The Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy

Working w/ the Body’s Experience to Create Change: Special Guest Dr. Kathryn Rheem

We are honored to have Dr. Kathryn Rheem from The EFT Cafe as a guest on this episode. Kathryn and James discuss the importance of working with the body's experience to create change. They also discuss using the Levels of Experiencing Scale in EFT. 

 

More info on Experiencing Scale 

1. https://goodmedicine.org.uk/sites/default/files/experiencing%20scale.pdf
2. experiencing.htm

Clients Need Us to Pivot:Blocks are Cries for Reorganization of Protection

In this episode, we revisit a popular topic of working with clients' blocks to vulnerability. We take time not just to talk about getting past the block but about the significant work of reorganizing the chaotic experience in the block. 

* This is an update of a previously released version of this episode because I (James) made an error and gave the wrong name to the lady who does the Netflix show on home organization (Marie Kondo), and I did not correct myself or edit it before releasing the episode. While our heart is to help, we seek to own and take care to make sure our words do not cause hurt, and this error was hurtful. I am glad one of our Asian-American listeners pointed this out so I could fix it, and prevent my words from hurting more people.  

Special Guest Dr. Chad Imhoff:Calibrating Yourself as a tool in the Therapuetic Process

In this episode, James and special guest Chad Imhoff talk about the importance of knowing yourself as an important tool in the therapeutic process.  

More About the S.O.T Training with Chad and James.  

Join EFT Trainer Dr. James Hawkins (aka Doc Hawk) and EFT Supervisor, Dr. Chad Imhoff (aka The EFT Guy) for this ONE-DAY CEU Event! This workshop will help you develop awareness around your own emotional process while working with your clients. We will include moments of training, demonstrations, and of role plays designed to help you experience your process in areas where therapists often find themselves getting stuck.

 

Here is the registration link: S.O.T Registration Link 

S.A.F.E.: Proactive Alliance - A Tribute & Memorial to Dr. Katherine McKay

Word of memory, written by Dr. Lisa J. Palmer: 

 

It is with a heavy heart and tremendous pain, that we need to share with our community the passing of Dr. Katherine McKay over this last weekend. It has been a shock to all of us who have been along her side during this fight with cancer. We know she is with her God and getting fitted for angel wings as we share this very sad news.

 

After providing countless EFT workshops on supervision, diversity, trauma and coping with loss for other families, Katherine imprinted our entire community with her kindness and loving heart towards all. We will miss her greatly. She started the Supervisor's Collaborative with me that has now grown to over 400 people. We will be honoring her this Thursday at 9am PST and 12 pm Eastern, if you are interested in showing your support.

 

We will be running the contributions through Renova San Diego, our nonprofit corporation. 100% of the contributions (minus processing fees) will go to Katherine's daughter and her husband. All eligible donations to Katherine's family will receive a 501 donation receipt for your contribution, If requested.

 

Please join us in sharing this Go Fund Me link with as many friends, colleagues and EFT community members as you can, so we may help Katherine's family during this painful time.

 

With love and appreciation to everyone, EFT support Team

(Lisa Palmer-Olsen, Kathryn de Bruin, Marlene Best, Feion Villodas, James Hawkins, Ryan Rana, Leanne Campbell and Jim Furrow)

 

Here is the link to the gofundme in memory of Katherine. Katherine's gofundme

Working with Hopelessness

Welcome to the Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy with Drs. James Hawkins, Ph.D., LPC, and Ryan Rana, Ph.D., LMFT, LPC, ICEEFT Therapists, Supervisors, and Trainers. Thank you for listening. We hope this experience helps you push the leading edge in your work to help people connect with themselves and each other.

You can financially contribute to this podcast on Venmo (@dochawklpc) or Cash App ($dochawklpc). Type LEFT or Leading Edge in EFT in the comments or notes section. All financial contributions are greatly appreciated and will help us keep producing content to help you push your leading edge.

We desire to use this podcast to help equip therapists with tools and encouragement to help them with relational distress. We are also a part of a team that has created an online training program, Success in Vulnerability (SV). Success In Vulnerability is your premier online education experience that leads with innovative instruction to advance your therapeutic effectiveness through Success in Vulnerability’s exclusive Modules and full-length Clinical Examples.

