Level 1 Individual Therapy Training

overview

This four-day programme will provide participants with a solid grounding in the skills required to work more directly with emotion in psychotherapy. Participants will receive in-depth skills training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, case discussions, and extensive supervised role-playing practice.

The training will cover Emotion Theory, including differential emotion diagnosis and principles of emotional change. Differential interventions based on process diagnoses will be demonstrated. Videotaped examples of evidence-based methods for evoking and processing overwhelming emotions, negative self-evaluative splits, as well as emotional injuries from the past will be presented and discussed.

Participants will be trained to attune moment-by-moment to affect, and in the use of experiential methods to facilitate dialogues between different parts of the self and imagined significant others. This training will provide therapists from different backgrounds with an opportunity to expand and develop their therapeutic skills and interests.

TOPICS

• Emotion theory, Assessment and Principles of emotional change

• Creating an alliance, Empathic attunement

• Basic techniques for working with emotion: Evocation, Conjecture, Focusing

• Identifying markers of underlying affective/cognitive problems

• Experiential techniques including: Chairwork - Two chair dialogues for splits, and Empty chair dialogue for unfinished business; Focusing; and Systematic Evocative Unfolding,

• Restructuring Core Emotion Schemes

ACCREDITATION

The training will count towards certification as an EFT therapist with the International Society for Emotion-Focused Therapy.