Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
YUPC is pleased to announce that one of the specialty areas within the clinic is Emotion-Focused therapy (EFT). Dr. Les Greenberg, a primary developer of EFT for individuals and for couples and a long standing faculty member at York University, is working with his EFT colleagues within the YUPC to provide state of the art training opportunities for professionals from around the world interested in learning about this evidence based treatment.
EFT is based on the findings that have now garnered ample empirical evidence that emotions influence thought and behavior and contrary to the view that the best way to change your emotions is by changing thoughts, EFT proposes that the best way to achieve enduring change in cognition, behavior and interaction is by changing emotion with emotion. EFT has developed methods based on over 30 years of research on how people change in therapy to help people become aware of, express and regulate emotion in order to better tolerate and utilize its offerings, reflect on emotion to make sense of it, and transform it by both accessing alternate opposing emotion and having corrective emotional experiences.
EFT is now recognized as evidence-based treatments for depression as well as couple conflict, and there is also growing evidence of its effectiveness for trauma, interpersonal problems and eating disorders.
To learn more about the EFT clinic, go to the clinic website- click here
Upcoming EFT Training Sessions
EFT Level One Institute for Graduate Students - April 29 - May 2, 2013
This 4 day Institute has been designed to meet the needs of clinical graduate students both in terms of content and price. It describes the theoretical underpinnings of emotion-focused therapy and then provides skills based practice in using this approach.
Participants receive in depth skill training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modelling, case discussions and extensive supervised role-playing practice. Supervised role-playing practice will involve supervised experiential practice in which participants learn by working as both a client and a therapist in small groups.
Completion of this Institute, enables participants to register for the regular EFT Level Two Summer Institute program.
Trainers: Drs. Rhonda Goldman and Alberta Pos
Fee: $700.00 with valid student identification number.
Click here for registration form.{waiting list only}
Working with Narrative in Emotion-focused Therapy - May 3, 2013
Stories help us make sense of our emotions. This full day workshop will introduce therapists to specific strategies for working with narrative and emotional processes for effective treatment outcomes. Based on process-outcome research findings emerging from EFT Depression Studies (Angus & Greenberg 2011), 4 problem markers - Same old story, Empty story, Unstoried emotion, Abstract story - will be described and effective intervention strategies discussed.
Trainer: Dr. Lynne Angus
Fee: $150.00 until month prior to the workshop; $85.00 for students (limited space available).Click here for registration form.
EFT for Couples (May 27 - 30, 2013)
Building on the latest research conducted by Dr. Greenberg and his colleagues, an intensive 4 day training institute in couples therapy will be held from May 27 - 30, 2013. This training provides registrants with in depth skills training through lecturettes, video demonstrations, modeling and role-playing practice. The workshop will cover the 5 stage 14 step expanded model of EFT-C focusing on attachment and identify needs and self-and other soothing. As an emotion-focused therapy we focus on how to work with emotions such as anger, sadness, fear and shame. Participants will be asked to identify key interactional cycles in their own primary relationships and work on undoing these by accessing their own primary underlying emotions in the training. To maximize this form of experiential learning, enrolment is strictly limited to 27 participants. This Institute is only offered every other year.
Registration Fee is $1295.
Click here for registration form. {1 registration spot remaining}
Summer Institutes: Levels one & two
The 16th Annual Toronto Summer EFT Institutes with Dr. Greenberg will be held in Toronto from August 12 - 15, 2013 (level one) and August 19 - 22, 2013 (level two).
Level One (August 12 - 15, 2013): This intensive 4 day training Institute provides participants with solid grounding in the skills required to work more directly with emotions in psychotherapy. The focus of the program will be experiential, learning how to provide change in core emotional structures. Participants receive in depth skill training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modelling, case discussions and extensive supervised role-playing practice.
For more details of the curriculum click here
For the Registration form click here {waiting list only}
Location of Program: Behavioral Science Building, Rm163, York University, Keele Street Campus
Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
Level Two (August 19 - 22, 2013): This is a small group training experience and enrollment is limited to 24. It provides registrants with more in-depth skill training over the 4 day Institute and enables discussion of challenges that have emerged in using EFT in each registrant's own clinical practice. For more details about the material covered click here.
Prerequisite: EFT Institute, level one (or equivalent, details of prior training experiences would need to be included with application)
Fee: $1849.00 CDN (waiting list only)
Click here for registration form.
Location of Program: Behavioral Science Building, Rm163, York University, Keele Street Campus
Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
Emotion-focused Therapy Level 3 Institute (Nov. 8 - 10, 2013)
This Institute involves supervision and discussion consultation by Les Greenberg of cases which you bring. The group will consist of 12 participants and each person will have the opportunity to present one or more video or audio recorded sessions or transcripts of sessions for supervision. In addition issues of application and advanced skills will be discussed and practiced if desire.
Prerequisite: EFT Institutes level one and two
Fee: $1295.00
Click here for registration form.
