LibGuides: Clinical Interventions: EFT

Emotionally Focused Therapy Step by Step: a complete online course

Consider this 4-volume series your own personal master class in EFT. Embark on a journey with 6 real couples that underwent couples therapy for over 1 year with 4 leading EFT therapists and trainers. Learn the steps and techniques of EFT at your own pace, via carefully selected vignettes from our couples sessions, supplemented with expert commentary, ensuring that all relevant clinical points are thoroughly demonstrated and explained. Additional self-paced exercises will help you solidify the skills covered in each volume.

By the end of this course, you will have learned a model that will provide structure to your couples sessions and will have acquired proven tools for making you a more effective couples therapist.

Volume 1: Core Concepts and Interventions in EFT
In the first volume Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen gives a comprehensive overview of the core concepts, steps, stages, and key interventions of EFT. The theory and techniques come to life with numerous vignettes featuring six real-life couples with diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, and issues.
Volume 2: EFT Stage 1: Reaching De-escalation
How do you help couples get beyond blame to get them to a place of safe emotional engagement? In this second volume of our 4-video series with EFT expert Rebecca Jorgensen, learn the steps and interventions of Stage 1 leading towards complete de-escalation.
EFT Stages 2 - 3: Deepening Engagement & Consolidation
Once a couple has reduced their reactivity, how do you help them take it to the next level and achieve the safety and intimacy they desire? In the third of our 4-video series with EFT expert Rebecca Jorgensen, learn key techniques for promoting new levels of engagement, acceptance, and consolidation.
Impasses and Challenges in EFT
What can you do when you run into the inevitable obstacles of couples work? In the final volume of our EFT series with Rebecca Jorgensen, get expert advice and practical tools for dealing with common challenges in couples therapy.

Emotionally Focused Therapy: Creating Secure Bonds
Gottman Institute (Producer). (2013). Emotionally Focused Therapy: Creating Secure Bonds. [Video/DVD] Milton H. Erickson Foundation.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
Educational Objectives: 1) To describe how EFT can be used with partners with attachment injuries. 2) To list three of the main elements in Emotionally Focused Therapy.
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Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Johnson, S. (Director). (2009). [Video/DVD] Milton H. Erickson Foundation.

Understanding Emotionally Focused Therapy with Professor Robert Elliott
An unscripted EFT session by Robert Elliot which demonstrates the core method for working with a client within the approach. Includes a commentary by Robert.
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Counselling Channel (Producer). (2016). Understanding Emotionally Focused Therapy with Professor Robert Elliott. [Video/DVD] Counselling Channel.