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About the Institute of Emotional Therapy of Iran
What is EFT?
(EFT) Emotion Focused Therapy (also known as emotion-focused therapy) is a modern and new psychotherapy approach that in recent years, due to the existence of numerous scientific evidences in support of its beneficial effect on On a wide range of individual and couple problems and disorders, it has gained great popularity and is known as a very important approach in the field of psychotherapy. This approach was originally founded by Professor Leslie Greenberg and further developed by him and his colleagues, including Robert Elliott, Rhonda Goldman, Jeanne Watson, Juliette Becking, Lars Auszra, who make up the ISEFT Expert Board. From the point of view of EFT, emotions have the inherent capacity to create adaptation, which, if activated, can help clients change their problematic emotional states or unpleasant experiences. This view of emotions is based on the premise that emotions are, at their core, an innate and adaptive system that has evolved to maintain survival and growth. Emotions are related to a person's essential needs, they quickly inform a person of important situations for well-being. They also prepare and guide the person to take action to meet his needs. EFT therapy is based on the principle that emotions are the primary agents of effective change. EFT is an evidence-based therapeutic method that borrows from the therapeutic theories of humanism, existentialism, neuroscience, Rogers' client-centered therapy, and Perez's Gestalt therapy, and has developed its own contemporary insight and practical method. EFT integrates the strong theoretical underpinnings of emotion theory with powerful process protocols and practical techniques. Chair techniques (two-chair and empty-chair talks) are examples of these. The EFT therapist, within an empathic therapeutic relationship, helps individuals or couples to better know their emotions, experience them, discover them, understand them and, if necessary, change them and become more flexible. As a result, people who undergo EFT treatment become stronger and more skilled in accessing important emotional information and meanings related to themselves and the world around them.
Institute team
Dr. Sahar Darvish Skandari
Co Founder of EFT IRAN Institute
Dr. Iman Hemmatyar
Co Founder of EFT IRAN Institute
The fourth member
Management of Lorem Ipsom
About EFT Iran
In 2019, after obtaining the necessary standards and obtaining a license from the ISEFT International Society of Emotional Therapy, EFT Iran started its activities as the main and leading center in providing educational, research and therapeutic services in the field of EFT in Iran. Is. All the activities of EFT Iran are under the supervision and support of ISEFT and our mission is to provide services with high international standards to all those interested in this approach. to realize:
1. Introducing EFT in the scientific and academic communities of Iran and trying to further develop EFT in Iran and the region.
2. Holding specialized EFT training courses with international standards for counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who are interested in this approach. 3. Training of certified EFT Therapist standard professional psychotherapists and providing quality treatment services to clients with the help of EFT trained professional psychotherapists.
4. Cooperation and support for researches in the field of EFT and help in the scientific development of this approach.
5. Creating a communication network infrastructure for EFT therapists to support all those interested in this approach in Iran.
6. International cooperation with other international institutions in the field of EFT.
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