Emotion-Focused Therapy for Individuals Level 1 Training: Oct 24th - 27th 2025 (online)
Emotion-Focused Therapy for Individuals Level 1 Training: Oct 24th - 27th 2025 (online)
This intensive 4-day workshop provides participants with a solid grounding in the skills required to work more directly with emotions in individual psychotherapy. The focus of the program will be experiential, learning how to provide a change in core emotional structures. Participants receive in-depth skill training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modeling, case discussions, and extensive supervised role-playing practice. 26 hours of CE credit available.
Level 1 Learning Objectives
Identify universal human emotions in their adaptive forms
Identify the five elements of an emotion scheme
Classify strong emotional responses as primary adaptive, primary maladaptive, secondary, or instrumental
Describe the process of deepening emotions from instrumental or undifferentiated painful emotions to primary adaptive emotions
Use the focusing task to guide clients through an emotional deepening process
Describe the relationship between presence and empathic attunement and marker-guided task work
Name different kinds of empathic responses
Define evocative empathy
Identify the marker for the unfinished business task
Describe the set up for the unfinished business task
Describe the purpose of the unfinished business task
Demonstrate marker identification for a two-chair conflict split
Describe the set up for a two-chair conflict split
Describe the concept of a pain compass and how it is used to guide client process
Identify the marker for the self-interruption task
Describe the purpose of the self-interruption task
Identify the marker for the self-soothing task
Describe the set up for the self-soothing task
Describe the difference between following the client’s emotional process and the client’s content
Describe one key learning each from your experience in the client chair and in the therapist chair during the training