Trainer: Dr. Ting Liu
Where: On Zoom
Level: Intermediate (completion of 4-day Externship required)
Target Audience: Marriage & Family Therapists, Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Psychologists
Cost: $90 EFT MA members; $100 nonmembers
CEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs, LICSWs, LMHCs and Lic. Psychologists
*Evaluations and certificates are available online following course completion at www.ceuregistration.com for $25.
Helping couples to heal from affairs is challenging for couples’ therapists. After discovery of affairs, couples come to therapy with conflicts, ambiguity, ambivalence and different agendas and goals. The sessions are full of volatile and intense negative emotions. Before therapists can help couples heal and reconnect, many obstacles on both the intrapsychic and interactional aspects of the relationship must first be addressed at the beginning stage of therapy.'
This 4-hour workshop will help therapists utilize the EFT model to work with couples in the early stages of treatment who are healing from an affair. Couples’ emotional, cognitive, interactional and behavioral states will be examined from an attachment perspective and specific EFT interventions will be identified that are essential to deescalating the couple in Stage 1 and maintaining therapeutic alliances. The importance of identifying self-of-the-therapist issues that can occur in working with couples after the discovery of an affair will also be discussed.
Addressing the impact of affairs in Stage 1 is important to set the stage for affair recovery in Stage 2
The EFT model can be used effectively to work with couples with mixed agendas/goals after discovery of an affair.
Both intrapsychic and interactional aspects of the relationship following discovery of an affair needs to be addressed at the beginning stage of therapy.
Intense negative emotions and escalation can be managed with specific EFT interventions.
Maintaining secure therapeutic alliances with couples in the face of intense emotional escalation is essential to the therapeutic/healing process.
Identifying self-of-the therapist issues that arise in working with couples after the discovery of an affair is an important aspect of the therapy.
Following this training, participants will be better able to:
appraise the couples’ emotional, cognitive, behavioral and relational states through an attachment lens after the discovery of affairs;
create and maintain secure therapeutic alliances with both partners;
apply EFT interventions to reduce couples’ emotional arousal and de-
escalate conflicts in the interactional cycle;
identify self-of-the -therapist issues when working with intense negative emotions.
Schedule::
1:00-1:45 Examining Couples’ intrapsychic and interactional reactions through the Attachment Lens
1:45-2:55 Reducing Emotional Arousal and De-escalating Conflicts: Applications of EFT Interventions
2:55-3:05 Small Group Discussion
3:05-3:20 Break
3:20-4:25 Video Demonstration
4:25-4:35 Small Group Discussion
4:35-5::00 Group Discussion of Video
5:00--5:15 Q & A
Ting Liu, PhD., is a certified EFT trainer, supervisor and therapist. She is licensed in Pennsylvania as a Marriage and Family Therapist. She maintains a Private Practice in Wayne, PA. Dr. Liu received her doctorate in Child Development and Family studies with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy from Purdue University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Family Intervention Science at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Her publications include an EFT casebook in Chinese and six books she has translated into Chinese in the fields of MFT and EFT. She is currently involved in several outcome studies examining the cultural applicability of EFT to diverse populations.
Cancellation Policy: 50% refund up to 7 days prior to the training: no refunds issued after April 7, 2023.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
For questions about the training, contact: Heidi Bercovici (heidibercovici@gmail.com) or Ann Zierler (annzierler@hotmail.com).