Upcoming EFT Training Events for Therapists
Prerecorded Fundamentals of Emotionally Focused Therapy – with Gail Palmer & Leanne Campbell

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Gail Palmer, Leanne Campbell | North America Online | English | December 1, 2025 |
This prerecorded course provides an overview of EFT with individuals, couples and families. It introduces the EFT model and the power of EFT to facilitate healing and growth for personal and relational distress through a combination of teaching, and video demos. Completion of Fundamentals is now an ICEEFT requirement for EFT clinicians applying for Certification as Supervisors in EFT.
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Essentials ~ Online (North America)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Leanne Campbell, Paul Greenman | North America Online | English | December 2, 2025 |
Harness the power of emotion to create potent and sustainable change with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). This 24hr Essentials is focused on EFT for individuals. Presented by ICEEFT Courses. Click "event link" for time zone and more.
Externship in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy® ~ Nashville, TN, USA

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Greg Cheney, Teri Murphy | Tennessee, United States | English | December 3, 2025 |
The Externship in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy® is an immersive four-day (24+ hour) training experience, foundational for therapists aiming to specialize in EFCT. This training offers a comprehensive introduction to the EFCT model, focusing on the science of attachment and the systematic approach to couple therapy. It's the first step in formal EFT training on the path to advanced practice and certification.
Externship in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy® ~ New York, NY, USA

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Zoya Simakhodskaya | New York, United States | English | December 3, 2025 |
Through a combination of lectures, videotape, observation of live interviews, and exercises, participants will learn to identify the basic stages and steps of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and to help clients recognize and de-escalate problematic cycles of interaction. Participants will also learn to help couples create or restore the emotional bond between them once the negative cycle is understood and interrupted.
Externship in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy ~ Nashville, TN, USA

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Teri Murphy | Tennessee, United States | English | December 3, 2025 |
The EFCT Externship is an immersive 28-hour foundational training in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. Through a combination of lectures, videotape, observation of live interviews, and exercises, participants will learn to identify the basic stages and steps of Emotionally Focused Therapy and to help couples, individuals, and families recognize and de-escalate problematic cycles of interaction and promote secure bond in couples.
Externship in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy® ~ Seattle, WA, USA

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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James Furrow, Lisa Palmer-Olsen | Washington, United States | English | December 4, 2025 |
Join the team of James Furrow and Lisa Palmer-Olsen for this emerald city EFT externship. Enjoy the charm of Seattle at the holidays and the warmth of fellow colleagues working together to deepen their grasp of EFT in guiding relationship healing and growth. Lisa and Jim bring the power and promise of EFT home in vivid, personal, and accessible ways that impact one’s practice and person. Grow your practice through the creativity of creating connections through EFT.
Mastering Skills and Overcoming Challenges in EFIT: A Consultation Process ~ Vancouver, BC, Canada

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Veronica Kallos-Lilly | British Columbia, Canada | English | December 4, 2025 |
Working with Neurodiversity in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy ~ MN, USA

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Scott Woolley | Minnesota, United States | English | December 4, 2025 |
Neurodiversity can help couples bond and can intensify negative cycles which lead to disconnection. This workshop presents an opportunity to understand how to practice Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples where one or more partners are neurodivergent. The workshop will include a variety of neurodiversity including Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia and Dyspraxia and will approach neurodiversity from a affirming lens.
Mastering Skills and Overcoming Challenges with EFIT: A Consultation Program ~ Online (North America)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Rachel Thomas, Robin Williams Blake | North America Online | English | December 4, 2025 |
Advance your practice and improve your client outcomes by taking your EFIT skills to the next level. This 12hr Consultation is focused on EFT for Individuals. Presented by ICEEFT Courses. Click "event link" for time zone and more.
Core Skills: Extended ~ Online (USA)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Deborah Scimeca-Diaz | New Jersey, United States | English | December 4, 2025 |
Take your EFT skills to a new level with Core skills (CS). The training consists of four, two-day trainings (12 hours each total 48 hours) that will focus on the core skills of each of the EFT Tango moves and steps/stages. The trainings will offer instruction, experiential exercises and case consultations. More experiential practice of EFT will depend your skills as you feel it more and more in your body.
Externship in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy® ~ Morocco, in French

