Description:
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a wonderfully powerful model which can help a significant percentage of clients, and yet even EFT, with all of its power, can’t help every client. And we as therapists, despite all of our training and personal therapy, won’t be able to help every client. But where do we learn how to know the limits of the EFT model and be okay with our own limits as we craft our therapy practice? That is a gap in the field and this workshop seeks to support you in this gap.
Come, bring your humanity to this workshop and let’s dive together into the ethical principles that give us permission to know our limits and the model’s limits. We will explore contraindications for EFT and listen more deeply into our own personal warning flags that tell us we will not be the best fit for certain types of clients. We will learn that a deep sense of knowing ourselves is actually an essential piece of ethical client care and self-care. From that new awareness, we will explore the preventative and responsive components of a healthy and ethical exit plan as we practice EFT, getting clear on what to do before ever meeting with clients and also what to do once we are already into the therapy process together if we discover the fit is not (or is no longer) good.
This workshop will be interactive and experiential, where you can engage with the larger group and also have the opportunity to do some small group work to develop your own Ethical Exit Plan and practice how you might talk with a client about not taking them on or about the ethical mandate, for their sake, to help them transition to a different therapist, treatment, etc. Come, know you are not alone, and let’s grow your Ethical Exit Plan together! Together we will help you walk into the courage needed for this aspect of the work and come away more confident and tooled up to ethically practice from within your personal and professional limits.
This is an intermediate program for all mental health professionals.
Learning Objectives:
Identify your own (and the EFT model’s) inner pull to try to help all clients (even if they aren’t a good fit for the therapist and/or the EFT model).
Describe the boundaries of the EFT model and some of your own professional/personal limits.
List and describe the ethical principles underlying good client care, including how those principles apply to our own knowing of our personal and professional limits and not assuming we will be able to help every type of client.
Identify and discuss the preventive and responsive components of a healthy Ethical Exit Plan.
Describe concrete strategies and tools for an ethical exit plan as a therapist (including the place of screening, assessment, supervision/consultation, training, and personal therapy, etc.).
Sensitively, supportively, and ethically explain to a client about not taking them on or about the ethical mandate, for their sake, to help them transition to a different therapist, treatment, etc., and be able to do so in a way that validates and supports the client in a manner consistent with EFT and good ethical principles.
Develop a sample ethical transition plan (so you are not abandoning clients).
Create your own ethical exit plan for your practice of EFT.
About the Presenter:
Elisa Joy Seibert, Ph.D., M.Div. (she/her), is a Licensed Psychologist, ICEEFT Certified Emotionally Focused (EFT) Therapist and Supervisor, Counselor Educator, and co-founder and community builder of the Central Pennsylvania EFT Community (www.CentralPAEFT.com). Elisa has a passion for equipping and coming alongside therapists seeking to learn and live out the model of EFT with confidence and excellence (www.GrowingConnections.live) and specializes in helping couples transform their connection through the power of EFT (www.GrowingConnectionsforCouples.com). She is the owner of Growing Connections, PLLC, a practice rooted in model of EFT, based in Grantham, Pennsylvania, USA.
Location:
Live (Online via Zoom)
September 22, 2023
10:00am to 1:15pm
Credits:
3 CE credits
Cancellation Policy:
If you notify us prior to 7 days before the event, we will provide a full refund minus a $20 administrative fee. If you notify us less than 7 days before the event, we will provide a 50% refund. Registration refund amounts are based on fixed costs, contractual obligations, and administrative time. When you enroll, it is with the understanding that you will attend and that you agree to this cancellation policy. If WBCEFT cancels or postpones an event, we will apply your tuition to the make-up date. If we cannot secure a make up date, you will receive a full refund. If you cannot attend the make up date, we will provide a full refund. If you qualify for the Diversity Fellowship, due to limited spots, please notify us as soon as possible if you are unable to attend so that a spot can open up for someone else. All refunds must be requested in writing via email to angela@wbceft.com.
Grievances Policy:
We seek to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please email us with your written grievance. Grievances would receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems.
ADA Assistance:
This program adheres to the standards of the Americans Disabilities Act. Please contact us if special accommodation is required.
Conflict of Interest:
There is no known commercial interest or conflict of interest for this program.
The CE Company is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The CE Company maintains responsibility for this program and its content
