Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy
TWO-DAY CLINICAL TRAINING
Working with Trauma in Emotionally Focused Therapy
EFIT and EFCT
Clinical demonstrations and trauma practice in individual and couple therapy.
FormatOnline · 2 daysClinical training
WhenJune 7–8, 202709:00–16:30 CEST
Italian summer time · UTC+2
Italian summer time · UTC+2
Participation€180≈17 281 KGS198 USD / 17 424 RUB
About
Trauma is experienced in isolation.
People who have experienced trauma enter therapy with nervous systems still organised around protection, with suppressed or overwhelming emotions, and with a sense of self marked by shame.
Emotionally focused therapy understands this suffering through the lens of attachment theory. Trauma responses are understood as survival strategies that once made sense. Healing unfolds through restoring connection — with the therapist, with disowned parts of the self, and with significant others.
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
Two approaches. One foundation: attachment.
Training programme
Four clinical areas of focus
The EFT Tango and microinterventions
- The five moves of the EFT Tango that structure a therapy session.
- Microinterventions that support the therapeutic process when clients are at the edge of their window of tolerance.
Dissociation and different forms of trauma
- Dissociation as a survival strategy.
- Developmental trauma.
- Cumulative trauma.
- Single-event trauma.
- Traumatic experiences among first responders.
Assessment and the three stages of the therapeutic process
Stabilisation
Identifying a therapeutic focus and maintaining it as clients move into and out of emotional experience.
Restructuring
Using emotional connection as a path through shame.
Consolidation
Developing and strengthening a new experience of self.
Working with trauma in EFCT
- How each partner’s traumatic experience affects the couple’s interactional cycle.
- Creating a safe emotional bond between partners.
- Processing traumatic experience within a relationship that becomes a safe haven.
Learning format
Understand the process. Experience the practice.
Clinical video demonstrations and guided practice with the trainer.
ContactExperienceNew connection
Clinical video demonstrations
Giulia Altera will present recordings of therapy sessions from her own practice, commenting on interventions step by step as the clinical work unfolds.
Practical exercises
A substantial part of each day will be devoted to role-play exercises guided by the trainer.
Direct feedback
Participants will practise the moves of the EFT Tango and receive direct feedback on their ability to remain in contact with the client’s pain.
Italy · EFT Center
Trainer
Giulia Altera
clinical and forensic psychologist, certified trainer, supervisor, emotionally focused and schema therapist
Dr. Giulia Altera is a clinical and forensic psychologist, certified trainer, supervisor, emotionally focused and schema therapist. She is one of the founders of the EFT community in Italy and the director of the EFT Center in Northern Italy (North Italy), as well as one of the founders of the EFT communities in Southeast Brazil and Northeast Brazil.
Before specializing in EFT, Giulia Altera graduated with honors from the Millo Institute in Genoa with a degree in Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy, and then earned a master’s degree in Criminology and Forensic Psychiatry from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Genoa. As an external staff member, she worked in psychiatric hospitals for prisoners, high-security prisons, and drug and alcohol addiction treatment centers. During the same period, she completed international training in the treatment of trauma and dissociative disorders with Dr. Kathy Steele (ISSTD).
Dr. Giulia Altera is fluent in Italian (her native language), Portuguese and English, and can conduct therapy, supervision and training in all three languages.
Founder of the EFT communityItaly and Northern Italy (North Italy)
Director of the EFT CenterNorthern Italy (North Italy)
CBT specialistMillo Institute, Genoa
Master’s in CriminologyFaculty of Medicine and Surgery, Genoa
Schedule
Two days to deepen your clinical work
Italian summer time · UTC+2
Each day includes a lunch break.
June 7202709:00–16:30 CEST
June 8202709:00–16:30 CEST
Participation
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Participation costs €180. Two fixed payment amounts are available in the following currencies.
€180≈17 281 KGSParticipation in both training days
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