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What is it like to open up and reveal your most vulnerable and painful feelings to another person when you are struggling with depression, anxiety, and self-criticism? How do clients experience the role of the relationship with their therapist when undergoing time-limited emotion-focused therapy (EFT)?. This 1 Hour CE course will explore the feelings clients experience during Emotion-Focused Therapy.

Please review the course materials prior to purchasing the course. Often, individuals will print a copy of the course worksheet to complete while they read the course text. Once you are ready to complete the course, please enroll in the course and complete the course requirements, including the course post-test and course survey. You will receive your certificate automatically for printing or downloading after achieving an 80% or higher on the post-test and completing the course survey. 

Exploring Client's Feel in EFT Course Text.pdf

Course Worksheet.pdf

Course Author:  Bryan Glazier, PhD, LMFT, LMHC 

Course Time/Location:  1 Course Hour, (Anytime: web-based home study)

Course Text: 

Nødtvedt, Ø. O., Binder, P. E., Stige, S. H., Schanche, E., Stiegler, J. R., & Hjeltnes, A. (2019). "You Feel They Have a Heart and Are Not Afraid to Show It": Exploring How Clients Experience the Therapeutic Relationship in Emotion-Focused Therapy. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 1996. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01996

This article was used under Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Learning Objectives:

Through the completion of this course, learners will gain awareness of the client’s internal emotional experience when attending emotion focused therapy. Participants will:

1. Review the influence of the therapeutic relationship on the therapeutic process.
2. Examine Emotion Focused Therapy.
3. Identify the four themes related to client’s experiences in EFT.
4. Explore the importance of developing relational safety and trust in the psychotherapeutic environment

Course Syllabus:

1. Introduction
   1. Importance of Quality of Therapeutic Relationship
   2. Defining Emotion-focused Therapy
2. Themes Discovered
   1. Forming a Trusting Relationship or Finding It Hard to Connect
   2. Collaborating and Struggling to Find New Ways to Relate to Painful Feelings
   3. Alliance Ruptures and Needs for Repair Working with Distressing Emotions
   4. The Significance of New Relational Experiences
3. Discussion
   1. Reflexivity
4. Conclusion