Upcoming Professional Trainings & Events
listed in chronological order
2022 Arizona 4-Day Externship
Join us for the next VIRTUAL Arizona 4-day Externship in 2022. This introductory training will take place ALL ONLINE
August 4-5 and August 11-12, 2022.
Externship will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainers Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen and Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT.
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August 4-5 and August 11-12, 2022.
Externship will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainers Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen and Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT.
Click the button below for more information and to register online.
Community Workshop
Hot Topics in Ethics for EFT-ers
with Keith Cross, Ph.D., LMFT
Date: Friday, July 29, 2022 | Time: 9am-12pm Arizona time
Location: Virtual Zoom Meeting (link will be provided before event)
Cost: $45
Certificate of Attendance: 3 hours
EFT clinicians often face unique ethical dilemmas when engaging partners or family members in the therapy process. Navigating this complex and dynamic system requires a thorough understanding of state rules as well as ethical standards. This interactive session will present relevant legal and ethical considerations for EFT clinicians and offer several risk management strategies.
Learning Objectives:
Location: Virtual Zoom Meeting (link will be provided before event)
Cost: $45
Certificate of Attendance: 3 hours
EFT clinicians often face unique ethical dilemmas when engaging partners or family members in the therapy process. Navigating this complex and dynamic system requires a thorough understanding of state rules as well as ethical standards. This interactive session will present relevant legal and ethical considerations for EFT clinicians and offer several risk management strategies.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the ethical risks unique to couple and family work with EFT.
- Know the specific State of Arizona statutes and rules that apply when engaging in couple and family work utilizing EFT.
- Analyze how ethical standards and state licensure laws are applied in real life counseling scenarios.
- Identify effective risk management strategies when using EFT.
2022-2023 Arizona Core Skills
Join us for a VIRTUAL Arizona Core Skills in 2022-2023. Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
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- Module One: October 20, 2022 and October 22, 2022
- Module Two: January 26, 2023 and January 27, 2023
- Module Three: March 2, 2023 and March 3, 2023
- Module Four: March 23, 2023 and March 24, 2023
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Community Workshop
Working with Highly Escalated Couples
with Gretchen Harro, MA, LMFT & Raushanah Jackson, MS, LMFT
Date: Friday, October 21, 2022 | Time: 9am-11am 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
Emotionally Focused Therapy offers a way to understand and work effectively with couples whose arguments get big and loud. Learn how to interrupt the argument and change the conversation, the beginning of guiding the couple to greater connection with each other.
Learning Objectives:
Raushanah Jackson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. In 2015, Raushanah was introduced to Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and took the Externship, the first required training in the Certification process. She has used the model with couples in her part-time private practice in Southern California, with veterans and military families at Camp Pendleton and eventually at The Road Home Program. In 2020 she completed the advanced training Core Skills, in Chicago and currently, Raushanah is in the process of pursuing Certification as an EFT Therapist. In addition to working with individuals, couples, children and families at River North Therapy, Raushanah is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision at Northern Illinois University.
Location: Virtual Zoom Meeting (link will be provided before event)
Cost: $25 for AZEFT Members, $30 for Non-Members
Certificate of Attendance: 2 hours
Emotionally Focused Therapy offers a way to understand and work effectively with couples whose arguments get big and loud. Learn how to interrupt the argument and change the conversation, the beginning of guiding the couple to greater connection with each other.
Learning Objectives:
- Discover how attachment theory makes sense of the couple’s behavior.
- Identify the vulnerable emotion hidden under anger, and learn how to access and leverage this emotion to change the conversation.
- Tune into one’s own unhelpful reaction to highly escalated couples and identify more helpful responses.
Raushanah Jackson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. In 2015, Raushanah was introduced to Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and took the Externship, the first required training in the Certification process. She has used the model with couples in her part-time private practice in Southern California, with veterans and military families at Camp Pendleton and eventually at The Road Home Program. In 2020 she completed the advanced training Core Skills, in Chicago and currently, Raushanah is in the process of pursuing Certification as an EFT Therapist. In addition to working with individuals, couples, children and families at River North Therapy, Raushanah is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision at Northern Illinois University.
Annual 2-Day Training
Families at the Crossroads: Emotionally Focused Therapy for Families
An EFFT Level 1 Training
An EFFT Level 1 Training
with Jim Furrow, Ph.D.
Date: November 4-5, 2022 | Time: 9am - 5pm both days, Arizona time
Location: In-Person in Tempe, AZ AND Virtual Live-Streaming
Certificate of Attendance: 14 hours (7 hours of instruction per day; 1-hour lunch not included)
**CE certificates are available for purchase if a free certificate of attendance is not sufficient (psychologists and out-of-town participants may be interested in this option);
Cost: By 7/31/22 - Members $340, Non-Members $375, Students $125
8/1/22 - 9/30/22 - Members $365, Non-Members $400, Students $125
On or After 10/1/22 - 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
Description: Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an attachment-based approach that combines both systemic and experiential interventions to mend broken bonds and heal fractured families. Emotionally Focused Therapy offers practical strategies to engage the unique power of family relationships to promote belonging and foster becoming. EFFT guides a therapist through a family’s relationship blocks toward resources for growth and connection. Through the power of transforming emotional experience, a family finds healing and restores resilience to face the everyday and unexpected challenges of life.
