EFT Supervisor Training Description:
Principles and practices for EFT-I supervisors have evolved considerably over the past 5
years, and emerging from the EMPOWERINGEFT@EU project, a comprehensive
competency framework for EFT-I supervision is now available, along with a training
curriculum. These developments point the way forward for more robust training and
accreditation for EFT supervisors. In this series of six sessions, we will provide an overview
of EFT-I supervision, including presentations, videos, skill practice, discussion, and
homework. We will focus on core EFT supervision practices, including:
• Affirm & Collaborate
• Say What You See
• Say What You Would Do
• Tune into/Speak out Client Experience
• Tune into Supervisee Experience
• Tell How it Works
• Look at What the Client Does Next
• Case Formulation: Find and Follow the Red Thread
Tentative Program (subject to revision):
Session 1: Introduction and Overview of EFT Supervision: The Landscape of EFT
Supervision; EFT Accreditation Framework; EFT Supervisor Competency Framework;
Video: EFT Supervision Session.
Session 2: The Central EFT Supervision Competencies: Say What You See; Say What
You Would Do; Look at What the Client Does Next: Say What You See: Presentation and
skill practice; live demonstration; Say What You Would Do: Presentation and skill practice;
Look at What the Client Does Next.
Session 3: Balancing Relationship and Tasks in EFT Supervision: Affirm and
Collaborate: Relational processes in EFT supervision: Integrating EFT experiential teaching
in Supervision; live demonstration and skill practice; working with difficulties in the
Supervisory Alliance.
Session 4: Emotional Deepening and Case Formulation Work in EFT Supervision: Tune
into/Speak out Client experience; Find and Follow the Red Thread: Presentation, live
demonstration and skill practice; Brief overview of EFT case formulation models; evaluating written EFT case formulations.
Session 5: Working with Therapist Blocks and Vulnerabilities in EFT Supervision: Tune
into Supervisee Experience and explore what gets in the way; presentation; small group work (what are my blocks or stuck places?); live demonstration; skill practice; experiential work in EFT supervision.
Session 6: Other Topics in EFT Supervision: Putting it all together: Practical issues;
Supervisor blocks and fears; EFT meta-supervision; accreditation evaluation processes & the PCEPS-EFT-9; Review: The most common supervision markers/issues; EFT group
supervision; processing and integrating this training.
About the presenter: Dr. Robert Elliott
Robert Elliott, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of counselling at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland). They received a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and are also professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Toledo (Ohio). Robert’s main research interests are in change processes in humanistic-experiential psychotherapies and psychotherapy research methodology. They co-authored
Facilitating emotional change (1993), Learning emotion-focused psychotherapy (2004),
Research methods in clinical psychology (2015), Essentials of Descriptive-Interpretive
Qualitative Research (2021), and Emotion-Focused Counselling in Action (2021), as well as almost 200 journal articles and book chapters. Robert is past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and previously co-edited the journals Psychotherapy Research, and Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies. They are a fellow in the divisions of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association, and 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. They now live in Northern California, enjoying walking, running, science fiction, poetry, and all kinds of music.