A space for professional growth: from confidence to mastery
“An EFT therapist cannot become one on their own” — a phrase familiar to everyone who trains in emotionally focused therapy.
Professional development as an EFT therapist happens in contact: with clients, colleagues, supervisors and a professional community. BALENTEIN supports the development of the EFT community and creates formats that help therapists stay in live dialogue, keep growing, strengthen their professional identity and feel supported by the community at every stage of their path.
We invite you into a professional and supportive space that brings together EFT therapists from all over the world. Within the EFT Laboratory project several participation formats are available. They differ in structure and tasks, but they share one professional environment.
A chance to stay among colleagues who speak the same professional language.
A space where you can share your own experience and rely on the experience of others.
A safe environment for discussing complex cases, doubts and therapeutic impasses.
Deepening professional skills, reflection and confidence in the therapeutic stance.
Each programme has its own structure and tasks — but all of them keep you in live professional contact: with practice, with case material and with colleagues.
A practice-oriented training course for beginning EFT therapists who already have the basics and want to deepen their understanding of the model, strengthen their skills and work more confidently with couples.
Thematic workshops for an in-depth and precise rehearsal of specific EFT skills. Every meeting is built around one topic and helps to integrate the skill into your own therapeutic style.
A training format for couple therapists in which a professional view of relationships is developed through the analysis of film couples, emotional cycles and therapeutic strategies.
An open space of professional dialogue for EFT therapists. Here participants read and discuss scientific papers, books, conference materials and international sources together.
This practice-oriented course walks participants step by step through the model of emotionally focused therapy. Participants learn and rehearse the core skills and interventions of the EFT therapist, which can be applied in client work straight away.
The main focus is the first stage of the therapeutic process and steps 1–4 of the EFT map.
The course suits professionals who have completed basic EFT training, as well as therapists who have taken advanced courses and still feel insecure in their work with couples.
You already have the knowledge, but confidence is still missing? This course is a space to strengthen your professional footing.
Facilitators: Daria Danshina and Yuliana Novozhilova
EFT Focus Practice is a format of regular thematic workshops for an in-depth and precise rehearsal of specific EFT skills — without an overload of theory and with a strong emphasis on practice.
Each meeting is devoted to one particular topic, step or movement of the EFT process. A single skill is worked through until it becomes clear: its function, its tasks, the typical difficulties of the therapist and of the clients — and then it is rehearsed many times in contact.
The format assumes active participation and practice in small groups. This is a space for trials, mistakes, clarifications and repetitions — everything that is needed to turn knowledge into a sustainable professional skill.
The alliance with a couple is a live, dynamic process: it is tested, lost and restored throughout the whole therapy. This workshop focuses on building the alliance, recognising ruptures, restoring contact and consolidating the skills in practical exercises.
Cinema Therapy is a training format for couple therapists in which a professional view of relationships is developed through the analysis of film couples. Scenes from films and series are used as safe training cases for studying interaction dynamics, the emotional cycles of partners and therapeutic strategies, based on EFT and attachment theory.
For EFT therapists, family and couple psychologists, as well as individual therapists who want to develop skills in diagnosing interaction and understanding relationship dynamics through the lens of attachment.
Reflecting and confirming a partner’s experience without confirming the behaviour that causes the other pain.
The EFT Video Library is a space of professional dialogue and shared thinking for EFT therapists. In the meetings you can slow down, go deeper into the theory and thoughtfully integrate knowledge into practice among colleagues.
Here you are allowed not to know, to doubt, to ask questions and to think aloud, staying in contact with yourself, with your colleagues and with the values of the EFT approach.
Emotionally focused therapist, systemic family therapist, assistant of international EFT training programmes, member of ICEEFT.
Psychology expert for the magazines Mel and Takie Dela, for Chips Journal and for the projects Mamam.tut and Imperfect Parent.
Clinical psychologist, lecturer in psychology, emotionally focused therapist, lead of the training «Hug Me Tighter», assistant of the international EFT programme, member of ICEEFT.
Choose the format that matches the stage you are at right now: systematic training, focused practice, analysis of film couples or an open professional dialogue.
