Training in
Emotion Focused Therapy
I am the Director and Lead Trainer of the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute of England hosted at the Salomons Institute for Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University.
Read about and book our courses below, or contact me to discuss your training needs or to organise Bespoke workshops.
Overview
The 4-Day Core Skills programme aims to give a comprehensive, theoretical and practical grounding in Emotion Focused Therapy for individuals. Training utilises a range of interactive formats, including taught components, videos, live demonstrations, experiential skills practice and small group exercises.
Core Skills training covers:
Who is training suitable for?
Training is suitable for anybody looking to add to their clinical practice, particularly if they are interested in finding new ways to work with emotion or in experiential practice. This core skills training equips clinicians with new evidence-based single session interventions that can be easily integrated into existing clinical practice.
Training format
This training is delivered in person at the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute England, based at the Salomons Institute of Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University in central Tunbridge Wells. More information and travel and local accommodation can be found here.
Training Providers
This training is led by Dr Anna Oldershaw (accredited International Trainer with the International Society of Emotion Focused Therapy) and co-facilitated by Amy Peach (EFT supervisor-in-training).
Upcoming Core Skills (Level 1) training
Our 2025 Core Skills training is now OPEN FOR BOOKING! We’d love you to join our 2025 cohort which runs from 12th – 15th May 2025.
£650 early bird until 28th February 2025 | £750 thereafter
Overview
The 4-Day Advanced Skills programme aims to build on skills built in Level 1 to provide opportunity to deepen understanding and clinical application of EFT, whilst introducing new components of the approach. Training utilises a range of interactive formats, including taught components, videos, live demonstrations, experiential skills practice and small group exercises.
Advanced Skills training covers:
Who is training suitable for?
Suitable for anybody who has completed Level 1 training anywhere in the world who wants to deepen their EFT knowledge and competence as well as widen their practice to new skills and tasks.
Training format
This training is delivered via online video platform from the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute England, at the Salomons Institute of Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University.
Training dates & Costs
Level 2 runs online on 7th, 8th, 21st & 22nd November 2024. This training will be co-facilitated by Dr Christina Micheal in collaboration with the Cyprus EFT Institute.
Early bird = £650 | Full rate = £750
Overview
Core unhealthy shame is a major source of psychological distress and human suffering. It results in feelings of worthlessness and self-contempt, difficulties in interpersonal relationships, and problematic behaviours (such as unhelpful anger/rage). As a therapist, knowing how to to work with healthy anger is fundamental in transforming core shame and accessing the sadness of grief related to childhood unmet needs. This workshop is designed by Dr Leslie Greenberg, an international leader in the field of psychotherapy and emotions.
Advanced Skills training covers:
This workshop will teach therapists practical skills on how to transform shame with healthy anger and to process the sadness of grief related to childhood shame and the unmet needs associated with the shame. Through didactic presentation and review of recent in-person video-recorded therapy sessions, Dr Leslie Greenberg will discuss specific client change processes and therapist interventions. Participants will learn:
Who is training suitable for?
This workshop is tailored for mental health professionals from any training background.
Training format
This training is delivered via online video platform from the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute England, at the Salomons Institute of Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University.
Workshop Date & Costs
Monday 14th October, 1pm – 7pm UK time | £100
**This training has now passed. Details of our 2025 masterclass series will be announced soon. Express interest now to be the first to hear and book**
Overview
Empathy is consistently shown to be a strong predictor of therapeutic outcome and is core to any effective therapeutic relationship. It is thus an essential part of clinical practice and most clinicians will have a strong sense of empathy and use this in their clinical practices. This Advanced Empathy training focuses on further developing therapist empathic attunement and resonance. It seeks to help clinicians to hone and maximise their existing empathy skills enabling them to get the most from this in their clinical practice and their therapeutic relationships.
Developed within the field of Emotion Focused Therapy, and drawing on a range of social neuroscience and emotion theory, this training covers core principles of empathy, embodied experience, deepening of emotion, and effective and efficient guiding of client experiencing. It aims to build and improve empathy skills including effective communication of empathy and empathic presence and how to support emotional deepening.
Using an experiential and interactive format you will engage in short teaching sessions, video examples, skills practise and small group exercises.
Advanced Empathy training covers:
Who is it suitable for?
Open to all qualified therapists and students regardless of main therapeutic practice. This is also a required training component for those seeking accreditation as an Emotion Focused Therapist.
Training format
This training is delivered via online video platform from the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute England, at the Salomons Institute of Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University.
Upcoming Advanced Empathy training
Our 2024 Advanced Empathy training has now finished. Express interest now to be informed of our next training dates as soon as they are available..
Overview
We are pleased to offer in-house CPD workshops for clinical services. These can be particularly relevant for NHS services where Emotion Focused Therapy is recommended, but are of value across settings.
For example, Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression (PCE CfD) is a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved intervention recommended for the NHS Talking Therapies (formally IAPT) services. A core aspect of this approach is EFT, and EFT skills and tasks are reported by PCE-CfD clinicians to be especially beneficial in their work. PCE-CfD clinicians have told us that they would like ongoing support and training for their professional development to confidently and effectively use EFT tasks in their practice.
Responding to this, we delivered a series of successful and popular online workshops which have been running for the past two years. One hundred per cent (100%) of all attendees to our workshops have reported in their feedback that they would recommend them to colleagues. Our workshops have carefully constructing content to support the continued development of skills and and competencies set out by the BACP in the National Curriculum for PCE-CfD training.
One-day CPD workshops are available on the following topics:
Who is training suitable for?
Suitable for services who are looking for CPD with direct and useful applications to therapeutic practice. Also useful for those who want to specifically deepen their EFT knowledge and competence such as those trained in PCE-CfD.
Training format
This training is delivered via online video platform from the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute of England, at the Salomons Institute of Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University.
Training dates & Availability
Dates are by arrangement with each service and can be flexible to meet your needs. Please note, a limited number of CPD workshops can be offered each year, and early booking is recommended.
**Bespoke CPD workshops are almost fully booked for 2025 and only one more workshop is available. Please contact us soon to secure this for your team**
Emotion Focused Therapy training is booked through the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute of England, whereas SPEAKS training is booked directly through me. Please follow the booking link that relates to the subject and level of the training you are interested in. Or Contact Me if you are unsure.
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Emotion Focused Therapy accreditation involves a taught component and supervised practice. The Level 1 (core skills), level 2 (advanced skills) and advanced empathy are the required taught components for people seeking to be an accredited EFT therapist. Once you have completed the taught components, the level you are trained to depends on how much supervised practice you decide to complete, and whether you would like to submit tapes of your practice to be rated. The International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy sets out on its website the different levels and what is required to reach that level, all the way through to becoming a certified trainer. You can find it here.
Training is delivered online or in person. When training is in person, it runs out of the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute England, based at the Salomons Institute of Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University in central Tunbridge Wells. Click here for a map showing accommodation nearby.
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