Therapists' Continuing Education

OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROFESSIONAL GROWTH 

Since 1960, as Samaritan Center and earlier as Presbyterian Counseling Service, we have been a professional education and training resource for therapists and counselors. Our Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) Training Program, in association with Seattle Pacific University, provided master's level training for more than 400 marriage and family therapists, many of whom are in practice in the Puget Sound area.  Our current professional education offerings are listed below.

Professional Education Training:

"Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples"

BEGINNING CLASS
Externship  in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples.
Due to strong intertest from participants in this training, we have been able to expand the number of participants by utilizing a new location for the training. We anticipate that this group will have 50-60 participants with additional support provided for experiential exercises.  The location for the training will be NorthCut Landing, 4915 25th Ave. N.E., Seatlle.  Parking is available for all participants at this location.

Click here to see a brochure for this training

This Externship is the first course in EFT Training - 28 hours of training over two weekends. This training will be offered in the Spring of 2012, April 27-28 and May 11-12.

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ADVANCED CLASS (Extermship Completion Required) 
2012 Advanced Core Skills Training in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
Dec. 8-9, 2011; Feb. 16-17, 2012; Apr. 12-13, 2012; June 7-8, 2012

This training is open to those who have completed the EFT Externship and want to do advanced training in EFT for Couples.

Registration Form for 2012 Advanced Core Skills >

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MORE ADVANCED CLASS (Externship and Advancec Core Skills Required)
Advanced Core Skills in Emotionally Focused Therapy Weekends 5 & 6

"Deepening your Stage 2 Work"

More Information and Registration  >

Topics/Themes:

Withdrawer engagement
Pursuer softening
Attachment injuries and other traumas
Process learning
Deepening emotion within the attachment framework
Using enactments to help couples create a stronger bond
Self-of-the-therapist growth