What will I learn in an "Externship"?
- Gain a clear understanding of the core experiential and systemic principles that underpin an Emotionally Focused approach to therapy.
- Learn to view clients within the context of their interpersonal attachment bonds, enabling clearer conceptualisation of relationship distress and pathways to repair grounded in attachment and emotion
- Develop a solid understanding of EFCT as a relational therapy, as outlined in Attachment Theory in Practice (2019), and observe how the model is applied in real couple therapy sessions.
- Strengthen skills in building and maintaining a safe, engaged, and collaborative therapeutic alliance with couples.
- Learn and practice the five moves of the EFT Tango, supporting change in affect regulation, interactional patterns, and models of self and other.
- Develop confidence in using EFT micro-interventions, drawn from experiential, attachment-based, and systemic models of intervention.
- Build skills in working through common blocks and impasses in couple therapy, facilitating corrective emotional experiences that foster secure connection, constructive dependency, and what Rogers described as existential living.