Upcoming EFCT Events (EFT for Couples)
Core Skills: Extended ~ Las Vegas, NV, USA

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Cindy Goodness Zane | Nevada, United States | English | October 16, 2025 |
Core Skills (Extended) is the second step in official basic EFT Training. This 48 Hour EFCT training is broken up into 2 x 3 Day weekends hosted live & in person in Las Vegas, NV. Core Skills is designed to deepen your clinical skills in applying the EFT model, its steps, stages and its specific interventions in a smaller group format. Join us in Las Vegas! Modules 1 & 2: October 16th- 18th, 2025 Modules 3 & 4: February 19th-21st, 2026
Core Skills: Extended ~ Online (Japan), in Japanese and English

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Gail Palmer | Japan | English, Japanese | October 25, 2025 |
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Online Core Skills in Japan Official online Core Skills training for Dr. Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) will be held over four weekends starting in October, 2025.
Core Skills: Extended ~ Online (USA)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Paul Guillory | Colorado, United States | English | October 27, 2025 |
Dr. Guillory brings a wealth of experience and a particular interest in working with multicultural realities and the impact of marginalization and understanding how it activates our attachment systems and the role of emotional coherence in co/regulating and maintaining health, well-being, and possibly thriving.
Core Skills 1 & 2: Extended ~ AR, USA

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Ryan Rana | Arkansas, United States | English | October 29, 2025 |
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).
Core Skills 1 & 2: Extended ~ Online (USA)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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James Hawkins | Arkansas, United States | English | October 29, 2025 |
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).
Core Skills: Extended ~ Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Cindy Goodness Zane | Pennsylvania, United States | English | October 30, 2025 |
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
Core Skills: Extended ~ Online (USA)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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George Faller, Elana Katz | New York, United States | English | October 30, 2025 |
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
Core Skills: Standard ~ Online (Australia)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Clare Rosoman | Australia | English | November 3, 2025 |
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.
Core Skills 2: Extended ~ Singapore

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Ting Liu | Singapore | English | November 3, 2025 |
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.
Core Skills: Extended ~ Norway, in Norwegian

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Dimitrij Samoilow | Norway | Norwegian | November 10, 2025 |
Core Skills module 1 - Nov 10-11, 2025Core Skills module 2 - Dec 8-9, 2025Core Skills module 3 - Feb 9-10, 2026Core Skills module 4 - Apr 13-14, 2026
Core Skills: Extended ~ Online (Iran), in English, Arabic, Farsi

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Cindy Goodness Zane | Iran | English, Arabic, Farsi | November 13, 2025 |
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
Core Skills: Extended ~ Online (CA, USA)

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Scott Woolley | California, United States | English | November 14, 2025 |
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
Core Skills 1 & 2: Extended ~ Spain, in Spanish

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Itziar Arana Rivero | Spain | Spanish | November 14, 2025 |
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
Core Skills 3: Extended ~ Online (Hong Kong), in Cantonese

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Tat-Ying Wong | Hong Kong | Chinese Cantonese | November 18, 2025 |
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.
Core Skills 3 & 4: Extended ~ Online (Peru), in Spanish

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Natalia Gilabert | Peru | Spanish | November 20, 2025 |
EFCT Core Skills 3 y 4 virtual, del 20 al 22 de noviembre. Regístrese en esta formación en tfeperu@gmail.com.
Core Skills: Extended ~ Costa Rica, in Spanish

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Norma Brito | Costa Rica | Spanish | November 28, 2025 |
Entrenamiento en Habilidades Esenciales 1 Core Skills 1 que se impartirá de manera presencial en Escazú, San José (Costa Rica) en español.viernes 21 y sábado 22 de noviembre. 8:30am a 5:00pm
Core Skills: Extended ~ Online (Romania), in Romanian

Trainer | Location | Language | Date |
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Simona Herb | Romania | Romanian | November 28, 2025 |
Core Skills 1: Nov 28-30, 2025 Core Skills 2: March 27-29, 2026 Core Skills 3: May 16-17, 2026
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.
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