Begin the course by joining Sue for an overview of attachment science and the latest insight into the field of couple therapy. You'll learn how you can help your clients achieve the lasting connection they need by exploring:

• The map to basic relationship emotions and needs
• The evolutionary perspective on the importance of attachment and family relationships
• The structure of attachment relationships: emotional accessibility, responsiveness and engagement
• The five basic moves or relationship drama

Building upon the foundational materials from week 1, in this session you'll join Sue for a deep dive into the research on relationship outcomes and change. Sue will guide you through the stages of EFT, key interventions and change events. Together, you'll discover how to:

• Build a therapeutic alliance
• Reprocess and distill emotion
• Choreograph new interactions
• Restructure attachment
• Utilize the five basic moves of the EFT therapist

   

Go beyond the basics by joining Sue to discover the key skills you'll need to successfully guide your clients through Stage 1 EFT. Through lecture and case presentations, Sue will show you how to work with couples to:

• Help the couples in your practice de-escalate
• Establish trust, safety and hope within relationships
• Defuse unrealistic expectations
• Examine personal attachment history and childhood patterns
• Explore the couple attachment history
• Identify styles and address varied attack and withdraw combinations

In week 4, you'll shift your attention to mastering Stage 2 interventions and skills. Sue will show you how Stage 2 EFT will help partners move into and tolerate their vulnerable emotions. Sue will guide you step by step through interventions that help you:

• Restructure the relationship bond
• Access implicit needs, fears and models of self
• Identify and express attachment needs effectively
• Use repetition, imagery, and connection to facilitate expression
• Accomplish bonding events in the therapeutic setting

In week five, you'll learn the attachment frame on sex and affairs to learn how to use EFT to shape forgiveness and heal attachment injuries. Together, you'll examine:

• The social expectations for sexuality and long-term relationships
• The central importance of feeling desired and valuable
• The types of sexual engagement
• Relationship traumas that destroy trust
• How to create and communicate a healing narrative
• When healing attempts worsen the rift

In Week 6, you'll master interventions and strategies for containing escalation and working with the most difficult couples in your practice. Through powerful case studies and lecture, Sue will show you how to use EFT to:

• Work with trauma couples
• Establish a secure base for post trauma individuals
• Understand the relationship between PTSD, trust and sexuality
• Explore intimate partner abuse
• Address fear and safety
• Assess violence and threat dangers