EFT Core Skills Training offers an in-depth opportunity to develop the core skills essential to the practice of EFT. In the overall context of the EFT Tango, each Core Skills session is dedicated to specific steps of the model and the therapeutic tasks and interventions characteristic of those steps. The first Core Skills training covers Stage One of EFT (steps one and two), and the second covers Stage One of EFT (steps three and four).

EFT Core Skills Training offers an in-depth opportunity to develop the core skills essential to the practice of EFT. In the overall context of the EFT Tango, each Core Skills session is dedicated to specific steps of the model and the therapeutic tasks and interventions characteristic of those steps. The first Core Skills training covers Stage One of EFT (steps one and two), and the second covers Stage One of EFT (steps three and four).

This in-person, four-day (24-hour) Externship in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) in Singapore offers foundational training for therapists. It focuses on attachment science and a structured approach to couple therapy, equipping participants with essential skills to foster secure, resilient relationships. This training also serves as the first step toward advanced EFCT practice and certification. Scholarship opportunities are available for participants from Southeast Asia.

Join our small group experience designed to help you deepen your understanding through hands-on guidance in a supportive environment, including instruction, role play, observation of live interviews, and consultation. Each participant is encouraged to present a short video clip of their own work.

Session 1: assessment, identifying the cycle; Session 2: Cycle De-escalation; Session 3: Withdrawer Re-engagement; Session 4: Pursuer Softening

Take the next step in your Emotionally Focused Therapy journey with our Core Skills training in Pittsburgh! This intensive series offers in-depth instruction in the key stages and interventions of EFT for couples. Through didactic teaching, video demonstrations, and experiential practice, you'll deepen your skills and confidence in applying EFT with couples. Completion of an EFT Externship and showing your own session recordings are both required

This is a EFCT Externship presented over two consecutive Friday/Saturday weekends.

What is EFT? A map to lasting healing for individuals, couples, and families, grounded in attachment science. Gain practical tools to take your first step into the transformational world of EFT.

Presented by ICEEFT Courses. Click "event link" for time zone and more.

This in-person Advanced Core Skills Training 2 in Singapore is part of the comprehensive 48-hour Core Skills program. This 12-hour session focuses on refining specific interventions to stabilize distressed relationships in Stage 1, incorporating didactic teaching, case consultations, and experiential exercises.

For the first time on Norwegian soil, you can now learn the highly acclaimed, attachment-oriented model of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), developed by Dr. Sue Johnson.

This four-day (24hr) course revises and deepens therapists' understanding of the EFCT model and the interventions used to achieve the three change events identified by process research that move loving relationships from insecurity to security. It includes case presentations, video demonstrations, and experiential exercises, as well as providing practical resources for therapists to use with their clients.

Advance your practice and client outcomes by taking your EFFT skills to the next level! Learn from expert trainers as they show and talk about their therapy sessions – where they get stuck, how they get unstuck, and how the attachment map and EFT Tango provide a beacon for the family therapist. Join with your colleagues as they show their work, and watch expert trainers help guide the therapy process through feedback, consultation, and role plays

The 2025 Salt Lake City Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Externship, featuring esteemed ICEEFT Trainers Kathryn de Bruin and Robin Williams Blake!

4-day (Nov. 5-8) Externship in EFCT® delivered with a Created for Connection focus as described in Dr. Sue Johnson and Kenneth Sanderfer's book "Created for Connection: The 'Hold Me Tight' Guide for Christian Couples." Hosted by Christian non-profit Foundation Restoration in Raleigh, North Carolina.

This course offers an intensive focus on key elements in the EFT process applied to adult family relationships. Demonstration and practice exercises provide participants opportunities to understand the EFT skills utilized in intervening with these family relationships. There will be an opportunity to view the treatment of one family over time from the beginning of therapy to termination.

4 days trainng in EFIT essential. With Jette Simon and Lone Algot Jeppesen
Location Cph 6-7 Nov, Aarhus 12-13 Nov.

online in Hebrew EFIT ESSENTIALS

This course offers an intensive focus on key elements in the EFT process applied to adult family relationships. Demonstration and practice exercises provide participants opportunities to understand the EFT skills utilized in intervening with these family relationships. There will be an opportunity to view the treatment of one family over time from the beginning of therapy to termination.

