Upcoming Professional Trainings & Events
listed in chronological order
Ethics Training
Sleep Tight at Night: Becoming Excellent in EFT Ethics
with Bonnie Lewis, LMFT
Date: Friday, June 2, 2023 | Time: 9am-12pm Arizona time (MST)
Location: Online (Zoom)
Cost: $30 for AZEFT members | $40 for non-members
** 20% discount offered to group practices of 5 or more who each register for the event; email us for the discount code
Certificate of Attendance: 3 hours
Strengthen your understanding of best practices when it comes to ethics and using EFT. Although necessary and part of our work, the topic of ethics can be one we shy away from, dismiss, or don't fully comprehend the value. Come ready to explore how best to respond to ethical issues from an EFT and AZBBHE viewpoint using case studies, as well as checking in with your own beliefs and potential blocks when it comes to ethical issues. Throughout our time, we will discuss how documentation and keeping organized in your notes is an ethical issue and will save you both time and worry!
Learning Objectives:
Bonnie Lewis, LMFT, is a Certified EFT Therapist and EFT Supervisor-In-Training. Practicing since 2014, one of Bonnie’s passions is teaching and mentorship. As an approved Supervisor with the AZBBHE and Clinical Director at Therapy with Heart, she enjoys providing supervision to practicing professionals in their journey towards obtaining their license. Bonnie has worked as a teacher’s assistant and is currently an adjunct professor and group supervisor at Fuller Theological Seminary for the Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Program. She facilitates couples workshops like Hold Me Tight and Created for Connection to help couples remove stumbling blocks to vulnerability to then be able to go deeper in their connection, resulting in their relationship being a source of healing. She was the Director of Training for AZEFT Board and is actively involved in the EFT Community. When not working, Bonnie cherishes the time with her husband and two daughters. She values her family, time outdoors, reading, traveling, being active, and connecting with her community.
A Note About Recording of Presentations: AZEFT is unable to guarantee if this presentation will be recorded, since that decision is at the discretion of the speaker at the time of the presentation. If any portion of this presentation is recorded, it will only be made available to members of our AZEFT community through our members-only video library. Please note, recordings do not include video clips from therapy sessions or breakout group activities, and viewers of the recording do not receive a certificate of attendance.
Location: Online (Zoom)
Cost: $30 for AZEFT members | $40 for non-members
** 20% discount offered to group practices of 5 or more who each register for the event; email us for the discount code
Certificate of Attendance: 3 hours
Strengthen your understanding of best practices when it comes to ethics and using EFT. Although necessary and part of our work, the topic of ethics can be one we shy away from, dismiss, or don't fully comprehend the value. Come ready to explore how best to respond to ethical issues from an EFT and AZBBHE viewpoint using case studies, as well as checking in with your own beliefs and potential blocks when it comes to ethical issues. Throughout our time, we will discuss how documentation and keeping organized in your notes is an ethical issue and will save you both time and worry!
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will develop an ethical decision-making framework informed by a systemic lens.
- Participants will be able to identify two to three personal barriers in their approach to ethics.
- Participants will gain documentation insight in relation to ethics and staying organized.
Bonnie Lewis, LMFT, is a Certified EFT Therapist and EFT Supervisor-In-Training. Practicing since 2014, one of Bonnie’s passions is teaching and mentorship. As an approved Supervisor with the AZBBHE and Clinical Director at Therapy with Heart, she enjoys providing supervision to practicing professionals in their journey towards obtaining their license. Bonnie has worked as a teacher’s assistant and is currently an adjunct professor and group supervisor at Fuller Theological Seminary for the Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Program. She facilitates couples workshops like Hold Me Tight and Created for Connection to help couples remove stumbling blocks to vulnerability to then be able to go deeper in their connection, resulting in their relationship being a source of healing. She was the Director of Training for AZEFT Board and is actively involved in the EFT Community. When not working, Bonnie cherishes the time with her husband and two daughters. She values her family, time outdoors, reading, traveling, being active, and connecting with her community.
