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Johnson first consults with Matt and Rhea’s couples therapist, aided by video clips from prior sessions. Then you’ll see Johnson work with this couple in a brilliant demonstration of the subtlety and efficacy of EFT. In a single session, she helps them conceptualize their conflicts in attachment terms, gain an understanding of their negative cycle, and begin to reveal some of the vulnerable feelings that underlie their explosive anger. Commentary before, during, and after the consultation and session provides insight into her approach.
What therapists are saying…
-- William J. Doherty, PhD, Professor and Director of the Couples on the Brink Project, University of Minnesota; Author of The Intentional Family, and Soul Searching: Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility
-- Keith Armstrong, LCSW, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF; Co-Author of Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from War and their Families
-- Jennifer Fitzgerald, PhD, Reviewed in Psychotherapy in Australia
-- Rubin Battino, MS, Reviewed in The Milton H. Erickson Newsletter
-- Julie Hanks, LCSW, Director of Wasatch Family Therapy, UT
-- Nancy Murdock, PhD & Adam Hinshaw, Reviewed in APA PsycCRITIQUES
-- Samuel Gladding, PhD, Past-President, American Counseling Assoc; reviewed in The Professional Counselor: Research and Practice
By watching this video you’ll learn:
• The core theory and principles of EFT;
• How to help couples identify the negative cycles that keep them stuck;
• Specific techniques to help clients access the primary emotions that drive their conflicts, including reframing, amplification, “relentless empathy,” and enactments.
Length of video: 3:36:00
English subtitles available
Individual ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-263-8
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-264-6
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-264-8
Dr. Sue Johnson is one of the originators and the main proponent of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), now one of the best validated couples interventions in North America. She is Director of the Ottawa (Canada) Couple and Family Institute and the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy as well as Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa and Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California.
She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Couple and Family Therapy Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the Research in Family Therapy Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
She received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1984. She is a registered psychologist in the province of Ontario, Canada, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy and the Journal of Family Psychology. She is a Research Professor in the Marital & Family Therapy Program at Alliant University in San Diego.
Her 2004 book (2nd Ed), The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Creating Connection (Brunner Rouledge) is a foundational text on EFT for couples. She is the senior editor of the 2003 book, Attachment Processes in Couples Therapy (Guilford Press), and the 1994 book, The Heart of the Matter (Guilford Press). She has also written a book on trauma and couples, Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors (2002).
She trains counselors in EFT worldwide and consults to Veterans Affairs, the U.S. and Canadian military and New York City Fire Department. Sue is an Approved Supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and is internationally known for her workshops and presentations on practice, theory and research in couple therapy, adult attachment and emotion in psychotherapy. She maintains a private practice and lives in Ottawa, Canada, with her husband and two children.
To contact Dr. Johnson and learn more about her work, visit her website and The International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.
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CE credits: 3.5
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the core theory and principles of EFT
- Explain how to help couples identify negative cycles that keep them stuck
- Apply specific techniques to help clients access the primary emotions
Bibliography available upon request
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