EFT Handbook - Emotion Coaching

Question 1

What are the seven major principles of emotional change that Emotion coaching relies?

Answer 1

1. increasing awareness of emotion
2. expressing emotion
3. enhancing emotion regulation
4. reflecting on emotion
5. changing emotion with emotion
6. corrective emotional experience
7. Regulation (deliberate regulation, automatic regulation)

Question 2

What are the two higher order principles that guide emotion coaching in EFT?

Answer 2

(a) offering a therapeutic relationship and
(b) facilitating therapeutic work

Question 3

What are the steps in EFT for offering rationales?

Answer 3

a) empathize with the client’s underlying emotional experience
b) reformulate the presenting problem in emotional terms
c) give a rationale as to why we work with emotion
d) give a rationale as to why we work with emotion the way we do.