Training in
Emotion Focused Therapy
I am the Lead Trainer and Director 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.
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 sessions 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.
Upcoming Core Skills (Level 1) training
The next EFT Core Skills (level 1) training will run from Monday 17th – Thursday 20th June 2024 from 9am – 5pm each day.
The costs are £650 until 31st March 2024 (Early Bird rate).
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
The next Level 2 training will run in autumn 2024. Dates TBC.
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 Skills 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
The next Advanced Empathy training runs 25th and 26th April 2024, from 9am – 4.30pm each day. It will be delivered by Dr Anna Oldershaw and Dr Caroline Haig.
The costs are £295 until 1st March 2024 (Early Bird rate) and £350 thereafter.
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 to services throughout 2023. One hundred per cent (100%) of attendees reported in their feedback that they would recommend the workshops to colleagues. We have now expanded the range on offer, 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:
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 England, at the Salomons Institute of Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University.
Training dates
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.
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.
Join our mailing list to be kept updated on all our upcoming training events. If there is a particular training you are keen to attend then email me and let me know! We sometimes have extra capacity to run additional events if we have enough interest.
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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