About the training: Advanced Empathic Skills
This experiential training explores how therapists can deepen their moment-to-moment attunement to clients’ emotional experience. Participants will learn about empathic resonance, expression, and differential responding form the foundation of effective therapeutic work—particularly within Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT).
This course differentiates between nine types of empathy and through didactics, videos with real clients and supervised skills practice will help clinicians to use their empathy efficiently in clinical practice depending on the intention of the intervention. The trainer will introduce the processes of empathic attuning and resonating, offering practical ways for therapists to heighten their responsiveness and decision making in session.
A focus will then be placed on the behavioural components of empathy, including specific response modes and clinical markers that guide therapists in choosing the most appropriate empathic intervention. Videotaped examples will illustrate how skilled therapists attune, resonate, and respond to clients in emotionally sensitive and therapeutically productive ways.
Every day participants will engage in supervised experiential exercises, case discussions, and brief lectures designed to strengthen their clinical confidence and skill in facilitating clients’ cognitive-affective processing of painful experiences.
About the Trainers: Prof. Jeanne Watson and Dr. Christina Michael
Dates:
Day 1: 8th April 2026 The role of empathy in psychotherapy
Day 2: 9th April 2026 Empathy: Attuning and Resonating
Day 3: 15th April 2026 Empathic expression
Day 4: 15th April 2026 Empathic Markers
Times:
→ 16:00-20:00 Cyprus times
→ 14:00-18:00 UK times
→ 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Toronto times
