May 1-4, 2024, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy Essentials

Attachment-based Interventions to Treat Trauma, Anxiety and Depression

Finally, there is a map offered to us by attachment science to work in an organic, on-target way to help clients with trauma, anxiety, and depression.

To that map, add the wisdom of 30 years of clinical experience and outcome studies on Emotionally Focused Therapy and you have the right way to tune into clients’ emotions and help them shift from numbing or agitation into emotional balance and the ability to trust the self and engage fully with others.

Building on Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and the work of Dr. Sue Johnson, we will show you the set of proven interventions to shape transformational emotional moments for your individual clients in every session.

Questions about registration go to Cynthia Allan

Registration fees(CAND):

• $895 Regular Fee

  • $745 Student regular Fee, 2023/24 full-time students, proof required

 Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) will transform your clinical work by giving you:

• A structured, on-target, effective roadmap for helping clients

• Resolution for clients’ depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress

• A more integrated coherent sense of self

EFT takes you to the heart of the matter in just 5 clear macro-interventions. The goal is not to simply modify symptoms, but to grow people into full, flexible aliveness.

The EFIT Process-Oriented Assessment

• A non-pathologizing attachment perspective on emotional disorders

• Using EFIT to work with core features of Anxiety and Depression

• The process of first sessions – building a safe-haven alliance

The Core EFT Macro Interventions – the EFT “Tango”

• Mirroring/reflecting present process

• Negative Cycles of Coping Affect assembly and deepening

• Choreographing engaged encounters with self and others

• Processing these choreographed to create emotional balance

• Integrating and validating new experience

• The Tango across stages of change

Summary of Micro Interventions – Experiential and Systemic

• In-session video and discussion of sessions

• Play and Practice - the elements of the tango

Learning Objectives:

1.  Adopt an attachment humanistic perspective on clients, problems and interventions

2.  Discover and distill core emotional experiences and promote emotional balance

3.  Outline protective, self-defeating and interactional patterns and the core components of emotional disorders.

4.  Begin to implement the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experience

5.  Describe the micro-interventions of the EFT/EFIT model, e.g., Heightening, Interpretation.

6.  Choreograph dramas that expand the self and open engagement with others

7.  Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other

8.  Validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session.

The trainer:

ROBERT ALLAN, PHD, LMFT

Robert is an EFT Trainer, Supervisor, and Therapist based in Denver, Colorado. He is an Associate Professor in the Couple and Family Therapy program at the University of Colorado Denver. Robert has helped train and supervise therapists and students in Emotionally Focused Therapy across Canada, the US, and Great Britain.

Robert’s interest in EFT extends to his research work where he has explored cultural adaptations of EFT. He is currently the co-Principal Investigator and supervising the Denver site for the first clinical trial of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). Robert completed his PhD at Dalhousie University, he is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Colorado, and an Approved Supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. Robert is a warm, knowledgeable, and engaged trainer with a passion for helping people learn EFT.