COURSE OVERVIEW:

This workshop aims to create space for EFT and other attachment-based experiential therapists to fine-tune themselves as therapeutic instruments in their clinical work. We will use the EFT treatment map and in-session process (Tango) as the framework for the training. During this workshop, we will guide therapists through exercises and role plays to help them notice their own affective experiences and develop plans to utilize and use themselves in an attuned way in the therapeutic process.

Prerequisite: Participants must have taken the EFT Externship

Link to Register: https://www.eftatlanta.com/specialty-trainings

 THIS WORKSHOP WILL INCLUDE:

This event will include training, demonstrations, and role plays around common areas where therapists often get stuck during sessions.

​LOCATION:

**In-person** 

Cura Couples & Family Center of Atlanta

5 Dunwoody Park Suite 120

Atlanta, GA 30338 

​​WHEN:

January 10-11, 2025

​COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1. Participants will be more aware of their affective responses in various clinical situations (anger, client challenge, feeling lost/confused, encountering blocks).

2. Participants will develop plans to regain focus when they get dysregulated or lose attunement in the session. 

3. Participants will practice noticing and making sense of triggers and emotions occurring in them.

4. Participants will be able to identify therapeutic choice points to increase the effectiveness of their experiential work.

​WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

This advanced workshop is appropriate for all licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals, including psychologists, professional counselors, clinical social workers, and marriage and family therapists who work with couples who are minimally EFT Externship trained. 

***Payment is due at the time of registration.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:

12 Continuing Education Credits have been application is being processed. Updates will be posted here once approved. 

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Discover the *next level* of your therapy practice with **EFT Core Skills Training**—a transformative, hands-on experience designed to take your mastery of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) to new heights! This intimate training goes beyond the basics, immersing you in both the art and science of EFCT with a focus on **macro and micro-interventions** that truly make a difference.

 Engage in a rich learning experience that combines: 

✅ **Expert-guided insights** through clear, didactic explanations 

✅ **Real-world applications** via clinical session analysis 

✅ **Skill refinement** with interactive role-plays and personalized feedback 

 With a focus on deliberate practice, this training empowers you to navigate EFCT’s three stages confidently, using the essential skills taught across four comprehensive modules. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your effectiveness, deepen your understanding, and transform your therapeutic impact.

 Your journey to becoming an exceptional EFT therapist starts here—are you ready to take the leap?🌟

Stages 2 & 3: Restructuring the Bond (Withdrawer Re-engagement & Pursuer Softening) Attachment Injuries & Trauma

 Core Skills 3: Foundations of Stage 2/Withdrawer Re-engagement: This core skills experience is designed to help therapists learn the focus and skills to work with an avoidant attachment system to help them engage with their felt experience, share their attachment fears, and reach for comfort (co-regulation) from their partner rather than rigid isolation and self-regulation.

 Core Skills 4: Pursuer Softening/Attachment Injuries/Trauma: aims to help clinicians assist clients with a preoccupied or anxious attachment style in making compassionate contact with themselves, sharing their attachment fears, and making vulnerable bids for comfort and connection rather than relying on anxiety or criticism. Additionally, this module will address attachment injuries and trauma through an EFCT lens.

 Combined Core Skills 3 & 4: These core skills aim to help equip clinicians to push the leading edge for themselves and their clients so they can succeed in vulnerability. This immersive, experiential approach equips you with practical tools to create meaningful change and allows you to build supportive, collegial relationships. Plus, with the convenience of combining these core skills into one streamlined training, you’ll save time, reduce travel expenses, and return to your practice feeling inspired and prepared to make a more profound impact."

Link to Event Registration Page

Discover the *next level* of your therapy practice with **EFT Core Skills Training**—a transformative, hands-on experience designed to take your mastery of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) to new heights! This intimate training goes beyond the basics, immersing you in both the art and science of EFCT with a focus on **macro and micro-interventions** that truly make a difference.

 Engage in a rich learning experience that combines: 

✅ **Expert-guided insights** through clear, didactic explanations 

✅ **Real-world applications** via clinical session analysis 

✅ **Skill refinement** with interactive role-plays and personalized feedback 

 With a focus on deliberate practice, this training empowers you to navigate EFCT’s three stages confidently, using the essential skills taught across four comprehensive modules. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your effectiveness, deepen your understanding, and transform your therapeutic impact.

