Upcoming Professional Trainings & Events
listed in chronological order
2021 Externship
Join us for the next VIRTUAL Arizona 4-day Externship in 2021. This introductory training will take place over two weeks: August 19-20, 2021 & August 26-27, 2021
Externship will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainers Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen and Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT.
Details and online registration below.
Externship will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainers Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen and Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT.
Details and online registration below.
2021 Core Skills
Join us for the next VIRTUAL Arizona Core Skills in 2021-22. Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
Core Skills will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainers Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen and Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT.
For all of the details and to register, click the green button below.
- Module One: September 30 - October 1, 2021
- Module Two: January 20-21, 2022
- Module Three: March 31 - April 1, 2022
- Module Four: May 12-13, 2022
Core Skills will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainers Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen and Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT.
For all of the details and to register, click the green button below.
Community Workshop
Deeper Dive Into Stage 2
with Dr. Silvina Irwin
ICEEFT Certified Trainer
ICEEFT Certified Trainer
Date: October 8, 2021 | Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm Arizona time
Location: Virtual Zoom Meeting (link will be provided before event)
Cost: $25 for AZEFT Members, $30 for Non-Members
Certificate of Attendance: 2 hours
Stage Two is sacred space where profound intrapsychic and interpersonal work with couples unfolds and redefines the relationship as secure. This process requires the EFT therapist to access the deeply held implicit working models that impede partners from reaching for their loved one in the very moments they need to the most.
This workshop will 1) Offer a deeper dive into how to access and make explicit working models; 2) discuss the process of heightening underlying attachment fears; and 3) explore the process to ultimately facilitate a transformative corrective emotional experience for our couples.
Silvina Irwin, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, and ICEEFT Certified Trainer and Supervisor in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is bi-lingual, bi-cultural and trains EFT therapists internationally, and provides psychotherapy in both English and Spanish. She is co-founder of the EFT Resource Center in Pasadena, CA, which provides EFT psychotherapy services and trainings to the community. In her psychotherapy practice, Silvina specializes in working with survivors of trauma as well as addressing sex and sexuality in couples therapy. In addition to Externships and Core Skills classes, Silvina offers master classes on working with the complexities of trauma in EFT Couples therapy, Integrating Sex and EFT, as well as facilitates workshops on Vicarious Trauma of therapists, first responders, and the legal and medical community. To learn more about Silvina please visit www.drsilvinairwin.com or www.EFTResourceCenter.com.
Workshop Objectives:
1) Describe the goal of working with Emotion in stage 2 as distinct from how the EFT therapist works with emotion is Stage 2) Explain the importance of deliberately accessing implicitly held working models (view of self / view of other) as it pertains to Stage.2 change events.
Location: Virtual Zoom Meeting (link will be provided before event)
Cost: $25 for AZEFT Members, $30 for Non-Members
Certificate of Attendance: 2 hours
Stage Two is sacred space where profound intrapsychic and interpersonal work with couples unfolds and redefines the relationship as secure. This process requires the EFT therapist to access the deeply held implicit working models that impede partners from reaching for their loved one in the very moments they need to the most.
This workshop will 1) Offer a deeper dive into how to access and make explicit working models; 2) discuss the process of heightening underlying attachment fears; and 3) explore the process to ultimately facilitate a transformative corrective emotional experience for our couples.
Silvina Irwin, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, and ICEEFT Certified Trainer and Supervisor in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is bi-lingual, bi-cultural and trains EFT therapists internationally, and provides psychotherapy in both English and Spanish. She is co-founder of the EFT Resource Center in Pasadena, CA, which provides EFT psychotherapy services and trainings to the community. In her psychotherapy practice, Silvina specializes in working with survivors of trauma as well as addressing sex and sexuality in couples therapy. In addition to Externships and Core Skills classes, Silvina offers master classes on working with the complexities of trauma in EFT Couples therapy, Integrating Sex and EFT, as well as facilitates workshops on Vicarious Trauma of therapists, first responders, and the legal and medical community. To learn more about Silvina please visit www.drsilvinairwin.com or www.EFTResourceCenter.com.
Workshop Objectives:
1) Describe the goal of working with Emotion in stage 2 as distinct from how the EFT therapist works with emotion is Stage 2) Explain the importance of deliberately accessing implicitly held working models (view of self / view of other) as it pertains to Stage.2 change events.