A Note About Recording of Presentations: AZEFT is unable to guarantee if this presentation will be recorded, since that decision is at the discretion of the speaker at the time of the presentation. If any portion of this presentation is recorded, it will only be made available to members of our AZEFT community through our members-only video library. Please note, recordings do not include video clips from therapy sessions or breakout group activities, and viewers of the recording do not receive a certificate of attendance.
2023 Externship
Join us for an IN-PERSON 4-Day Externship: August 15-18, 2023 in Phoenix.
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Externship will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainers Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen and Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT.
Dates: August 15-August 18, 2023 | Time: 9am-5pm Arizona time (MST)
Location: Sonoran University of Health Sciences, Tempe, AZ
Cost: $895 Early Bird (until June 15) | $1,095 Regular Registration | $500 Student Registration
Continuing Education Units: 28 hours
Externship includes an overview of the entire model of Emotionally Focused Therapy including steps and stages, interventions, adult attachment theory, and application of EFT with couples and individuals. Learning will include lectures, live video demonstration, and, at times, breaking into smaller groups for discussion or role play led by experienced EFT therapists. The externship is recommended for all types of mental health clinicians who want to counsel or want to cancel couples. This training is the prerequisite for all other EFT trainings.
Learning Objectives:
Lisa Palmer-Olsen, Psy.D. is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Diego California. She is a Certified EFT Therapist, Trainer, and Supervisor, and is a Founder and one of the Directors of the Emotionally Focused Couples Training and Research Institute at Alliant International University.
Dr. Palmer-Olsen’s primary clinical and research interests are in the areas of couple and family therapy; specifically with those couples and families dealing with trauma and attachment related struggles. She is an AAMFT clinical member and approved AAMFT supervisor. Dr. Palmer-Olsen is also co-founder and clinic director for the Alliant Couple and Family Clinic (ACFC), San Diego-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit therapy clinic. The ACFC specializes in family and couple therapy offering individual and group counseling sessions for military and all clients in distressed relationships.
Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Diego, California. She is registered Play Therapist Supervisor and a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapy Therapist and Supervisor. She is passionate about supervising and consulting other professionals who work with children, families and couples. This includes weekly individual and group supervision to trainees and interns of the non-profit Alliant Couple and Family Clinic. Kathryn is born and raised I South Africa and completed her bachelors in Social Work, where she facilitated programs in schools for child therapy.
To learn more about the general objectives of the externship and to register, click the button below!
Dates: August 15-August 18, 2023 | Time: 9am-5pm Arizona time (MST)
Location: Sonoran University of Health Sciences, Tempe, AZ
Cost: $895 Early Bird (until June 15) | $1,095 Regular Registration | $500 Student Registration
Continuing Education Units: 28 hours
Externship includes an overview of the entire model of Emotionally Focused Therapy including steps and stages, interventions, adult attachment theory, and application of EFT with couples and individuals. Learning will include lectures, live video demonstration, and, at times, breaking into smaller groups for discussion or role play led by experienced EFT therapists. The externship is recommended for all types of mental health clinicians who want to counsel or want to cancel couples. This training is the prerequisite for all other EFT trainings.
Learning Objectives:
- See couples distress from an attachment perspective.
- Help partners reprocess the emotional responses that maintain couple distress.
- Shape key new interactional and bonding events.
- Overcome therapeutic impasses.
Lisa Palmer-Olsen, Psy.D. is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Diego California. She is a Certified EFT Therapist, Trainer, and Supervisor, and is a Founder and one of the Directors of the Emotionally Focused Couples Training and Research Institute at Alliant International University.
