A new cycle of the Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy will take place, on January 20 (D1) & 21 (D2) at Athens.
The next step will take place on February (3&4/2/18).
Trainer: Mrs Kyriaki Polychroni
Contact: Mrs Elena Kafourou, EFT secretary (info@eft.net.gr)
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Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy (Four-Day – 30 hours) is the First level of EFT training and is prerequisite for becoming a Certified EFT therapist.
It teaches mental health professionals the fundamental clinical skills necessary for becoming competent EFT couples therapists.
It offers lectures, practical experience in clinical skills, observation of videotaped or /and live therapy sessions as well as study and discussion of particular clinical cases and bibliography.
General Objectives
To enhance participants so they may:
- acquire a distinct understanding of the fundamental Systemic principles and of the Experiential approach in Emotionally Focused Therapy – EFT.
- perceive a couple’s distress and the healing of their relationship in terms of Attachment Theory and emotions.
- assist partners in reassessing those emotional responses that maintain the distress in their relationship.
- help partners shape new patterns of interaction and create positive moments of connection.
- develop the expertise to work through therapeutic blocks with couples.
Who may attend?
The Externship is recommended to all professionals who counsel couples, to marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, family physicians, psychiatric nurses, counsellors and students training in these professions.
Participants are encouraged to read “Creating Connection: The practice of EFT” before entering the Externship.
