Emotion-Focused Therapy
Learn the basics of emotion focused therapy, techniques to change core emotional processing, and how to apply these techniques in the treatment of depression, anxiety or complex trauma.
October 26-27 and November 2-3
Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre,
3277 Sandwich St. W, Windsor, ON N9C 1A9
Each session runs from 9am-5pm with lunch break from 12-1pm
This intensive 4-day training provides participants with solid grounding in the skills required to work more directly with emotions in psychotherapy and is led by:
Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone
Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone is a psychologist and full professor in clinical psychology at the University of Windsor, where he trains psychotherapists and is director of the Emotion Change Lab.
He is also an honorary research professor at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and has been an invited professor at other universities in Canada and abroad
The focus of the program will be experiential, learning how to provide change in core emotional structures.
Participants will receive in depth skill training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modelling, case discussions, and extensive supervised role-playing practice done in small groups.
Individuals attending this workshop will learn the basics of using emotion focused therapy, including conducting chairwork, using the empathic responding to foster emotional processing, and how to apply these techniques in the treatment of depression, anxiety, or complex trauma.
Tickets cost $1100 per person and include:
28 hours of instruction and practice
1 hour bonus Live Virtual Q&A after the event
Catered breakfast and lunch from Koolini
Topics covered:
- Emotion:
- Emotion Theory, Assessment, and Principles of change
- Empathy, Validation and focusing on Feeling:
- Creating an alliance
- Empathic attunement
- Evocation, Conjecture
- Focusing
- Process formulation, Developing a Collaborative Focus:
- Identifying markers of underlying affective/cognitive problems
- Evocation, Arousal and Exploration:
- Focusing Evocative unfolding Using two-chair dialogue and splits
- Accessing Primary Adaptive Emotions and Core Maladaptive Schemes:
- Using the empty chair dialogue and unfinished business
- Restructuring Core Schemes:
- Supporting the emergence of primary needs
- Letting go of unmet needs
- Tapping positive emotional resources
- Provision of new experiences
- Continued Skill Training in Evocative Methods:
- Supporting a self-affirming stance
- Promoting new narrative constructions
- Skill Training & Applications:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Post-traumatic stress disorder Contraindications
Questions?
Contact Jason Marin at [email protected]
Learn more about EFT:
Coffee with Colleagues Seminar featuring Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone recorded on June 14, 2024:
Emotion-Focused Therapy for Complex Trauma
An Integrative Approach, Second Edition
By Sandra C. Paivio and Antonio Pascual-Leone
Publication date: January 2023