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James Hawkins, PhD, LPC

Facilitating The Function Of Attachment In Distressed Adult Romantic Relationships: An Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Framework

July 17th - July 21st, 2023

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15 Hour In-Person & Live-Online Course

Monday - Friday: 9:00a.m. - 12:30p.m. EDT / 30-Minute Break Daily

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Course Description

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), founded by Dr. Sue Johnson, is a cutting-edge, tested, and proven couple intervention developed in tandem with the science of adult attachment. Research indicates that secure attachment and emotionally fulfilling relationships are integral components of mental and physical health and that emotionally focused interventions have the power to establish and recreate supportive bonds among individuals.

In this learning experience, Dr. Hawkins will bring his expertise and creativity to help clinicians improve their focus and efficacy in working with couples stuck in emotional and relational distress and move from rigid cycles of self-protection to flexible cycles of connection.

In this experiential course, learners will journey through the flow of attachment in adult romantic relationships with a particular focus on guiding couples toward the beacon of secure connection. Through the use of clinical tapes, role plays, and experiential exercises, special attention will be given to helping clinicians address common blocks and detours that occur in the treatment of clinically distressed couples.

This course is open to seasoned couples therapists and individual, child, and family therapists interested in learning more about EFT and how applying the language of attachment and emotion-focused interventions can effect change in challenging and stressful relationships and moments.

Monday

· What is Our Beacon for Adult Romantic Relationships

· Foundations of EFT: core tenets of attachment theory and working with emotion

· Going from Rigid Cycles of Self-Protection to Flexible Cycles of Connection

· Dancing the EFT Tango: The Session Guide

· Review a clinical session highlighting the process and interventions

Tuesday

· Accessing Vulnerability: EFT Process

· Affect Assembly

· Interventions: Reflection, Use of Therapist, Validation

· Review a clinical session highlighting the process and interventions

Wednesday

· Facilitating The Reach and Response: Experiential Practice

· Engaged Enactments: An experiential approach to restructuring emotional experience

· Layering Interventions: Reflection, Validation, Conjecture, Evocative Questioning

· Review a clinical session highlighting the process and interventions

Thursday

· Accessing Empathy: Responding with Comfort

· Interventions: The use of parts work, Empathic Conjecture

· Review a clinical session highlighting the process and interventions

Friday

· Facilitating Response and Taking in Comfort: Experiential Practice

· Finishing the mission of corrective experiences

· Re-organizing key emotional responses and organization of self

· Interventions: Evaluating Somatic Markers, Integration, and Validation

· Review a clinical session highlighting the process and interventions

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James Hawkins, PhD, LPC, brings a wealth of experience and passion as a clinician, counseling educator, and communicator. Dr. Hawkins is a part of Sue Johnson’s EFT trainer team and trains internationally to help clinicians learn Emotionally Focused Therapy. He is also the co-host of “The Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy” podcast and a part of the “Success in Vulnerability” online training program, a program aimed at helping clinicians get more focus on working with clinical and relational distress.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: James Hawkins receives compensation fees from Success in Vulnerability and the International Center for Excellence in EFT where he is a team member. He receives a speaking honorarium from MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute.

Non-financial: James Hawkins has no relevant non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

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Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

1. Discuss the foundations of attachment theory and attachment style

2. Explain how to assess attachment security in couples and foster the creation of a secure bond between partners

3. Describe the core tenets of Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples, including how to work with emotion and attachment in sessions

4. Describe EFT strategies to help the couple define the problem as the cycle rather than each other

5. Describe EFT strategies to help couples increase vulnerability and access underlying feelings that drive reactive patterns/cycles

6. Practice EFT skills that will help couples learn to reach and respond

7. Summarize EFT strategies, including reflection, validation, evocative questioning, parts works, and the use of the therapist to help maintain focus during reactive or stuck clinical processes

8. Discuss how to help clients touch the underlying feelings that drive the reactivity

9. Describe how to expand and re-organize key emotional responses and, in the process, the organization of self

CREATIVE ARTS THERAPISTS:

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): MAK Continuing Education, LLC,

Cape Cod Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7187. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

New York LCATS: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. # CAT-0090.

EDUCATORS:

For eligibility information, contact your State certifying authority.

Massachusetts Educators: Educators in Massachusetts are eligible for 15 Professional Development Points (PDPs) for each program attended. MAK Continuing Education, LLC is a registered Professional Development Provider (PD number: U20190001) with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS:

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): MAK Continuing Education, LLC,

Cape Cod Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7187. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Massachusetts LMFTS: An application for this activity will be submitted to NEAFAST for approval on behalf of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Health & Human Services Professions for LMFT professional continuing education.

New York LMFTS: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists # MFT-0095.

PHYSICIANS & NURSING PROFESSIONALS:

A.C.C.M.E. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., and MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

A.M.A. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., designates this live activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS & MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS:

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7187. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

New York LMHCs: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. # MHC-0217.

PSYCHOANALYSTS:

MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts # P-0052.

PSYCHOLOGISTS:

American Psychological Association (APA): MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This live course is eligible for 15 continuing education credit hours.

California PSYs: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the CPA OPD to sponsor continuing professional education for psychologists. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CPA OPD Provider Code: MAK001. This live course is eligible for 15 continuing education credit hours.

Canada PSYs: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for the program. This live course is eligible for 15 continuing education credit hours.

Connecticut PSYs: CE credit is available. This course consists of 15 continuing education credit hours for Connecticut Psychologists. CT Gen Stat Sec. 20-191c Continuing Education (b)(3) confirms acceptance of continuing education programs relevant to psychology from a nationally recognized provider of continuing education seminars. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is a nationally recognized provider of continuing education seminars with multiple national CE approvals.

New York PSYs: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists # PSY-0102. This live course is eligible for 15 continuing education credit hours.

North Carolina PSYs: CE credit is available. This course is designed to meet the Category B Requirements of the North Carolina Psychology Board, provided it is within your scope of practice of psychology. Please retain all documents to provide to your board should this be requested of you. NC psychologists can report up to 9 Category B credit hours per renewal period.

Ohio PSYS: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is an OPA-MCE Approved Provider. Approved Provider: #854261519. This live course is eligible for 15 continuing education credit hours.

Pennsylvania PSYs: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute has applied for renewal as a sponsor/provider of continuing education through the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of State Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs State Board of Psychology.

SOCIAL WORKERS:

Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB): MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute, Provider #1197, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute, maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 8/20/2022- 8/20/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 15 continuing education credits.

ASWB ACE Individual Course Approval (NJ Social Workers): Facilitating the Function of Attachment in Distressed Adult Romantic Relationships: An Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Framework, Course #4929, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 5/2/2023 - 5/2/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 15 Clinical continuing education credits.

New York SWs: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers # SW-0649.

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