When Unfinished Business is Not Finished: Working with Past Hurts and Current Interpersonal Issues
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
When Unfinished Business is Not Finished: Working with Past Hurts and Current Interpersonal Issues
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
When Unfinished Business is Not Finished: Working with Past Hurts and Current Interpersonal Issues
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
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Unresolved feelings toward a significant other are often rooted in painful experiences from the past. But what happens when the relationship is still active and the same person continues to disappoint, criticize, dismiss, intrude upon, or otherwise trigger the client in the present?
Working with unfinished business becomes considerably more complex when past emotional injuries coexist with current interpersonal issues. A client may begin to access and process longstanding hurt, anger, sadness, or unmet needs, only to be pulled back into what happened yesterday, last week, or during the most recent interaction. Because unfinished business and current interpersonal issues involve different therapeutic goals and interventions, moving between them without a clear framework can leave both therapist and client feeling stuck.
This focused 3-hour workshop provides therapists with a structured framework for working with clients who have both unfinished business and ongoing interpersonal difficulties with the same significant other. Participants will learn to distinguish unresolved emotional pain from the past from present-day relational problems, determine which process requires attention at different points in therapy, and strategically integrate interventions for both.
Particular attention will be given to recognizing when current interpersonal issues are interfering with the resolution of unfinished business. Participants will learn how EFT principles of emotion change and case formulation can guide clinical decisions about when to return to past emotional injuries, when present-day relational difficulties need to be addressed, and how working with both can facilitate greater emotional and interpersonal resolution.
Through detailed review of real psychotherapy sessions, participants will observe the moment-to-moment clinical decisions, EFT tasks, and therapist micro-interventions involved in navigating this complex therapeutic process.
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. Serine Warwar introducing Emotion Focused Therapy to Resolve Unfinished Business. We recommend watching this recorded workshop before attending as it reviews foundational knowledge and skills to working with Unfinished Business. Learn more about the introductory workshop.
Learning Objectives
In this workshop, participants will learn how to:
- Differentiate unfinished business from current interpersonal issues and identify when both are operating in relation to the same significant other.
- Develop a case formulation that clarifies the relationship between past emotional injuries and current interpersonal difficulties.
- Identify when unresolved past experiences should be the focus of therapy and when current interpersonal issues require attention.
- Recognize how ongoing interpersonal experiences can activate or interfere with the resolution of unfinished business.
- Describe how to provide clients with a rationale for differentiating and working with past and current interpersonal difficulties.
- Apply a structured framework for moving between unfinished business and current interpersonal work while maintaining therapeutic focus.
- Identify EFT tasks and therapist micro-interventions appropriate for facilitating the resolution of past and current interpersonal difficulties.
- Apply EFT principles of emotion change and case formulation to guide moment-to-moment clinical decisions when working with both processes.
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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Unresolved feelings toward a significant other are often rooted in painful experiences from the past. But what happens when the relationship is still active and the same person continues to disappoint, criticize, dismiss, intrude upon, or otherwise trigger the client in the present?
Working with unfinished business becomes considerably more complex when past emotional injuries coexist with current interpersonal issues. A client may begin to access and process longstanding hurt, anger, sadness, or unmet needs, only to be pulled back into what happened yesterday, last week, or during the most recent interaction. Because unfinished business and current interpersonal issues involve different therapeutic goals and interventions, moving between them without a clear framework can leave both therapist and client feeling stuck.
This focused 3-hour workshop provides therapists with a structured framework for working with clients who have both unfinished business and ongoing interpersonal difficulties with the same significant other. Participants will learn to distinguish unresolved emotional pain from the past from present-day relational problems, determine which process requires attention at different points in therapy, and strategically integrate interventions for both.
Particular attention will be given to recognizing when current interpersonal issues are interfering with the resolution of unfinished business. Participants will learn how EFT principles of emotion change and case formulation can guide clinical decisions about when to return to past emotional injuries, when present-day relational difficulties need to be addressed, and how working with both can facilitate greater emotional and interpersonal resolution.
Through detailed review of real psychotherapy sessions, participants will observe the moment-to-moment clinical decisions, EFT tasks, and therapist micro-interventions involved in navigating this complex therapeutic process.
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. Serine Warwar introducing Emotion Focused Therapy to Resolve Unfinished Business. We recommend watching this recorded workshop before attending as it reviews foundational knowledge and skills to working with Unfinished Business. Learn more about the introductory workshop.
Learning Objectives
In this workshop, participants will learn how to:
- Differentiate unfinished business from current interpersonal issues and identify when both are operating in relation to the same significant other.
- Develop a case formulation that clarifies the relationship between past emotional injuries and current interpersonal difficulties.
- Identify when unresolved past experiences should be the focus of therapy and when current interpersonal issues require attention.
- Recognize how ongoing interpersonal experiences can activate or interfere with the resolution of unfinished business.
- Describe how to provide clients with a rationale for differentiating and working with past and current interpersonal difficulties.
- Apply a structured framework for moving between unfinished business and current interpersonal work while maintaining therapeutic focus.
- Identify EFT tasks and therapist micro-interventions appropriate for facilitating the resolution of past and current interpersonal difficulties.
- Apply EFT principles of emotion change and case formulation to guide moment-to-moment clinical decisions when working with both processes.
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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
