ABSTRACT

Emotionally Focused Therapy supervision (EFTS), first articulated by Palmer-Olsen, Gold, and Woolley, translates the principles and practices of EFT into a clinical training model. EFTS is a humanistic approach that emphasizes the importance of the attachment frame, experiential learning, and integrating methods such as video review, role-playing, and live supervision as critical aspects of clinical supervision. This chapter introduces an experiential process model, heart, embedded within EFT-S, consisting of a here-and-now focus, exploration, accessing and attuning, responding and reframing, and tracking back to transform supervisory experiences into a new coherent narrative. Experiential learning strategies present challenges, but they are outweighed by the many opportunities for growth that they afford. One key advantage is they are particularly likely to evoke therapists' reactions to clinical situations. The presentation of the heart model addresses the absence of clearly delineated and effective interventions for training and supervising in evidence-based couple therapy.