EFT Training

At this challenging time and in its aftermath, couples, individuals, and families need therapists ​who have the knowledge and skills to ​work with them effectively.

Future Events

Online Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Consultation: Mastering Skills and Overcoming Challenges, 12 and 26 October 2024

This two-day training (10 hours) on 12th and 26th October 2024 follows on from Essentials of EFIT and helps you deepen your understanding of the EFIT model and discover effective ways to overcome obstacles and barriers to change.

You will join with your colleagues as they show real-world case examples of their work, and watch as ICEEFT Certified EFT trainers, Helene Igwebuike, Sarah McConnell, and Robert Allan help guide the therapy process through feedback, consultation, and experiential role plays specifically aimed at framing clients’ problems through the lens of attachment, mapping the process, maintaining momentum, unblocking barriers to growth.

The training reviews and delves deeper into the key concepts of EFIT covered in EFIT Essentials to deepen participants’ mastery of the EFIT model with extensive practice of the interventions, discussion of blocks and stuck places, and aims to build both confidence and skills.

Structure/Content: The two-part training starts 1:00 pm to finish 6pm UK time.

On completion of the 10 hours of training participants will receive an EFIT Mastering Skills Certificate of Attendance.​ You will also be eligible to join ICEEFT and have your information put on their directory

Cost: The standard cost of the EFIT Mastering Skills is £295.

Click here to register for EFIT Mastering Skills

This course is being organised by Emotionally Focused Training Ltd. For more information, email Robert Allan at drrobertallan1@gmail.com

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Past Trainings

EFFT Training

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy Level 2

24 – 25  June 2024

Location: Online

Jim Furrow and Gail Palmer will lead this EFFT Level 2 training online in June 2024.

James L Furrow, Ph.D., is a recognized leader and contributor to the practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with couples and families. He is contributing author and editor to five EFT texts including Emotionally Focus Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience and Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook. His research on couple therapy, positive youth development and spirituality are featured in leading professional journals. He is a clinical fellow and an approved supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a Certified Family Life Educator. Jim is an ICEEFT certified EFT therapist, supervisor, and trainer. He resides in Seattle Washington.

Gail Palmer, RMFT, MSW is one of the founding members of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute and Vice President of the International Centre of Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She holds a Masters degree in Social Work and is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in Canada. For over 30 years, Gail has worked closely with Dr. Sue Johnson, creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy, and is an experienced trainer and supervisor in EFT. She currently offers workshops, externships and core skills trainings to mental health professionals in a variety of different settings across the world.

Gail has a particular interest in applying the model with work with families. She has co-authored the seminal EFFT text Emotionally Focused Therapy, Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience, 2019. Her work has included EFFT trainings across North America, Europe and Australia/New Zealand, presentations at EFT summits, international conferences, publications in the EFFT workbook and casebook, articles in professional journals and the ICEEFT newsletter. Professionally, Gail’s primary passion is to help therapists who are both new to EFT and trained in EFT, to bring the powerful interventions and skills of this model to the family therapy room.

What you can expect in EFFT Level 2

Building on the foundations of EFFT Level 1, Level 2 focuses on increasing your competence in EFFT assessment and treatment practices that guide families through resolving relationship blocks and developing more secure familial bonds. Level 2 concentrates on specific practices for working through negative patterns, accessing and deepening emotional experience to promote corrective emotional experiences in family relationships. Video examples and practice exercises provide opportunities for you to observe EFFT in action and deepen your understanding and skill in this innovative approach to transforming family distress.

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an attachment-based approach that combines both systemic and experiential interventions to restore family relationships and strengthen their resilience. A primary goal of EFFT is to reduce problematic behavior by creating new patterns of emotional accessibility and responsiveness that offer a secure base for children to develop and families to thrive. EFFT provides a practical approach to engaging families at an emotional level. Accessing, processing, and connecting family members through the power of emotional experience promotes healing and fosters a family’s resilience to the everyday and unexpected challenges of life.

This advanced training builds on previous EFFT training providing further training on the six core competencies of EFFT practice. Participants focus on key change events in EFFT and therapist practices used to promote parental openness and child vulnerability. The training provides direction in transforming parental intention into more effective engagement of caregiving and engaging attachment responses within the family system. Specific strategies are reviewed for working through relational blocks and re-engaging attachment related-needs across the family. This training follows an intensive focus on key elements in the EFT process applied to family relationships. Demonstration and practice exercises provide participants opportunities to deepen their EFT skills in intervening with family relationships broadening their understanding of emotion and attachment in family life and strengthening the bonds they share.These workshops combine didactic instruction, experiential exercises, and case examples to demonstrate the practice of EFFT.
 Participants are encouraged to bring examples from their casework to explore the application of EFFT to their own practice.
 When possible, live demonstration sessions are included.