Dr. Palmer-Olsen’s primary clinical and research interests are in the areas of couple and family therapy; specifically with those couples and families dealing with trauma and attachment related struggles. She is an AAMFT clinical member and approved AAMFT supervisor. Dr. Palmer-Olsen is also co-founder and clinic director for the Alliant Couple and Family Clinic (ACFC), San Diego-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit therapy clinic. The ACFC specializes in family and couple therapy offering individual and group counseling sessions for military and all clients in distressed relationships.
Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Diego, California. She is registered Play Therapist Supervisor and a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapy Therapist and Supervisor. She is passionate about supervising and consulting other professionals who work with children, families and couples. This includes weekly individual and group supervision to trainees and interns of the non-profit Alliant Couple and Family Clinic. Kathryn is born and raised I South Africa and completed her bachelors in Social Work, where she facilitated programs in schools for child therapy.
To learn more about the general objectives of the externship and to register, click the button below!
Community Workshop
Modern Masculinity: Connecting with Men through EFT
with Nick Puchalski, LMFT, and Matthew Benson, LAMFT
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Modern Masculinity: Connecting with Men though EFT is a workshop that will challenge your understanding of what men need to open up with their emotions!
Date: Saturday, August 26, 2023 | Time: 9am-12pm Arizona time (MST)
Location: Temple Public Library, Desert Willow Program Room
Cost: $25 for AZEFT members | $45 for non-members
** 20% discount offered to group practices of 5 or more who each register for the event; email us for the discount code
Certificate of Attendance: 3 hours
Learning Objectives:
Coming Soon!
Nicholas Puchalski is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor in Training, and trained EMDR therapist. Nicholas specializes in couples therapy, affairs and betrayals, men's issues, and trauma. Nicholas also sits on the board of AZEFT and owns Restored Counseling and Wellness Center in Chandler, AZ.
Matthew Benson is an Associate Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at Therapy With Heart. He obtained his master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Auburn University. Matthew has advanced training in EFT and his areas of interest include couples therapy, sex therapy, trauma, parenting, and LGBTQ+ concerns.
A Note About Recording of Presentations: AZEFT is unable to guarantee if this presentation will be recorded, since that decision is at the discretion of the speaker at the time of the presentation. If any portion of this presentation is recorded, it will only be made available to members of our AZEFT community through our members-only video library. Please note, recordings do not include video clips from therapy sessions or breakout group activities, and viewers of the recording do not receive a certificate of attendance.
Date: Saturday, August 26, 2023 | Time: 9am-12pm Arizona time (MST)
Location: Temple Public Library, Desert Willow Program Room
Cost: $25 for AZEFT members | $45 for non-members
** 20% discount offered to group practices of 5 or more who each register for the event; email us for the discount code
Certificate of Attendance: 3 hours
Learning Objectives:
Coming Soon!
Nicholas Puchalski is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor in Training, and trained EMDR therapist. Nicholas specializes in couples therapy, affairs and betrayals, men's issues, and trauma. Nicholas also sits on the board of AZEFT and owns Restored Counseling and Wellness Center in Chandler, AZ.
Matthew Benson is an Associate Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at Therapy With Heart. He obtained his master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Auburn University. Matthew has advanced training in EFT and his areas of interest include couples therapy, sex therapy, trauma, parenting, and LGBTQ+ concerns.
A Note About Recording of Presentations: AZEFT is unable to guarantee if this presentation will be recorded, since that decision is at the discretion of the speaker at the time of the presentation. If any portion of this presentation is recorded, it will only be made available to members of our AZEFT community through our members-only video library. Please note, recordings do not include video clips from therapy sessions or breakout group activities, and viewers of the recording do not receive a certificate of attendance.
