Welcome to the third season of “Leaning into EFT” where participants will get a front row seat observing live therapy sessions unfold with couples, individuals and families. Each episode will feature the work of a different supervisor or trainer, where the therapist will walk us through their session and note key choice points, interventions and share their process and reflections of the session.
All sessions will take place from 10:00AM-12:00pm PST via Zoom.
We aim to create a safe, welcoming, low-cost space to gather, engage, learn and bask in the richness of our gifted EFT community. We hope you can join us!
Attendees may purchase a pass to the entire season (all seven episodes), or may purchase a single episode at a time. If selecting a single episode, please indicate when completing the registration form which episode you intend to attend.
S3E4 | “Integrating Ketamine Assisted Therapy with EFCT” with Kathryn Rheem
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 06 2024, 10:00AM-12:00PM PST
Psychedelic assisted therapy is our field's leading edge. While not technically a psychedelic, Ketamine -- a dissociative anesthetic with psychedelic features -- is a legal and safe drug used around the world every day. Ketamine is called the "benevolent disruptor" for how it helps our nervous systems get breaks (dissociate) from our regular, typical, habitual defenses. In these breaks from our regular defenses, new possibilities emerge which Ketamine assisted therapy amplifies. Ketamine opens new therapeutic windows which assists both us clinicians and our clients who have often worked so hard in therapy (sometimes for years) to befriend their inner-worlds.
Over the last two years, Kathryn has received 150+ hours of specialized Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) training and has been providing Ketamine Assisted EFT for her couples, families and individual clients. Her clients report less anxiety and depression, more emotional flexibility, and more ease in finding primary emotions and sharing them among many other positive comments. Defenses get dissolved temporarily (Ketamine stays alive in our nervous systems for 24 - 48 hours.) which gives us enough time and openness using Ketamine Assisted EFT to find and work with what was below those defenses! Join us for this introduction of this revelatory intervention that may change your practice and your client's day-to-day life experience. Powerpoint slides and video of real clients on Ketamine will be used for teaching. Questions are welcome and we will make time for Q+A!
Kathryn Rheem, Ed.D, LMFT is a Certified EFCT supervisor and therapist, and was an ICEEFT Certified Trainer for 16 years. She has trained hundreds of mental health clinicians in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) nationally and internationally over the last 18 years. She’s a co-owner of Rheem, Clark & Associates, LLC (an EFCT-based clinical practice in Fairfax, VA), a consultant to the Washington Baltimore Center for EFT and a co-founder of the EFT Café, an online, monthly EFT class. Kathryn works extensively with couples where one or both partners have endured trauma and has written and presented on the application of EFCT with trauma numerous times. In addition to the application of EFCT with trauma, Kathryn has a special passion for working with and teaching the Withdrawer Re-engagement process. Kathryn teaches and presents EFCT regularly online to audiences in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand and has published 16 articles/chapters on the application of EFCT, including as a co-author on the recently released the An Emotionally Focused Workbook: Healing Heartbreak Session by Session (Routledge, 2023) and co-author of the second edition of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook (Routledge, 2022).