Supervision of EFT
Dennis Eames, LMFT
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Certified EFT Therapist & Supervisor
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AAMFT Clinical Fellow & Approved Supervisor
Grow Your EFT Skills
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Supervision of licensed therapists who want to become proficient at EFT.
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Supervision of therapists working toward licensure.
Associate Supervision
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Dennis is approved to supervise therapists working toward the following licenses:
• Washington – LMFT, LMHC
• Idaho – LMFT
SUPERVISION PHILOSOPHY
I strive to supervise therapists in a manner consistent with the principles and values of Emotionally Focused Therapy. It’s a process that validates you where you are in your development at a therapist in keeping with A.R.E.
• Accessible: I commit to be reachable both during supervision and between supervision sessions.
• Responsive: I commit to be responsive to your reaches for support and to your needs as a therapist-in-training.
• Engaged: I commit to focus my mental and emotional attention on you during supervision, consistent with my style of engagement with clients.
The supervision process makes use of case report and tape consultations (regular tape consultations are a requirement of supervision with Dennis), and occasional live “bug-in-the-ear” supervision.
FRAMEWORK FOR SUPERVISION
To achieve therapist development I organize supervision around five domains based on research on supervision of EFT by Lisa Palmer-Olson.
Alliance: Building, monitoring, and maintaining a strong alliance between Supervisor and Supervisee and between therapist and client.
Conceptual: Developing a theoretical/conceptual understanding of the individual and systemic factors within an attachment frame that are blocking a client from reaching his or her goals and knowledge of appropriate interventions to assess and address those blocks.
Experiential: Practice and demonstrate experiential skills – to not only know what to do but have the ability to do the interventions effectively in supervision and in therapy.
Self of Therapist: Model and help develop the habits of Self-of-Therapist awareness and reflection to reduce invisible personal barriers and biases that can impede successful therapy.
Ethical & Legal Practice: Cultivating ethical and professional conduct touches on multiple domains above, but bears specific attention due to it’s importance in protecting clients and the profession.