Emotionally Focused Therapy Supervision
If you are interested in expert consultation in Emotionally Focused Therapy, or are working towards ICEEFT Certification in Emotionally Focused Therapy, I am an ICEEFT Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist and ICEEFT-approved EFT Supervisor Candidate. EFT is a challenging model to learn and integrate, and supervision is an essential experience in becoming a better EFT therapist independent of your desire to earn certification or not. I have been fortunate to have experienced (and continue to experience!) high quality EFT supervision, and I am happy to pay it forward to other learners of EFT. No matter your level of experience with EFT, I would be glad to accompany and support you in your growth.
I offer EFT supervision in a few formats:
Individual Supervision costs $100 per 60 minutes
An important detail to note is that I am an ICEEFT-approved EFT Supervisor Candidate, which means I am an EFT Supervisor-in-Training. That being said, my supervision does count towards supervisees' ICEEFT Certification in Emotionally Focused Therapy, and I am currently in Supervision-of-Supervision with ICEEFT-Certified Trainer Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen, and also participate in an on-line supervision-of-supervision group with Trainers Marlene Best and Lisa Palmer-Olsen (with occasional guest appearances from other Certified EFT Trainers). If you decide to pursue supervision with me, know that you're getting supervision under quality training.
I offer EFT supervision in a few formats:
- In-office (Durham, NC) - I offer individual consultation/supervision on a supervisee-determined frequency.
- On-line - I offer individual consultation/supervision on a supervisee-determined frequency, and a once monthly on-line group (co-led with Certified EFT Supervisor Greg Cheney, LMFT - email me if you are interested). Your computer must be able to run Zoom Conference software, have a functioning web camera and microphone, and a high-speed internet connection to participate in online supervision. In order to show clips of recorded work, you will need to use a computer (not a smart phone or tablet).
Individual Supervision costs $100 per 60 minutes
An important detail to note is that I am an ICEEFT-approved EFT Supervisor Candidate, which means I am an EFT Supervisor-in-Training. That being said, my supervision does count towards supervisees' ICEEFT Certification in Emotionally Focused Therapy, and I am currently in Supervision-of-Supervision with ICEEFT-Certified Trainer Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen, and also participate in an on-line supervision-of-supervision group with Trainers Marlene Best and Lisa Palmer-Olsen (with occasional guest appearances from other Certified EFT Trainers). If you decide to pursue supervision with me, know that you're getting supervision under quality training.
What to Expect From EFT Supervision
So, what can you expect in supervision?:
Alliance and Attunement: We are always concerned first and foremost with how we work relationally with EFT supervisees, insuring their emotional safety the supervision process, and how to help supervisees build strong therapeutic alliances and attunement with clients so they can provide the same safety with their clients.
Conceptualization from an EFT frame: We want to help supervisees with acquisition and understanding of EFT theory and knowledge about the problems our clients experience and the antidotes that the EFT process offers. This includes review and integration of materials from EFT training including Attachment Theory, Emotion Theory, Experiential Theory, and Systemic Theory.
Experiential and Systemic Skills Learning and Application: We focus on how to "build muscle memory" through in-vivo practical application of experiential and systemic therapy intervention skills in supervision sessions. Some times this happens in a conversation, and some times through role play of client-therapist.
Self-of-Therapist: We want to support supervisees in understanding how their own experiences operate in the work, and how to work authentically and with integrity. This can mean identifying therapist emotional blocks to fully utilizing skills and concepts, working together to resolve those blocks, and/or identifying resources for the therapist's support and growth.
For supervision sessions to count towards ICEEFT Certification, these "countable" sessions must include review of the therapist's recorded work with couples or families (at this time, there is no individual therapy certification from ICEEFT). Viewing recorded work gives supervisees and supervisors the best window into the process of the sessions and the therapist's work, and allows maximum potential for growth in supervision. This also allows the supervisor to evaluate readiness to submit clips to ICEEFT in order to apply for EFT Certification.
While the EFT consultation/supervision process does have a technical and intellectual element that is explicit (i.e. what interventions to do when, for whom and how), we attend to the whole experience of the therapist in session and more broadly. This attuning approach to mentoring and monitoring decreases the anxiety and potential shame often experienced by the therapist in supervision and in their therapy, and increases the deep learning needed to integrate attachment-based, systemic & experiential approaches such as Emotionally Focused Therapy. In essence, supervision is about your sense of safety and support, and offers you the opportunity for growth beyond theoretical conceptualization and technical skills. It is a "whole therapist" growth and learning support process!
Alliance and Attunement: We are always concerned first and foremost with how we work relationally with EFT supervisees, insuring their emotional safety the supervision process, and how to help supervisees build strong therapeutic alliances and attunement with clients so they can provide the same safety with their clients.
Conceptualization from an EFT frame: We want to help supervisees with acquisition and understanding of EFT theory and knowledge about the problems our clients experience and the antidotes that the EFT process offers. This includes review and integration of materials from EFT training including Attachment Theory, Emotion Theory, Experiential Theory, and Systemic Theory.
Experiential and Systemic Skills Learning and Application: We focus on how to "build muscle memory" through in-vivo practical application of experiential and systemic therapy intervention skills in supervision sessions. Some times this happens in a conversation, and some times through role play of client-therapist.
Self-of-Therapist: We want to support supervisees in understanding how their own experiences operate in the work, and how to work authentically and with integrity. This can mean identifying therapist emotional blocks to fully utilizing skills and concepts, working together to resolve those blocks, and/or identifying resources for the therapist's support and growth.
For supervision sessions to count towards ICEEFT Certification, these "countable" sessions must include review of the therapist's recorded work with couples or families (at this time, there is no individual therapy certification from ICEEFT). Viewing recorded work gives supervisees and supervisors the best window into the process of the sessions and the therapist's work, and allows maximum potential for growth in supervision. This also allows the supervisor to evaluate readiness to submit clips to ICEEFT in order to apply for EFT Certification.
While the EFT consultation/supervision process does have a technical and intellectual element that is explicit (i.e. what interventions to do when, for whom and how), we attend to the whole experience of the therapist in session and more broadly. This attuning approach to mentoring and monitoring decreases the anxiety and potential shame often experienced by the therapist in supervision and in their therapy, and increases the deep learning needed to integrate attachment-based, systemic & experiential approaches such as Emotionally Focused Therapy. In essence, supervision is about your sense of safety and support, and offers you the opportunity for growth beyond theoretical conceptualization and technical skills. It is a "whole therapist" growth and learning support process!
*"EFT Supervision" is not supervision towards a professional mental health/psychotherapy license. All EFT supervisees/consultees are required to hold a full license to practice psychotherapy in their location of practice, or to hold an associate/provisional-level license and simultaneously meet legal requirements for professional license supervision in their location of practice. Hiring me as an EFT Supervisor or consultant does not automatically contract me as a supervisor for professional licensure.