Link for Self of the Therapist Training with James and Chad. 

• You can follow us on our Facebook page @pushtheleadingedge
• You can follow Ryan on Facebook @ryanranaprofessionaltraining and his website com.
• You can follow James on Facebook and Instagram @dochawklpc. You can also check out his website com.
• Check out our online training program com
• You can follow George @ https://www.georgefaller.com/.

Focus: Entering the F.R.A.(Y)

Welcome to the Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy with Drs. James Hawkins, Ph.D., LPC, and Ryan Rana, Ph.D., LMFT, LPC, ICEEFT Therapists, Supervisors, and Trainers. Thank you for listening. We hope this experience helps you push the leading edge in your work to help people connect with themselves and each other.

You can financially contribute to this podcast on Venmo (@dochawklpc) or Cash App ($dochawklpc). Type LEFT or Leading Edge in EFT in the comments or notes section. All financial contributions are greatly appreciated and will help us keep producing content to help you push your leading edge.

We desire to use this podcast to help equip therapists with tools and encouragement to help them with relational distress. We are also a part of a team that has created an online training program, Success in Vulnerability (SV). Success In Vulnerability is your premier online education experience that leads with innovative instruction to advance your therapeutic effectiveness through Success in Vulnerability’s exclusive Modules and full-length Clinical Examples.

• You can follow us on our Facebook page @pushtheleadingedge
• You can follow Ryan on Facebook @ryanranaprofessionaltraining and his website com.
• You can follow James on Facebook and Instagram @dochawklpc. You can also check out his website com.
• Check out our online training program com
• You can follow George @ https://www.georgefaller.com/.

The C.A.R.E Model of Assessment in EFT: Approaching Clients with Curiosity

We had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Leanne Campbell on the CARE. The C.A.R.E Model of Assessment in EFT is a great tool to help in assessment and attunement throughout the EFT process with individuals, couples, and families. Leanne so graciously shared an outline of her notes with us. You can also read The Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy.  We hope you find this helpful. 

CARE Model Outline

CONTEXT

• An experiential therapist seeks to enter the phenomenological world of the client. Therapist immerses self in contexts in which clients live and have lived, with attention to:
• Identity (e.g., race, ethnic, spiritual, religious, gender, sexuality)
• Environmental factors (e.g., socioeconomic, work/organizational, neighborhood)
• Experiences (e.g., racism, colorism, discrimination, sexism).

ATTACHMENT

• The therapist explores attachment and relationship history, with attention to:
• Pivotal experiences/critical moments that have shaped models of self and others.
• Coherence of narrative.
• Current relationship resources; relationship security/insecurity, intimacy/sex;
• potential intergenerational impacts, risk/vulnerability, and resiliency factors.

RELATIONSHIP/THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE

• As a ‘temporary attachment figure,’ the therapist establishes a ‘secure base’ characterized by A.R.E. at the outset of therapy.
• The therapist monitors the therapeutic alliance throughout the process of therapy.
• Therapist attunes to potential ruptures; contextual factors, including key
• The therapist joins with the client in discovering and exploring painful material.

EMOTION

• The therapist attends to the expression of emotion, affect regulation strategies, and capacity (e.g., ‘window of tolerance), with attention to:
• Core features of ‘emotional disorders (e.g., self-criticism, numbing, detachment, nightmares, flashbacks, hypervigilance, heightened anxiety);
• Process elements, e.g., body language, facial cues; automaticity and/or rigidity of strategy; capacity (on a continuum from wide to narrow); ‘emotional handles,’ e.g., poignant words, images, phrases.

Working With Positive Emotion

As therapists, we train to help people in deep valleys of pain and grief and go with them to peaks of anxiety and anger. In this episode, we want to talk about using their times of joy and celebration. 

The Role of Repetition

In this episode, we talk about the role of repetition in the EFT process and how to use it in an attuned way in session. 

Special Guest Gail Palmer: Can the Tango Hurt Your Process

We wanted to get some insight and supervision from an expert, so we called in Gail Palmer to be a special guest on this episode. Listen as Gail helps us understand how to use the structure of the Tango with attunement to the attachment process occurring in the room.