William Woodward

Emotional Dysregulation in The Therapist

Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm CT
Outside Study: 1 hour
Didactic Presentation: 2 hours
Educator: Robbin King

Description: This training aims to better equip the attuned EFT therapist to physically and emotionally experience a couple’s distress through limbic system arousal, right brain communication, and mirror neurons.

NOTE: Come prepared to participate in discussion and dialogue around what you notice dysregulates you while in session with your clients and what you feel you need to regulate. 🙂

Pre-Didactic Material :

https://app.box.com/folder/82922218448

Title: Couples in Crisis Part 3— Treating non-sexual addictions

Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm CT
Outside Study: 1.25 hours
Didactic Presentation: 1.75 hours
Educator: Peter Muhwati

Description:

This training will teach clinicians:

1. Addiction through the lens of attachment.
2. Assessment when there is an addiction
3. Interventions for working with addiction in couples therapy

Pre-Didactic Material :

The Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy Podcast – Episode 96: Seeing Addiction in the Attachment Dance
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-tczg9-16c3ac2

Couples in Crisis Part 1

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm CT
Outside Study: 1 hour
Didactic Presentation: 2 hours
Educator: Melissa Abello

Description: This training will cover what situational couples violence and intimate partner violence is. Also, it will cover how to assess the difference. Then how to treat both adequately

Pre-Didactic Material :

We Heart Therapy: Working with Domestic Violence + IPV with EFT

Couples in Crisis Part 1

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm CT
Outside Study: 3.5 hours
Didactic Presentation: 2 hours
Educator: Sarah Cowan

Description: This training is drawing from an RLT (relational life therapy) approach to assist in managing extreme Crisis Couple Situations within our EFT and NICC modalities. This training will will provide counselors with the knowledge and tools to empower them in ways they need to manage (specifically) couples in crisis and ambivalent couples that bring their marriage to therapy. Take notes and bring your questions on how this training stirs your thoughts, your therapeutic framework, and your cases.

Pre-Didactic Material :

Couples on the Brink: When Enough is Enough
https://mycounselor.app.box.com/file/683298949670

Title: Facing the Trauma Dragon Together. EFT with Traumatized Couples- Part 4

Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm CT
Outside Study: 2.0 hours
Didactic Presentation: 2.0 hours
Educator: Robbin King

Description:

Part 4 of Facing the Dragon in EFT training helps therapists guide clients through emotional risks by confronting and expressing deep attachment fears and needs in a safe, structured manner. This phase is essential for creating corrective emotional experiences between partners, assisting them in shifting from reactive cycles to bonding moments.

Objectives:

• Access and process primary emotions (like fear, shame, or abandonment) that fuel negative interaction cycles.
• Facilitate vulnerability in the presence of the partner, deepening emotional engagement.
• Repair attachment injuries by helping partners respond to each other in new, emotionally supportive ways.
• Transform negative cycles into secure bonding interactions by “facing the dragon” of emotional pain rather than avoiding it.

Pre-Didactic Material :

Facing the Dragon, Part 4
https://app.box.com/file/497050499928?s=tcwe64oqrzfm2ht81utr9lqp14dhnx61

Title: Facing the Trauma Dragon Together. EFT with Traumatized Couples-Part 3

Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm CT
Outside Study: 2.5 hours
Didactic Presentation: 1.75 hours
Educator: Melissa Abello

Description:

This training will teach clinicians:

1. Understanding The Trauma client
2. Therapist posture with traumatized clients to maintain alliance
3. Step 2,3, + 4 with traumatized client
4. How to assess and treat when domestic violence is present
5. General Tips and Tricks for working with traumatized client

Pre-Didactic Material :

Facing the Dragon Together Part 3
https://mycounselor.box.com/s/vuihu41num4797svejtfe8tyv3nyyviu

Title: Facing the Trauma Dragon Together. EFT with Traumatized Couples-Part 2

Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm CT
Outside Study: 2.5 hours
Didactic Presentation: 1.75 hours
Educator: Peter Muhwati

Description:

This training will teach clinicians:

1. Interventions for working with Traumatized clients
2. Basic patterns (attachment styles) in couples.
3. How to make sense of traumatized clients from an attachment point of view

Pre-Didactic Material :

Facing The Trauma Dragon Part 2
https://mycounselor.box.com/s/llw79imsp3z67oku1ma9mvj68s3j0th7

Title: Facing the Trauma Dragon Together. EFT with Traumatized Couples-Part 1

Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm CT
Outside Study: 3 hours
Didactic Presentation: 2 hours
Educator: Sarah Cowan

Description: This training will teach clinicians about the research and the benefits of using EFT couples therapy to work with traumatized clients. This training will also begin to highlight the basic goals and interventions that will help a Counselor to maintain focus within the TANGO with more competency. Counselors will be able to feel more confident that traumatized clients can benefit and gain greater healing through the couples therapy process when utilizing this roadmap and research.

Pre-Didactic Material :

Facing The Trauma Dragon Part 1
https://app.box.com/file/497050385480

Title: Strategies and Skills for Working with Reactivity in Stage 1

Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm CT
Outside Study: 1.5 hours
Didactic Presentation: 2 hours
Educator: Robbin M. King

Description: This training will provide counselors with the knowledge, interventions and practice they need to honor and bypass defenses in step 3 of EFT with pursuers. Therapists will learn how to help clients identify their primary emotions as they seek to soften and promote safety. This step emphasizes putting the “E” back into TEMPO.

Pre-Didactic Material :

Working with Anger & Highly Escalated Couples in EFT

Working with Pursuers-Pursuer Softening in EFT;

Impasses and Challenges in EFT

Strategies and Skills for Working with Reactivity in Stage 1

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm CT
Outside Study: 1.5 hours
Didactic Presentation: 2 hours
Educator: Melissa Abello

Description: This training will provide counselors with the knowledge, interventions and practice they need to honor and bypass defenses in step 3 of EFT with withdrawers. Therapists will notice their biases with different presentations, will learn how to work with the function of the defense, and then bypass the defense to access primary emotion.

Pre-Didactic Material :

We Heart Therapy: Working with Withdrawers:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxhLPEBf6zI