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EMOTION
EFFICACY TRAINING
2024

HELP YOUR CLIENTS RESPOND MORE INTENTIONALLY, FLEXIBLY AND CREATIVELY TO INTENSE EMOTION TRIGGERS

Join psychologist, coach, trainer and author Dr. Aprilia West, PsyD, PCC, MT for a live and on-demand training series.

If your clients struggle with low emotional efficacy they may exhibit any of the following:

  • Lack of fluency or awareness about emotional experience

  • Low levels of distress tolerance and resilience,

  • High levels of emotion avoidance and dysregulation

  • Disconnection from of purpose, values or direction

  • Rigidity around beliefs and self-stories narratives

  • Narrow behavioral repertoires

  • Unhelpful beliefs about emotional experience

In fact, studies suggest that over 75% of therapy clients and 25% of coaching clients suffer a lack of powerful emotional responding. Even experienced providers get stuck and wonder what to do for clients who struggle to respond intentionally, flexibly and creatively to emotion triggers. Professional can use the structured experiential learning in the emotion efficacy protocol help teaching clients not only what to do differently, but also how.

With the emotion efficacy protocol (EET), providers learn to deliver a brief, structured skills training in just 8 weeks that offers:

  • A step-by-step guide and materials for the psychoeducation + skills training to develop greater emotional intelligence, psychological flexibility and resilience

  • Increased capacity for working with clients in intensely activated states

  • Increase skillfulness using exposure-based skills practice so your clients will retain the learning

The EET protocol can help clients :

  • Decode emotion triggers (defaults + values)

  • Observe all parts of emotional STUF (sensations, thoughts, urges & feelings)

  • Surf emotion waves instead of reacting on unhelpful urges

  • Clarify and act on values in moments of intense stress or distress

  • Regulate emotions when needed act on what matters

  • Practice skills in an activated state so the learning 'sticks.'

EET can be delivered in a group or individual format. Multiple studies suggest EET increases emotion regulation, distress tolerance and decreases experiential avoidance and depression, anxiety and stress.