Knowing When to Follow and When to Guide
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Knowing When to Follow and When to Guide
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
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One of the defining features of Emotion Focused Therapy is the therapist's ability to remain closely attuned to the client's moment-by-moment emotional process while actively guiding that process toward therapeutic change. Achieving this balance is challenging and even experienced therapists report struggling with it. Knowing when to follow the client's experience through empathic exploration and when to guide the process with more active interventions requires careful clinical judgment and continual attention to the client's emotional process.
Following the client's narrative or emotional process for too long can result in therapy losing focus or becoming stalled in unproductive emotional reactions and repetitive patterns. In contrast, guiding too quickly or too actively can interrupt the client's emotional process, reduce empathic attunement, and weaken the therapeutic alliance. This workshop teaches about how to make flexible, moment-to-moment decisions about when to follow clients' experience and when to provide more active therapeutic guidance.
This workshop provides an in-depth exploration of the moment-to-moment clinical decisions involved in following and guiding clients in psychotherapy. Through detailed discussion and analysis of therapy videos, participants will observe how experienced EFT therapists assess a client's emotional process, determine when to follow and when to guide, and select interventions that deepen emotional experiencing while maintaining empathic attunement and a strong therapeutic relationship.
For therapists who are newer to EFT
With the purchase of this workshop, participants will automatically receive 2-month access to a 3-hour recorded workshop with Dr. Leslie Greenberg introducing Emotion Focused Therapy. We recommend watching this recorded workshop before attending as it reviews foundational knowledge and skills to work with emotion in psychotherapy.
Learning Objectives
In this workshop, participants will learn how to:
- Distinguish the complementary roles of following and guiding in EFT.
- Recognize when following is facilitating productive emotional process and when it is no longer therapeutically productive.
- Shift from following to more active guidance based on clinical micro-markers.
- Deepen emotional experience while maintaining empathic attunement using therapist micro-interventions.
- Recognize and navigate common challenges in following and guiding.
Details
Date: May 21, 2027
Time: 11:00AM - 2:00PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
Format: Live Online Training
Continuing Education Credits (CECs)
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)
- Pending Approval
Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals (OAMHP)
- Pending Approval
Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)
- Pending Approval
Ontario Psychological Association (OPA)
- Pending Approval
Please note that live attendance is required in order to receive CE credits
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One of the defining features of Emotion Focused Therapy is the therapist's ability to remain closely attuned to the client's moment-by-moment emotional process while actively guiding that process toward therapeutic change. Achieving this balance is challenging and even experienced therapists report struggling with it. Knowing when to follow the client's experience through empathic exploration and when to guide the process with more active interventions requires careful clinical judgment and continual attention to the client's emotional process.
Following the client's narrative or emotional process for too long can result in therapy losing focus or becoming stalled in unproductive emotional reactions and repetitive patterns. In contrast, guiding too quickly or too actively can interrupt the client's emotional process, reduce empathic attunement, and weaken the therapeutic alliance. This workshop teaches about how to make flexible, moment-to-moment decisions about when to follow clients' experience and when to provide more active therapeutic guidance.
This workshop provides an in-depth exploration of the moment-to-moment clinical decisions involved in following and guiding clients in psychotherapy. Through detailed discussion and analysis of therapy videos, participants will observe how experienced EFT therapists assess a client's emotional process, determine when to follow and when to guide, and select interventions that deepen emotional experiencing while maintaining empathic attunement and a strong therapeutic relationship.
For therapists who are newer to EFT
With the purchase of this workshop, participants will automatically receive 2-month access to a 3-hour recorded workshop with Dr. Leslie Greenberg introducing Emotion Focused Therapy. We recommend watching this recorded workshop before attending as it reviews foundational knowledge and skills to work with emotion in psychotherapy.
Learning Objectives
In this workshop, participants will learn how to:
- Distinguish the complementary roles of following and guiding in EFT.
- Recognize when following is facilitating productive emotional process and when it is no longer therapeutically productive.
- Shift from following to more active guidance based on clinical micro-markers.
- Deepen emotional experience while maintaining empathic attunement using therapist micro-interventions.
- Recognize and navigate common challenges in following and guiding.
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Details
Date: May 21, 2027
Time: 11:00AM - 2:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Format: Live Online Training
Continuing Education Credits (CECs)
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)
- Pending Approval
Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals (OAMHP)
- Pending Approval
Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)
- Pending Approval
Ontario Psychological Association (OPA)
- Pending Approval
Please note that live attendance is required in order to receive CE credits
