, and the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She received royalties as a published author. Dr. Johnson received a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She had no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sue Johnson served on the editorial board for the American Journal of Family Therapy (AJFT) and the journal Couple and Family Psychology: Research & Practice.

Objectives

1. Build core emotional experiences to promote emotional balance in your traumatized, anxious, and depressed clients.
2. Evaluate the EFT model as a secure base for effective therapy with individual clients. 
3. Analyze the three stages of the EFT model as an approach that offers clients a way out of destructive patterns.
4. Implement evidence-based stages to increase closeness, safe attachment, and connection.
5. Investigate how EFT explores and deepens emotions with clients in a way that maintains safety.
6. Construct corrective emotional experiences for the individual client that create real forward movement in a single session.
7. Develop client interactions that expand the client’s sense of self and open engagement with others.
8. Validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session.

Outline

• Seeing the self from a developmental attachment viewpoint
• The 10 principles of attachment science
• The attachment view of emotional disorders
• What attachment tells us about the essence of in-session change that lasts

• Foundational Stages of EFT
  • Stabilization
  • Restructuring
  • Consolidation
• The organic model of change and change events - working with vulnerability

• A non-pathologizing attachment perspective on emotional disorders
• Using EFIT to work with core features of anxiety and depression
• The process of first sessions – building a safe-haven alliance

• Mirroring/reflecting present process
  • Negative Cycles of Coping
• Affect assembly and deepening
• Choreographing engaged encounters with self and others
• Processing these choreographed dramas to create emotional balance
• Integrating and validating new experience
• The Tango across stages of change

• In-session video and discussion of sessions
• Play and Practice - the elements of the Tango

• Growing into and applying the EFIT model in your practice
• Limitations, risks, and areas for further research

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Psychiatrists
• Mental Health Professionals
• Nurses