Focusing in Emotion Focused Therapy: Deepening

Emotional Experiencing

Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist

Focusing in Emotion Focused Therapy: Deepening

Emotional Experiencing

Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist

Focusing in Emotion Focused Therapy: Deepening

Emotional Experiencing

Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist

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Depth of experiencing has been shown to predict psychotherapy outcome across therapeutic approaches and is an important component of productive emotional processing. It refers to the degree to which clients attend to, explore, and make use of their immediate internal experience. Focusing is an experiential intervention that helps clients turn attention inward and explore bodily felt experience, particularly aspects of experience that are implicit, unclear, or not yet fully symbolized, differentiated, or understood. By helping clients deepen contact with and explore their emotional experience, Focusing can facilitate the productive emotional processing that contributes to therapeutic change. 


In Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Focusing is used both as a therapeutic task in response to specific markers and as a flexible micro-intervention that can be woven throughout therapy to deepen emotional experiencing. As a micro-intervention, Focusing may be used for only a few moments at a time to help clients move from talking about their experience toward more direct contact with what they are feeling. It can be particularly useful when clients remain at an intellectual or conceptual level, have difficulty identifying what they feel, become disconnected from their emotional experience, or struggle to stay with what is beginning to emerge. Focusing can also be integrated into EFT chair interventions to deepen emotional processing at important moments. 


Using Focusing effectively requires close attention to the client’s moment-to-moment emotional process. Therapists need to recognize when Focusing is indicated, identify where to direct the client’s attention, and use specific interventions to help clients slow down, turn inward, and explore what is emerging while remaining productively engaged in the process. 


Through teaching and detailed review of clinical video demonstrations, this 3-hour workshop will look at the different Focusing markers and their corresponding interventions. The primary emphasis will be on how Focusing principles and interventions are used flexibly within EFT as moment-to-moment micro-interventions to deepen emotional experiencing. Clinical processes will be slowed down and examined in detail to help participants recognize opportunities for Focusing and develop the micro-skills involved in facilitating deeper emotional experience. 


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: 

  • Recognize different Focusing markers and understand how they guide the use of Focusing interventions. 
  • Guide clients to slow down, turn attention inward, and attend to immediate emotional and bodily experience. 
  • Help clients stay with, differentiate, symbolize, and deepen emerging experience to facilitate productive emotional processing. 
  • Recognize moment-to-moment opportunities to use brief Focusing interventions within the flow of therapy. 
  • Use Focusing when clients are intellectualizing, emotionally disconnected, stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed. 
  • Integrate Focusing into EFT processes and chair interventions to deepen emotional experiencing and facilitate emotional processing. 


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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Depth of experiencing has been shown to predict psychotherapy outcome across therapeutic approaches and is an important component of productive emotional processing. It refers to the degree to which clients attend to, explore, and make use of their immediate internal experience. Focusing is an experiential intervention that helps clients turn attention inward and explore bodily felt experience, particularly aspects of experience that are implicit, unclear, or not yet fully symbolized, differentiated, or understood. By helping clients deepen contact with and explore their emotional experience, Focusing can facilitate the productive emotional processing that contributes to therapeutic change. 


In Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Focusing is used both as a therapeutic task in response to specific markers and as a flexible micro-intervention that can be woven throughout therapy to deepen emotional experiencing. As a micro-intervention, Focusing may be used for only a few moments at a time to help clients move from talking about their experience toward more direct contact with what they are feeling. It can be particularly useful when clients remain at an intellectual or conceptual level, have difficulty identifying what they feel, become disconnected from their emotional experience, or struggle to stay with what is beginning to emerge. Focusing can also be integrated into EFT chair interventions to deepen emotional processing at important moments. 


Using Focusing effectively requires close attention to the client’s moment-to-moment emotional process. Therapists need to recognize when Focusing is indicated, identify where to direct the client’s attention, and use specific interventions to help clients slow down, turn inward, and explore what is emerging while remaining productively engaged in the process. 


Through teaching and detailed review of clinical video demonstrations, this 3-hour workshop will look at the different Focusing markers and their corresponding interventions. The primary emphasis will be on how Focusing principles and interventions are used flexibly within EFT as moment-to-moment micro-interventions to deepen emotional experiencing. Clinical processes will be slowed down and examined in detail to help participants recognize opportunities for Focusing and develop the micro-skills involved in facilitating deeper emotional experience. 


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: 

  • Recognize different Focusing markers and understand how they guide the use of Focusing interventions. 
  • Guide clients to slow down, turn attention inward, and attend to immediate emotional and bodily experience. 
  • Help clients stay with, differentiate, symbolize, and deepen emerging experience to facilitate productive emotional processing. 
  • Recognize moment-to-moment opportunities to use brief Focusing interventions within the flow of therapy. 
  • Use Focusing when clients are intellectualizing, emotionally disconnected, stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed. 
  • Integrate Focusing into EFT processes and chair interventions to deepen emotional experiencing and facilitate emotional processing. 


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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