Emotion-Focused Therapy Module 1

This is the first of three Modules of EFT workshops. It offers a grand overview of this therapeutic approach that integrates Person-centered Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, and Experiential Therapy. It provides an understanding of EFT Emotion Theory, and the role of Emotions in human function and dysfunction.

The hallmark of EFT, in addition to providing an empathic relationship, is that the therapist guides clients’ emotional processing in an active manner. EFT therapists would identify certain client in-session states, called “Markers”. These Markers point to underlying affective/cognitive processing problems. Various different interventions will be introduced based on what is best suited for each problem state.

Interventions, commonly referred to as “EFT Tasks”, will be covered. Examples of these Tasks include painful self-criticism (referred to as “splits’) and emotional injuries from past relationships (referred to as “unfinished business”).

Participants will be trained in moment-by-moment attunement to emotion, and the use of methods for dialoguing with aspects of configurations of self and imagined significant others in an empty chair.