 Your journey to becoming an exceptional EFT therapist starts here—are you ready to take the leap?🌟

Stages 2 & 3: Restructuring the Bond (Withdrawer Re-engagement & Pursuer Softening) Attachment Injuries & Trauma

 Core Skills 3: Foundations of Stage 2/Withdrawer Re-engagement: This core skills experience is designed to help therapists learn the focus and skills to work with an avoidant attachment system to help them engage with their felt experience, share their attachment fears, and reach for comfort (co-regulation) from their partner rather than rigid isolation and self-regulation.

 Core Skills 4: Pursuer Softening/Attachment Injuries/Trauma: aims to help clinicians assist clients with a preoccupied or anxious attachment style in making compassionate contact with themselves, sharing their attachment fears, and making vulnerable bids for comfort and connection rather than relying on anxiety or criticism. Additionally, this module will address attachment injuries and trauma through an EFCT lens.

 Combined Core Skills 3 & 4: These core skills aim to help equip clinicians to push the leading edge for themselves and their clients so they can succeed in vulnerability. This immersive, experiential approach equips you with practical tools to create meaningful change and allows you to build supportive, collegial relationships. Plus, with the convenience of combining these core skills into one streamlined training, you’ll save time, reduce travel expenses, and return to your practice feeling inspired and prepared to make a more profound impact."

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Where: Bentley University Conference Center

Level: Completion of Core Skills strongly recommended; completion of 4-day Externship required)

Target Audience: Marriage & Family Therapists, Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Psychologists

Cost: Early Bird (until 2/14/25) $425; After 2/14/25 $450; EFT MA Members Early Bird (by 1/15/25) $400; After 1/15/25 $415

CEs: 12 CEs for LMFTs, LICSWs, LMHCs and Lic. Psychologists

*Evaluations and certificates are available online following course completion for $30.

“Not knowing how to handle the blocks that show up in every session is what burns EFT therapists out.” - James Hawkins, PhD

This two-day master class will focus on blocks we encounter throughout the EFT Tango—interruptions, exits, defensiveness, getting stuck in content, blaming, wall of words, and more. Therapist blocks too! Learn from certified ICEEFT trainer James Hawkins, aka Doc Hawk, who will lead us through exercises; role plays, and his ways of staying centered when faced with blocks.

Cancellation Policy: 50% refund up to 7 days before the training: no refunds issued after April 17, 2025

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

For questions about the training, contact Heidi Bercovici (heidibercovici@gmail.com) or Ann Zierler (annzierler@hotmail.com).

Getting Unstuck! Master Class

Sale Price:$425.00 Original Price:$450.00

Early Bird - by 1/15/25: $425

After 1/15/25: $450

EFT MA Members: Early Bird - by 1/15/25: $400 (use your discount code at checkout)

EFT MA Members After 1/15/25: $415 (use your discount code at checkout)

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Externship in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy® (EFCT)

“Externship” (also known as “Externship in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy®,” “EFCT Externship,” “Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy”) is a training in the EFT for Couples (EFCT) stream. There are also equivalent courses in EFT for Families (EFFT) and EFT for Individuals (EFIT) streams.

Overview

An Externship in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy® is an immersive four-day (24+ hour) training experience, foundational for therapists aiming to specialize in EFCT. Led by certified trainers, it offers a comprehensive introduction to the EFCT model, focusing on the science of attachment and the systematic approach to couple therapy. This training is crucial for therapists because it equips them with the necessary skills to foster secure, resilient relationships in therapy. It’s the first step in formal EFCT training, opening the door to advanced practice and certification and enhancing therapists’ efficacy and confidence in their clinical work with couples.

What will I learn in an “Externship”?

• Participants will obtain a clear understanding of the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an “Emotionally Focused” approach to therapy.

• Participants can view clients in the web of their interpersonal attachments and conceptualize relationship distress and repair based on theories of attachment and emotion.

• EFT is a relational therapy. The Externship will focus on the EFCT model in the 2019 book Attachment Theory in Practice and teach the model as implemented in a couple of therapy sessions.

• Participants will develop skills in sharing and maintaining an engaged, open, and collaborative alliance with clients.

• Participants will develop skills in the 5 moves of the basic macro-intervention—the EFT Tango—to change patterns of affect regulation, models of self and others, strategies for engaging others, and interactional patterns.

• Participants will develop skills in EFT micro-interventions taken from experiential and attachment systemic intervention models.