EFFT Level 2 Objectives
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Building on the foundations of EFFT Level 1, Level 2 focuses on increasing your competence in EFFT assessment and treatment practices that guide families through resolving relationship blocks and developing more secure familial bonds. Level 2 concentrates on specific practices for working through negative patterns, accessing and deepening emotional experience to promote corrective emotional experiences in family relationships. Video examples and practice exercises provide opportunities for you to observe EFFT in action and deepen your understanding and skill in this innovative approach to transforming family distress.

Participation in EFFT Level 2 will enable you to:

  • Conceptualize family distress and formulate a treatment plan guided by EFFT goals.
  • Explore alliance practices that promote family engagement in treatment.
  • Assess safety and contraindications for EFFT practice and conjoint practice.
  • Identify EFFT change events and related therapist interventions.
  • Practice interventions skills that promote parental buy-in to systemic intervention.
  • Order family patterns and reframe family patterns using an attachment frame.
  • Engage practices to process relational blocks to parental openness and child vulnerability.
  • Gain skill in accessing and assembling emotion associated with family distress.
  • Increase effectiveness in use of enactments to engage and process attachment related emotions and needs.
  • Facilitate impact of corrective experiences throughout family relationships.
  • Identify treatment practices guiding use of EFFT with divorced and remarried families.
To register for EFFT Level 2, complete the booking form at this link.

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EFIT Essentials (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy) in 2024

The four-day EFIT workshop is based on the attachment-based humanistic and systemic EFT model developed by Sue Johnson and is the first step to becoming a Certified Emotionally Focused Individuals Therapist.

EFIT Essentials combines Levels 1 and 2 EFIT training into a single course. The next workshop will be held in London on 26-27th June and 4-5th July 2024 by ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainers, Sarah McConnell and Helene Igwebuike.

Level 1 on 26-27h June: Participants will learn the theory, key interventions and skills to masterfully tune into, order, and use the transformative power of potent emotion and attachment to literally ‘move’ clients into a new sense of self and ’emotional fitness’, which results in an increased sense of competence and worth, a sense of secure connection with self and others, and overcoming symptoms of emotional disorders.

Level 2 4-5th July 2024: With more extensive discussion and practice, Level 2 deepens your understanding of EFIT while discovering effective ways to overcome barriers and obstacles to change and support for working with challenging clients and situations. Participants are encouraged to identify examples where difficulty in implementing EFIT and/or the Tango may occur.

Structure/Content: Registration on the 1st day 9:00 am to finish 4:30 pm. The second day will run 9:30 am – 4:30 pm.

On completion of the 24 hours of training participants will receive an EFIT Essentials Certificate of Attendance.​ You will also be eligible to join ICEEFT and have your information put on their directory and then will be able to become full members of the British EFT Centre and eligible to join the BEFT directory.

Click here to register for EFIT Essentials

This course is being organised by Emotion Focused Training Ltd. Email the Course Administrator Randall Horton at billing@conserarelationshipwellness.com for more information​​​.

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Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship, London, 18 – 21 November 2024

There is an ever increasing demand for EFT relationship therapy as public awareness of the effectiveness of Emotionally Focused Therapy grows. It can be a struggle to find EFT therapists with availability for new clients so we need more therapists training to meet clients needs.

 
 
 
 
 
 
18 – 21 November 2024
London, England
VAI – Voluntary Action Islington, 200A Pentonville Road, London N1 9JP
 
Led by certified EFT Trainers.
Places available so why not join us in London?
Our venue is following Covid guidelines and is wheelchair accessible.
 

 

A four day immersion in the theory and practise of Emotionally Focused Therapy. 

This four day course is the foundation of the training required towards becoming a Certified EFT therapist and is endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT).

This 28 hour training in Emotionally Focused Therapy includes presentations of theory and clinical techniques, video clips of couple and individual EFT sessions, training exercises, group work, and live couple session. For more info and booking, go here.