Annual 2-Day Training
Getting Grounded with the EFT Tango
with Sharon Chatkupt Lee, PysD
Traditionally we have taught Emotion Focused Therapy for couples as a model of steps and stages. For some people the steps and the stages are the comforting map of EFT, but for others the steps and the stages can be a real stumbling block that slows down the learning and fills people with insecurity. In Sue Johnson’s most recent book, she uses the EFT Tango to illustrate how we can move through individual, couple and family sessions moving easily from systemic work into emotional deepening and back into integration. We still use the steps and stages to guide us in our work, but the EFT Tango can help us orient ourselves throughout the session regardless of step or stage.
This workshop is designed to give the clinician a firm grasp of using the EFT Tango. We will observe, practice, and experience the EFT Tango over and over again. We will watch sessions and break down the moves one at a time. We will develop simple hand holds that you can use in your session to help you feel oriented, confident and in charge of your sessions. We will practice each move of the tango and share the learning in small groups. This workshop will be lively and experiential, and a wonderful learning opportunity for EFT clinicians of all training levels.
Date: November 5-6, 2021 | Time: 9am - 5pm both days, Arizona time
Location: Virtual on Zoom
Certificate of Attendance: 14 hours
Cost: By 7/31/21 - Members $340, Non-Members $375, Students $125
8/1/21 - 9/30/21 - Members $365, Non-Members $400, Students $125
On or After 10/1/21 - 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
**If you are wanting an in-person leaning experience, we strongly encourage you to get together with colleagues to watch the training together and practice the skills together.**
Sharon Chatkupt Lee, PsyD, is a psychologist in private practice in Portland, Oregon since 2003. Sharon fell in love with EFT and began studying seriously to be an EFT therapist in 2006 alongside advanced gestalt training. Once certified in EFT, Sharon became a founding member for the Oregon Community for Emotionally Focused Therapists.
She has special interests in supervision and self-of-therapist development in EFT, as well as trauma. She is a student of yoga therapy, which has further developed her ability to work with trauma and the body. Sharon lives with her husband, their two teens, and a labradoodle named Huckleberry Finn who works in the office with her. Out of the office you will find her with family, walking in the woods, doing yoga, kayaking, knitting, or working on social justice issues. Since 2018 when Sharon became a trainer, she has been teaching on how we can be more embodied and tackle more complexity in our work by grounding ourselves in the tango. Sharon wants to build an EFT community in which more people feel they belong and to find ways to realize the ideals of anti-racism and anti-oppressive work within the EFT model and our community.
This workshop is designed to give the clinician a firm grasp of using the EFT Tango. We will observe, practice, and experience the EFT Tango over and over again. We will watch sessions and break down the moves one at a time. We will develop simple hand holds that you can use in your session to help you feel oriented, confident and in charge of your sessions. We will practice each move of the tango and share the learning in small groups. This workshop will be lively and experiential, and a wonderful learning opportunity for EFT clinicians of all training levels.
Date: November 5-6, 2021 | Time: 9am - 5pm both days, Arizona time
Location: Virtual on Zoom
Certificate of Attendance: 14 hours
Cost: By 7/31/21 - Members $340, Non-Members $375, Students $125
8/1/21 - 9/30/21 - Members $365, Non-Members $400, Students $125
On or After 10/1/21 - 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
**If you are wanting an in-person leaning experience, we strongly encourage you to get together with colleagues to watch the training together and practice the skills together.**
Sharon Chatkupt Lee, PsyD, is a psychologist in private practice in Portland, Oregon since 2003. Sharon fell in love with EFT and began studying seriously to be an EFT therapist in 2006 alongside advanced gestalt training. Once certified in EFT, Sharon became a founding member for the Oregon Community for Emotionally Focused Therapists.
She has special interests in supervision and self-of-therapist development in EFT, as well as trauma. She is a student of yoga therapy, which has further developed her ability to work with trauma and the body. Sharon lives with her husband, their two teens, and a labradoodle named Huckleberry Finn who works in the office with her. Out of the office you will find her with family, walking in the woods, doing yoga, kayaking, knitting, or working on social justice issues. Since 2018 when Sharon became a trainer, she has been teaching on how we can be more embodied and tackle more complexity in our work by grounding ourselves in the tango. Sharon wants to build an EFT community in which more people feel they belong and to find ways to realize the ideals of anti-racism and anti-oppressive work within the EFT model and our community.