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Portland Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples – ONLINE
July 1, 2021 - October 15, 2021
September 22-24, 2021 (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) and
October 14-15 (Thursday and Friday)
9am-2:15pm PST/12pm-5:15pmEST
Orientation on Monday, September 20, 4pm-530 PST/7-830 EST
Live session demonstrations and discussions
Saturday, September 25, 2021 9am-11amPST/12-2pmEST
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 9am-11amPST/12-2pmEST
Registration is now closed.
This training will be held online on the Zoom platform
Cost:
$995 – Early Bird Registration until August 15, 2021
$1095 – Standard Registration
$750 – Full-Time Student (with valid ID)
PCEFT is offering an Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Fellowship.
The fellowship is now closed for this year. Check back next spring for next year’s opportunity!
EFT will transform your work with couples and families.
An Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples is the first level of training on the road to learning this powerful model.
This four day training will cover the steps and stages of working with couples from an attachment perspective. Training will be packed with didactic as well as experiential learning opportunities. There will be two live consultations of a trainer working with a couple (pending availability). We will also spend time introducing how to use EFT with individuals and with families.
Who should attend: The Externship is recommended for all licensed professionals who counsel couples, including psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, pastors, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, counselors and students training in these professions.
EFT is for all of us! We celebrate diversity and strive to be a more inclusive community. We will be exploring aspects of how race, sexuality, gender, power and culture inform and shape our experience of relational attachment and our well-being.
Cancellation policy: If you wish to withdraw from the Externship, you must do so in writing. If you cancel before September 1, 2021, you will receive a full refund minus a $50 administrative fee. We are sorry that no refunds will be available for cancellations made after September 1, 2021 due to administrative and budgetary costs.
Externship Description
An Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy is a deep dive into how to harness the power of attachment, vulnerability, and relatedness to help people have deeper more satisfying relationships. We will present theory and research that helps us to understand how adult attachment bonds work and what happens when they are threatened. We go through the model stage by stage and help you learn how to guide couples to a closer more intimate relationship. We will be weaving in the perspective of race, culture, gender and sexuality with attachment and emotion.
We will use experiential exercises that give you the opportunity to try on what you are learning and start to apply this powerful model. We will support you and help to create an environment that is a safe and supportive place for us all to grow. You will be supported by the trainers but also by a team of community therapists who are already learning the model. These volunteer helpers will be there to help you to practice and digest what you are learning.
You will be assigned to a homeroom which is a small group facilitated experience where you get a chance to process and connect with other participants along the way. We will be offering some homerooms as affinity homerooms where participants can choose to be with other participants who have similar lived experiences, such as a homeroom for people of color, or participants who identify as LGBTQIA+. We hope that this optional experience will deepen your sense of safety and help you make connections in the community.
One highlight for many folks who attend an Externship is the live demonstrations. We will do 2 live demonstrations of the model with real couples. This brings the model alive and provides a powerful experience of working with attachment, process, and vulnerability.
Meet your presenters
SHARON CHATKUPT LEE, PSYD
Certified Trainer and Supervisor
Sharon Chatkupt Lee, PsyD, is a psychologist in private practice in Portland, Oregon since 2003. Sharon fell in love with EFT and began studying seriously to be an EFT therapist in 2006 alongside advanced gestalt training. Once certified in EFT, Sharon became a founding member for the Oregon Community for Emotionally Focused Therapists – now PCEFT.
She has special interests in supervision and self-of-therapist challenges in EFT, as well as trauma. She is also studying yoga therapy, which has further developed her ability to work with trauma and the body. Sharon lives with her husband, their two teens, and a labradoodle named Huckleberry Finn who works in the office with her. Out of the office you will find her with family, walking in the woods, doing yoga, kayaking, knitting, or working on social justice issues.
ZOYA SIMAKHODSKAYA, PH.D
Certified EFT Therapist, Trainer and Supervisor
Zoya Simakhodskaya, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and certified EFT Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. She is a founding member and Executive Director of the Board of Directors of NYCEFT. Zoya is also a Founder and Director of Center for Psychological and Interpersonal Development dedicated to high quality individual and couples therapy and EFT training. Zoya has a full-time practice in Chelsea, NY with adults and couples, specializing in cross-cultural and bilingual population. In addition to her psychotherapy practice, Zoya has many years of experience providing crisis intervention in a psychiatric emergency service and continues as a voluntary faculty at NYU School of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and CUNY Graduate Center. Zoya enjoys helping therapists learn EFT and teaches nationally and internationally, now bringing EFT to Russia and Ukraine. She has particular interest and expertise in applying EFT to help couples have satisfying and fulfilling sexual relationships.
Continuing Education Credits:
28 hours of CE offered for $35.
This course meets the qualifications for 28 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Allison Brownlee, PsyD., LMFT #89484 is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education. Dr. Allison Brownlee, PsyD., LMFT #89484 maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. For grievances, please submit an email to dr.allisonbrownlee@gmail.com and include the following information: first and last name, phone number, email address, circumstances of grievance (time, place, event, instructor, offense, and any other relevant information). Dr. Brownlee will respond to email grievances, via phone, within 2 business days of receipt of grievance.
