Lorrie Brubacher is a registered marriage and family therapist, with 20 years of experience as an individual, couple and family therapist. She is an ICEEFT certified trainer with expertise in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) which is one of the most researched and highly effective relationship counselling approaches. As an educator, Lorrie teaches in Canada at the University of Winnipeg, the University of Manitoba and the University of British Columbia. In the United States she has presented at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. She provides consultation, supervision and training to couple, marriage and family therapists seeking accreditation with various professional couple and family therapy organizations. Lorrie has authored numerous peer reviewed journal articles, contributions to professional textbooks, and the popular book titled, Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change.
FULL COURSE DESCRIPTION
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Level-2 will build and elaborate on Level- 1 EFIT training. It is the final requirement for recognition from the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (ICEEFT) for special training in EFIT. Participants are encouraged to be prepared to pinpoint brief examples of places where they become confused or stuck in the practice of EFIT and or specifically in utilizing the EFT Tango with individuals.
This training will expand your capacity to promote Emotional Fitness in your clients. You will focus on case conceptualization and assessment of emotional disorders and treatment in an attachment frame. You will refine your ability to facilitate effective dependency (Bowlby) or constructive dependency (Johnson) as ways to stabilize clients struggling with emotional disorders and trauma reactions in the EFT Stage 1 change event and to reshape strategies for engaging with emotion, self, others and the existential dilemmas of life in EFT Stage 2 change events. In practicing the EFT Tango Moves and micro-interventions, you will also have opportunity to strengthen your competence in integrating and consolidating change, characteristic of EFT Stage 3, and EFT Tango Move 5.
EFIT helps individuals to become emotionally fit – robust – strong – vigorous – resilient - suited to what Carl Rogers termed existential living. According to Rogers, unconditional positive regard, in a genuine, empathic relationship plays an essential role in becoming a fully functioning person. He believed that a fully functioning person understands their own emotions, places deep trust in their own instincts and urges, is continually working toward becoming self-actualized, and is fully open to life's many experiences. This could seem oriented towards a white-privilege ideal of self-actualization, however, integrated with systems theory and based in attachment theory, EFT and this training embrace cultural humility and differences. To maintain its relevance as a powerful model of transformative change, EFIT seeks to grow continually by listening to the voices of black, brown, and white brothers and sisters, the LGBQ-TGNC/TS community, and to see, hear, and learn from all people. EFT is built on values of collaboration and empathic attuned listening. All EFT training seeks to embrace cultural humility and racial sensitivity.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES Learning objectives, which are similar to EFIT Level 1, will be addressed in more depth and with more practice and discussion than in the Level 1 training and with more reference to specific kinds of clients and situations that participants find challenging. 1. Apply an attachment humanistic perspective on clients, problems and interventions 2. Create and revise core emotional experiences and promote emotional balance 3. Identify protective, self-defining and interactional iatrogenic patterns and the core components of emotional disorders 4. Utilize the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experiences 5. Describe the micro-interventions of the EFT/EFIT model, e.g. reflection, heightening, conjecture, etc. 6. Create dramas that expand the self and open engagement with others 7. Design corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other 8. Utilize and identify the client’s sense of competence and worth in session 9. Utilize corrective emotional experiences to resolve impacts of trauma 10. Apply corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other
TARGET AUDIENCE Mental Health Professionals, Social Workers, Psychologists, Pre-Licensed Professionals
LEVEL Advanced* *Completing EFIT-1 (from any ICEEFT certified trainer) is a mandatory pre-requisite of this program.
PREPARATION It is recommended that registrants read and complete the exercise in the EFIT chapter of Becoming an EFT Therapist – The Workbook, 2nd Edition, (not yet released) before the training. Participants will be provided with this full chapter and supplementary reading material and exercises, upon registration.
EFIT-2 SCHEDULE: DAY 1
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM ET Welcome and Introductions 9:45 Learning Objectives and Your Identified Questions and Stuck Places Recap of the EFIT model and Key Elements of Change,
Break 10:45 – 11:00
11:00 - 12:30 Early Sessions – Video – Breakout Room Discussions
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30
1:30 PM - 3:00 Stage 1 – Markers of Stage 1 Stabilization—Trauma Survivor video Tango Move 5 Exercise Discussion
Break 3:00 - 3:15
3:15 - 5:00 Flow from Stage 1 to Stage 2—Video Example and Discussion How to prepare for Tomorrow’s Stage 2 Exercise
EFIT-2 SCHEDULE: DAY 2
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM ET Stage 2 Restructuring: Shaping New, More Secure Ways of Engaging; Restructuring Internal Working Models of Self and Other with video example
Break 10:45 – 11:00
11:00 - 12:30 Stage 2 Restructuring and Stage 3 Consolidation with Video Stage 2 Exercises in Breakout Rooms
3:15 - 5:00 Impasses – Discussion – Breakout Room Role-plays Personal Goals and Resources for Continued EFIT Study Wrap-up
CONTINUING EDUCATION ***It is the participant's responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state.***
12 CEs available for $40 CEs (Continuing Education Hours) available for paying any additional fees, attending the entire program, signing in and out each day. Continuing Education Credit is through Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) for the following professions only:
Psychologists: Commonwealth Educational Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Commonwealth Educational Seminars maintains responsibility for these programs and their content. Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors: Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for LPCs/LMHCs. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Social Workers: Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Social Workers. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for Social Workers. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Social Workers licensed in New York State - Commonwealth Educational Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. #SW-0444. Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists: Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for LMFTs. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
You may also check the Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) website to see if your state and license (excluding nurses) is listed. However, you are ultimately responsible for verifying this information with your state board. For further information or questions, please contact Commonwealth Educational Seminars, 1 (800) 376-3345 or email [email protected]
CE GRIEVANCE POLICY Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) seeks to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please submit a written grievance to [email protected] and be sure to include your full name and contact number. Grievances will receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems.
There is no known commercial support nor conflict of interest for this program. EVENT FEES
$379 Regular rate $199 ICEEFT Supervisor & Supervisor Cand. $259 F/T Student, Current or Former Military, or Registered Intern (with valid proof) FREE for ICEEFT Trainers (email [email protected] for registration code)
$40 Extra for 12 CEs
CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY* Less than 14 days notice - no refund, no exceptions 14+ days notice, full refund minus $75 administrative fee If you qualify for a free registration and only pay for CEs, the same refund policy applies minus a $15 refund fee. * Refund amounts are based on our fixed costs and contractual obligations. When you enroll, it is with the understanding that you will attend. If an "Act of G-d" or nature requires SFCEFT to cancel or postpone this event, we will apply your fee to the make-up date. If you still request a refund, it will be provided to you minus the administrative fee. If you qualify for a scholarship, due to the limit in 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 [email protected].