Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook

by Sue Johnson

An invaluable tool for clinicians and students, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook takes the reader on an adventure – the quest to become a competent, confident, and passionate couple and family therapist. In an accessible resource for training and supervision, seven expert therapists lead the reader through the nine essential steps of EFT with explicit intervention strategies. Suitable as a companion volume to The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, 2nd Ed. or as a stand-alone learning tool, the workbook provides an easy road-map to mastering the art of EFT with exercises, review sheets and practice models. Unprecedented in its novel and interactive approach, this is a must-have for all therapists searching for lasting and efficient results in couple therapy.

Genres: Psychology, Counselling, Nonfiction

401 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2005

About the author

Dr. Sue Johnson is a leading innovator in the fields of couple therapy and adult attachment; she is the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Couple and Family Therapy (EFT). Sue’s received numerous awards acknowledging her development of EFT, including the American Psychological Association’s “Family Psychologist of the Year'' and the Order of Canada, both in 2016.

Her best-selling book Hold Me Tight (2008) - with 1 million copies sold as of 2021 - has taught countless couples how to enhance and repair their relationships and has since been developed into a relationship enhancement program called Hold Me Tight Online.

As the founding director of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT), Sue trains counselors in EFT worldwide and provides guidance to 80 affiliated centers. You can find out more about Sue and her work at drsuejohnson.com.

Reviews

[Sara Kamjou · Rating 2 out of 5]

کتاب انسجام نداشت. متن لابه‌لای مثال‌ها و تمرین‌ها گم می‌شد. ارتباط برقرار نکردم.

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

Be prepared to spend tons of time reading, answering multiple choice questions, hunting down answers in the back of this clumsy oversized book. It is too much of a pretty good thing. Needs reworking and a good editor to trim it down and make it more user friendly. It has more words in it than the book Becoming an Emotionally Focued Couple Therapist and duplicates lots that is in that book. They need to redo this and its companion as a set. Right now it is only the covers that go together.

Save your time and take a workshop.

[Glenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This gets a 5 because I've never seen a resource like it. It takes the material from Creating Connection, breaks it down into bite-size chunks, and provides a host of exercises to flesh out and practice the concepts. Super useful for individual learning but also teaching the material.

[D Murgatroyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am not going to lie, this book is hard work. I took it in little chunks while feeling like my brain was on overdrive. There was a whole new counseling language to learn to start with. This was followed by a lot of very intensive exercises that thoroughly checked your understanding of the chapter. It took me more than a year to complete this book and I will still have to go back and review concepts to retain them. However, the content is outstanding. If you are able to use the processes in therapy, there is such a hope for change and understanding.

[Rod White · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have enjoyed learning how to do this. At first the workbook process was difficult for me to use. But once I got used to it, it helped me interact with the material. I'm no expert, but I have been able to incorporate the concepts into my practice.

[Justin]

I thought I might be able to transfer these couple centric skills to individual training as this book does seem pretty awesome as I glimpsed through it, but I do think that while thatt might be possible it would be much better to look into an individual centric book if that is your goal as it is mine

[Blaze-Pascal · Rating 4 out of 5]

EFT is an amazing theoretical background to work with clients from diverse populations. I have written an interesting essay and plan to continue to incorporate Sue Johnson's and others observations into my work and thinking.

[Degan Walters · Rating 3 out of 5]

Got what I needed out of this and will continue to
reference it in my work. I found some of the dialogue to go on a bit but for the most part it is helpful to illustrate the concepts

[Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding book for anyone working in Couples Therapy. A must-read.