Full Course Description

Emotional Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Healing Attachment Wounds

Take your practice to a new level with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) created by Dr. Sue Johnson! Guided by attachment science and over three decades of research in EFT with couples, now learn to harness the power of emotion to move your individual clients to a place of safety.

Join Leanne Campbell as she shares Sue Johnson's clinical roadmap based on hundreds of studies – on human attachment, on emotion, and on the effectiveness of EFT/EFIT interventions...interventions of gripping emotional depth and effectiveness.

Learn a three-stage process –

Stabilization leading to symptom reduction, more emotional balance
Restructuring of models of self and other, the expansion and growth of a new sense of self
Consolidation - integrating changes into a new vision for life and an ever-stronger sense of self and relationships

EFIT taps into the primary vulnerabilities and needs of all clients, linking the therapist to what is universal – the basic structure of how we experience life, while respecting and honoring each individual as unique and entitled to empathy and responsiveness.

Program Information

Objectives

Evaluate the EFIT model as a secure base for effective therapy with individual clients.
Implement evidence-based stages to increase closeness, safe attachment, and connection.
Develop client interactions that expand the client’s sense of self and open engagement with others.
Determine how working with emotion as a key change agent will help clients move toward secure attachment.

Outline

Employ the basic structure of emotion, as well as how we change models of self and others
Utilize the empirically validated EFIT “roadmap” to guide clients through their vulnerability and motivation to a clear picture of stability and growth
Validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session
Limitations, risks, and areas for further research

Target Audience

Mental Health Professionals