What is Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy? [EFT] – Workshop
This workshop videos are password protected. Designed for anyone who works with clients.
Cost: £50 non-Bowlby Centre members | £40 Bowlby Centre members
You will receive the password in an email for each video or videos once purchased.
If you have any questions or queries, please contact events@thebowlbycentre.org.uk.
Outline:
This Webinar will introduce you to the core concepts of EFT, a model built firmly on attachment dynamics within a couple relationship.
Devised by Susan Johnson, EFT has become widely used around the world. Outcome studies and couples’ own feedback suggest that it is an effective and user-friendly model. The webinar will explain how EFT sees conflict between partners as a function of attachment distress.
Often the attachment behaviour of one partner is very triggering for the other. For example, a more avoidant partner might try to calm things by shutting down but the impact on their anxiously attached partner is inflammatory. Of course, the reverse is equally true and the anxious attachment strategy of amplifying attachment feelings is very triggering for a more avoidant partner.
We’ll hear how EFT practitioners use systemic interventions to deescalate the cycle and then recruit both partners to the idea that the cycle, rather than their partner, is the enemy.
This webinar is suitable for individual and couple therapists and will provide the following:
- Basic understanding of EFT (for example for people who are considering training in this model)
- Insight into ways partners’ attachment strategies can conflict and escalate Recognition of the different levels of meaning when a couple fight
- Ideas for intervention, with one or both partners, to contain their distress and enable thinking
ABOUT ANNIE
Anne Power has qualifications from The Bowlby Centre, Westminster Pastoral Foundation, Tavistock Relationships and Relate. Her clinical work has been in voluntary settings, in the NHS and in private practice in London where she now works online with couples and providing one-off supervision consultations. She has taught on a number of therapy trainings in London. Contented Couples: Magic, logic or luck? was published in 2022 and reflects on interviews with eighteen long-term couples.
Anne’s first book, Forced Endings in Psychotherapy, investigated the process of closing a practice for retirement or other reasons. Her published papers explore attachment meaning in the consulting room and in the supervision relationship.