Annual Training
Transforming Trauma: Choreographing Corrective Emotional Experiences with EFT
with Dr. Leanne Campbell
Date: November 2-3, 2023 | Time: 9am - 5pm MST both days, Arizona (MST) time (lunch break 12:30-1:30)
Location: Online
Cost: By 7/31/23 - Members $340, Non-Members $375, Students $125
8/1/23 - 9/30/23 - Members $365, Non-Members $400, Students $125
On or After 10/1/23 - Members $390, Non-Members $425, Students $125
**A $100 discount is offered to attendees working in a community mental health agency or who are active members of the military
Certificate of Attendance: 14 hours (7 hours of instruction per day; 1-hour lunch not included)
**All attendees will receive a free Certificate of Attendance, which will suffice for all Arizona participants licensed under the BBHE or APA. Formal CE certificates are available for $30 if a free certificate of attendance is not sufficient - this may be an ideal option for non-Arizona, out-of-state participants.
Description: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an attachment science-based approach to therapy that, across modalities – whether we are working with individuals, couples, or families – offers an integration of humanistic, experiential, and systemic interventions focused on reshaping intrapsychic experience and patterns of engagement with key others. This workshop will provide an overview of the three-stage roadmap for therapy, with a specific focus on understanding the impact of trauma and core models of health and dysfunction from an attachment perspective, the primacy of emotion in creating change, and the key macro- (tango) intervention used to choreograph corrective emotional experiences with EFT. Video session review with related commentary will be used to demonstrate the change process as applied to individual and couple therapy, with the therapeutic aim of transforming trauma and moving clients toward a felt sense of security with self and others.
Workshop Format: This workshop will combine didactic instruction, experiential exercises, and case examples to demonstrate the practice of EFIT and EFCT. The training will deepen participants conceptualization of emotional processing within the individual system. Sessions will highlight specific application of EFIT and EFCT interventions necessary to transform reactive internal patterns. Clinical demonstrations and discussions will illustrate key steps in the EFIT and EFCT process of change.
Learning Objectives: Participants will discover...
• The key elements of the attachment perspective on the development of a resilient self and its significance for understanding clinical intervention.
• The applicability of EFIT with clients suffering from a range of symptoms and post traumatic issues and the power of EFCT in harnessing the relationship as a resource to transform trauma.
• An on-target map for the creation of transformative moments where vulnerabilities are encountered with balance and competence.
• A path to shape corrective emotional experiences, regulating and organizing inner experience, transforming trauma, and promoting engagement with others.
• The macro EFT intervention sequence: the EFT Tango and experiential micro-interventions, such as tracking, reflection and validation, and key skills to create change in every session.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Describe the key elements of the attachment perspective and its significance for understanding personality, the impacts of trauma and clinical intervention.
• Summarize and demonstrate how to conduct an experiential assessment and the associated C.A.R.E. model to chart the course for therapy across individual and couple therapy modalities.
• Explain and begin to use the power of emotion in transforming trauma in EFIT and in EFCT.
• Define how to work with the body as the ‘gateway to emotion,’ the target and agent of change in EFIT and EFCT.
• Give examples of how to implement the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experiences.
• Apply the Tango, a proven sequence for creating key change events/corrective emotional experiences.
• Apply the EFIT model and begin to implement some of the micro-interventions used by the EFIT therapist to gradually move clients into transformative moments where vulnerabilities are encountered in the presence of another, fostering trauma resolution and a stronger sense of balance, coherence, and competence.
• Apply the EFCT model in strengthening and repairing attachment bonds and transforming personal and/or relational trauma.
• Describe the three stages of therapy that clients move through as barriers to growth are removed and the seeds of secure attachment are shown.
Program Level: Intermediate
Diversity Statement: This presentation is informed by the ICEEFT statement and commitment to anti-racism. Specifically, this training includes an assessment focus on the CARE model outlined by Johnson & Campbell (2022), which guides therapist to evaluate attachment, emotion, and therapist alliance issues within the context of ethnicity, culture, and social location of families. Various examples are used through the training to illustrate the application of EFFT to families representing different social contexts.
Dr. Leanne Campbell is a Registered Psychologist, co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group, and is an Honorary Research Associate of Vancouver Island University. Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson in the early 1990s, she has continued to work in the EFT model since that time, and has provided psychotherapy services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past about three decades.
