Emotion-Focused Therapy Level 1 - October 2027

Emotion Focused Therapy – Level 1 Go beyond thoughts and beliefs by learning how to help clients become aware of, understand, and process their emotional experience. This intensive four-day training provides participants with a solid grounding in the skills required to work more directly with emotions in psychotherapy. The focus of the program will be experiential, learning how to promote change in core emotional structures using techniques including Focusing, Systematic Evocative Unfolding, and Two-Chair and Empty-Chair tasks. Participants will receive in-depth skill training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modelling, case discussions, and extensive supervised practice. For those interested in certification as an Emotion Focused Therapist, completion of Level 1 constitutes the first half of the basic training component of the accreditation pathway. Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) is a humanistic, process-orientated, evidence-based approach that has been shown to be effective in the treatment of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, PTSD, Complex PTSD, and trauma. Topics Emotion • Emotion theory • Assessment and principles of change Empathy, Validation and Focusing on Affect • Creating an alliance • Empathic attunement • Evocation • Conjecture • Focusing Process formulation, Developing a Collaborative Focus • Identifying markers of underlying affective/cognitive problems Evocation, Arousal and Exploration • Focusing • Evocative unfolding • Two chair dialogue and splits Accessing Primary Adaptive Emotions and Core Maladaptive Schemes • Empty chair dialogue and unfinished business Restructuring Core Schemes • Supporting the emergence of primary needs • Letting go of unmet needs Tapping positive emotional resources Provision of new experiences Continued Skill Training in Evocative Methods • Supporting a self-affirming stance • Promoting new narrative constructions Skill Training & Applications • Depression • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Addictions • Contraindications Tasks • Empathy tasks • Systematic Evocative Unfolding • Focusing • Two Chair work • Empty Chair work Cost: $1397.25+ $155.25 GST = $1552.50 Registrations close COB 24 March 2026