Throughout the program, participants will:

• 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 Readings:

• “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.