Through instruction, discussion, and EFCT video demonstrations with couples, participants will learn about areas of special consideration when working with autism and ways to adapt the practice of EFCT to accommodate autistic needs, thereby making EFCT neuroinclusive. Included also will be important discussions around autism diagnosis, marginalized identities, strengths, disabilities, and self-of-therapist considerations when working with autism.

Healing Tender Hearts in EFT Stage 2: Clarifying Process, Deepening Emotions

An exploration of the EFT Stage 2 change events of Withdrawer Re-Engagement & Pursuer Softening, including the essential skills needed to help your couples restructure their bonds. Through teaching, videos & exercises, you'll learn how to lean into vulnerable emotions by heightening primary affect, incorporate "parts" work including view of self & view of other, help each partner to complete the risk, reach & response to shift interaction pattern

This one-day training explores how Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) provides a clear, attachment-based framework for understanding and treating anxiety. Presented by ICEEFT Courses.

Core Skills module 1 - Nov 10-11, 2025
Core Skills module 2 - Dec 8-9, 2025
Core Skills module 3 - Feb 9-10, 2026
Core Skills module 4 - Apr 13-14, 2026

Das EFT-Basistraining (EFT Externship) ist ein intensives, praxisnahes Training
über vier Tage und vermittelt die Grundlagen der Emotionsfokussierten
Paartherapie nach Dr. Sue Johnson. Sie lernen, wie Sie Paaren helfen können,
sich aus destruktiven Interaktionsmustern zu befreien und wieder Gefühle von
Verbundenheit und Liebe zu entwickeln. Die Teilnehmerzahl ist auf 30 Leute begrenzt.

The 4-Day Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples is an immersive, foundational training for mental health professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of attachment-based couple therapy. Developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, EFT is a research-supported model that helps couples move from distress to connection by identifying negative patterns and fostering secure emotional bonds.

Core Skills brought to you by the Montana Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy with trainer, Dr. Ryan Rana. This in-person workshop series will be in Missoula, Montana.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) externship is the major entry point for therapists learning this comprehensive series of training programs to gain a basic understanding of the EFT theory and clinical techniques of working with couples. EFT was developed by Sue Johnson and is being presented by the ICEEFT certified trainer Paul Guillory, PhD. Sue Johnson has published several outstand books & training videos for learning the EFT model.

Join Cindy for Core Skills training to practice and deeper understand each stage, step and intervention in "Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy". The training will offer instruction, live case consultation and experiential exercises as set forth by ICEEFT. EFCT Core Skills consists of a total of 8 training days (48 hours) over 2 x 4 days.

Dates: CS1 11/13-14, CS2 12/18-19, CS3 1/8-1/9, CS4 2/26-27

This one-day training examines how Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) helps clients facing mood-related challenges, particularly depression. Presented by ICEEFT Courses.

Si ya has hecho el Externship y quieres seguir profundizando, te espero en esta formación pensada para consolidar las habilidades fundamentales del modelo.

Aprendemos a rastrear el patrón rígido con claridad, a sostener momentos emocionales intensos y a intervenir de forma que el cambio sea realmente experiencial.

Primera parte: del 14 al 16 de noviembre de 2025.
Segunda parte: del 13 al 15 de marzo de 2026.
Centro Entropía, Avenida de Am

Gain a roadmap to reach clients and promote lasting with Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT). This 24hr Externship is focused on EFT for Couples. Presented by ICEEFT Courses. Click "event link" for time zone and more.

ALL FRIDAYS! Module One: November 14 & 21, 2025; Module Two: January 16 & 23, 2026; Module Three: March 20 & 27, 2026; Module Four: May 1 & 8, 2026
All Modules: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm (Pacific Time), 30 minute lunch break
Up to 48 APA-, NBCC-, CA BBS-, and New York State Education Department-approved CE's available

This workshop will provide an overview of the research and theoretical models of adult attachment from the perspective of injuries to attachment bonds in romantic relationships. Time will be spent on defining ruptures to trust as a result of broken agreements between partners and on how these ruptures can be healed using EFCT.

