Video Library
This collection is available only to members of the EFT Center of Los Angeles as a benefit of membership.
None of the material here is available for download. Thank you for your understanding!
High Conflict Role Play
with Trainer Lisa Palmer Olsen
This is a role play with a highly escalated couple - watch how Lisa navigates the escalation and the moves she makes to establish some safety in the process.
Betrayal Role Play
With Lisa Palmer-Olsen
Addiction Q&A
with Michael Barnett
NOVEMBER 11 2021
In this community meeting, Michael Barnett addresses common questions and concerns about working with addiction in couples therapy.
Live Consultation with Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy
Sept 2021
In this video, Dr. Kenneth Hardy provides a live consultation with Silvina Irwin on her work with a mixed race couple to bring a racialized lens to attachment and couple therapy. Clinical material has been removed.
Living Love That Lasts
A feature film
This film has a long evolution. Sondra Goldstein, PhD and Susan Thau, PhD had filmed interviews with 25 couples over several years about how their love had grown over a lifetime. When our LACEFT work group was ready for a new creative project, we decided to expand on Sondra’s and Susan’s work. Several colleagues at LACEFT joined Sondra and Susan to film an additional 30 interviews. We invited couples to tell stories of how they saw their love grow stronger over the years. Their interviews were voluntary and not part of a research project or clinical process. We just looked for couples who could share their version of how they arrived at long lasting love in the ordinary and everyday way love grows through sharing a life together.
Our little film is different. It seems to weave the several voices in the film into an almost impressionistic dream of reverence for love that lasts.
These several voices include those of the couples featured, each partner’s dedication to their relationship evident. We hear their accumulation of deep acceptance and understanding of one another, and of their relationship. It is their humanness that moves and inspires us; imperfect like all of ours, and yet, as the narrators express: These partners have “learned from gutting it out, staying engaged, working it out, and digging deeper” which has led to them making ”exquisite discoveries” about themselves and each other and the nature of loving one another.
Our two narrator’s voices add dimensions of sympathetic wisdom toward love stories that are grown over time. Their tender voices speak to what is universal in making love last. Their voices speak of rhythms and repair, of uncertainty and accomplishment, of trust and regret, of shattering and sacredness; and to the “unshakable reality of a love that is time tested--grown deeper and richer than either could have imagined”.
The next voice is the voice of struggle, expressed in the short, non-verbal dramatizations of the young couple, falling out of connection and finding their way back to each other. We are evoked by the voice of their struggles because we know these struggles in our own hearts and bones.
EFT Therapist Identity Development: Walking the Middle Path
Hiro Sasaki, PhD
2017
Dr. Hiro Sasaki, member of the LA EFT community, offers his words of wisdom on the self of the EFT therapist.
Tracking Moves
Dr. Sam Jinich
In this short video, Trainer Sam Jinich traces a couples negative cycle as Sue Johnson walks a couple through a moment of conflict.
Live Session Review - Spring Community Event
Dr. Silvina Irwin
EFT Trainer Silvina Irwin shares her live consultation with a highly escalated couple who is experiencing the EFT approach for the first time. Silvina will pause at key moments to discuss the clinical process and share elements that inform her interventions along the way. Sociocultural factors and trauma informed interventions and considerations are discussed.