Participants will obtain a clear understanding of the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an “Emotionally Focused” approach to therapy.

  Participants will be able to assess and diagram clients in the web of their interpersonal attachments and conceptualize relationship distress and repair based on theories of attachment and emotion.

  Participants will develop skills in sharing and maintaining an engaged, open, and collaborative alliance with clients.

  Participants will develop skills in the five moves of the basic macro-intervention—the EFT TANGO—to change patterns of affect regulation, models of self and others, strategies for engaging others, and interactional patterns.

  Participants will develop skills in EFT micro-interventions taken from experiential, attachment, and systemic models of intervention.

  Participants will develop skills in overcoming common blocks and impasses in couple therapy, shaping core corrective emotional experiences that lead to constructive dependency and what Rogers termed “existential living.”