• Participants will develop skills for overcoming common blocks and impasses in couple therapy, shaping core corrective emotional experiences that lead to constructive dependency and what Rogers termed ‘existential living.’

  Click for the Event Registration Page

Discover the next level of your therapy practice with EFT Core Skills Training—a transformative, hands-on experience designed to take your mastery of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) to new heights! This intimate training goes beyond the basics, immersing you in the art and science of EFCT with a focus on macro and micro-interventions that truly make a difference.

 Engage in a rich learning experience that combines: 

✅ **Expert-guided insights** through clear, didactic explanations 

✅ **Real-world applications** via clinical session analysis 

✅ **Skill refinement** with interactive role-plays and personalized feedback 

 With a focus on deliberate practice, this training empowers you to navigate EFCT’s three stagesEFCT'sdently, using the essential skills taught across four comprehensive modules. Don't miss this opportuDon'tto elevate your effectiveness, deepen your understanding, and transform your therapeutic impact.

 Your journey to becoming an exceptional EFT therapist starts here—are you ready to leap? 🌟

 Stage 1: De-escalation

 Core Skills 1: Developing the Therapeutic Alliance focuses on the initial stage of therapy, emphasizing the development of alliance and assessment skills essential for assisting couples experiencing relational distress. A key component involves identifying and tracking the cycles of distress that hinder couples from forming a loving and safe connection.

 Core Skills 2: Accessing & Utilizing Live Emotion is designed to equip clinicians with the skills to access and work with live emotions and guide distressed couples. There is a keen focus on helping therapists guide the process to help de-escalate the distress of the negative cycle.

 Combined Core Skills 1 & 2: Combining these two core skills gives the attendees an immersive experiential focus and skills to begin the journey with clients stuck in reactive cycles of emotional and relational distress. This immersive, experiential approach equips you with practical tools to create meaningful change and allows you to build supportive, collegial relationships. Plus, with the convenience of combining these core skills into one streamlined training, you’ll save time, reducyou'llel expenses, and return to your practice feeling inspired and prepared to make a more profound impact."

Click here to go to e”ent registration page

Discover the *next level* of your therapy practice with **EFT Core Skills Training**—a transformative, hands-on experience designed to take your mastery of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) to new heights! This intimate training goes beyond the basics, immersing you in both the art and science of EFCT with a focus on **macro and micro-interventions** that truly make a difference.

 Engage in a rich learning experience that combines: 

✅ **Expert-guided insights** through clear, didactic explanations 

✅ **Real-world applications** via clinical session analysis 

✅ **Skill refinement** with interactive role-plays and personalized feedback 

 With a focus on **deliberate practice**, this training empowers you to navigate EFCT’s **three stages** confidently, using the essential skills taught across four comprehensive modules. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your effectiveness, deepen your understanding, and transform your therapeutic impact.

 Your journey to becoming an exceptional EFT therapist starts here—are you ready to take the leap? 🌟

Stage 1: De-escalation

Core Skills 1: Developing the Therapeutic Alliance focuses on the initial stage of therapy, emphasizing the development of alliance and assessment skills essential for assisting couples experiencing relational distress. A key component involves identifying and tracking the cycles of distress that hinder couples from forming a loving and safe connection.

Core Skills 2: Accessing & Utilizing Live Emotion is designed to equip clinicians with the skills to access and work with live emotions and guide distressed couples. There is a keen focus on helping therapists guide the process to help de-escalate the distress of the negative cycle.

Combined Core Skills 1 & 2: Combining these two core skills together gives the attendees an immersive experiential focus and skills to begin the journey with clients stuck in reactive cycles of emotional and relational distress. This immersive, experiential approach equips you with practical tools to create meaningful change and allows you to build supportive, collegial relationships. Plus, with the convenience of combining these core skills into one streamlined training, you’ll save time, reduce travel expenses, and return to your practice feeling inspired and prepared to make a more profound impact."

Click here for the event registration page

Join EFT Trainer James “Doc Hawk” Hawkins to explore Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a humanistic, versatile, and empirically validated approach to psychotherapy rooted in the science of attachment and emotions. In this experiential workshop, Doc Hawk will offer a comprehensive introduction to EFT across three primary applications:

• Individual Therapy (EFIT)

• Couples Therapy (EFCT)

• Family Therapy (EFFT)

Throughout the course, practitioners will explore the role of attachment in treating individuals, couples, and families by examining EFT’s core elements, learning to deepen clients' emotional awareness, and mastering the "EFT Tango" to guide therapeutic healing.

