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What Is the Personal and Professional Significance for the Trainee Therapist of Learning Emotion‐Focused Therapy?
Author(s) -
Kennedy Francis,
Moore Gerard Patrick
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of humanistic counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.593
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2161-1939
pISSN - 2159-0311
DOI - 10.1002/johc.12132
Subject(s) - psychology , psychotherapist , applied psychology
This heuristic study explores the impact of training in emotion‐focused therapy (EFT) on the personal and professional lives of the researcher and research participants. It provides personal accounts of growing emotional self‐awareness and suggests that training in EFT fostered increased emotional self‐assurance among participants and increased their authenticity with clients.