Known for her expertise in trauma, Dr. Campbell has provided hundreds of psychological assessment reports for forensic/legal and personal injury matters being considered before various levels of Court. She also is regularly called upon to provide expert opinion, as well as psychological evaluations for various insurance companies and bodies involved in adjudicating personal injury and other trauma-based claims. In addition to maintaining a full-time private practice, with a primary focus in the areas of relationship strain, trauma, grief and loss, Dr. Campbell currently co-manages a multi-site practice comprised of twenty-five clinicians and is a site co-ordinator for an Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) outcome study.
An active ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Dr. Campbell trains professionals around the globe and is involved in the development of various materials including on-line educational/training programs, books, workbooks, and articles. Most recently, she co-authored the first basic EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy) text with Dr. Sue Johnson, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client (Routledge, 2021), as well as a workbook for therapists training in EFT (see Furrow et al., Routledge, 2022).
Cancellation / Refund Policy: In the event that you have paid for an upcoming event but are not able to attend, you may request a refund up to 30 days prior to the event. Refund requests must be received in writing via email to: azeftcommunity@gmail.com. Requests received at least 60 days prior to the start of the event will receive a full refund of the registration minus the Eventbrite refund fee. Requests received between 30-59 days prior to the start of the event will receive a 50% refund of the registration minute the Eventbrite refund fee. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received less than 30 days prior to the start of the event.
Location: Online
Cost: By 7/31/23 - Members $340, Non-Members $375, Students $125
8/1/23 - 9/30/23 - Members $365, Non-Members $400, Students $125
On or After 10/1/23 - Members $390, Non-Members $425, Students $125
**A $100 discount is offered to attendees working in a community mental health agency or who are active members of the military
Certificate of Attendance: 14 hours (7 hours of instruction per day; 1-hour lunch not included)
**All attendees will receive a free Certificate of Attendance, which will suffice for all Arizona participants licensed under the BBHE or APA. Formal CE certificates are available for $30 if a free certificate of attendance is not sufficient - this may be an ideal option for non-Arizona, out-of-state participants.
Description: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an attachment science-based approach to therapy that, across modalities – whether we are working with individuals, couples, or families – offers an integration of humanistic, experiential, and systemic interventions focused on reshaping intrapsychic experience and patterns of engagement with key others. This workshop will provide an overview of the three-stage roadmap for therapy, with a specific focus on understanding the impact of trauma and core models of health and dysfunction from an attachment perspective, the primacy of emotion in creating change, and the key macro- (tango) intervention used to choreograph corrective emotional experiences with EFT. Video session review with related commentary will be used to demonstrate the change process as applied to individual and couple therapy, with the therapeutic aim of transforming trauma and moving clients toward a felt sense of security with self and others.
Workshop Format: This workshop will combine didactic instruction, experiential exercises, and case examples to demonstrate the practice of EFIT and EFCT. The training will deepen participants conceptualization of emotional processing within the individual system. Sessions will highlight specific application of EFIT and EFCT interventions necessary to transform reactive internal patterns. Clinical demonstrations and discussions will illustrate key steps in the EFIT and EFCT process of change.
Learning Objectives: Participants will discover...
• The key elements of the attachment perspective on the development of a resilient self and its significance for understanding clinical intervention.
• The applicability of EFIT with clients suffering from a range of symptoms and post traumatic issues and the power of EFCT in harnessing the relationship as a resource to transform trauma.
• An on-target map for the creation of transformative moments where vulnerabilities are encountered with balance and competence.
• A path to shape corrective emotional experiences, regulating and organizing inner experience, transforming trauma, and promoting engagement with others.
• The macro EFT intervention sequence: the EFT Tango and experiential micro-interventions, such as tracking, reflection and validation, and key skills to create change in every session.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Describe the key elements of the attachment perspective and its significance for understanding personality, the impacts of trauma and clinical intervention.