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Alexine Thompson-de Benoit | Morocco | French | December 6, 2025 |
Formation de base (Externship) en EFT
It takes a Village: EFT with Couples from Collectivist Cultures ~ Online (Montenegro)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Ting Liu | Montenegro | English | December 8, 2025 |
EFT trainer, Dr. Ting Liu, will hold a live session to help us learn how to work with differences in couples from collectivist cultures.
Externship in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy ~ Online (North America)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Natalia Gilabert, Senem Zeytinoglu-Saydam | North America Online | English | December 8, 2025 |
Gain a roadmap to reach clients and promote lasting change with Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT). This 24hr Externship is focused on EFT for Couples. Hosted by ICEEFT Courses. Click “event link” for time zone and more.
Using EFIT in Healing Complex PTSD ~ Online (Hong Kong, China), in Cantonese

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Tat-Ying Wong | Hong Kong | Chinese Cantonese | December 9, 2025 |
Learn to apply EFIT to heal complex PTSD by accompanying Dr. Wong working with a Cantonese speaking client haunted by childhood trauma. Watch how the therapist becomes the secure base and safe haven and helps the client find safety, security and connection through many angels and resilient parts of self who offered secure attachment. Witness powerful corrective emotional experiences shaping a more positive sense of self and overcoming shame
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Essentials ~ Tempe, AZ, USA

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Kathryn de Bruin, Rachel Thomas | Arizona, United States | English | December 10, 2025 |
The training program is designed to provide participants with a robust groundwork and advanced understanding of the EFIT model, integrated within an attachment science framework. By blending theoretical instruction with experiential exercises, participants will be skillfully guided to implement the model in their clinical practice, fostering their development as proficient, attuned, and responsive EFIT therapists. In person in Tempe, Arizona.
Core Skills: Extended ~ Online (USA)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Lisa Palmer-Olsen, Natalia Gilabert, Sam Jinich | California, United States | English | December 11, 2025 |
Core Skills provides a safe, engaging, and interactive setting where therapists can practice EFCT in real time. Through role-plays, video demonstrations, experiential exercises, and case consultation, you will strengthen your ability to:
-Conceptualize couple distress through an attachment lens
-Access, explore, and deepen emotional experiences
-Facilitate new conversations that build secure attachment processes, closeness, and connection
Core Skills: Standard ~ Online (ON, Canada)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Robin Williams Blake, Gail Palmer | Ontario, Canada | English | December 12, 2025 |
ICEEFT Trainers Gail Palmer and Robin Williams Blake. This streamlined Standard EFCT Core Skills training is tailored for clinicians seeking a condensed version of the core skills advanced training, prioritizing practical content over experiential elements. Designed for mental health practitioners who prefer a shorter approach, the program features lectures, dyadic presentations, tape demonstrations, and structured exercises.
Core Skills: Extended ~ Spain, in Spanish

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Lola Fatas Garcia | Spain | Spanish | December 12, 2025 |
CORE SKILLS - NIVEL 2 TERAPIA DE PAREJA FOCALIZADA EN LAS EMOCIONES
Core Skills - Nivel 2 de TFE - Presencial en Madrid, España. Zona Atocha. 8 días en 4 fines de semana
Externship in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy® ~ Online (India), in English

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Elmien Lesch | India | English | December 14, 2025 |
Join us for the EFCT Externship, the first step toward certification in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. This intensive training introduces the attachment science behind EFT, includes live and recorded demonstrations, and offers supervised practice in small groups. Gain the skills to begin integrating EFT into your clinical work with couples.
Core Skills: Standard ~ Online (India)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Elmien Lesch | India | English | January 5, 2026 |
Take your EFT practice deeper with EFCT Core Skills, the next step after the Externship. This training focuses on building confidence and mastery through in-depth teaching, live demonstrations, and extensive supervised practice in small groups. Strengthen your ability to navigate couple dynamics, apply EFT interventions effectively, and move from theory to real-world clinical application.