Maybe you fell in love with EFT at Externship but you just don’t feel competent or skilled enough. Maybe you feel your culture or identity hasn’t been reflected in your training or you want more support in integrating in a racially sensitive perspective into your work. Maybe you have felt lost, frustrated, inadequate or left out of EFT. This class will help you find your own ground as an EFT therapist.
Optional small group supervision TBA, bring a clip and work through the stuck points with me!
Via Zoom
2 hours every other week:
Part 1: 5 meetings focusing on skills and strategy
Part 2: 5 meetings focusing on self of therapist (SOT)
Choose to take one, or both!
January 30 (this class only will be 3 hours 9am-12pm PST) Laying the Foundation for Unlearning White Supremacy, grounding ourselves in our bodies and using the Tango to navigate our way through complexity
February 13 Move 1 Magic
February 23 (the only Thursday) Working with Power, Race, Gender and Context in Move 1
March 6 Present moment is where its at: Move 4
March 20 Bringing it all together: Integration
April 3 Fixing Versus Being-With
April 17 Being Direct and Dealing with Power
May 1 Getting to Know Your System
May 15 Getting to Know Your System Part 2
June 5 Holding Ourselves in Resonance
Equity Rate for Black, African American and Indigenous participants in recognition of historical wealth inequity: $200 for each or $375 for both
Click to RegisterAny mental health provider with an interest in relational therapy is welcome to participate. An externship in EFT is recommended. If you have not taken an externship but would like to participate, please reach out to sharon@pdxeft.com.
PCEFT is an NBCC continuing education provider. Upon completion, each participant will receive a certificate of completion with the NBCC logo. The Tango sessions will provide 11 hours of continuing education while the Self of Therapist sessions will provide 10 hours.
Portland Community of Emotionally Focused Therapists (PCEFT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7201. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Portland Community of Emotionally Focused Therapists (PCEFT) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. PCEFT mailing address: 11825 SW Greenburg Road, Suite 203, Tigard, OR 97223, email: info@pceft.com
This workshop is for anyone who has taken a basic training in EFT and would like to feel more at home in their work. I have been helping people who feel very stuck learn about themselves and about couple therapy for the last 12 years. And before that, I was one of those people. Because I struggled long and hard in learning EFT, I take particular joy in helping others finding themselves in the learning process. All of this experience has given me perspective on why people struggle so much in learning EFT and what they need to work through it. I believe the learning process can also be a healing process. I had to learn how to be both strategic and emotionally available while staying emotionally balanced. In this course, I will give you the deeper understandings of the model and the limitations of the model so that you know where it is most developed and useful and where we are driving on unpaved roads. In this course we will look at and talk about white supremacy culture and how it has shaped our field and EFT so that we can be a part of the dismantling in ourselves and with our clients. I have found that the exploration of identity, including race, gender and sexuality, only deepens our framework and effectiveness. I want to help people break free of the culture of “getting it right” and be more embodied and alive in our work and in our lives. We will be talking about power and integrating working with power into our EFT. I teach EFT that is trauma informed, equity focused and accessible. If that sounds good to you, I hope you will join me.
I have divided this class into two sections. You can sign up for both or only one. The first section of the workshop is Tango Strategy Sessions. We will learn about using the tango to ground yourself and move more easily through sessions. I use an anti-racist, anti-oppressive lens, attachment, the tango, and somatics to find deeper ways to practice and embody EFT. We will be talking about how white supremacy culture shapes our stuckness and how to practice unlearning of white supremacy culture. The second section of the workshop is Self of Therapist Sessions. We will be getting clear about exactly where we get stuck and learn to listen to the subtle signs of our nervous systems. We will be looking at the ways the white supremacy culture has made learning and growing into our work more difficult and working together to undo this toxic cultural influence. I will integrate trauma processing skills into our work to help clear our nervous systems. If you have studied with me before and know already how I approach EFT, the tango and equity then you can just take the SOT class. If you have never studied with me, then I recommend that you take both. You can also watch the tango training I did a couple of years ago before taking this class. You can rent that class on my website. This class is not a substitute for doing individual therapy. I recommend that you have a therapist you are working with regularly while taking this workshop. We will be in a small group format and it may stir up attachment wounds that will need more attention than can be given in this format.
I will be offering small group opportunities to show your work in conjunction with this class. Dates and times TBD.
Sharon Chatkupt Lee, PsyD, is a psychologist in private practice in Portland, Oregon since 2003. Sharon fell in love with EFT and began studying seriously to be an EFT therapist in 2006 alongside advanced gestalt training. Once certified in EFT, Sharon became a founding member for the Oregon Community for Emotionally Focused Therapists. Sharon integrates EFT with an anti-oppressive lens. Sharon has been supervising and teaching EFT for the last 10 years.
She has special interests in supervision and self-of-therapist challenges in EFT, as well as trauma. She has also studied yoga therapy, which has further developed her ability to work with trauma and the body. She is currently studying psychedelic psychotherapy. Sharon lives with her husband in a newly emptied nest with their beloved labradoodle named Huckleberry Finn who worked in the office with her before the pandemic. Now Huck works when he feels like it. Out of the office you will find her with family, walking in the woods, doing yoga, kayaking, knitting, or working on social justice issues.
