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This four-weekend course will help you deepen and fine-tune the complex skills needed to be an advanced EFT practitioner. Through lecture, video review, small-group discussion and extensive experiential exercises, your understanding of the model will take root.
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52 CEUs available!
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PLEASE NOTE: You must have completed an Externship and a Core Skills to take this course.
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This course aims to deepen understanding and develop skills to better help couples heal their connection. We will emphasize the most up-to-date understanding of how to learn and practice EFT as described in Sue Johnson’s new book, Attachment Theory in Practice.
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Additional topics covered will include:
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managing the crisis of affair discovery;
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the transition from stage 1 to stage 2;
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working with trauma in EFT;
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working with issues of safety related to privilege and oppression, and more.
And you will have the opportunity to bring a couple for a live session with one of the teaching team!
We want this to be a chance for everyone to gain confidence and skill, and to dive into the nuances of this complex work among a supportive community of fellow learners. Enrollment is limited. CEUs will be provided for those who complete the full course.
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DETAILS
DATES:​
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Module One: October 11 and 12, 2019
Module Two: December 13 and 14, 2019
Module Three: February 14 and 15, 2020
Module Four: April 17 and 18, 2020
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Times: 10 am - 6 pm each day
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Location: To be announced.
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COST:
$1800 in full or 4 installments of $475
Early Bird Discount: $1700 by 8/15/19 (must pay in full)
Pre-Licensed Discount: $1500 in full
or 4 installments of $400
CEUs: $30 for 52 CEUs
Meet the Teaching Team
Sarah Ackerman
Certified EFT supervisor
Sarah Ackerman, MFT, has had a private practice in Berkeley for more than 25 years. Trained initially in relational psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Women's Therapy Center in El Cerrito and subsequently with the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis of Northern California, she has more recently been immersed in attachment based modalities, most notably Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy as well as Diana Fosha’s AEDP model for individuals. She works with adult individuals and couples. She also supervises learners of EFT, and has assisted in numerous Externships and Core Skills.. She has served on the board of the Northern California Community of EFT Therapists. Additionally she has a certification in Mind-Body Medicine from the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in DC.
jamie bachman
Certified EFT supervisor
Jamie Bachman, LCSW, is in private practice in Oakland. He works with couples and also with families and individuals. Jamie provides individual and group consultation and supervision in EFT, and has assisted in numerous Externships and Core Skills, as well as conducting Hold Me Tight groups with Sarah. He is on the adjunct faculty at UC Berkeley's MSW program, where he has taught Family Therapy and Theory and Practice classes. He is also on the faculty at the Psychotherapy Institute's (TPI) Supervision Studies Program, and is a supervisor for TPI’s postgraduate training program in psychodynamic therapy. Jamie worked for 12 years in hospice, providing clinical supervision and management for social workers serving families facing end of life. Jamie has also received advanced training in AEDP and at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in DC.
Guest teacher Module 4:
Rebecca Jorgensen
Certified EFT trainer
Rebecca Jorgensen, PhD, Certified EFT Trainer and Supervisor, contributed greatly to the development of this course and co-taught it last year. Becca teaches the science of love to clinicians throughout the world. She has led EFT Externships and Core Skills in Northern California for more than ten years. She has also taught and supervised EFT throughout North America, Europe and New Zealand. In addition to her best-selling video courses Emotionally Focused Therapy: Step by Step and Emotionally Focused Therapy: A Complete Treatment, she has produced numerous webinars and online courses on effective therapy, relationship treatment, and secure, lasting love. She regularly runs Hold Me Tight groups for therapists and their partners here in the Bay Area and abroad. She holds a faculty position at Alliant International University, and is Director of the San Diego Center for EFT, as well as for the Training and Research Institute for EFT at Alliant.
