Big announcement this week: Ohio EFT’s first event will be an in-person two-day workshop in Powell, OH on May 18th and 19th!
This training is for those who have at minimum completed Externship and are looking to go deeper into understanding their own cycle as a therapist. No matter what state you live or work in, you are welcome here!
Elana Katz & Carolyn Wenner will be leading this unique workshop. Here’s how they describe it:
For very good reasons, EFT therapists are generally focused on their clients and the clients’ personal and relational development. This workshop is an opportunity to focus on the therapist’s own development as an EFT practitioner. Whether your goal is to become a certified EFT therapist or to deepen your clinical work, this workshop provides an opportunity to revisit the EFT process and attend to ourselves in service of the lifelong learning of EFT presence and skill.
We will begin by reviewing the clinical skills that are required in the certification process. This will include the EFT Tango and delineating the skills that are needed in Stage 1 and Stage 2 work. We will then turn our focus to expanding our own capacities for this process; what is the difference between teaching our clients about emotion vs. fostering an experience? It has been said that if the work doesn’t feel risky, we are not doing EFT - but what does it take from us to move to, and remain, in these risky places? In this workshop we will have space to identify and grow the changes in ourselves as we wade into ever deeper waters and take clients to their growing emotional edges, again and again.
Finally, EFT training and certification now explicitly includes the capacity to effectively engage with clients in all their diversity. We will address specific ways to open and engage with identity and culture in our work.
Objectives for Finding Our Depth include:
- Discovering at least three ways that therapists use of self might be enhanced by therapists exploring their own emotional histories.
- Locating within the five EFT Tango Moves the places where depth of emotion is central.
- Discussing ways that therapists might reframe therapist’s stress to promote a deeper engagement with clients and relationship bonds.
- Identifying the impact of internalized deficit model on view of self and others for clients who come from marginalized cultures.
- Applying EFT interventions that promote self-exploration of cultural identification.
- Comparing the difference between tracking emotion and being in emotion
- Defining therapist’s blocks to taking charge of a session.
- Constructing specific ways to open and stay with client’s identity and culture.
- Specifing how therapist’s own attachment histories impact their professional growth in pursuit of EFT certification as well as pursuit of counseling goals with clients.
This workshop will include lecture, videotape, small group exercises and opportunity for personal reflections. As an added plus - 10 CEs are available through CUE Management.
Early Bird registration is $400 through March 15th. Come join us!
Now on with this week’s Ohio EFT Newsletter:
Should Your Partner Really Be Your Best Friend?
by Catherine Pearson on February 17th, 2025
Expecting a spouse to be both friend and lover is a relatively new concept. Some think it’s asking too much.
How I Learned That the Problem in My Marriage Was Me.
by Daniel Oppenheimer on February 17th, 2025
Oppenheimer says it took a superstar couples therapist to help him see beyond his anger.
The Story Behind This Striking Photo Of A Supermodel And “A Nobody From Ohio”.
by Nora Krug on February 17th, 2025
Paulina Porizkova and Mistie Savage-McGuire met online after the bottom had fallen out from each of their lives. They formed a needle-in-a-haystack friendship.
Our Next Ohio EFT Virtual Call Is Friday, February 28th.
by Ohio EFT on February 17th, 2025
Join us at 9:00am on the last Friday of February for our continuing online discussion about Emotionally Focused Therapy. We’ll be discussing the three different cycles couples may be navigating: the emotional cycle, the sexual cycle and the caregiving cycle. Here’s the link. Don’t worry - I’ll send out another reminder on Thursday, February 27th with the link again.
The Kids Always Came First. Then I Realized My Marriage Was Falling Apart.
by Rachel Glik on February 17th, 2025
Children don’t need constant sacrifice. Everyone’s better off when parents serve themselves, too.
Why We Are Getting Worse At Grieving.
by Clare Ansberry on February 17th, 2025
Americans are exhausted by a string of tragedies and want to move on. Do we have a duty to care?
Some Kids Fear Divorce. It Was My Whole World.
by Haley Mlotek on February 17th, 2025
In her debut memoir, ‘No Fault,’ Haley Mlotek looks back on the dissolutions that shaped her life, from the couples her mother counseled to her family’s own splits.
How Meditation Deconstructs Your Mind.
by Oshan Jarow on February 17th, 2025
Want to learn how to meditate? Scientists have a new theory that might change how you practice.
How To Complain Better And Strengthen Relationships, According To Experts.
by Joshua Coleman on February 17th, 2025
A psychologist says the key is learning how to address concerns in a way that fosters understanding rather than resentment.
