In Person Workshop

Going Into the Fire

Working with Highly Escalated Couples

Do escalated couples make you want to quit being a therapist? Join us as we explore those moments of greatest difficulty for couples, from still-face to high reactivity to despair and rage. Learn how to keep your focus and go deeper in the face of reactivity. We’ll explore, demonstrate, practice and integrate in an interactive, experiential way. Through a combination of lecture, videotaped session samples, and exercises, participants will learn to better conceptualize EFT and to help couples recognize and deescalate problematic cycles of interaction. Participants will also learn to help couples create or restore the emotional bond between them once the negative cycle, and the attachment needs that drive it, has been understood thus deescalate problematic cycles of interaction.

WHEN: 

december 6-7, 2019

9AM-5PM

WHERE:

NOMAD Tower, 1250 Broadway at 31st street (downstairs), New York, NY

Facilitator:
George Faller, LMFT

is a retired Lieutenant of the NYC Fire Department, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in New York and Connecticut and an Approved Supervisor for AAMFT. He is the founder and president of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy. As an EFT Trainer, George teaches several classes at Ackerman Institute for the Family and is the director of training at the Center for Hope and Renewal in Greenwich, CT. The experience George brings to the EFT community is vast, as he works as a marriage consultant and conference leader to the US Military, FDNY, Wall Street executives, and trains therapists across the U.S. and abroad. Specializing in trauma, EFFT, and self-of-the-therapist issues, George is committed to bringing EFT to underprivileged populations and pushing the leading edge of EFT.

Learning Objectives:

1.    Identify the key assumptions of attachment theory as it applies to adult relationships.

2.    Examine the assumptions, stages, and steps of EFT, as well as key change events.

3.    Use key interventions that help clients to reprocess key emotional responses and reduce reactivity

4.    Determine common therapeutic impasses in EFT and how to address them and implement EFT interventions in clinical exercises and case examples.

5.    Explain the different structural elements/parts of the cycle

6.    Describe the process model of emotion as defined by Magda Arnold

7.    Describe 3 underlying emotions that withdrawers feel

8.    Describe 3 underlying emotions that pursuers feel

9.     Apply the EFT clinical skills associated with De-escalation

10.  Analyze the function of protective strategies that create negative cycles.

11.  Restructure the positive cycle of responsiveness to replace the escalated, negative cycle.

AGENDA

Day One                                                                                             

9:00-10:30       Introduction to Couple Distress, Attachment Theory, Process of EFT

10:30-10:45     Break

10:45-12:30     Understanding the Function of Matching affect

12:30-1:30       Lunch

1:30-2:45         Taking Charge of Session

2:45-3:00         Break

3:00-5:00         Keeping your Focus with Interruptions

Day Two                                                                                              

9:00-10:30       Going Deeper with Withdrawers

10:30-10:45     Break

10:45-12:30     Going Deeper with Pursuers

12:30-1:30       Lunch

1:30-2:45         Restructuring Emotional Bonds

2:45-3:00         Break

3:00-5:00         Celebrating the Process of Change – Tying it all together

This course is for Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, MFTs, Creative Arts Therapists, Counselors and Therapists – Intermediate Level

CE APPLICATION PENDING

Certificates will be available following course completion at www.ceuregistration.com

This event is co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars 

Satisfactory Completion

Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in each day, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out each day in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates will be available following course completion at www.ceuregistration.com

Psychologists

R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 12CE hours. 

Psychoanalysts

NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0005. (12) clock hours.

Social Workers 
Social Workers: An application has been made for consideration of approval for 12 Clinical practice CE credits. 
(NJ SW:ASWB ACE individual course approval meets the NJ Board of Social Work Examiners requirements for individual course approval pursuant to NJ Code 13:44G-6.4.16.)
CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers
NY:R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0006. This program is approved for 12contact hours. Live in-person.
OH:Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (12) clock hours, #RCST110701

Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists 
CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers.
Other States: If your state is not specifically listed, nearly all state Counselor and MFT boards accept either APA or ASWB approval, or are reciprocal with other state licensing board approvals, such as those listed below. Check with your board to be sure. The Ohio Board includes Counselors and MFTs.
IL: Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, #168-000141.  (12) hours.
NY-LMHCs:R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0015. (12) contact hours. 
NY-LMFTs:R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0011. (12) contact hours.
OH:Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (12) clock hours, #RCST110701
TX:Approved CE Sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists. Provider #151 12 CE hours.

Creative Arts Therapists
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0005. (12) contact hours

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.

Customer Service and Complaints

If you have any questions or complaints, please contact info@nyceft.org

Cancellation Policy

If notified in writing of canceling by November 22 fee is refunded minus $50 administrative fee.  Registrations canceled after November 22 are not refundable.

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.