Doc Hawk will demonstrate how EFIT, EFCT, and EFFT can help clients identify and transform negative and restrictive processing patterns through a blend of didactic presentation, clinical video, live demonstration, discussion, and practical application. Participants will learn to support clients' emotional expression across different relational contexts, attentive to the unique dynamics of each therapeutic setting.

This workshop serves as a comprehensive introduction to EFT, a foundation for advanced training, and a place to deepen existing knowledge of EFT. Designed for therapists of all experience levels, it provides practical skills to enhance emotional safety and therapeutic connection while offering an opportunity to learn collectively with colleagues.

Click here for the event registration page

Discover the *next level* of your therapy practice with **EFT Core Skills Training**—a transformative, hands-on experience designed to take your mastery of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) to new heights! This intimate training goes beyond the basics, immersing you in both the art and science of EFCT with a focus on **macro and micro-interventions** that truly make a difference.

Engage in a rich learning experience that combines: 

✅ **Expert-guided insights** through clear, didactic explanations 

✅ **Real-world applications** via clinical session analysis 

✅ **Skill refinement** with interactive role-plays and personalized feedback 

With a focus on **deliberate practice**, this training empowers you to navigate EFCT’s **three stages** confidently, using the essential skills taught across four comprehensive modules. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your effectiveness, deepen your understanding, and transform your therapeutic impact.

Your journey to becoming an exceptional EFT therapist starts here—are you ready to take the leap? 🌟

Stage 1: De-escalation

Core Skills 1: Developing the Therapeutic Alliance focuses on the initial stage of therapy, emphasizing the development of alliance and assessment skills essential for assisting couples experiencing relational distress. A key component involves identifying and tracking the cycles of distress that hinder couples from forming a loving and safe connection.

Core Skills 2: Accessing & Utilizing Live Emotion is designed to equip clinicians with the skills to access and work with live emotions and guide distressed couples. There is a keen focus on helping therapists guide the process to help de-escalate the distress of the negative cycle.

Combined Core Skills 1 & 2: Combining these two core skills together gives the attendees an immersive experiential focus and skills to begin the journey with clients stuck in reactive cycles of emotional and relational distress. This immersive, experiential approach equips you with practical tools to create meaningful change and allows you to build supportive, collegial relationships. Plus, with the convenience of combining these core skills into one streamlined training, you’ll save time, reduce travel expenses, and return to your practice feeling inspired and prepared to make a more profound impact."

Discover the *next level* of your therapy practice with **EFT Core Skills Training**—a transformative, hands-on experience designed to take your mastery of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) to new heights! This intimate training goes beyond the basics, immersing you in both the art and science of EFCT with a focus on **macro and micro-interventions** that truly make a difference.

 Engage in a rich learning experience that combines: 

✅ **Expert-guided insights** through clear, didactic explanations 

✅ **Real-world applications** via clinical session analysis 

✅ **Skill refinement** with interactive role-plays and personalized feedback 

 With a focus on deliberate practice, this training empowers you to navigate EFCT’s three stages confidently, using the essential skills taught across four comprehensive modules. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your effectiveness, deepen your understanding, and transform your therapeutic impact.

 Your journey to becoming an exceptional EFT therapist starts here—are you ready to take the leap?🌟

Stages 2 & 3: Restructuring the Bond (Withdrawer Re-engagement & Pursuer Softening) Attachment Injuries & Trauma

 Core Skills 3: Foundations of Stage 2/Withdrawer Re-engagement: This core skills experience is designed to help therapists learn the focus and skills to work with an avoidant attachment system to help them engage with their felt experience, share their attachment fears, and reach for comfort (co-regulation) from their partner rather than rigid isolation and self-regulation.

 Core Skills 4: Pursuer Softening/Attachment Injuries/Trauma: aims to help clinicians assist clients with a preoccupied or anxious attachment style in making compassionate contact with themselves, sharing their attachment fears, and making vulnerable bids for comfort and connection rather than relying on anxiety or criticism. Additionally, this module will address attachment injuries and trauma through an EFCT lens.

