2025 Core Skills 2025
VIRTUAL CORE SKILLS
Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
Core Skills will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainer Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT, and Certified Trainer-in-Training Rachel Thomas, LMFT.
To learn more about the general objectives of EFCT Core Skills and to register, click the button below!
VIRTUAL CORE SKILLS
Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
- Module One: February 27 and February 28, 2025
- Module Two: March 20 and March 21, 2025
- Module Three: April 24 and April 25, 2025
- Module Four: May 29 and May 30, 2025
Core Skills will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainer Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT, and Certified Trainer-in-Training Rachel Thomas, LMFT.
To learn more about the general objectives of EFCT Core Skills and to register, click the button below!
2024-2025 Core Skills
2024-2025 Core Skills
VIRTUAL CORE SKILLS
Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
Core Skills will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainer Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT, and Certified Trainer-in-Training Rachel Thomas, LMFT.
VIRTUAL CORE SKILLS
Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
- Module One: November 7 and November 8, 2024
- Module Two: January 23 and January 24, 2025
- Module Three: February 20 and February 21, 2025
- Module Four: March 27 and March 28, 2025
Core Skills will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainer Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT, and Certified Trainer-in-Training Rachel Thomas, LMFT.
To learn more about the general objectives of EFCT Core Skills and to register, click the button below!
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Essentials-
formerly known as EFIT Level 1 and Level 2
formerly known as EFIT Level 1 and Level 2
with Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT and Rachel Thomas, LMFT
Date: December 9-11, 2024 | Time: 8:30 am - 5:30 pm MST (Arizona time)
Location: Collaborative Counseling (633 E Ray Road, #111, Gilbert, AZ 85296)
Cost: $800 Regular; $500 Students
Other: This training meets part of EFIT certification requirement.
Certificate of Attendance: 24 hours
**All attendees will receive a free Certificate of Attendance, which will suffice for all Arizona participants licensed under the BBHE or APA.
Description:
The training program is designed to provide participants with a robust groundwork and advanced understanding of the EFIT model, integrated within an attachment science framework. By blending theoretical instruction with experiential exercises, participants will be skillfully guided to implement the model in their clinical practice, fostering their development as proficient, attuned, and responsive EFIT therapists.
Learning Objectives:
Required Reading:
Recommended Reading:
To learn more about the general objectives of EFIT Essentials and to register, click the button below!
Location: Collaborative Counseling (633 E Ray Road, #111, Gilbert, AZ 85296)
Cost: $800 Regular; $500 Students
Other: This training meets part of EFIT certification requirement.
Certificate of Attendance: 24 hours
**All attendees will receive a free Certificate of Attendance, which will suffice for all Arizona participants licensed under the BBHE or APA.
Description:
The training program is designed to provide participants with a robust groundwork and advanced understanding of the EFIT model, integrated within an attachment science framework. By blending theoretical instruction with experiential exercises, participants will be skillfully guided to implement the model in their clinical practice, fostering their development as proficient, attuned, and responsive EFIT therapists.
Learning Objectives:
- Articulate the fundamental tenets of the attachment perspective on personality and its significance in clinical intervention.
- Analyze client dynamics within and across cycles, elucidating how they co-create and interconnect, thereby contributing to presenting problems manifested as emotional disorders.
- Define the core components of emotional disorders, specifically depression and anxiety.
- Examine the process of change and the elements of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experiences, including affect assembly and deepening.
- Identify the micro-interventions employed by EFT therapists.
- Assess the applicability of EFIT across clients with diverse symptomatology.
- Embrace an attachment humanistic viewpoint on clients, issues, and interventions.
- Unearth and distill core emotional experiences while nurturing emotional equilibrium.
- Outline protective, self-defining, and interactional iatrogenic patterns.
- Employ the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to craft corrective emotional experiences and EFT micro-interventions.
- Construct narratives that expand self-awareness and enhance interpersonal connections.
- Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other.
- Affirm the client’s sense of competence and worth in each session.
Required Reading:
- “A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client” by Susan M. Johnson and T. Leanne Campbell, 2022. Routledge.
Recommended Reading:
- “Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families” by Dr. Susan M. Johnson, 2019.
- “Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook (2nd Edition)” by James L. Furrow, Susan M. Johnson, Brent Bradley, Lorrie L. Brubacher, T. Leanne Campbell, Veronica Kallos-Lilly, Gail Palmer, Kathryn Rheem, Scott R. Woolley, 2022. Routledge.
To learn more about the general objectives of EFIT Essentials and to register, click the button below!
About EFCT Externship & Core Skills
The 4-Day EFCT Externship is designed to give you a clear understanding of the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an "Emotionally Focused" approach to couples therapy. You will learn how to conceptualize couple distress and relationship repair based on theories of attachment and emotion, and develop skills in helping partners reprocess the emotional responses that maintain relational distress. EFCT Externship includes observation of live therapy sessions, presentations of theory and clinical techniques, skills training exercises, and discussion of specific cases, clinical material and issues. EFCT Externship can be completed as a stand-alone training in EFT, however if you want to pursue certification you will also need to complete Core Skills.
Once you complete Externship, you are invited to attend Core Skills. Core Skills is designed to give you a "deeper dive" into each stage, step, and intervention that make up an "Emotionally Focused" approach. In Core Skills, you will be expected to show clips of your EFT therapy in action with couples.
Who should attend EFCT Externship & Core Skills?
EFCT Externship & Core Skills are recommended to all professionals who counsel couples, including psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, counsellors, pastors and clergy, and students training in these professions. Registrants will be required to declare their professional designation.
Participants are strongly encouraged to read Sue Johnson's book, Creating Connections, before coming to the EFCT Externship.
Questions? Contact Rachel Thomas at [email protected].
Once you complete Externship, you are invited to attend Core Skills. Core Skills is designed to give you a "deeper dive" into each stage, step, and intervention that make up an "Emotionally Focused" approach. In Core Skills, you will be expected to show clips of your EFT therapy in action with couples.
Who should attend EFCT Externship & Core Skills?
EFCT Externship & Core Skills are recommended to all professionals who counsel couples, including psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, counsellors, pastors and clergy, and students training in these professions. Registrants will be required to declare their professional designation.
Participants are strongly encouraged to read Sue Johnson's book, Creating Connections, before coming to the EFCT Externship.
Questions? Contact Rachel Thomas at [email protected].