NYCEFT Quarterly Seminar
Cost:
Resourcing and Regulating the Self of the Therapist in EFT Couple’s Sessions
Presenter: Colette Ingrid Brown, MA Ed., LCSW
Date: April 27, 2025 | 12PM-2PM (EDT)
Where: Online via Zoom (The link will be sent closer to the event date)
Can’t attend live? No worries – registered participants will receive access to the event recording
As EFT therapists we use specific interventions designed to draw out our client’s emotions to help them to accept, communicate and, eventually, restructure their negative cycle into a more positive attunement. As these feelings and needs become more visible in the room, the therapist encourages the partners to express them to each other from a stance of vulnerability. Yet, at times, the clients’ anger may surface in the sessions, causing them to attack each other. During these times, the therapist needs to reframe the clients’ responses from an attachment perspective without using euphemisms or highlighting the positive aspects of the situation.
This is when things get very hard for us as therapists. Sometimes our clients make statements that compromise our ability to stay present, centered, emotionally available and empathetic. Sometimes We become triggered in session and, if we therapists cannot self-soothe, we risk dropping our client and destabilizing our attunement to them.
This workshop will explore common ways therapists become triggered in sessions and introduce a self-regulation model based on Harry Aponte’s The Person of the Therapist: Mastering the Use of Self.
Presenter:
Colette Ingrid Brown (she/her) is an African-American cisgender female psychotherapist. Before becoming an LCSW, Colette was a teacher in the New York City public high schools. She has extensive experience working with BIPOC, biracial, multinational, and neurodiverse clients. She is in private practice in NYC and works with individuals, couples and families. Colette is a certified Emotionally Focused Couples’ therapist and did her postgraduate training at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. Colette also is the Director of Education Training and Programming at the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy and participates as an assistant trainer at NYCEFT sponsored EFT trainings.
Colette believes that our personal, cultural, and societal narratives shape who we are and how we communicate. Finally, in her free time, Colette is an avid gamer – video, tabletop boardgames, and Role Player Games. She uses her love of “Geek Culture” in the therapy room as both a mindset and a model which values curiosity, playfulness, and flexibility.
CEUs: We have applied for 2 CEUs and are waiting to hear back
Cancellation Policy: There are no refunds for cancelled registration.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at infonyceft@gmail.com