This four day immersion in the theory and practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy is the foundation of the training required towards becoming a Certified EFCT therapist and is endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). It includes an overview of EFT therapist interventions including the EFT Tango, as well as video demonstrations, small-group activities and a live couple session.

Deepen your understanding of EFT and application to couple’s therapy.
Develop EFCT skills through instruction, demonstrations, and live session observations.
Hands-on practice of EFT techniques and exercises.
Receive individual feedback on your EFCT skills development through case presentations.
Understand and apply the EFT tango in different stages of therapy.
Apply the EFT through role-plays, discussions, aiming towards certification.

Advance your practice and improve your client outcomes by taking your EFFT skills to the next level. This 12hr Consultation is focused on EFT for Families. Presented by ICEEFT Courses. Click "event link" for time zone and more.

Healing from Affair & Infidelity in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT).
This workshop offers an in-depth exploration of attachment injuries and ruptures to trust in romantic relationships. Drawing from Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT), we’ll examine how betrayals—such as affairs—impact relational bonds and how healing is possible using the Attachment Injury Resolution Model (AIRM).

EFCT Core Skills 3 y 4 virtual, del 20 al 22 de noviembre. Regístrese en esta formación en tfeperu@gmail.com.

This 1 Day online workshop offers a deep dive into one of the most important processes in EFT: repairing attachment injuries. Using EFT's A.I.R.M. roadmap, therapists will learn how to identify attachment injuries, and practically apply EFT's AIRM & interventions to address/repair unresolved relational injuries and traumas that clients get stuck not being able to move past these events in their relationships. CE's included in the cost

November 21-22, 29-30, 2025
in Lausanne, Switzerland

EFT Basistraining

EXTERNSHIP EN TERAPIA FOCALIZADA EN LAS EMOCIONES PARA PAREJAS

Externship TFE - Nivel 1 de terapia de pareja focalizada en las emociones. Modalidad online - 4 días de formación intensiva en dos fines de semana. Formación íntegramente en directo.

Online Hebrew Externship

EFFT Essentials online English subtitled to Hebrew
Led by Gail Palmer, ICEEFT Board Member, Co-Developer of EFFT, and alongside Trainer Dr. Tal Padah, Head of EFT Israel Centre and ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Supervisor, and Therapist.
Training Dates:
Part 1: November 24–26, 2025 | 14:00–18:30 (Israel time)
Part 2: January 12–14, 2026 | 14:00–18:30 (Israel time)
(7:00 am – 11:30 am EST)

Externship EFCT, online in Swedish

EFIT Essentials Presencial con Ali Barbosa
Santiago, Chile

Más información e inscripciones a través del enlace o del correo chiletfe@gmail.com

DESCUENTO DE 15% SOLO HASTA 27/6/2025

This course examines how EFFT honours the different relationships that exist between the parent and child, as well as within the romantic relationship. We will demonstrate our work with video tape examples, and offer experiential exercises designed to help participants immerse themselves in the experience of stepfamily development.

Hosted by ICEEFT Courses. Click “event link” for time zone and more.

• Core Skills 1: Nov 28-30, 2025
• Core Skills 2: March 27-29, 2026
• Core Skills 3: May 16-17, 2026

Entrenamiento en Habilidades Esenciales

Core Skills 1 - viernes 28 y sábado 29 de noviembre, 2025 - Virtual - 8:30am a 3:30pm
Core Skills 2 - viernes 6 y sábado 7 de febrero, 2026 - Presencial Escazú, Costa Rica - 8:30am a 4:00pm
Core Skills 3 - viernes 17 y sábado 18 de abril, 2026 - Presencial Escazú, Costa Rica - 8:30am a 4:00pm
Core Skills 4 - viernes 5 y sábado 6 de junio, 2026 - Presencial en Escazú, Costa Rica - 8:30am a 4:00pm

This one-day training explores working with clients with high levels of shame. We know that many people who have experienced disappointing or distressing relationships with their attachment figures, go on to carry a legacy of shame. This workshop addresses how to use the therapeutic alliance and the EFIT interventions to create safety in our therapeutic space and to create powerful moments of change and growth for our most shame-prone clients.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Formation de base (Externship) en EFT

EFT trainer, Dr. Ting Liu, will hold a live session to help us learn how to work with differences in couples from collectivist cultures.

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.