This workshop demonstrates the application of EFT principles and practices to family relationships. Understanding family distress through an attachment lens unlocks new resources to transform rigid relational blocks into accessible and responsive bonds of connection and care. Participants will gain focus and skills to support parents and children, both young and old, to regain their emotional balance and strengthen ties that families rely on for support, connection, and growth. This training explores EFFT as a powerful transformative approach that is foundational in helping parents and children who are struggling with remaining securely attached.
Please note, this is an EFFT Level 1 Training, with an emphasis on families going through high-conflict divorce.
Workshop Format: This workshop will combine didactic instruction, experiential exercises, and case examples to demonstrate the practice of EFFT. The training will deepen participants conceptualization of emotional processing within family relationships. Sessions will highlight specific application of EFFT interventions necessary to transform reactive relationship patterns. Clinical demonstrations and discussions will illustrate key steps in the EFFT process of change.
Learning Objectives: Participants will…
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.
James Furrow, Ph.D., is leader and contributor to the practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with couples and families. Together with EFT originator, Dr. Susan Johnson, Jim co- authored Emotionally Focused Family Therapy; Becoming an EFT Therapist: The Workbook and The EFT Casebook. He is also co-authored Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy for Dummies, a practical resource for couples and therapists seeking an everyday understanding of EFT principles and practices. Formerly Jim served as the Evelyn and Frank Freed Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, where he trained psychologists and marital and family and conducted research on adolescent risk and resilience. He is a clinical fellow and an approved supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a member of the National Council on Family Relations, and a Certified Family Life Educator. He co-founded the Los Angeles Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy and board member of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT).
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 a $25 administrative fee. Requests received between 30-59 days prior to the start of the event will receive a 50% refund of the registration. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received less than 30 days prior to the start of the event.
Location: In-Person in Tempe, AZ AND Virtual Live-Streaming
Certificate of Attendance: 14 hours (7 hours of instruction per day; 1-hour lunch not included)
**CE certificates are available for purchase if a free certificate of attendance is not sufficient (psychologists and out-of-town participants may be interested in this option);
Cost: By 7/31/22 - Members $340, Non-Members $375, Students $125
8/1/22 - 9/30/22 - Members $365, Non-Members $400, Students $125
On or After 10/1/22 - 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
Description: Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an attachment-based approach that combines both systemic and experiential interventions to mend broken bonds and heal fractured families. Emotionally Focused Therapy offers practical strategies to engage the unique power of family relationships to promote belonging and foster becoming. EFFT guides a therapist through a family’s relationship blocks toward resources for growth and connection. Through the power of transforming emotional experience, a family finds healing and restores resilience to face the everyday and unexpected challenges of life.
This workshop demonstrates the application of EFT principles and practices to family relationships. Understanding family distress through an attachment lens unlocks new resources to transform rigid relational blocks into accessible and responsive bonds of connection and care. Participants will gain focus and skills to support parents and children, both young and old, to regain their emotional balance and strengthen ties that families rely on for support, connection, and growth. This training explores EFFT as a powerful transformative approach that is foundational in helping parents and children who are struggling with remaining securely attached.
Please note, this is an EFFT Level 1 Training, with an emphasis on families going through high-conflict divorce.
Workshop Format: This workshop will combine didactic instruction, experiential exercises, and case examples to demonstrate the practice of EFFT. The training will deepen participants conceptualization of emotional processing within family relationships. Sessions will highlight specific application of EFFT interventions necessary to transform reactive relationship patterns. Clinical demonstrations and discussions will illustrate key steps in the EFFT process of change.
Learning Objectives: Participants will…
- Conceptualize family distress using theories of emotion and attachment.
- Delineate key practices of EFFT from EFT work with couples.
- Summarize the key components of the “secure cycle” of caregiving and attachment.
- Label the stages and markers of change in the EFFT approach.
- Identify therapist practices that promote a working alliance with parents and children.
- Gain strategies for strengthening parental investment in the EFFT process.
- Practice key interventions common to processing attachment related affect.
- Examine a 5-step sequence for accessing and processing with emotion in family relationships.
- Analyze parent child interactions using EFT practices to work through specific relational blocks.
- Identify EFT interventions used to restructure new patterns and promote safety and security in the family.
- Apply the relationship reframes and enactments to invite new levels of engagement between family members.
- Describe the emotional landscape of post-divorce parent child interactions.
- Illustrate EFFT practices with parents and children facing high conflict divorce.
- Explore the relationship of secure attachment to family patterns of resilience.
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.
James Furrow, Ph.D., is leader and contributor to the practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with couples and families. Together with EFT originator, Dr. Susan Johnson, Jim co- authored Emotionally Focused Family Therapy; Becoming an EFT Therapist: The Workbook and The EFT Casebook. He is also co-authored Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy for Dummies, a practical resource for couples and therapists seeking an everyday understanding of EFT principles and practices. Formerly Jim served as the Evelyn and Frank Freed Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, where he trained psychologists and marital and family and conducted research on adolescent risk and resilience. He is a clinical fellow and an approved supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a member of the National Council on Family Relations, and a Certified Family Life Educator. He co-founded the Los Angeles Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy and board member of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT).
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 a $25 administrative fee. Requests received between 30-59 days prior to the start of the event will receive a 50% refund of the registration. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received less than 30 days prior to the start of the event.