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Clinical Flow and Process Navigation: Refining the EFT Lens and compass
Advanced Immersion in Attachment Dynamics and Therapeutic Self
This advanced training serves as the essential bridge following the D.A.R.E. Trilogy, moving deeper into the moments where the EFT process becomes difficult to hold. It is designed for clinicians who know the model, yet find themselves, at times, losing direction when emotional intensity rises, when the cycle accelerates, or when one partner disappears while the other intensifies.
The focus is not on adding new concepts, but on refining the therapist’s capacity to stay oriented when the map begins to fade. We work on maintaining direction within the EFT Tango when the process becomes dense, unclear, or unstable—using attachment as a continuous organizing frame rather than a retrospective understanding.
Clinical Flow and Process Navigation: Refining the EFT Lens and compass
Advanced Immersion in Attachment Dynamics and Therapeutic Self
This advanced training serves as the essential bridge following the D.A.R.E. Trilogy, moving deeper into the moments where the EFT process becomes difficult to hold. It is designed for clinicians who know the model, yet find themselves, at times, losing direction when emotional intensity rises, when the cycle accelerates, or when one partner disappears while the other intensifies.
The focus is not on adding new concepts, but on refining the therapist’s capacity to stay oriented when the map begins to fade. We work on maintaining direction within the EFT Tango when the process becomes dense, unclear, or unstable—using attachment as a continuous organizing frame rather than a retrospective understanding.
- WHERE?Online with simultaneous translation into Russian
- WHEN?08-09 september 2026
9-00-16-30 CET - COST?$180/KGS15710
Navigating Inner Landscapes: The Withdrawer and the Pursuer
A central part of the workshop is a granular exploration of the internal worlds of both partners, with particular attention to the moments where the therapist risks losing contact, becoming ineffective, or being pulled into the cycle.
The Withdrawer’s Interiority
We examine the subtle layers of shame, the “I don’t know” not simply as resistance but as a threshold where experience collapses, and the neurobiological shutdown that occurs when connection is coded as danger. These are the moments where therapists often feel they are “losing the client.”
A central part of the workshop is a granular exploration of the internal worlds of both partners, with particular attention to the moments where the therapist risks losing contact, becoming ineffective, or being pulled into the cycle.
The Withdrawer’s Interiority
We examine the subtle layers of shame, the “I don’t know” not simply as resistance but as a threshold where experience collapses, and the neurobiological shutdown that occurs when connection is coded as danger. These are the moments where therapists often feel they are “losing the client.”
The work focuses on how to enter this space without intrusion, without pressure, and without becoming a pursuer—tracking micro-signals of life within stillness, and supporting the re-emergence of experience from within the client’s internal logic.
The Pursuer’s Longing
We work with the intensity of protest not as something to regulate down, but as a signal that has lost its direction. Beneath anger, urgency, or repetition, we identify the attachment fears that organize the movement.
The clinical task is to transform intensity into reach: shaping emotion into something that can be received, rather than defended against. This requires precise timing, differentiation between secondary escalation and primary longing, and the ability to interrupt circularity without shutting down emotional energy.
Hope as a Clinical Tool
Across both positions, we introduce and refine the use of hope as an active clinical intervention. As a carefully tracked and co-constructed process.
We work on how to recognize and amplify micro-moments of possibility in the session—small shifts, brief openings, moments of contact—and how to give them shape and meaning before they disappear. Hope becomes a regulatory and directional tool: something that reorganizes expectation, supports risk, and sustains movement when the process feels fragile or uncertain.
The Therapist’s Use of Self and the Attachment Compass
In high-intensity moments, the therapist’s internal state becomes the primary organizing force in the room. This workshop emphasizes the therapist’s capacity to remain regulated, present, and non-reactive when the session begins to destabilize.
We focus on how therapists lose their position—becoming urgent, distant, over-structuring, or hesitant—and how to recover orientation in real time. This includes attention to pacing, tone, silence, and the sequencing of interventions, as well as the continuous monitoring of the alliance as a living process.
Rather than applying the model, the aim is to inhabit it—to use it as a way of seeing, tracking, and moving moment by moment.
The Pursuer’s Longing
We work with the intensity of protest not as something to regulate down, but as a signal that has lost its direction. Beneath anger, urgency, or repetition, we identify the attachment fears that organize the movement.
The clinical task is to transform intensity into reach: shaping emotion into something that can be received, rather than defended against. This requires precise timing, differentiation between secondary escalation and primary longing, and the ability to interrupt circularity without shutting down emotional energy.
