05/20/2026 Didactic

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Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm CT
Outside Study: 2 hours
Didactic Presentation: 1 hour 45 mins
Educator: Melissa Abello

Description: This didactic will address different needs for each group of therapists.

Resident therapists – it will help them to use the experiential didactic time towards embodied Spirituality

Certified Therapists — will focus on learning how to engage and build alliance in step 4 of EFT

AP therapists — will focus their energy on learning the overall frame work of a leader

Pre-Didactic Materials:

Resident Therapists:

PLEASE READ + WATCH:

  • First Role play:
    • Role of the Therapist:
      • Perform a first third session using following markers (30 Minutes)
        • 15.4 -Getting Started
        • 15.5 – Task #2 Established Safety + Brain Sync
        • 2.1 –Leadership + Structure
        • 3.1 – 3.5 Markers (Embodied Spirituality)
        • 7.1-7.3 — Welcome Parts, Validate Parts, Reframe Parts
  • Individual Client Presentation 1#: 35 year old female or male who came in for anxiety. The client has an avoidant attachment style.

Second Role Play:

  • Role of the Therapist:
    • Same as a listed about
  • Individual Client Presentation #2: 45 year old male, who came in because he is feeling really depressed. The client has an anxious attachment style

Certified Therapists:

Please read and watch:

  • EFT – STEP 4

Example of Step 4:

First Role Play:

Role Play #1:

  • Therapist Task: Session 5 (30 Minutes)
    • Step 1: Build Alliance
    • Step 2: Identify with the client their negative interaction cycle
      • Using TANGO + MEANING + PROTECTION
    • Step 3: Dive more deeply into and feel and share the emotions underlying and fueling each partners position in the cycle.
      • Attempt 2-3 rounds of the tango in this step
    • Step 4: Develop an understanding and experience of the problem (reframe) in terms of the cycle, the underlying emotions driving the cycle and the attachment needs which are normal and longing to be meant.
  • Client Presentation:
    • Cannot seem to get things resolved between them ever. Never talk through anything.
      • Husband complains wife never wants to have sex
      • Wife: complains she feels constantly attacked by husband
    • Husband: Pursuer + Anxiously attached
    • Wife: Withdrawer + Avoidant attachement

Role play #2:

  • Therapist Task: Session 5 (30 Minutes)
    • Step 1: Build Alliance
    • Step 2: Identify with the client their negative interaction cycle
      • Using TANGO + MEANING + PROTECTION
    • Step 3: Dive more deeply into and feel and share the emotions underlying and fueling each partners position in the cycle.
      • Attempt 2-3 rounds of the tango in this step
    • Step 4: Develop an understanding and experience of the problem (reframe) in terms of the cycle, the underlying emotions driving the cycle and the attachment needs which are normal and longing to be meant.
  • Client Presentation:
    • Wife feels like husband picks work over her all the time and husband feels like wife is ungrateful for him
  • Husband: Withdrawer + Disorganized attachment
  • Wife: Pursuer: + Anxiously attached

Advanced Practice Therapists:

Pre-didactic Material:

EFT Stage 2 – Step 6

Role Play #1:

  • Therapist Task: Session 10 (30 Minutes)
  • Step 5: Delve into and identify disowned needs and aspects of self that have been hidden for each partner.
    • Enact disowned parts
  • Step 6:
    • Promote acceptance of these tender and hidden parts, aspects of self and new ways of relating.
  • Client Presentation:
    • Cannot seem to get things resolved between them ever. Never talk through anything.
      • Husband complains wife never wants to have sex
      • Wife: complains she feels constantly attacked by husband
    • Husband: Pursuer + Anxiously attached
    • Wife: Withdrawer + Avoidant attachement

Role play #2:

  • Therapist Task: Session 10 (30 Minutes)
  • Step 5: Delve into and identify disowned needs and aspects of self that have been hidden for each partner.
    • Enact disowned parts
  • Step 6:
    • Promote acceptance of these tender and hidden parts, aspects of self and new ways of relating.
  • Client Presentation:
    • Wife feels like husband picks work over her all the time and husband feels like wife is ungrateful for him
  • Husband: Withdrawer + Disorganized attachment
  • Wife: Pursuer: + Anxiously attached

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