WHAT IS EET?

Emotion Efficacy Therapy (EET) is a brief 8-week process-based protocol integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) with exposure-based skills practice. EET targets the underlying drivers of emotion avoidance and distress intolerance that are thought to fuel and maintain low emotion efficacy. In multiple studies, EET has been shown to significantly increase distress tolerance, decrease emotion avoidance and decrease emotion dysregulation among a transdiagnostic clinical population.

ABOUT THE TRAINING

In this 3-part online training with ACT expert and EET developer Dr. Aprilia West, you will learn to help your clients respond to emotion triggers more flexibly, intentionally and creatively through core emotion efficacy skills. The training will be highly experiential so that participants can practice EET and leave the training competent to start using the protocol with clients.

DATES AND TIMES

Sessions run on Friday 6th, 13th and 20th August 2021 from 08:00 to 10:00 SGT

ABOUT DR WEST

Aprilia West, PsyD, MT, PCC is a certified executive leadership and team coach, organizational consultant, psychologist, trainer and author. Dr. West brings 20+ years experience working with Fortune 500 companies, U.S. Members of Congress, entertainment industry creatives, tech founders, and global non-profit advocacy groups applying contextual behavioural science and positive psychology to optimize for wellbeing and peak performance.

She also trains coaches and therapists worldwide in working with clients from a contextual behavioural lens grounded in evidence-based research, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, (ACT), Emotion Efficacy Therapy, (EET) and Acceptance and Commitment Coaching (ACC).

Dr. West is internationally recognized as an expert in Emotional Efficacy, a construct she developed and describes as what you would get if “resilience, emotional intelligence and psychological flexibility had a lovechild.” She also developed and validated a brief process-based protocol, Emotion Efficacy Therapy (EET), which integrates third-wave cognitive behavioural interventions with learning theory, emotion science and neuroscience research. She is author of What You Feel Is Not All There Is (in press, 2021) and co-author of Emotion Efficacy Therapy, (2016) and Acceptance and Commitment Coaching in the Workplace (in press, Springer, 2021).

HOW WILL YOUR CLIENTS BENEFIT?

1. Emotion Awareness: Understand their relationship with emotion and how to identify parts of experience.
2. Mindful Acceptance: "Surf" through emotion pain instead of acting on urges to avoid it.
3. Values-Based Action: Act effectively on what really matters in any situation.
4. Mindful Coping: Regulate emotions to act effectively on what matters most.
5. Exposure-Based Skills Practice: Use exposure to rewire emotional reactions to triggers and help the skills "stick".