Alliance-Focused Training

Training Programs

​Alliance-Focused Training (AFT) is an empirically based approach for helping therapists to develop the skills to build and maintain a strong therapeutic alliance, which is an essential part of any effective treatment.  AFT also helps therapists develop and refine their abilities to engage “hard to reach” clients and to work constructively with therapeutic impasses or alliance ruptures when they occur. Alliance Focused-Training also revitalizes and deepens everyday clinical work. Over the last 30 years our clinical research team has been at the forefront of the field in the development, evaluation and refinement of alliance-focused training approaches (click here for upcoming events). We offer ongoing lectures, workshops, and supervision for clinicians coming from diverse theoretical backgrounds and with varying levels of clinical experience and expertise. We also provide a range of different reading resources, training DVDs and clinical support tools.

Some basic Principles