Upcoming Professional Trainings & Events
listed in chronological order
Mark your calendars for these Community Workshops dates:
Friday, August 27, 2021
Saturday, October 2, 2021
Friday, August 27, 2021
Saturday, October 2, 2021
Community Meeting
Coffee & Chat: Therapist Burnout
facilitated by AZEFT Board Members Sandy Jardine, LPC & Kelly Ontiveros, LMFT
Are you feeling burnt-out lately from COVID life, Telehealth, and all that is going on in our world today? If so, you are not alone.
Join members of our AZEFT Board for our first-ever "Coffee & Chat" to discuss the very real burnout so many of us are feeling these days. This is a casual event, in which a safe space will be held for all attendees to get support, give support, and feel apart of this beautiful community.
Date: Thursday, March 4, 2021 | Time: 12-1pm MST
Location: Virtual Zoom Meeting (click link to join)
Cost: FREE
Join members of our AZEFT Board for our first-ever "Coffee & Chat" to discuss the very real burnout so many of us are feeling these days. This is a casual event, in which a safe space will be held for all attendees to get support, give support, and feel apart of this beautiful community.
Date: Thursday, March 4, 2021 | Time: 12-1pm MST
Location: Virtual Zoom Meeting (click link to join)
Cost: FREE
Community Workshop
IFS & EFT
with Lori Marchak
Certified EFT Supervisor and Certified IFS Therapist
Certified EFT Supervisor and Certified IFS Therapist

EFT and IFS are complementary rather than competing models of psychotherapy, and both are powerful, experiential, and radically non-pathologizing. In this workshop, we’ll look at a brief overview of an integrated EFT/IFS model that embraces the different therapist stances and client experiences in the two models. We’ll articulate the similarities and differences in the models, highlight the difference in therapist stance, and illustrate how an integrated model enriches both the EFT tango and an IFS session.
Lori Marchak is an ICEEFT Supervisor and Certified IFS Therapist in Bozeman, Montana. Offering intensive therapy for couples and individuals, she has been working for several years on the development and articulation of an integrated EFT/IFS model.
Date: Saturday, May 1, 2021 | Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm MST
Location: Virtual Zoom Meeting (link will be provided before event)
Cost: $25 for AZEFT Members, $30 for Non-Members (cost includes an attendance certificate for 2 hours)
Lori Marchak is an ICEEFT Supervisor and Certified IFS Therapist in Bozeman, Montana. Offering intensive therapy for couples and individuals, she has been working for several years on the development and articulation of an integrated EFT/IFS model.
Date: Saturday, May 1, 2021 | Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm MST
Location: Virtual Zoom Meeting (link will be provided before event)
Cost: $25 for AZEFT Members, $30 for Non-Members (cost includes an attendance certificate for 2 hours)
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 to come.
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 to come.
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
Location: TBD
CEs: 14
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
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
Location: TBD
CEs: 14
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
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.