Working with Trauma with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
Dr. T. Leanne Campbell
Registered Psychologist and ICEEFT Certified Trainer
Dates: November 20, 2024
Time: 12pm-4:15pm EST
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Price: $150. early bird registration until 9/30/24,
$175. after 10/1/24; $125. Diversity rate
Course Level: Intermediate
For: Psychologists, Social Workers, LMFTs, Counselors
CE Information: 4 CEs will be available for an additional cost to those participants who can attend all 4 hours in real time.
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is an attachment science-based approach to individual therapy that, like the other EFT interventions, EFCT for couples and EFFT for families, offers an integration of humanistic experiential interventions focused on reshaping intrapsychic experience and systemic interventions focused on reshaping patterns of engagement with significant others. Emotion is given precedence given its powerful role in structuring both inner experience and motivation and key interactional patterns in relationships. Emotion links and organizes core experience and interaction. From an attachment and an experiential perspective, the self is a process of constant construction which takes place in and is shaped by interactions with others. In all modalities EFT addresses self and relational system. EFIT shapes corrective emotional experiences in each session to restructure negative ways of defining the self, regulating and organizing inner experience, and engaging with others.
This workshop will focus on and provide a brief introduction to the theory and practice of EFT in working with individuals who are struggling with the echoes of trauma. The focus will be on understanding the impacts of trauma and core models of health and dysfunction from an attachment perspective, the primacy of emotion and the foundational requisite of creating a safe haven alliance in transforming trauma. The systematic sequence of interventions - the EFT Tango will be reviewed as applied through the three-stage process, as well as key micro-interventions. Didactic presentation will be accompanied by viewing of sessions with related commentary.
About Dr. Leanne Campbell
Dr. Leanne Campbell is co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group and is an Honorary Research Associate of Vancouver Island University. Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson in the early 1990s, she has continued to work in the EFT model since that time, and has provided psychotherapy services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past about three decades. By request, Dr. Campbell also provides personalized results-driven ‘intensives’ (i.e., ‘boot camps’) for couples motivated to improve their relationship and/or address ‘attachment injuries’ related to infidelity, other significant life events and/or transitions (e.g., loss or trauma).
Known for her expertise in trauma, Dr. Campbell has provided hundreds of psychological assessment reports for forensic/legal and personal injury matters being considered before various levels of Court. She also is regularly called upon to provide expert opinion, as well as psychological evaluations for various insurance companies and bodies involved in adjudicating personal injury and other trauma-based claims. In addition to maintaining a full-time private practice, with a primary focus in the areas of relationship strain, trauma, grief and loss, Dr. Campbell currently co-manages a multi-site practice comprised of twenty-five clinicians and is a site coordinator for an Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) outcome study.
An active ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Leanne trains professionals around the globe and is involved in the development of various materials including DVDs, on-line educational/training programs, books, workbooks, and articles. Most recently, she co-authored the first basic EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy) text with Dr. Sue Johnson, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client (Routledge, 2022), as well as a workbook for therapists training in EFT (see Furrow et al., Routledge, 2022).
Objectives:
At the end of the training, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the key elements of the attachment perspective and its significance for understanding personality, the impact of trauma and clinical intervention
2. Summarize and demonstrate how to conduct an experiential assessment and the associated C.A.R.E. model to chart the course for therapy
3. Explain and begin to use the power of emotion in transforming trauma
4. Define how to work with the body as the ‘gateway to emotion’ – a key target and agent of change in EFIT
5. Give examples of how to implement the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experience
6. Apply the Tango - a proven sequence for creating key change events
7. Apply the EFIT model and begin to implement some of the micro-interventions used by the EFIT therapist to gradually move clients into transformative moments where vulnerabilities are encountered in the presence of another, fostering trauma resolution and a stronger sense of balance, coherence, and competence
8. Choreograph dramas that expand the self and open engagement with others
9. Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other
10. Identify some of the ways the Tango is adapted in working with trauma
11. Explain the ways in which the therapist’s use of the Tango shifts in focus and application across the three stages of therapy
12. Describe the three stages of therapy that clients move through as barriers to growth are removed and the seeds of secure attachment are sown
CE Information: 4 CEs will be available to those participants who can attend all 4 hours in real time for an additional cost. CEs are provided by National Marriage Seminars.
Disclosure: There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this course.
Accommodations: This program adheres to the standards of the Americans Disabilities Act. Please contact us if special accommodation is required.
Grievance policy: We seek to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please email us with your written grievance. Grievances would receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems.
Cancellation/refund policy: If you notify us prior to 7 days before the event, we will provide a full refund minus a $20 administrative fee. If you notify us less than 7 days before the event, we will provide a 50% refund. Registration refund amounts are based on fixed costs, contractual obligations, and administrative time. When you enroll, it is with the understanding that you will attend and that you agree to this cancellation policy. If WBCEFT cancels or postpones an event, we will apply your tuition to the make-up date. If we cannot secure a make up date, you will receive a full refund. If you cannot attend the make up date, we will provide a full refund. If you qualify for the Diversity Fellowship, due to limited spots, please notify us as soon as possible if you are unable to attend so that a spot can open up for someone else. All refunds must be requested in writing via email to angela@wbceft.com.
Note: Please note that this training will NOT be recorded.
Zoom links and Handouts: For all of our online trainings, you will receive the zoom link and any handouts two days prior to the training date.
Questions: Please contact Angela Fowler Hurtado at angela@wbceft.com with any questions about this training.