Objectives
- Identify the three stages and nine steps of the EFT model and determine which stage a couple is in based on observable session markers.
- Analyze negative interactional cycles (pursue-withdraw, withdraw-withdraw) by mapping triggers, secondary emotions, primary emotions, and attachment fears for each partner.
- Demonstrate the 5-move Tango intervention sequence (reflect, assemble, choreograph, process, integrate) through role-play with appropriate pacing and language.
- Differentiate between primary emotions (fear, shame, hurt, longing) and secondary emotions (anger, frustration) in couple interactions using nonverbal and verbal cues.
- Apply evocative questions and empathic conjecture to access and deepen underlying attachment emotions in real-time sessions.
- Construct therapeutic enactments that facilitate vulnerable emotional sharing between partners and create corrective emotional experiences.
- Utilize RISSSSC techniques (Repeat, Image, Simple, Slow, Soft, Somatic, Client words) to heighten and expand emotional experiencing.
- Implement the withdrawer re-engagement protocol by accessing negative self-view, facilitating assertion of needs, and supporting partner responsiveness.
- Facilitate pursuer softening by moving partners from critical anger to vulnerable longing and fear of abandonment.
- Evaluate when EFT is appropriate versus contraindicated and identify safety concerns, risk factors, and appropriate referral criteria.
- Diagnose attachment injuries in couple relationships and apply the 5-step healing protocol to address relational betrayals.
- Integrate sexuality assessment and intervention within the EFT framework by identifying sealed-off, solace, and synchrony sexual patterns.
- Formulate responses to therapeutic impasses (client-level, therapist-level, process-level) using specific interventions to restore treatment progress.
- Synthesize all EFT concepts to develop comprehensive case conceptualizations from initial assessment through consolidation and termination.




