Certified EFT Training
The standards for Levels 1, 2, and 3 from the International Society of Emotion-Focused Therapy (ISEFT) and our Basic Workshop Offerings at the Emotion-Focused Therapy Institute are:
Participants should have a minimum prior training: Must have a professional training in some form of therapy and be an accredited practitioner. If not humanistic-experiential therapy (e.g. person-centered, focusing-oriented, gestalt), additional empathy and person centered training is recommended. It is recommended that for therapists who have no prior training in humanistic-experiential therapies, a module focused on empathic tracking, listening, and responding be included in the training.
Levels 1 & 2
Basic Didactic/Experiential Workshop Training (Levels 1 & 2)
Minimum 8 days (but can be longer), run by certified or approved EFT trainers, covering at least:
Empathy/relational skills
Emotion theory, emotion change principles and emotional deepening
Basic markers/tasks: focusing/clearing a space, unfolding, two chair
(conflict and self-interruption splits, self-soothing), empty chairEFT case formulation
Level 3
Initial Supervisory Experience (Level 3)
At least 3 days group supervision (with presentation of at least one client for 1 hour); or
five hours of individual supervision of own work with at least 2 clients
Must be signed off on by their approved EFT supervisor on the basis of actually doing EFT to at least a minimal degree and not some other therapy as demonstrated by these EFT skills:
Empathy
Marker identification
Emotional deepening
Appropriate use of EFT tasks, such as focusing, reprocessing, enactment/active expression work,
alliance/interpersonal/relational workAbility to think about clients in EFT terms (case formulation, process identification, marker
identification, use of experiential formulation responses)