EFT with Kamila
Kamila Kaminska, ICEEFT, BACP (Accred), EMDR UK & Ireland
Professional Deliberate Practice EFT Supervision
Deliberate practice is an evidence-based method for learning skills and improving performance. It provides principles of skill-building derived from decades of research on how top performers improve their skills. Deliberate practice is gaining the widening interest of a growing community of psychotherapists as it offers a crucial component missing in traditional psychotherapy supervision: Procedural Learning.
Procedural learning of key psychotherapy skills is to improve and supplement our traditional learning methods – not to replace them. Distinguished psychotherapy researchers agree that deliberate practice is an important step forward in training and developing best practices.
Decades of research have demonstrated that lengthy engagement in deliberate practice is necessary for individuals to achieve the highest level of expert performance across many professions, with emerging evidence for improving therapist effectiveness and client outcomes in EFT.
Defined by the psychologist Anders Ericsson and colleagues, deliberate practice is “the individualised training activities specially designed by a coach or teacher to improve specific aspects of an individual’s performance through repetition and successive refinement” (Ericsson & Lehmann, 1996, pp. 278–279).
Deliberate practice focuses on your individual skill threshold, emphasises interactive rehearsal for skill acquisition, aims for higher levels of sustained effort, and uses homework to advance clinical ability. Empirical research suggests that Deliberate Practice can significantly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of psychotherapy education and training (e.g., Goodyear & Rousmaniere, 2017; Rousmaniere, 2016; 2019).
What does deliberate practice supervision involve?
- Identify a challenge
- Set learning goals
- Engage in behavioural rehearsal with feedback from me as your supervisor) which is a form of procedural learning
- Observe, track and assess your progress
Expert Feedback
Expert feedback infuses most aspects of deliberate practice. As a supportive and instructive supervisor, I provide feedback informing you on what to work on and how to work on it.
Identify a Challenge
The first step to expertise is finding the right challenge to focus on. Using outcome data, video, and observing work is the gold standard for finding your clinical challenge.
Set learning goals
In deliberate practice, an important part of the work is making your target skill very concrete – we try to break it down into a tailored stepwise chain of verbal and non-verbal therapist behaviours.
Behavioural rehearsal
Rehearsal is crucial. In deliberate practice supervision, we do behaviour rehearsal in supervision and might assign homework for you to do between sessions. The rehearsal needs to be repetitive, with moment-by-moment tailoring to promote skill acquisition.
Measure Results
These are the clients that we bring to supervision. Everyone struggles with clinical challenges and learning this way accommodates tailored procedural learning.
Deliberate Practice Supervision with Kamila
The core of deliberate practice supervision in psychotherapy is working with me as the expert to repeatedly role-play what you would say to a client, getting feedback between each effort. It can be enhanced by my direct observation (live or recorded) of a session to identify a challenging moment to guide the role play. Deliberate practice supervision is not just for counselling or therapy trainees but is also designed to help qualified psychotherapists and counsellors to finesse all areas of practice.
You can decide how often to undergo deliberate practice supervision – weekly, fortnightly or monthly. Each session lasts 60 minutes and requires preparation before.
I'm an IDPS certified DP therapist, currently working towards being certified as a DP supervisor. During this process, I am offering discounted rates for DP supervision.