EFT TRAINING PATHWAYS
Heike offers the following EFT Training pathway courses:
EFT for Couples
EFT for Individuals (EFIT)
ICEEFT Pathway to EFT Certification
CORE EFT TRAINING COURSES
Heike offers the following EFT Training courses:
⬤ EFT for Couples (EFCT):
✓ EFT Externship (4 days)
✓ Core Skills - Basic (4 days)
✓ These two trainings constitute the pathway trainings for becoming an ICEEFT certified therapist. For more information click here
⬤ EFT for Individuals (EFIT):
✓ Essentials of EFIT (4 days)
✓ EFIT - Mastering Skills (2 days)
✓ EFIT - Additional training - EFIT & ND (neurodiversity) (6 hours)
The certification pathway is being worked on by ICEEFT at present.
EFT FOR COUPLES (EFCT)
The pathway training in EFT focuses on working with couples/dyads, however, includes some examples of how the EFT model can be applied across modalities to working with individuals (EFIT) and working with families (EFFT)
EFT is an experimental, humanistic and systematic model of couple’s therapy which is supported by a huge body of empirical research. EFT is considered the gold standard approach for couple therapy and draws an Attachment theory and the power of emotion to improve the connection of dyadic relationships.
EFT FOR INDIVIDUALS
(EFIT)
EFT draws on a huge body of empirical research and is effective in reducing relationship distress. The same principles also apply when working with EFT for Individuals, EFIT.
The EFIT training levels EFIT Essentials and Mastering EFIT focus on how the therapist can work collaboratively with the client to enable them to move into responsiveness and full engagement with others, which characterises secure attachment.
The goal of EFIT is to enable clients to shape an expanded, coherent, and competent self to become a fully alive human being. As a result, the client can work differently with their previous stuck patterns which left them often isolated and alone to having flexibility and choices in their responses to life and life events.
EFT Pathway Training for couples (EFCT)
To become a certified EFT couples therapist, participants need to undertake two training events in chronological order:
Step 1 - Externship:
A four-day Externship (approximately 28 hours) includes the observation of live and video recorded couple and individual therapy sessions, presentations of theory and clinical techniques, skills training exercises, and discussion of specific cases, clinical material and issues.
Step 2 - Core Skills - Basic
EFT Core Skills Training requires that participants have completed the 4-day Externship. Core Skills- Basic Training comprises of one 4-day event that is limited to a small number of participants
EFT For Individuals: EFIT
Essentials of EFIT
This four-day training outlines the theory and practice of EFIT, focusing on the primacy of emotion and the creation of a safe haven & secure base alliance, core models of health and dysfunction from an attachment perspective including how within and between cycles interact and block growth and adaptation, a systematic sequence of interventions, the EFT Tango, as well as more micro-interventions, and how to stay with present processes in each and every session to shape key change events. Didactic presentations will be accompanied by the viewing of EFIT sessions and experiential exercises. Recommended reading for this course is A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT).
EFIT - Mastering Skills:
This two-day training (10 hours) follows on from Essentials of EFIT and helps you deepen your understanding of the model and discover effective ways to overcome obstacles and barriers to change. In this training we will delve deeper into objectives and provide more extensive practice.
Participants will be able to:
Describe the key elements of the attachment perspective on personality and its significance for clinical intervention
Set out clients within and between cycles and how they create each other and link to presenting problems that manifest as emotional disorders
Describe the core components of emotional disorders – depression and anxiety
Outline the process of change and the elements of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experience, such as affect assembly and deepening
Describe the micro-interventions used by the EFT therapist
Outline the applicability of EFIT for different clients with different symptomatology.
EFIT - Additional training - EFIT & ND (neurodiversity) ( 1 day)
The third EFIT training offering in the pathway draws on the individual trainer’s interests and specialisations to offer a single day intensive focusing on EFIT and a special topic.