Hope as a Clinical Tool
Across both positions, we introduce and refine the use of hope as an active clinical intervention. As a carefully tracked and co-constructed process.
We work on how to recognize and amplify micro-moments of possibility in the session—small shifts, brief openings, moments of contact—and how to give them shape and meaning before they disappear. Hope becomes a regulatory and directional tool: something that reorganizes expectation, supports risk, and sustains movement when the process feels fragile or uncertain.
The Therapist’s Use of Self and the Attachment Compass
In high-intensity moments, the therapist’s internal state becomes the primary organizing force in the room. This workshop emphasizes the therapist’s capacity to remain regulated, present, and non-reactive when the session begins to destabilize.
We focus on how therapists lose their position—becoming urgent, distant, over-structuring, or hesitant—and how to recover orientation in real time. This includes attention to pacing, tone, silence, and the sequencing of interventions, as well as the continuous monitoring of the alliance as a living process.
Rather than applying the model, the aim is to inhabit it—to use it as a way of seeing, tracking, and moving moment by moment.
Clinical
Methodology: Evidence through Observation
The
learning process is strictly grounded in clinical reality. Theory is always
secondary to the direct observation of change.
Micro-analysis of video
we will stop at precise moments where the process shifts, stalls, or becomes unclear, examining what is happening in the interaction, what the therapist is tracking, and what options are available at that exact point
Experiential role play
participants
will practice not only what to say, but how and when to say it—working on
timing, embodiment, and the use of presence as an intervention
Consolidation
and the Path Toward Trauma Work
Live demonstrations
interventions
will be shaped in response to real clinical questions, showing how decisions
emerge in context rather than from protocol
The emphasis throughout is on developing procedural clarity
knowing
what you are doing, why you are doing it, and how to adjust when it is not
working.
This is the
point where EFT becomes fully alive in the room: not as a map to follow, but as
a process the therapist can hold, shape, and trust.
This
workshop functions as a critical phase of consolidation. Before engaging more
directly with trauma, dissociation, and attachment injury, the therapist must
be able to remain oriented when emotional experience becomes intense,
fragmented, or difficult to access.
By strengthening precision in Stage 1 and early Stage 2 processes, we create the conditions for deeper work without losing coherence.
From this point, trauma work does not appear as a separate domain, but as a natural extension of the same process—when the therapist can stay present at the edge of emotional survival without losing direction.
By strengthening precision in Stage 1 and early Stage 2 processes, we create the conditions for deeper work without losing coherence.
From this point, trauma work does not appear as a separate domain, but as a natural extension of the same process—when the therapist can stay present at the edge of emotional survival without losing direction.
Dr. Julia Altera is a clinical and forensic psychologist, certified trainer, supervisor, Emotionally Focused Therapist, 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. Additionally, she is a co-founder of the EFT communities in Southeast and Northeast Brazil.
Before specializing in EFT, Julia Altera graduated with honors from the Miller Institute in Genoa with a degree in Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy. She then earned a master's degree from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Genoa in Criminology and Forensic Psychiatry. As an external consultant, she worked in psychiatric hospitals for prisoners, high-security prisons, and addiction treatment centers for drug and alcohol dependency. During this time, she also underwent international training in trauma treatment and dissociative disorders with Dr. Kathy Steele (ISSTD).
Dr. Julia Altera is fluent in Italian (native), Portuguese, and English and can conduct therapy, supervision, and training in all three languages
Before specializing in EFT, Julia Altera graduated with honors from the Miller Institute in Genoa with a degree in Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy. She then earned a master's degree from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Genoa in Criminology and Forensic Psychiatry. As an external consultant, she worked in psychiatric hospitals for prisoners, high-security prisons, and addiction treatment centers for drug and alcohol dependency. During this time, she also underwent international training in trauma treatment and dissociative disorders with Dr. Kathy Steele (ISSTD).
Dr. Julia Altera is fluent in Italian (native), Portuguese, and English and can conduct therapy, supervision, and training in all three languages
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Payment | Julia Altera: EFT in High-Intensity Moments: Navigating Escalation and Clinical Process
September, 08-09 2026
9-00-16-30 CET
9-00-16-30 CET
Cost
$180/KGS15710
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Алексеевич
ИНН 20111199950162
ОАО «Оптима Банк»
БИК 109018
р/с 1091813393600143
к/с 7A8-8-USD-01-2
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