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

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 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 - 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

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.

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.

This will be an online externship

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.

Formation de base en thérapie de couple centrée sur les émotions

Cette formation vous donnera les outils de base pour pratiquer la thérapie de couple centrée sur les émotions. La formation a lieu en petit groupe d'environ 10 personnes, ce qui permet un travail en profondeur.

Deepen your understanding of EFT and application to couple’s therapy.
Develop EFCT skills through instruction, demonstrations, and live session observations.
Hands-on practice of EFT techniques and exercises.
Receive individual feedback on your EFCT skills development through case presentations.
Understand and apply the EFT tango in different stages of therapy.
Apply the EFT through role-plays, discussions, aiming towards certification.

Basic course of training in emotionally focused couples therapy at the Balkan Educational Center Balentein.

Conceptualize issues related to breach of trust as a type of "attachment injury" where a fundamental rupture of trust inhibits one or both partner's ability to move forward in this relationship. Provide practical direction in treating relational betrayals and the clinical management of highly reactive couples. Review the steps and stages of EFT as an empirically supported approach with a particular focus on recovery from relational betrayal.

What is EFT? A map to lasting healing for individuals, couples, and families, grounded in attachment science. Gain practical tools to take your first step into the transformational world of EFT.

Hosted by ICEEFT Courses. Click “event link” for time zone and more.

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. Hosted by ICEEFT Courses. Click “event link” for time zone and more.

The EFCT Standard Core Skills training is a 4-day immersion training (24 hours) in the theory and practice of EFT. It serves as the second (and final) course in the pathway to become a Certified EFCT Therapist. Participants can opt for this 24-hour option as part of their EFCT Certification requirements. (please note: 48-hour options are available elsewhere). 12 hours dedicated each to Stage 1 & Stage 2

EFIT Essentials is an amalgamation of the previous Level 1 and 2 EFIT trainings, now offered as a seamless, intensive learning experience. The training is structured to provide a solid foundation and an advanced understanding of the EFIT model, embedded within an attachment science framework. Through a blend of theoretical instruction and experiential exercises, participants will be guided to apply the model with individuals in their practice.

Restore connection and strengthen resilience in families with Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT). This 24hr Essentials is focused on EFT for Families.

Hosted by ICEEFT Courses. Click “event link” for time zone and more.

EFFT Essentials is a requirement for this course. In this two-part, in person course, Jim Furrow, PhD will guide you into the heart of the therapy room, showing clips of his and others sessions; reviewing where they get stuck, how they get unstuck, and how the attachment map and EFT Tango illuminate a way forward. Trainer/Supervisors will provide consultation, feedback, and live guidance, helping you sharpen your EFFT skills.

24th – 25th January & 7th – 8th February 2026

EFIT Essentials is a 4-day (24hr) training for therapists to learn the theory and practice of applying EFT in individual therapy, focusing on emotional processing and the creation of secure attachment relationship with self and others. EFIT’s structured approach help in addressing various life challenges and fostering growth and change in experiential manner. EFIT Essentials is the first steps towards certification in EFIT.

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.

EFFT and Trauma is a one-day training that explores the application of Emotionally Focused Therapy with families facing the impact of trauma. Join us to enhance your clinical skills and EFFT practices that promote resilience and support a family’s journey toward healing. Presented by ICEEFT Courses.

Séances de consultation en thérapie individuelle centrée sur les émotions : surmonter les obstacles et parfaire ses compétences

Dans ces séances en petit groupe, vous pouvez faire progresser votre pratique clinique et vos compétences en TCEI/EFIT. Dans ce cours en deux parties, votre formatrice ou un thérapeute invité montrera son travail vous parlera de ses difficultés, et de comment elle les surmonte. Vous verrez comment l’attachement et le Tango constituent des repères précieux. Vous pouvez montrer votre travail et recevoir de l'aide du groupe et de la formatrice.

Join our 1-day online (7-hour) workshop) and learn how to successfully apply EFT/EFIT to group therapy settings. Led by renowned EFT Trainer Andrea Pagani from Rome, this intensive training is designed to deepen your therapeutic skills, enhance group dynamics, and provide practical strategies you can immediately integrate into your practice. CE's included, hosted by Southern NV EFT