Continuing Education: 6 hours of Continuing Education, approved by the American Psychological Association.
Location: On-Line via Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the start of the workshop.
Cost: $375 early bird registration (before September 1 st ); $400 regulation registration (after September 1 st )
Description:
This one-day workshop provides participants with skills needed to work directly with emotions in individuals with eating disorders. The workshop will cover basic Emotion-Focused Therapy principles and how they can be used with individuals with eating disorders to help clients move away from focus on food, diet, and eating disorder behaviors to the deeper emotions that drive the behaviors. This can lead to lasting change, so the eating disorder is no longer needed to numb, soothe, and cope with painful emotions.
Use of the two-chair dialogue for self-criticism in the treatment of eating disorders will be a focus as this task is beneficial in helping clients move away from diet/weight talk and focus on underlying emotions. Relevant video demonstrations will be used to reinforce concepts presented in the workshop so participants leave the workshop with a skill they can immediately apply in their work with individuals with eating disorders.
Objectives:
1. Identify 3 key tenets of Emotion-Focused Therapy
2. Describe the difference between primary and secondary emotions
3. Identify the role of the therapist in Emotion-Focused Therapy
4. Identify 3 reasons why EFT is beneficial in the treatment of eating disorders
5. Describe the use of the two-chair dialogue for self-criticism in the treatment of eating disorders
6. Explain how to guide a client through enacting the “Anorexic voice” in the two-chair dialogue
Facilitator: Dr. Whitney Tschan, Psy.D. is an EFT therapist in private practice at Northwest Behavioral Health Services and an independent provider at Northwest Community Hospital where she works with individuals, families and couples. Dr. Tschan has a particular interest as well as experience applying EFT in the treatment of eating disorders for both individuals and families.
Intended Audience: This training was developed for licensed psychologists and accredited counselors/psychotherapists. All backgrounds, license types, and therapeutic orientations are welcome. Pre-licensure therapists in training are also welcome. This is an intermediate level training and completion of EFT for Individuals Level 1 training is useful, but not required to attend.
Cancellation Policy: 30 or more days prior to the start of training, a refund of $350-$375 is available ($375/$400 minus $25 nonrefundable deposit). Within 30 days of the training, no refund is available.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: No commercial support was received for this training, including but not limited to no commercial support for the training, for the content of the training, or for endorsement of products during the training. There are no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Emotion-Focused Therapy Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Emotion-Focused Therapy Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.