A Couple in Crisis: Creating Rapid Change With EFT
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Because couples come together, struggle, and ultimately disconnect for emotional reasons, clinicians of all theoretical orientations need a flexible and emotionally focused therapeutic approach to help couples repair their frayed bonds. Watch Scott Woolley sensitively yet masterfully apply attachment-based techniques to create a safe space for Chris and Jeannetta to put aside their defensiveness, share their most vulnerable feelings, and learn that facing fears together can be far less threatening than facing them alone. Woolley’s relaxed and engaging interactional style and his facility with experiential techniques will help you more effectively connect with your own troubled couples so they may once again find safety in their relationship, reconnect, and grow together.
Couples who have grown apart are often defensive, isolated, and hopeless, only hesitantly entering counseling as a last resort. Watching Woolley masterfully navigate Chris and Jeannetta to a place of safety, openness, and hope will improve your own ability to help couples unite when facing major stresses—in this case, cancer. You will also learn to help your clients transform the energy it takes to suppress feelings and distance themselves into the courage required to face complex and demanding challenges together. Additionally, the enlightening and incisive pre-session conversation between Dr. Woolley and clinical educator Shea Dunham, and the post-session debriefing between Dr. Dunham and the couple around issues of race in therapy, will provide added dimensions of depth to the clinical session and provide insights you can take right into your own clinical work with couples.
Couples who have grown apart are often defensive, isolated, and hopeless, only hesitantly entering counseling as a last resort. Watching Woolley masterfully navigate Chris and Jeannetta to a place of safety, openness, and hope will improve your own ability to help couples unite when facing major stresses—in this case, cancer. You will also learn to help your clients transform the energy it takes to suppress feelings and distance themselves into the courage required to face complex and demanding challenges together. Additionally, the enlightening and incisive pre-session conversation between Dr. Woolley and clinical educator Shea Dunham, and the post-session debriefing between Dr. Dunham and the couple around issues of race in therapy, will provide added dimensions of depth to the clinical session and provide insights you can take right into your own clinical work with couples.