 

 

​​Date:     Monday – Thursday, 18 – 21 November 2024

Cost:       from £700 Early Bird fee, some reduced fee places are available

Venue:    Central London

Times:     9 a.m. – 5 p.m. each day,
​                  optional Home Group 8.30 – 9.00 a.m. days 2-4.

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Past Events

March 2022

  • Core Skills Online

This will be run in 4 x 2 day workshops led by Sandra Taylor – ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainers.

Core Skills training is completed following the Externship and is one of the requirements towards EFT certification.

Dates:

  • Core Skills 1 – March 7-8
  • Core Skills 2 – April 4-5
  • Core Skills 3 – May 16-17
  • Core Skills 4 – July 4-5 2022

Cost: From £1300 Early Bird for all 4 modules.

Venue: online

This course is being organised by Consera Relationship Wellness, for more information go to the webpage or contact Sarah McConnell sarahmcconn@gmail.com
Click here to go to the booking form.

BEFT Centre Special Event Online

All BEFT members are invited and booking is via Eventbrite [click here for tickets].

We will gather together at 6 p.m. and then have two sessions:

Neurodiversity Interest Group session: Reflecting on EFT and Neurodiversity

We consider ourselves to be a group constantly learning about Neurodiversity and EFT and we invite you to explore with us as we reflect on questions such as “How might we need to adjust our EFT practice when working with Neurodiverse clients” and “What do we need to be aware of in working with Neurodiverse clients”.  We’ll start with a short set of ideas about how we understand Neurodiversity and then use a reflecting team to talk through questions such as those above.  We’ll then open the floor to participants and explore their questions and ideas together as a group.

Presenters: Fiona Pusey, Seerit Khan, Judy James, Tracey Williams, Sarah McConnell

Diversity and Intersectionality Interest Group session: Knowing Me Knowing You

How much I know me impacts how much I get to know you, and understand my impact on you.
Bring your curiosity and explore with us our unique identity in the context of the Social Graces and Intersectionality.
Starting with a short presentation, following with sharing in small groups and a brief reflection in the large group.
Presenters: Janine Murray, Sophie Parry-Williams, Sandra Taylor

Following the sessions we will have some closing time together.
The opening and closing time will be led by Michael and Kate.

All BEFT members are invited and booking is via Eventbrite [click here]. You are asked to make a donation of between £5 and £20 and all proceeds will go to the running costs of the BEFT Centre. Events such as this enable us to continue to have free membership for BEFT Centre members.

June 2022

Externship – world’s first focused on LGBTQ+ relationships

– London June 27th – 30th 2022

Run by Sandra Taylor and Robert Allan – ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainers

London, Great Britain

This four day course is the foundation of the training required towards becoming a Certified EFT therapist.
This will be the first Externship focused on same gender relationships and is open to all in our gender, sex/sexuality and relationship diversity.

 

Date: Monday 27th – Thursday 30th June 2022

Cost: Early Bird £700, Standard fee £800, some reduced fee places to widen participation are available – see website for details.

Venue: Central London

Click here to go to website for more details.

July 2022

7th EFT international Summer school via ZOOM

‘It’s Never too Late’ – Love, Survival and Healing in Families and Relationships’

1-3 July – EFT-Newcomers cohort

6-9 July – EFT-Trained cohort

Happy Festive Season LUCKY DEAL – Ends Midnight 31 January!

www.eftinternationalschoollondon.com

September 2022

Core Skills – London 2022

This will be run in 2 x 4 day workshops run by Helene Igwebuike and Sandra Taylor – ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainers

Core Skills training is completed following the Externship and is one of the requirements towards EFT certification.

Dates:

  • Core Skills 1&2 – September 12-15 2022
  • Core Skills 3&4 – December 5-8

Cost: From £1650 Early Bird for all 4 modules.

Venue: Central London 

This course is being organised by Consera Relationship Wellness, for more information go to the webpage or contact Sarah McConnell sarahmcconn@gmail.com
Click here to go to the booking form.

October 2022

BEFT Centre Annual Conference

Transitions: Despair, Disruption and Opportunities8 October 2022

9:30am – 4:30pm

Resource for London

Click here for more information.

November 2022

Externship – London November 14th – 17th 2022

Run by Sandra Taylor and Helene Igwebuike – ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainers

London, Great Britain

Date: Monday 14th – Thursday 17th November 2022

Venue: central London
Click here to go to website for more details.
This course is being organised by AcRE EFT Training Ltd. and administration is being done Sarah McConnell, email her at sarahmcconn@gmail.com