Introduction to Emotion-Focused Therapy
for Couples • Webinar

presenter: Jamie Levin-Edwards, PSY.D.

date: December 13, 2025 • 12:00-5:15pm

LOCATION: ONLINE ON ZOOM

5  CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS

Workshop Overview

Emotion-focused therapy for couples (EFT-C) is an empirically validated approach based on an impressive body of research that has accumulated over 40 years. The research has focused both on assessing its efficacy as a treatment approach as well as on investigating the processes of emotional change that underlie the approach. EFT-C views emotion as the central force organizing couple interactions and develops partners’ capacity to access and express the more vulnerable, primary adaptive emotions that underlie secondary, defensive emotions. This changes the rigid, repetitive negative patterns of interactions that characterizes most couples’ presenting problems. Our approach also focuses on addressing the intrapsychic conflicts of each partner that fuels these defensive emotions and contributes to the couple’s distress.

This presentation will provide an overview of EFT-C, including a brief history of the development of the approach, a summary of the outcome and process research supporting EFT, and a discussion how EFT conceptualizes and works with emotion. The treatment process and one of the research based “maps” that modern EFT uses to facilitate deeper emotional change will be described. Video of a therapy session will be used to illustrate some of the concepts discussed.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:
• Explain the difference between basic emotions and emotion schemes.
• Name the components of an emotion scheme.
• Distinguish between secondary, primary maladaptive and primary adaptive emotion schemes.
• Explain the three-step emotional change model.
• Describe the three stages of treatment from an EFT-C perspective.

COST  

Licensed: $195         
Pre-Licensed: $145         
Student: $97

Continuing Education Credit

The webinar provides five hours of CE. There will be no certificate of completion given for partial attendance. Please note that it is the responsibility of the licensee to check with their state board to verify CE requirements for their state and reciprocal approvals. Edwards Psychotherapy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7622. Edwards Psychotherapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

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