Upcoming Professional Trainings & Events
listed in chronological order
Community Workshop
Turning Up the Heat: Sexual Intimacy and EFT
with Valerie Southwick, LPC
Date: December 6, 2024 | Time: 10am-1 pm AZ time (MST)
Location: Franciscan Renewal Center, Serra Room in Piper Hall (5802 E Lincoln Dr, Scottsdale, AZ 85253)
Cost: $45 for AZEFT members | $55 for non-members
** 20% discount offered to group practices of 5 or more who each register for the event; email us for the discount code
Certificate of Attendance: 3 hours
Workshop Description:
Explore the transformative realm of Sex and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) in this engaging workshop designed for Marriage and Family Therapists. Delve into the intersection of intimacy and emotions, gaining valuable insights into how to navigate complex dynamics within couples. Through interactive discussions , participants will develop a nuanced understanding of the interplay between emotional bonds and sexual connection, equipping them with practical tools to address issues ranging from communication barriers to intimacy challenges. This workshop promises to enhance therapeutic skills, empowering therapists to foster deeper connections and promote the holistic well-being of the couples they serve.
Learning Objectives:
Objective 1: Enhance Therapist Self-Awareness
Develop an increased self-awareness, enabling participants to recognize and manage personal biases, values, and reactions that may impact their ability to address sensitive issues related to sex and intimacy in therapy.
Objective 2: Strengthen Assessment Skills in the Context of Sex and Emotionally Focused Therapy
Equip participants with assessment techniques tailored to the unique challenges of couples' sexuality and emotional dynamics. Participants will learn to identify underlying issues affecting intimacy and develop a comprehensive understanding of how to assess both individual and relational factors influencing a couple's sexual well-being.
Objective 3: Master Key Interventions in Sex and Emotionally Focused Therapy
Acquire a set of interventions specific to Sex and Emotionally Focused Therapy, enabling therapists to guide couples through the exploration of emotional and sexual connection. Participants will practice and integrate interventions related to sensate focus, engagement and response models, and trauma healing.
Valerie Alston-Southwick, LPC, specializes in repairing relationships using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). She also employs EMDR for trauma recovery and has received specialized training from the American Association of Sex Addiction Therapy (AASAT), focusing on sex addiction, pornography issues, and affair recovery.
Location: Franciscan Renewal Center, Serra Room in Piper Hall (5802 E Lincoln Dr, Scottsdale, AZ 85253)
Cost: $45 for AZEFT members | $55 for non-members
** 20% discount offered to group practices of 5 or more who each register for the event; email us for the discount code
Certificate of Attendance: 3 hours
Workshop Description:
Explore the transformative realm of Sex and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) in this engaging workshop designed for Marriage and Family Therapists. Delve into the intersection of intimacy and emotions, gaining valuable insights into how to navigate complex dynamics within couples. Through interactive discussions , participants will develop a nuanced understanding of the interplay between emotional bonds and sexual connection, equipping them with practical tools to address issues ranging from communication barriers to intimacy challenges. This workshop promises to enhance therapeutic skills, empowering therapists to foster deeper connections and promote the holistic well-being of the couples they serve.
Learning Objectives:
Objective 1: Enhance Therapist Self-Awareness
Develop an increased self-awareness, enabling participants to recognize and manage personal biases, values, and reactions that may impact their ability to address sensitive issues related to sex and intimacy in therapy.
Objective 2: Strengthen Assessment Skills in the Context of Sex and Emotionally Focused Therapy
Equip participants with assessment techniques tailored to the unique challenges of couples' sexuality and emotional dynamics. Participants will learn to identify underlying issues affecting intimacy and develop a comprehensive understanding of how to assess both individual and relational factors influencing a couple's sexual well-being.
Objective 3: Master Key Interventions in Sex and Emotionally Focused Therapy
Acquire a set of interventions specific to Sex and Emotionally Focused Therapy, enabling therapists to guide couples through the exploration of emotional and sexual connection. Participants will practice and integrate interventions related to sensate focus, engagement and response models, and trauma healing.
Valerie Alston-Southwick, LPC, specializes in repairing relationships using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). She also employs EMDR for trauma recovery and has received specialized training from the American Association of Sex Addiction Therapy (AASAT), focusing on sex addiction, pornography issues, and affair recovery.
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Essentials-
formerly known as EFIT Level 1 and Level 2
with Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT and Rachel Thomas, LMFT
Date: December 9-11, 2024 | Time: 8:30 am - 5:30 pm MST (Arizona time)
Location: Collaborative Counseling (633 E Ray Road, #111, Gilbert, AZ 85296)
Cost: $800 Regular; $500 Students
Other: This training meets part of EFIT certification requirement.
Certificate of Attendance: 24 hours
**All attendees will receive a free Certificate of Attendance, which will suffice for all Arizona participants licensed under the BBHE or APA.
Description:
The training program is designed to provide participants with a robust groundwork and advanced understanding of the EFIT model, integrated within an attachment science framework. By blending theoretical instruction with experiential exercises, participants will be skillfully guided to implement the model in their clinical practice, fostering their development as proficient, attuned, and responsive EFIT therapists.
Learning Objectives:
- Articulate the fundamental tenets of the attachment perspective on personality and its significance in clinical intervention.
- Analyze client dynamics within and across cycles, elucidating how they co-create and interconnect, thereby contributing to presenting problems manifested as emotional disorders.
- Define the core components of emotional disorders, specifically depression and anxiety.
- Examine the process of change and the elements of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experiences, including affect assembly and deepening.
- Identify the micro-interventions employed by EFT therapists.
- Assess the applicability of EFIT across clients with diverse symptomatology.
- Embrace an attachment humanistic viewpoint on clients, issues, and interventions.
- Unearth and distill core emotional experiences while nurturing emotional equilibrium.
- Outline protective, self-defining, and interactional iatrogenic patterns.
- Employ the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to craft corrective emotional experiences and EFT micro-interventions.
- Construct narratives that expand self-awareness and enhance interpersonal connections.
- Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other.
- Affirm the client’s sense of competence and worth in each session.
Required Reading:
- “A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client” by Susan M. Johnson and T. Leanne Campbell, 2022. Routledge.
Recommended Reading:
- “Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families” by Dr. Susan M. Johnson, 2019.
- “Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook (2nd Edition)” by James L. Furrow, Susan M. Johnson, Brent Bradley, Lorrie L. Brubacher, T. Leanne Campbell, Veronica Kallos-Lilly, Gail Palmer, Kathryn Rheem, Scott R. Woolley, 2022. Routledge.
To learn more about the general objectives of EFIT Essentials and to register, click the button below!
Core Skills 2025
VIRTUAL CORE SKILLS
Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
Core Skills will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainers Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT and Certified Trainer-in-Training Rachel Thomas, LMFT.
To learn more about the general objectives of EFCT Core Skills and to register, click the button below!
Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
- Module One: February 27 and February 28, 2025
- Module Two: March 20 and March 21, 2025
- Module Three: April 24 and April 25, 2025
- Module Four: May 29 and May 30, 2025
Core Skills will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainers Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT and Certified Trainer-in-Training Rachel Thomas, LMFT.
To learn more about the general objectives of EFCT Core Skills and to register, click the button below!