SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF EMOTION FOCUSED THERAPY
www.EFTSoCal.com

Day 1 

Advanced Emotion Assessment
Productive and unproductive Arousal
Marker Identification
Case Formulation
Issues in identifying markers of Splits & Unfinished business ·Additional markers: self-interruption, vulnerability, trauma, alliance ruptures

Day 2 

Two Chair Enactments for Self Interruption
Identifying and enacting the how of interruption
Accessing the interrupted emotion
Advanced Work with Two Chair Dialogue – The Process
Sensing the opposed forces · Following & leading
Dealing with collapsing & impasses
Self soothing dialogues

Breaks into small experiential groups feedback provided by Dr. Greenberg and Dr. Serine Warwar.

Day 3 

Advanced Work with Unfinished Business – The Process & Variants
Evocation of emotion · The interruptive process
The letting go process · Forgiveness
Imaginal Restructuring

Breaks into small experiential groups feedback provided by Dr. Greenberg and Dr. Serine Warwar.

Day 4 

Continued Practice and Supervision
Difficult clients & processes
Applications to specific populations & problems
Case Formulation for specific disorders​

Breaks into small experiential groups feedback provided by Dr. Greenberg and Dr. Serine Warwar.

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 About the Presenters

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Robert Elliott, Ph.D., received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and taught clinical psychology at the University of Toledo (Ohio) for nearly 30 years; during that time, in collaboration with Leslie Greenberg and Laura Rice, he developed Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT).  He currently spends half of his time in Scotland, where he is Professor of Counselling in the School of Psychological Sciences and Health at the University of Strathclyde and where he directs its research clinic and teaches counselling research and EFT.  The rest of the time, he is based in Northern California, where he is busy with various EFT-related writing projects. His central interest is the change process in humanistic-experiential psychotherapies.  He is co-author of Facilitating emotional change (1993), Learning process-experiential psychotherapy (2004), Research methods in clinical psychology (3rd ed., 2015), and Developing and Enhancing Research Capacity in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2010), as well as more than 150 journal articles and book chapters. He is past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and previously co-edited the journals Psychotherapy Research, and Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies.  He is a fellow in the divisions of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association.  In 2009 he received the Distinguished Research Career Award of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the Carl Rogers Award from the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He enjoys running, science fiction and all kinds of music.