EFCT Core Skills Training, Extended
Cost:
SOLD OUT
Advanced Level | Live In-Person | 44 CEs (Pending CE through TRIEFT)
Target Audience: Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors
Get the experience and supervision from different trainers and several supervisors!
Core Skills training consists of four, two-day trainings (11 hours each) that will focus on the core skills of each of the EFT steps/stages. The trainings will offer instruction, live case consultations, group supervision and experiential exercises as set forth by the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). Participants are required to have completed an EFT externship. Core Skills training can be applied towards certification. Final decision regarding readiness for certification is determined by the ICEEFT (www.iceeft.com). EFT Externships and Advanced Core Skills trainings are designed for mental health professionals and trainees. Participants are required to note their professional affiliation on registration.
Facilitator:
Zoya Simakhodskaya, Ph.D
Zoya Simakhodskaya is a licensed psychologist and certified EFT therapist, supervisor and trainer. She has a full-time practice in Chelsea, NY with adults and couples, specializing in cross-cultural and bilingual population. Zoya is one of the founding members and current member and Director of Supervisor Support for NYCEFT. In addition to her psychotherapy practice, Zoya has many years of experience providing crisis intervention in a psychiatric emergency service. She continues to teach as a voluntary faculty at NYU School of Medicine, and CUNY. Zoya presents and teaches nationally on EFT and now is bringing EFT training to therapists in Russia and Ukraine. She loves helping therapists master EFT model and get through their learning blocks. She has particular interest in intersection of EFT and sexuality.
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Event Coordinator: Victoria De Paula. Please contact Victoria at victoriadepaulalmsw@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
Dates/Times:
Session 1: February 14-15, 2025, 9:30am – 4:30pm
Steps 1-3 Assessment with Zoya Simakhodskaya
Session 2: April 25-26, 2025, 9:30am – 4:30pm
Steps 3-4 De-escalation with Zoya Simakhodskaya
Session 3: May 30-31, 2025, 9:30am – 4:30pm
Steps 5-7 Withdrawer Re-engagement with Zoya Simakhodskaya
Session 4: June 27-28, 2025, 9:30am – 4:30pm
Steps 5-7 Pursuer Softening with Zoya Simakhodskaya
WHERE:
352 7th Ave, Suite 1604 New York, NY, 10001
VIDEO/CASE PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS:
In order to receive Certificate of Completion, each participant will present a case during one of the 4 weekends. Each case presentation needs to include a 10-minute video recording along with a case presentation form.
Participants must commit to all four weekends. Total full fee is $1800. Group size limited.
We are offering a special rate of $830 to clinicians working full time in agencies serving marginalized or oppressed populations, veterans or current military members. Limited number of slots.
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Course Objectives:
Describe the theoretical foundations of Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT).
Discuss relational distress from an attachment perspective.
Describe and reframe the couple’s problems in attachment terms.
Identify the self-reinforcing negative pattern (cycle) which keeps the couple from secure connection.
Formulate the couple negative pattern of interaction in a non-blaming way.
Apply their knowledge of core EFT interventions (empathic reflection, validation, reframing, empathic conjecture, and heightening).
Demonstrate use of RISSSC (repeating, images, simple, slow, soft, with client words and phrases) to access, expand and deepen emotion.
Apply the moves of the EFT tango to couples therapy.
Conduct an assessment to determine a couple’s appropriateness for EFT and to understand key attachment patterns in context.
Identify contraindications for EFT.
Integrate an awareness of the impact of culture and social location in the assessment and treatment of couples.
Identify the positions of the pursuing and withdrawing partners within a couple’s relational cycle.
Conduct stage one enactments for couples to facilitate assessment, reveal blocks, and facilitate moments of emotionally significant interaction.
Identify common EFT reframes.
Name several purposes for enactments in EFT.
Discuss the use of EFT de-escalation strategies for pursuers and withdrawers, respectively.
Identify markers indicating a couple’s readiness to move from stage 1 into stage 2.
Cite features of withdrawer re-engagement.
Identify protective features of affective avoidance and suppression.
Name disadvantages of emotional avoidance.
Identify protective features of pursuing partners’ habitual strategies
Name disadvantages of emotional avoidance.
Discuss strategies for accessing emotion in stage 2.
Identify features of successful stage 2 enactments.
Integrate interventions to “catch the reactivity.”
Name key aspects of restructuring a couple’s bond.
Identify ways of connecting with angry clients.
Describe several types of pursuer moves.
Demonstrate the ability to catch common pursuer blocks.
Cite features of pursuer softening.
Name common nonverbal cues from withdrawers and pursuers.
Practice guiding a couple through reaching for new responses.
Identify pursuer longings and needs.
Discuss the impact of attachment injuries on work with couples.
44 Continuing Education Pending through TRIEFT
Cancellation Policy:
If canceled 30 days before the start of the event, the fee will be refunded minus $100 administrative fee. After that date, the fee is non-refundable. You can attend the next available EFT Core Skills Training through NYCEFT within one year from the original training date.
Accessibility and Support:
NYCEFT is deeply committed to supporting the diverse learning needs of every participant in our trainings. We are very aware that this externship may be a physically and cognitively demanding experience, involving sustained attention, extended sitting, etc. over many hours. If you feel comfortable, we would love to hear from you if there is anything we can do to make the training more accessible, or if there’s any additional support we can provide.
Disability Access – If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days Or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
Disclosure statement: There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.