Theoretical background:

In emotion-focused couple therapy, we encounter the neural maps that have been built and created patterns of maladaptive emotional responses - the cycle. The process of working with the cycle allows couples to get to know each other deeply and the "truth" that their bodies carry. The couple learns to recognize how the way they learned to maintain closeness to attachment figures in their home drives the couple's dance in the present. Therefore, it is of great importance to understand how to take an attachment history in a way that will help the couple identify the needs and triggers that activate the couple's processes. In my many years of work as a therapist and counselor, I have discovered how critical the skill of collecting an attachment history is, while the therapist focuses on the emotional landscape in which the child grew up and not just on the story itself.

What's in the workshop?

In this workshop, we will briefly review the characterization and understanding of couple cycles and learn how to look for the triggers that activate couples in their relationship history.

To this end, we will theoretically review the concept of cycles and demonstrate how to connect the dots between the cycle observed in the room and the attachment history about which the therapist collects information in an interview focusing on the attachment history of both partners. We will focus on collecting attachment history effectively through demonstration and practice. We will also learn how to use this by using a voice proxy as a tool.

Workshop objectives:

• Learning how to take a call history

• Understanding how past events will appear as triggers

• Learning to use a voice proxy by understanding the call history.

About the lecturer:

Osnat Cohen Ganor - Clinical Psychologist. Pioneer and founder of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) in Israel, certified EFT therapist and certified ICEEFT instructor. Certified instructor and therapist by the Association for Couple and Family Therapy. Extensive training in emotion-focused and attachment therapies (EFT, Greenberg and Johnson, AEDP), as well as in the relational approach and work with 0–3 and with sexuality (Esther Pearl). Lecturer on emotion-focused couple therapy and attachment in the various stages of life in academic settings, at couples and family therapy stations, at conferences and private courses for 14 years. Served as clinical coordinator for ICEEFT workshops in Israel within the framework of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. Member of the Academic Committee of the Association for Couple and Family Therapy. Academic director of the teaching unit for emotion-focused therapies at the Mifarashim Institute, Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College. Treats individuals and couples and provides tutoring via Zoom and in a private clinic in Ramat Hasharon.