Anxiety Disorders From EFT Approach

Anxiety Disorders From EFT Approach

Theory of Dysfunction in GAD  
 
In Emotion Focused Therapy, anxiety and worry are seen as attempts to protect the self from being overwhelmed by painful emotions that the person is unable to soothe. 
GAD often results from years of neglect, rejection, abandonment, and emotional abuse.
Thus, clients may need more time to articulate their histories and to gain an understanding of why they are reacting and behaving as they are. They also need to develop greater confidence in themselves, especially their perceptions and feelings, which have often been undermined in negative, painful environments with no support.
Lack of support and protection when vulnerable often produces feelings of weakness, rejection, deficiency, unworthiness, sadness, and shame, all of which contribute to the development of a self that is organized as vulnerable and unable to cope.
In therapy it is these painful emotions and negative self-organizations that need to be accessed, processed, strengthened, and transformed by accessing unmet needs and 
become more self-compassionate, self-accepting and develop self-soothing strategies.
(Watson & Greenberg, 2017)

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Process of Change in GAD From EFT Approach
In EFT sessions therapist and client will focus on how anxiety is generated using two-chair dialogues between a worrier (the anxiety creator) and the experiencing self, who feels the impact of the anxiety and worry. In this process, clients see that they are the agents 
rather than the victims of anxiety.
Then therapist and client turn to address the negative ways clients have developed to relate to and treat their emotional and sensory experience and focus on the ways that clients interrupt their experience of painful emotion and their adaptive needs as they silence, dismiss, minimize, 
and negate their experiences. 
Emotional change requires that clients process their painful feelings of fear, sadness, and shame as a result of emotional and attachment injuries, and, therefore, become more self-compassionate, self-accepting, and develop the capacity for 
self-soothing, self-affirmation and validation.
(Watson, Timulak, Greenberg, 2019)
 

Emotion Focused Therapy-Individuals
Training Level one
 
In this 4 day experiential training, 
Participants will be provided with 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 provide 
change in core emotional structures.
Participants receive in depth skill training through a combination of 
brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modelling, case discussions and extensive supervised role-playing practice.
 
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June, 2019
By Professor Robert Elliott, PhD

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September, 2019
By Professor Les Greenberg, PhD

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Our goal is to promote the application and training of 
Emotion Focused Therapy. 
All workshops and trainings are APA approved. 
Continuing Education, CE Certifications are available for 
psychologists, MSWs, MFts and LPCs. 

General model of Emotion Focused Therapy approach is based on that:
 
Emotions are an adaptive orienting system and a source of information about thoughts, feelings, action readiness, motivations, and interpersonal interactions.
Client experiencing (attention to and exploration of feelings and meanings) is the primary source of new information in therapy (as opposed to skills training, challenging maladaptive thoughts or interpretations). 
 

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You have to arrive at your emotions
before you can leave them.
Les. Greenberg, PhD.