Aikin Associates

August 1, 2, & 3, 2024

Greater Sacramento-Davis EFT Center with Reno Tahoe Community for EFT

Training Team

Nancy Aikin, Ph.D. and Paul Aikin, Ph.D.
EFT Certified Trainers & Supervisors
Assisted by Con Sheehan, LCSW, EFT Certified Therapist & Supervisor

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Cost: $1,095 for Licensed therapists ($995 by July 1st)
Full-Time Students/Interns: $650
Equity Rate**: $650
Externship “Refresher” (for those who have already taken an Externship, but would like to brush up!): $200

**This registration option is for therapists who work with an under-resourced population. Send an email to visualerin@yahoo.com to tell us how you qualify for this discount.  A maximum of 10 discounted registrations are available and will be offered in the order the emails are received. 

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The EFCT Externship is the initial training required for all subsequent EFT trainings and the beginning of the road toward certification. Completing one allows you to become a full member of ICEEFT (and you will receive a discounted rate for membership). Full membership allows you to be listed on ICEEFT’s “Find a Therapist” section of their website, listing your location, credentials and completion of an EFT Externship. This helps people in your area searching for an EFT-oriented therapist locate you much more easily!

The EFT Externship is a multiple-day immersion in the Emotionally Focused Therapy model developed by Dr. Sue Johnson. The complete EFT treatment map will be presented. Specific interventions, attachment theory, accessing and processing of emotions, systemic understandings and much, much more will be covered.

In this Externship, you will learn to:

• See relational distress from an attachment perspective.
• Help clients reprocess their emotional responses that have contributed to and maintained distress.
• Shape key corrective emotional experiences, overcoming blocks and creating more security.
• Obtain a clear understanding of the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an “Emotionally Focused” approach to therapy.
• Be able to view clients in the web of their interpersonal attachments and conceptualize relationship distress and repair based on theories of attachment and emotion.
• EFT is a relational therapy. The Externship will focus on the model of EFCT laid out in the 2019 book, Attachment Theory in Practice, and teach the model as implemented in couple therapy sessions.
• Develop skills in sharing and maintaining an engaged, open and collaborative alliance with clients.
• Develop skills in the 5 moves of the basic macro-intervention – the EFT Tango – in order to change patterns of affect regulation, models of self and other, strategies for engaging others and interactional patterns.
• Develop skills in EFT micro interventions taken from experiential and attachment systemic models of intervention.
• Develop skills in overcoming common blocks and impasses in couple therapy and so shape core corrective emotional experiences that lead to constructive dependency and what Rogers termed ‘existential living.’

You will also see EFT in action during live consultation sessions; always a big highlight.

24 CE Credits – *To receive Continuing Education Credits, you must attend ALL hours of the training. 

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Location:

5650 Riggins Court, Reno, NV 89502

Meeting Times:

Thursday, August 1, Friday, August 2, and Saturday, August 3, 2024 from 8:30 am – 6:00 pm PT each day (with one hour for lunch and two fifteen-minute breaks)
*To receive Continuing Education Credits, you must attend ALL hours of the training.

Registration:

There are two steps to register. Make payment (see instructions below), then fill out the registration form (below payment options).

$1,095 for Licensed Therapists ($995 by July 1st)

10% discount for licensed therapists if two or more people from your group register for this Externship: $985 ($895 by July 1st)

$650 for Full-time Students/Interns

$650 Equity Rate (approval required)

$200 for Externship “Refresher” (for those who have already taken an Externship, but would like to brush up!)

To use Venmo – (@Nancy-Aikin – last four digits of phone# are -1912 – Please double check spelling!!)

To use Zelle – paulaaikin@gmail.com (please copy/paste to avoid common spelling errors!)

*IMPORTANT: Please verify that the payment account you use to pay contains YOUR name, address, and email address. If it does not, send a quick email to Erin (visualerin@yahoo.com) letting us know. Otherwise we will not have the correct registration/contact information for you.*

To register, please fill out the form below:

Cancellation Policy:

Two weeks+ advance notice – Full refund less $40 administrative costs
Between 7-13 days notice – One half of the total fee will be refunded
Less than 1 week notice – We are unable to offer a refund when canceled within one week of the workshop date, due to fixed costs and contractual obligations. When you enroll, it is with the understanding that you will attend. Please contact us as soon as possible if you need to cancel your attendance.

*Aikin Associates Seminars is approved by the California Psychological Association (CPA) to provide continuing education for psychologists. Aikin Associates Seminars maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) now recognizes CPA continuing education credit for license renewal for LCSWs & MFTs. Aikin Associates Seminars maintains responsibility for the BBS program and its contents.