Susan Johnson – Dr. Sue Johnson’s Intensive Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy: Attachment-Based Interventions For Couples in Crisis

Too often, couple and family therapists only focus on stopping arguments and teaching clients to fight fair, which doesn’t lead to improved outcomes or deep healing.

Fortunately, advances in our understanding of the Attachment Theory have dramatically changed our ability to provide clients with real, lasting change…

For the first time, we can offer clients secure and satisfying connections by exploring and systematically targeting key elements of the complex dramas that occur within relationships thanks to Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) — one of the only models of couple therapy that has been tested and shown to create lasting change in over 20 empirical studies.

In this exclusive online course, EFT developer Sue Johnson will show you step-by-step how to apply her proven EFT model to your practice to help your clients grow within their relationships — even in the presence of complex issues such as trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and more…

You’ll discover exactly how to help the couples you work with create more secure lasting bonds with the proven tools, strategies, and interventions featured in this mastery-level course.

What You’ll Learn In Dr. Sue Johnson’s Intensive Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy: Attachment-Based Interventions For Couples in Crisis

Online Course in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) — one of the only models of couple therapy that has been shown to create lasting change in over 20 empirical studies.
In this comprehensive online course, professor, researcher, clinical psychologist, and leading developer of EFT, Dr. Sue Johnson will share with you the science and application of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT).

Through engaging case studies, in-session videos, and masterfully presented lectures, Dr. Johnson will show you step-by-step how to apply the most effective, empirically validated EFT interventions to help the couples in your practice grow within their relationships.

Module 1: On Target Interventions
Begin the online course by joining Sue for an overview of attachment science and the latest insight into the field of couple therapy. You’ll learn how you can help your clients achieve the lasting connection they need by exploring:

• The map to basic relationship emotions and needs
• The evolutionary perspective on the importance of attachment and family relationships
• The structure of attachment relationships: emotional accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement
• The five basic moves or relationship drama

Module 2: The EFT Model
Building upon the foundational materials from Module 1, in Module 2 you’ll join Sue for a deep dive into the research on relationship outcomes and change. Sue will guide you through the stages of EFT, key interventions and change events. Together, you’ll discover how to:

• Build a therapeutic alliance
• Reprocess and distill emotion
• Choreograph new interactions
• Restructure attachment
• Utilize the five basic moves of the EFT therapist

Module 3: Essentials of Stage 1 EFT
In Module 3, go beyond the basics by joining Sue to discover the key skills you’ll need to successfully guide your clients through Stage 1 EFT. Through lecture and case presentations, Sue will show you how to work with couples to:

• Help the couples in your practice de-escalate
• Establish trust, safety, and hope within relationships
• Defuse unrealistic expectations
• Examine personal attachment history and childhood patterns
• Explore the couple attachment history
• Identify styles and address varied attack and withdraw combinations

Module 4: Essentials of Stage 2 EFT
In Module 4, you’ll shift your attention to mastering Stage 2 interventions and skills. Sue will show you how Stage 2 EFT will help partners move into and tolerate their vulnerable emotions. Sue will guide you step-by-step through interventions that help you:

• Restructure the relationship bond
• Access implicit needs, fears, and models of self
• Identify and express attachment needs effectively
• Use repetition, imagery, and connection to facilitate expression
• Accomplish bonding events in the therapeutic setting

Module 5: Turning to Sexuality and Affairs
In Module 5, you’ll learn the attachment frame on sex and affairs to learn how to use EFT to shape forgiveness and heal attachment injuries. Together, you’ll examine:

• The social expectations for sexuality and long-term relationships
• The central importance of feeling desired and valuable
• The types of sexual engagement
• Relationship traumas that destroy trust
• How to create and communicate a healing narrative
• When healing attempts worsen the rift

Module 6: Advanced Approaches for Difficult Couples
In Module 6, you’ll master interventions and strategies for containing escalation and working with the most difficult couples in your practice. Through powerful case studies and lecture, Sue will show you how to use EFT to:

• Work with trauma couples
• Establish a secure base for post trauma individuals
• Understand the relationship between PTSD, trust, and sexuality
• Explore intimate partner abuse
• Address fear and safety
• Assess violence and threat dangers

About Dr. Sue Johnson:

Dr. Sue JohnsonSusan Johnson, EdD, is the best-selling author, clinical psychologist, distinguished research professor, dynamic speaker, and recognized innovator who has changed the field of couple therapy. She is director of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy and distinguished research professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California, as well as professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She trains counselors in EFT worldwide and is recognized as one of the most prominent researchers and presenters in the couple therapy field.

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