• Summarize and demonstrate how to conduct an experiential assessment and the associated C.A.R.E. model to chart the course for therapy across individual and couple therapy modalities.
• Explain and begin to use the power of emotion in transforming trauma in EFIT and in EFCT.
• Define how to work with the body as the ‘gateway to emotion,’ the target and agent of change in EFIT and EFCT.
• Give examples of how to implement the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experiences.
• Apply the Tango, a proven sequence for creating key change events/corrective emotional experiences.
• Apply the EFIT model and begin to implement some of the micro-interventions used by the EFIT therapist to gradually move clients into transformative moments where vulnerabilities are encountered in the presence of another, fostering trauma resolution and a stronger sense of balance, coherence, and competence.
• Apply the EFCT model in strengthening and repairing attachment bonds and transforming personal and/or relational trauma.
• Describe the three stages of therapy that clients move through as barriers to growth are removed and the seeds of secure attachment are shown.
Program Level: Intermediate
Diversity Statement: This presentation is informed by the ICEEFT statement and commitment to anti-racism. Specifically, this training includes an assessment focus on the CARE model outlined by Johnson & Campbell (2022), which guides therapist to evaluate attachment, emotion, and therapist alliance issues within the context of ethnicity, culture, and social location of families. Various examples are used through the training to illustrate the application of EFFT to families representing different social contexts.
Dr. Leanne Campbell is a Registered Psychologist, co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group, and is an Honorary Research Associate of Vancouver Island University. Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson in the early 1990s, she has continued to work in the EFT model since that time, and has provided psychotherapy services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past about three decades.
Known for her expertise in trauma, Dr. Campbell has provided hundreds of psychological assessment reports for forensic/legal and personal injury matters being considered before various levels of Court. She also is regularly called upon to provide expert opinion, as well as psychological evaluations for various insurance companies and bodies involved in adjudicating personal injury and other trauma-based claims. In addition to maintaining a full-time private practice, with a primary focus in the areas of relationship strain, trauma, grief and loss, Dr. Campbell currently co-manages a multi-site practice comprised of twenty-five clinicians and is a site co-ordinator for an Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) outcome study.
An active ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Dr. Campbell trains professionals around the globe and is involved in the development of various materials including on-line educational/training programs, books, workbooks, and articles. Most recently, she co-authored the first basic EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy) text with Dr. Sue Johnson, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client (Routledge, 2021), as well as a workbook for therapists training in EFT (see Furrow et al., Routledge, 2022).
Cancellation / Refund Policy: In the event that you have paid for an upcoming event but are not able to attend, you may request a refund up to 30 days prior to the event. Refund requests must be received in writing via email to: azeftcommunity@gmail.com. Requests received at least 60 days prior to the start of the event will receive a full refund of the registration minus the Eventbrite refund fee. Requests received between 30-59 days prior to the start of the event will receive a 50% refund of the registration minute the Eventbrite refund fee. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received less than 30 days prior to the start of the event.
Community Workshop
Transforming Highly Reactive Relationships
with Helene Igwebuike
Date: Friday, December 8, 2023 | Time: 9am-11am Arizona time (MST)
Location: Online
Cost: $25 for AZEFT members | $45 for non-members
** 20% discount offered to group practices of 5 or more who each register for the event; email us for the discount code
Certificate of Attendance: 2 hours
This workshop will focus on how to help couples transform reactivity to a resource for self-regulation and co-regulation. We will cover key concepts and interventions for effectively holding both partners and their triggered aspects of self so they can share their vulnerability from a place of greater awareness, compassion and clarity. You will become more skillful in intervening to help partners regulate their reactive emotions in the heat of the moment and transform reactivity to connectivity, curiosity and accessible responsive engaged (ARE) communication. Demonstrations will be used to model the different approaches. No prior EFT training is required to attend is open to all therapists who are working with highly reactive couples!
