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Integrating Sex and Sexuality in EFT Couples’ Work – Feb 2 & 5, 2024

Presenters: Lisa Blum, PsyD and Silvina Irwin, PhD Course Description: Have you experienced the dilemma of helping couples achieve greater emotional connection through EFT, and yet found that this does not always translate directly into greater sexual desire, contact and flexibility between the partners? This workshop will present a frame for understanding that dilemma, and offer approaches for more fully integrating sexual concerns into our EFT work, with the goal of helping couples take new risks with each other so that they can share a more vibrant sexual connection. This workshop will include: how to decipher the map of a couple’s sexual cycle; how to do thorough assessment of each partner’s sexual history, taking into the account the context of the client’s intersecting identities; understanding sexual responses and freezes within an attachment frame; interventions that help create a secure base of “safe touch”; how to identify and work with our own…

Hold Me Tight® : 7 Conversations for a Lifetime of Love – February 7-9, 2020

Presenters: Lisa Blum, PsyD and Silvina Irwin, PhD Drs. Silvina Irwin and Lisa Blum are offering this educational and experiential workshop which teaches you the core concepts of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), heralded as one of the most effective couples therapies by the New York times and endorsed by the American Psychological Society as scientifically proven. These workshops are based on the international best-selling book Hold Me Tight: 7 Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson. These transformative workshops will help you reconnect, repair, and re-energize your relationship and help you create a positive loving bond that will last a lifetime. Dates: February 7-9, 2020 Time: Starts Friday at 3 PM and ends Sunday by 1 PM. See schedule below for details CE Units: 14.0 Location: Temecula Creek Inn 44501 Rainbow Canyon Road Temecula, CA 92592 888.976.3404 Cost: Regular Registration per couple is $1350.00. A limited number…

Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) – Feb. 23, 2018

Presenters: Lisa Blum, PsyD and Silvina Irwin, PhD New Date: Friday February 23, 2018 Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a research-validated, attachment-based approach to working with couples. EFT offers a map for understanding relationship needs and struggles in a coherent framework. This interactive introductory seminar combines didactic presentation, case vignettes, and videotaped excerpts of EFT in action with distressed couples. The presenters provide an overview of the EFT model, present key techniques and interventions, and discuss current research and practice applications. Time: 1 pm – 5:15 pm (sign in and snacks from 12:30 – 1pm) CE Units: 4.0 Location: 95 N. Marengo Ave, Suite 100 Cost: $109 — Early bird price: $99 if registered by Monday February 12th Course Level: Beginning to Intermediate. This course is suitable for all practitioners who are unfamiliar with EFT Couples Therapy or who have had minimal training in the use of EFT Couples Therapy You…