Aikin Associates

 

The Greater Sacramento-Davis EFT Center 

Drs. Paul and Nancy Aikin, Trainers & Co-Directors of the Center

Offering a Series of Workshops featuring
5 Renowned EFT Trainers

for your pleasure and edification

The first workshop is by Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen:

Working with Shame in EFT Therapy

October 12 & 13, 2018
Two One-Day Workshops

This training distinguishes itself from the currently popular educational shame work. It is attachment based, and grounded in researched processes of experiential change – articulated in the EFT model. All therapists/counselors are appropriate for this training, no previous EFT training is required.

Day One: October 12th

Using a mixture of didactic presentations, case discussion, viewing and discussion of clinical training tapes and experiential exercises you will review what you need to know to treat couples/clients who present with significant amounts of shame, and will also work with self-of-therapist issues that come up when working with shame, to increase your own shame resilience.

Shame, the unspeakable emotion, increases with couple/client distress and is often present but illusive in treatment. It tends to block therapists from organizing the elements of emotion that matter most in successful completion of the three change processes of Emotionally Focused Therapy.

Recognizing, attuning to, and exploring this inherently disorganizing and hidden emotion is essential for treating couples/clients, especially those in high distress, with insecure childhood attachment, and those dealing with trauma.

This workshop is designed to help therapists identify and work with shame and the emotions it binds to.

You will learn to help couples/clients across the spectrum of distress, including the more difficult, complex and chaotic patterns, develop emotional balance and security. You will have opportunity to review and practice the EFT interventions most useful when partners/individuals are dealing with debilitating shame. You will learn to utilize the interventions that help heal shame that blocks clients from receiving love and experience positive bonding.

Objectives

• Understand the emotion of shame and its relevance in couple therapy.
• Be able to identify the pivotal moments to process shame, heal residual shame distress, and shape recovery.
• Define and practice specific interventions as they are refined to fit the  needs of high shame couples.
• Use therapist/practitioner experience to identify, empathize with and attune to both secondary and primary shame.

 

Day Two: October 13th – Case Presentations

Participants will be able to ask for time to present cases they find themselves blocked with either by the shame of their client/couples or by their own shame response. We will draw from a hat of volunteer participants and include as many of you as time permits. We will also have a live couple with shame wounding working with Dr. Jorgensen in front of the group. There is nothing like a live demonstration to see Dr. Jorgensen demonstrate the skills you will be learning and practicing yourselves in these two days of learning.

 

Cost:

(Cost includes CEU’s, snacks and beverages; lunch not provided.)

Day One: Cost is $180 ($150 for students/interns), with an early registration price of $160 ($135 for students/interns) through 9-17-18

Day Two: Cost is $180 ($150 for students/interns), with an early registration price of $160 ($135 for students/interns) through 9-17-18

Dates:

 Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13, 2018

Time:

9:00 am – 5:00 pm both days

Location:

Day 1: Hampton Inn & Suites – 2060 Freeway Drive, Woodland, CA 95776
Day 2: 1107 Ovejas Ave., Davis, CA 95616

You can sign up for both workshops or for one or the other.

Registration:

1. Fill out the following registration form “Working with Shame” Registration Form and return either by mail to 1107 Ovejas Avenue, Davis, CA95616 or scan and email to paulaaikin@gmail.com as soon as possible.

2. Pay here:
– Licensed Therapists:
Day 1: $180 ($160 by 9/17/18)
Day 2: $180 ($160 by 9/17/18)

-Full-time Students/Interns:
Day 1: $150 ($135 by 9/17/18)
Day 2: $150 ($135 by 9/17/18)

*Please send us a quick email (paulaaikin@gmail.com) if the name on the payment account differs from the person who will be attending the workshop.

 

Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen completed her EFT training with Dr. Sue Johnson, becoming certified as an EFT Therapist and Supervisor and then was honored to be added to Susan Johnson’s team of EFT Trainers. With years of experience as an EFT Trainer, Becca travels frequently and internationally to help therapists discover the power of using EFT. She is devoted to strengthening families through helping couples develop safe and secure marital bonds and helping other therapists learn more effective couple’s therapy. Becca is a co-Director of the Training and Research Institute for EFT in San Diego and founder and of Attachment Advancement Institute where she offers online attachment information and seminars. She maintains a clinical practice in conjunction with her passion for advancing education and training in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

 

“At last, we have a map for working with shame in couple relationships! I highly recommend Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen’s (Becca) gentle, supportive, and evidence-based approach to working with shame using EFT. It has been such an important piece for me to develop in my work with couples and with supervisees. The workshop provided the opportunity for me to understand shame and how shame can be functional and an essential primary emotion while also absorbing and often present in negative cycles with couples. The workshop provided me with important skills to identify and contain secondary shame and how to explore and transform primary shame. Becca also helped me explore my own experience of shame as a therapist and supervisor.  So, if you’re working with couples, supervising couples’ therapists, or want to explore your own experience of shame, Becca’s workshop is just the thing!”

-Robert Allan, Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor, Denver, CO

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.

*CPA Accredited: 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.