Certification Information

Clinical EFT Supervision

We recommend that professionals who offer EFT supervision meet the requirements of EFT certification and have completed a course in clinical supervision.

See the directory of EFT supervisors here and at the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute www.ocfi.ca. Long distance supervision of OCFI and Center for EFT staff is popular. Supervisors send in videos of sessions with case notes and receive commentary on an audio tape that can be played with the supervisors' video to give the effect of live supervison.

The key principles of EFT clinical supervision are:

A positive working alliance between the supervisor and supervisee is fostered because safety enhances learning.

Modeling is available: the supervisor actively demonstrates EFT interventions (e.g., demonstrates attachment language and non-verbal behaviours of EFT).

Observation of therapy sessions occurs or transcripts are examined. Role plays with feedback give opportunity for rehearsal.

Feedback to supervisee is clear, focused, supportive, and congruent with supervisee’s stage of learning.

Specific elements are pointed out for the supervisee to improve or work on.

Written theory and techniques of the EFT model are referred to and taught in relation to practice (e.g., steps, stages, interventions, experential and non-pathologizing approach).

These principles were formulated with the help of Lisa Palmer-Olsen
and the work of Dr. Eugene Mead.