Working With Nuance in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Strategic Micro-Interventions for Blocks, Reactivity, and Challeng

Course overview

November 1-3, 2024 In-Person location: Boca Raton, FL This is an advanced 2.5-day Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy training for the post core skills and seasoned clinician designed to help you laser focus and master the complexities and nuances to address issues couples bring to session. The presentation will provide concrete interventions, beyond the basics, to proficiently master client blocks, bullets, exits, escalations, interruptions, and more. You will further harness confidence and competence with the expert guidance of Dr Ryan Rana, ICEEFT Certified EFT trainer and charismatic podcast host of The Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy. Presenter Bio: Ryan Rana, PhD, LMFT, LPC is an ICEEFT certified EFT Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist. He is the current President and Founder of the Arkansas EFT Center. He and his wife, Anne, founded The Joshua Center where he currently practices and acts as the Executive Director. His specializations include work with couples, sexuality, depression, and traumatic stress. In addition to psychotherapy, Ryan works with people on organization and leadership approaches as well as studying military training/processes and performance psychology. Before he became a therapist, Ryan was a college athlete in baseball and was pitching coach at the collegiate level. Timeline: FRIDAY, NOV 1 (DAY 1) 845am Check-in 9:00am - 10:45am Orientation and briefing on structure of training Painting the Target- dynamics, adapting attunement, use of self as change agent Clarity on the EFT Map - preparation for problematic structures, corrective emotional experiences, redeeming & missing conversations that reshape view of self Culture of relationships at the second order level Session blueprints, practical management of the therapy hour from an EFT lens 10:45am - 11:00am Break 11:00am - 12:00pm Working with avoidant/withdrawer energy Working with anxious/pursuer energy -Holding the attachment Frame - finding and enhancing the art of affect assembly; orienting and working with nuances 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch 1:00p-3:00p Deepening in Stage 1 and break down stations, why and what of emergent processes 3:00pm - 3:15pm Break 3:15pm - 5:00pm Affirming the partner who is the enactor Using the body to load responses Finish the Mission: fully processing enactments; body utilization for testing Wrap-up, Q&A SATURDAY, NOV 2 (DAY 2) 8:45am Check-in 9:00am - 10:45am Integration of material from day prior, Q&A Cultural Marginalization Attunement Expecting and managing blocks in the therapeutic process and in the flow of bonding conversations 10:45am - 11:00am Break 11:00a-12:00p Parts work from a nuanced place Overt utilization of attribution with the cycle to confront, mark, and challenge 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch 1:00pm - 3:00pm Managing the blame game Reactive shame as a behavioral block 3:00p-3:15p Break 3:15pm - 5:00pm Working with Ambivalence Deepening interventions in Stage 2 Waves & Stairs, allowing more space Using negative model of self and fear of reaching or reluctance to reach Loading attachment needs in present process Wrap Up, Q&A SUNDAY, NOV 3 (DAY 3) 8:45am Check-in 9:00am - 10:45am Integration of material from day prior, Q&A 10:45a-11:15 Break 11:15am - 12:30pm The Light Systems: attuning to and handling possible interruptions and responses in session Hopelessness: identifying and reflecting the Attachment Dilemma Meta-Ladder of detachment processes Ditch enactment/response interventions Summarizing, Consolidation, and Cooperative Learning Wrap Up, Q&A Learning Objectives Participants will be able to: Demonstrate how to sharpen your focus with a decision tree of interventions based on attunement to the emotional reactivity in the session in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Distinguish the various decision tree decisions and transitions in EFT Identify how to layer multiple EFT interventions to assemble a clients emotional experience. Select when to stop pushing