Learning objectives:
1. Build confidence in stepping in and holding reactive partners by using early signs of reactivity as an ally to interrupt and slow down intense dysregulation and escalation.
2. Learn how to help partners embrace and voice their vulnerability rather than project rigidly held beliefs and rehash historical coping strategies that reinforce adversarial pattern of relating.
3. Transform anger, shame, blame, panic and overwhelm using attachment lens, ‘parts’ work and an embodied approach to assembling and distilling core emotions that helps advocate for the unmet needs of the tender wounded aspects of self.
Helene Igwebuike is an Integrative Counsellor and ICEEFT Certified Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer, as well as one of the co-founders of the British EFT Centre (BEFT). Helene is passionately committed to helping couples and individuals heal and transform the relationship with self and others by relating in open-hearted ways that build trust, emotional closeness, physical intimacy, personal and relational wellbeing. Helene is of mixed Nigerian and Danish heritage and has a wonderfully diverse cosmopolitan worldwide online practice from her base in London, England. Helene loves spreading her love of EFT by training therapists in the EFT model.
A Note About Recording of Presentations: AZEFT is unable to guarantee if this presentation will be recorded, since that decision is at the discretion of the speaker at the time of the presentation. If any portion of this presentation is recorded, it will only be made available to members of our AZEFT community through our members-only video library. Please note, recordings do not include video clips from therapy sessions or breakout group activities, and viewers of the recording do not receive a certificate of attendance.
Location: Online
Cost: $25 for AZEFT members | $45 for non-members
** 20% discount offered to group practices of 5 or more who each register for the event; email us for the discount code
Certificate of Attendance: 2 hours
This workshop will focus on how to help couples transform reactivity to a resource for self-regulation and co-regulation. We will cover key concepts and interventions for effectively holding both partners and their triggered aspects of self so they can share their vulnerability from a place of greater awareness, compassion and clarity. You will become more skillful in intervening to help partners regulate their reactive emotions in the heat of the moment and transform reactivity to connectivity, curiosity and accessible responsive engaged (ARE) communication. Demonstrations will be used to model the different approaches. No prior EFT training is required to attend is open to all therapists who are working with highly reactive couples!
Learning objectives:
1. Build confidence in stepping in and holding reactive partners by using early signs of reactivity as an ally to interrupt and slow down intense dysregulation and escalation.
2. Learn how to help partners embrace and voice their vulnerability rather than project rigidly held beliefs and rehash historical coping strategies that reinforce adversarial pattern of relating.
3. Transform anger, shame, blame, panic and overwhelm using attachment lens, ‘parts’ work and an embodied approach to assembling and distilling core emotions that helps advocate for the unmet needs of the tender wounded aspects of self.
Helene Igwebuike is an Integrative Counsellor and ICEEFT Certified Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer, as well as one of the co-founders of the British EFT Centre (BEFT). Helene is passionately committed to helping couples and individuals heal and transform the relationship with self and others by relating in open-hearted ways that build trust, emotional closeness, physical intimacy, personal and relational wellbeing. Helene is of mixed Nigerian and Danish heritage and has a wonderfully diverse cosmopolitan worldwide online practice from her base in London, England. Helene loves spreading her love of EFT by training therapists in the EFT model.
A Note About Recording of Presentations: AZEFT is unable to guarantee if this presentation will be recorded, since that decision is at the discretion of the speaker at the time of the presentation. If any portion of this presentation is recorded, it will only be made available to members of our AZEFT community through our members-only video library. Please note, recordings do not include video clips from therapy sessions or breakout group activities, and viewers of the recording do not receive a certificate of attendance.
Core Skills 2023-2023—Registration Coming Soon!
Join us for a VIRTUAL Arizona Core Skills in 2023-2024. Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
- Module One: December 13 and December 14, 2023
- Module Two: February 8 and February 9, 2024
- Module Three: March 21 and March 22, 2024
- Module Four: May 9 and May 10, 2023