 Combined Core Skills 3 & 4: These core skills aim to help equip clinicians to push the leading edge for themselves and their clients so they can succeed in vulnerability. This immersive, experiential approach equips you with practical tools to create meaningful change and allows you to build supportive, collegial relationships. Plus, with the convenience of combining these core skills into one streamlined training, you’ll save time, reduce travel expenses, and return to your practice feeling inspired and prepared to make a more profound impact."

Click here to access the Houston EFT website

Discover the *next level* of your therapy practice with **EFT Core Skills Training**—a transformative, hands-on experience designed to take your mastery of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) to new heights! This intimate training goes beyond the basics, immersing you in both the art and science of EFCT with a focus on **macro and micro-interventions** that truly make a difference.

 Engage in a rich learning experience that combines: 

✅ **Expert-guided insights** through clear, didactic explanations 

✅ **Real-world applications** via clinical session analysis 

✅ **Skill refinement** with interactive role-plays and personalized feedback 

 With a focus on deliberate practice, this training empowers you to navigate EFCT’s three stages confidently, using the essential skills taught across four comprehensive modules. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your effectiveness, deepen your understanding, and transform your therapeutic impact.

 Your journey to becoming an exceptional EFT therapist starts here—are you ready to take the leap?🌟

Stages 2 & 3: Restructuring the Bond (Withdrawer Re-engagement & Pursuer Softening) Attachment Injuries & Trauma

 Core Skills 3: Foundations of Stage 2/Withdrawer Re-engagement: This core skills experience is designed to help therapists learn the focus and skills to work with an avoidant attachment system to help them engage with their felt experience, share their attachment fears, and reach for comfort (co-regulation) from their partner rather than rigid isolation and self-regulation.

 Core Skills 4: Pursuer Softening/Attachment Injuries/Trauma: aims to help clinicians assist clients with a preoccupied or anxious attachment style in making compassionate contact with themselves, sharing their attachment fears, and making vulnerable bids for comfort and connection rather than relying on anxiety or criticism. Additionally, this module will address attachment injuries and trauma through an EFCT lens.

 Combined Core Skills 3 & 4: These core skills aim to help equip clinicians to push the leading edge for themselves and their clients so they can succeed in vulnerability. This immersive, experiential approach equips you with practical tools to create meaningful change and allows you to build supportive, collegial relationships. Plus, with the convenience of combining these core skills into one streamlined training, you’ll save time, reduce travel expenses, and return to your practice feeling inspired and prepared to make a more profound impact."

Click here to access the event registration page

Discover the *next level* of your therapy practice with **EFT Core Skills Training**—a transformative, hands-on experience designed to take your mastery of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) to new heights! This intimate training goes beyond the basics, immersing you in both the art and science of EFCT with a focus on **macro and micro-interventions** that truly make a difference.

 Engage in a rich learning experience that combines: 

✅ **Expert-guided insights** through clear, didactic explanations 

✅ **Real-world applications** via clinical session analysis 

✅ **Skill refinement** with interactive role-plays and personalized feedback 

 With a focus on deliberate practice, this training empowers you to navigate EFCT’s three stages confidently, using the essential skills taught across four comprehensive modules. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your effectiveness, deepen your understanding, and transform your therapeutic impact.

 Your journey to becoming an exceptional EFT therapist starts here—are you ready to take the leap?🌟

Stages 2 & 3: Restructuring the Bond (Withdrawer Re-engagement & Pursuer Softening) Attachment Injuries & Trauma

 Core Skills 3: Foundations of Stage 2/Withdrawer Re-engagement: This core skills experience is designed to help therapists learn the focus and skills to work with an avoidant attachment system to help them engage with their felt experience, share their attachment fears, and reach for comfort (co-regulation) from their partner rather than rigid isolation and self-regulation.

 Core Skills 4: Pursuer Softening/Attachment Injuries/Trauma: aims to help clinicians assist clients with a preoccupied or anxious attachment style in making compassionate contact with themselves, sharing their attachment fears, and making vulnerable bids for comfort and connection rather than relying on anxiety or criticism. Additionally, this module will address attachment injuries and trauma through an EFCT lens.

 Combined Core Skills 3 & 4: These core skills aim to help equip clinicians to push the leading edge for themselves and their clients so they can succeed in vulnerability. This immersive, experiential approach equips you with practical tools to create meaningful change and allows you to build supportive, collegial relationships. Plus, with the convenience of combining these core skills into one streamlined training, you’ll save time, reduce travel expenses, and return to your practice feeling inspired and prepared to make a more profound impact."

Click here to access the event registration page