Trailblazing New Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Ground: Beyond Context & Cultural Humility w/ Paul T. Guillory, PhD
April 10, 2025 @ 8:00 am - April 12, 2025 @ 4:30 pm
$180.00Description:
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps couples build strong, lasting emotional bonds by reshaping unhelpful patterns and fostering deeper emotional connection and understanding. and it serves as a foundation of this training.
This workshop simultaneously draws from the emerging clinical focus that integrates cultural issues into therapy to dismantle the harmful legacies of racism and promote cultural flourishing. Despite scholars of color highlighting the importance of cultural diversity and multicultural stress, their insights have often been overlooked. Most major psychotherapy models still treat race as a demographic category, failing to incorporate internalized racism and the cultural deficit model into clinical practice. Moreover, the new era of psychological liberation emphasizes that the development of cultural identity is crucial for both individual well-being and the health of romantic relationships.
This training seeks to enhance participants’ EFT skills by integrating culture into the core of the EFT process. Understanding that navigating multicultural clinical dynamics is an ongoing journey, the training encourages participants to develop their internal cultural identity and grow personally. It also covers multicultural coping, emotional stress, and social wellness for both couples and therapists.
Dr. Paul Guillory, in his book Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples: Love Heals, emphasizes that therapists can work most effectively with Couples of Color by having a conceptual framework for cultural issues, including racism, racial identity, race-based events, and racial trauma. Incorporating these concepts into clinical practice supports both individual wellness and the strengthening of the love bond in Persons of Color. This workshop will explore key clinical concepts–such as discussing culture, internalized racism, cultural stress, and cultural identity as internal dynamic processes–and demonstrate how they can be applied in therapy. Participants will engage with case studies, vignettes, and video clips of clinical interventions, and will have opportunities to practice specific clinical techniques in breakout groups.
This workshop is suitable for both new and advanced EFT learners.
Dates and Times:
Thursday, April 10, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. EST
Friday, April 11, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. EST
Location: Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium, 1st Floor
Format: Hybrid
- Livestream via Zoom, or
- In person: UNC School of Social Work, 325 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
CE Credit: 12 CEs, read for full information on credit types awarded.
Fees: $180 (scholarships available)
Clinical Lecture Institute trainings are for students, professionals, and community members interested in therapeutic practices that are anti-oppressive, intersectional, and centered on self-determination.
Free of charge for UNC School of Social Work students, faculty, staff, and practicum instructors. 2 CE for behavioral health clinicians including social workers, psychologists, and counselors.
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