Institute for Emotionally Focused Therapy

Graduate Certificate in Emotionally Focused Counselling

This course is designed for professionals wishing to develop an Emotionally Focused approach to counselling. The Emotionally Focused approach to individual and couple counselling is a comprehensive and integrative approach focusing on emotional experience, and includes working with feelings, thinking and expectations as well as behaviour. The focus of this program is the assessment, exploration and working with emotional experience. This program will focus on the counselling process, providing structured yet flexible protocols for assessment and ongoing counselling work. Protocols for intervening using verbal and creative methods, such as focusing, visualisation, drawing and cushion work, are provided and demonstrated. Counsellors have an opportunity to consider and practise these verbal and creative techniques for exploring symptomatic behaviours, negative experiences, and self-critical thinking and behaviour.