Homework in Emotion Focused Therapy: Carrying Forward In-Session Emotional Work Into Everyday Life
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Homework in Emotion Focused Therapy: Carrying Forward In-Session Emotional Work Into Everyday Life
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Homework in Emotion Focused Therapy: Carrying Forward In-Session Emotional Work Into Everyday Life
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
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In Emotion Focused Therapy, therapeutic change occurs primarily through emotional processing in the therapy session. Yet an important part of therapy involves helping clients understand what they are experiencing, develop new ways of working with their emotions, and carry forward emerging changes into their everyday lives. Within an experiential teaching and emotion coaching framework, homework provides an important way of extending this work beyond the therapy session while remaining closely connected to the client’s moment-to-moment emotional process.
Unlike traditional psychoeducation or prescribed homework, experiential teaching in EFT is collaborative, process-guided, and offered during relevant “teachable moments.” The therapist works as an emotion coach, providing rationales, in-session teaching, and between-session homework and practice that emerge from what the client is experiencing and learning in therapy. Homework is therefore not separate from the experiential work. It grows out of what has occurred in session and is used to deepen, practice, consolidate, and extend that work between sessions.
This focused 3-hour workshop will provide an in-depth exploration of the use of homework in EFT within an experiential teaching and emotion coaching framework. Participants will learn how to recognize teachable moments, provide brief and relevant experiential teaching, and use EFT case formulation to collaboratively develop homework that fits the client’s core pain, therapeutic goals, current emotional process, and readiness for change.
Particular attention will be given to using homework to promote emotion awareness and expression, emotion regulation, emotional transformation, reflection, corrective emotional experiences, and consolidation of change.
Through review of real psychotherapy sessions, participants will observe how homework can be woven into therapy and adapted to different phases of treatment and different EFT interventions.
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:
- Understand when and how to use mapping following EFT chair-work interventions to consolidate and carry forward in-session emotional processing.
- Collaboratively map key components of chair work using the client’s own language and experience, including emotional responses, emerging needs, and new adaptive responses.
- Use mapping to facilitate reflection and meaning-making, consolidate emerging emotional changes, promote further emotional processing and resolution of chair-work interventions, and carry therapeutic work forward into subsequent sessions.
- Map unresolved chair-work interventions to help clients make meaning of and consolidate the work achieved, identify emotional responses, emerging needs, and stuck points, and end the session constructively.
- Apply mapping to two-chair interventions for self-criticism, anxiety, and self-interruption.
- Use the completed map to develop individualized between-session homework that builds on, strengthens, and carries forward the specific therapeutic work achieved in the session.
Details
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
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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In Emotion Focused Therapy, therapeutic change occurs primarily through emotional processing in the therapy session. Yet an important part of therapy involves helping clients understand what they are experiencing, develop new ways of working with their emotions, and carry forward emerging changes into their everyday lives. Within an experiential teaching and emotion coaching framework, homework provides an important way of extending this work beyond the therapy session while remaining closely connected to the client’s moment-to-moment emotional process.
Unlike traditional psychoeducation or prescribed homework, experiential teaching in EFT is collaborative, process-guided, and offered during relevant “teachable moments.” The therapist works as an emotion coach, providing rationales, in-session teaching, and between-session homework and practice that emerge from what the client is experiencing and learning in therapy. Homework is therefore not separate from the experiential work. It grows out of what has occurred in session and is used to deepen, practice, consolidate, and extend that work between sessions.
This focused 3-hour workshop will provide an in-depth exploration of the use of homework in EFT within an experiential teaching and emotion coaching framework. Participants will learn how to recognize teachable moments, provide brief and relevant experiential teaching, and use EFT case formulation to collaboratively develop homework that fits the client’s core pain, therapeutic goals, current emotional process, and readiness for change.
Particular attention will be given to using homework to promote emotion awareness and expression, emotion regulation, emotional transformation, reflection, corrective emotional experiences, and consolidation of change.
Through review of real psychotherapy sessions, participants will observe how homework can be woven into therapy and adapted to different phases of treatment and different EFT interventions.
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:
- Understand when and how to use mapping following EFT chair-work interventions to consolidate and carry forward in-session emotional processing.
- Collaboratively map key components of chair work using the client’s own language and experience, including emotional responses, emerging needs, and new adaptive responses.
- Use mapping to facilitate reflection and meaning-making, consolidate emerging emotional changes, promote further emotional processing and resolution of chair-work interventions, and carry therapeutic work forward into subsequent sessions.
- Map unresolved chair-work interventions to help clients make meaning of and consolidate the work achieved, identify emotional responses, emerging needs, and stuck points, and end the session constructively.
- Apply mapping to two-chair interventions for self-criticism, anxiety, and self-interruption.
- Use the completed map to develop individualized between-session homework that builds on, strengthens, and carries forward the specific therapeutic work achieved in the session.
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Details
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
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
