The Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy® Externship is an immersive four-day (24 - hour) training designed for therapists seeking specialization in EFCT. Facilitated by certified trainers, it delivers a thorough initiation into the EFCT model, emphasizing the science of attachment and a systematic approach to couple therapy. This training holds paramount importance for therapists, providing essential skills to cultivate secure and resilient relationships in therapy. Serving as the initial training in larger certification process, it paves the way for advanced practice, significantly boosting therapists' effectiveness and confidence in their clinical work with couples.
Our four-day Externship provides an overview of the entire EFCT model, including stages of treatment and the moves of the EFT Tango. Gain the tools to see which patterns keep clients stuck in distress, and learn how principles of attachment theory translate to organic, on-target interventions. Backed by 30 years of empirical research, guide your individual, couple, and family clients to see change in every session.
Features
This experiential training is presented in person and includes:
a) recorded therapy sessions demonstrating how to employ the EFT Tango methodology
b) recorded therapy sessions for discussion
c)presentations of theory and clinical techniques
d) skill training exercises
e) discussion of cases
All mental health professionals including psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, counsellors (including couples and family therapists), pastors and clergy, and students training in these professions. School counsellors are permitted to attend if they are licensed and belong to a professional body that has standards of practice for psychotherapy/counselling. EFCT works across cultures and sexual orientations.
Life coaches are not permitted to attend unless they also meet one of the mental health professional categories listed above.
Careful attention will be given to the selection of case examples to include minorities cultures. The C.A.R.E framework of EFT assessment will be discussed illustrating, how understanding a client's cultural context, is important in understanding attachment and affect regulation strategies.
Dr. Senem Zeytinoğlu Saydam worked as an assistant professor at Ozyeğin University’s Department of Psychology and the program director of the its couple and family therapy masters program in İstanbul, Turkey until recently. Currently living in Toronto, Senem is a licensed marriage and family therapist, an AAMFT and CAMFT clinical fellow and AAMFT and CAMFT approved supervisor. She is a certified EFT therapist, supervisor and trainer. She holds a private practice where she sees individuals, couples and families and provides supervision to clinicians.
Senem received her Masters’ degree from Columbia University Teachers College in counseling psychology and her doctoral degree from Drexel University in couple and family therapy. Her dissertation was on experiences of parents raising a child with cleft lip and/or palate. She is the recipient of Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy Social Justice Award from Drexel University. Her research and clinical interests include person of the therapist, couples issues, medical family therapy and coping with illness and trauma.
She is the co-founder and the president of Turkish Emotionally Focused Individual, Couple and Family Therapies Association. She is currently serving on the boards of Turkish Couple and Family Therapy Association and International Family Therapy Association.
Robin is a registered psychotherapist and a certified Emotionally Focused Therapy trainer and supervisor. Presently he is a faculty member in the graduate program for Sir Wilfrid Laurier University where he teaches EFT Externships and Core Skills as well as serves as a guest speaker in their continued education program. In the past few years Robin has taught EFT at York University in their graduate social work program as well as been invited by Mount Sinai Hospital to present in their level two trauma clinic. Robin is a former adjunct faculty member of the Living Institute of Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy with he taught an introduction to EFT for 4 years. Robin trains EFT in Fredericton, Cambridge, York region, and Toronto and is pleased to add Edmonton to his list of Canadian cities this fall. He is the co-founder of the Toronto Centre for EFT and has been a director since 2005. Robin has been in private practice in Toronto for 20 years where he sees individuals, couples and families with adult children using the EFT model as well providing EFT consultation to psychotherapists working towards EFT certification.