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: August 13, 14, 15 and 16, 2024 | Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm MST (Arizona time)
Location: Sonoran University of Health Sciences (2140 E. Broadway, Tempe AZ 85282)
Cost: $945 Regular; $575 Students (Level 2 EFIT training at half price available for those who have completed EFIT Level 1)
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: Sonoran University of Health Sciences (2140 E. Broadway, Tempe AZ 85282)
Cost: $945 Regular; $575 Students (Level 2 EFIT training at half price available for those who have completed EFIT Level 1)
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!
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Essentials-formerly known as Externship
with Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT and Rachel Thomas, LMFT
Date: September 10-13, 2024 | Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm MST (Arizona time)
Location: Sonoran University of Health Sciences (2140 E. Broadway, Tempe AZ 85282)
Cost: $975 Early Bird (end of June); $1,145 Regular; $795 Students
Other: This training meets part of EFCT 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:
EFCT Essentials/Externship includes an overview of the entire model of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, including steps and stages, interventions, adult attachment theory, and application of EFT with couples. 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 is an official Externship, endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and brought to you by TRI EFT Alliant and Alliant International University. The training is limited to 70 participants. Attending this externship is a step towards becoming a certified EFT therapist.
Learning Objectives:
Participation Requirements:
Participants must be familiar with and abide by professional and legal confidentiality requirements regarding all client information shared in the training. Certification in EFT is offered by ICEEFT based on completion of all requirements and demonstrated competence in the model. Completion of training does not guarantee competence or certification. Enrollment in this training constitutes an agreement to hold harmless The San Diego Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Training and Research Institute for Emotionally Focused Therapy (TRI-EFT), and all presenters and trainers from any and all claims, actions, and judgements, including all costs of defense and attorney’s fees incurred in defending against the same. I have read and agree to follow the terms for participation.
About the Speakers:
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, Supervisor, and Trainer. 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.
Rachel Thomas, LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer-in-Training. Rachel has been an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Approved Supervisor since 2005 and has provided supervision to many other practicing professionals as they progress forward in obtaining their license. Rachel is founder and owner of the largest EFT group practice in Scottsdale, Arizona, Therapy With Heart, and she provides on-going clinical supervision and consultation to the therapists. She also currently serves as President of AzEFT. Recently, Rachel has led trainings in EFT and Affairs, EFT Across Systems, Attachment-Based Suicide Prevention, EFT Supervision Reboot, and Intro to EFT.
To learn more about the general objectives of EFCT Essentials/Externship and to register, click the button below!
Location: Sonoran University of Health Sciences (2140 E. Broadway, Tempe AZ 85282)
Cost: $975 Early Bird (end of June); $1,145 Regular; $795 Students
Other: This training meets part of EFCT 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:
EFCT Essentials/Externship includes an overview of the entire model of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, including steps and stages, interventions, adult attachment theory, and application of EFT with couples. 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 is an official Externship, endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and brought to you by TRI EFT Alliant and Alliant International University. The training is limited to 70 participants. Attending this externship is a step towards becoming a certified EFT therapist.
Learning Objectives:
- To gain a clear understanding of the systemic concepts and basic experiential moves of an “Emotionally Focused Therapy” approach.
- To hold an attachment view clients coping with their interpersonal dilemmas so you can conceptualize relationship distress and repair based on theories of attachment and emotion.
- The focus of this training is on the general model of EFT as presented in the 2019 book, Attachment Theory In Practice, and how you can implement the model in couple and individual therapy sessions.
- To provide the opportunity to develop skills in sharing, maintaining and engaging in an open and collaborative alliance with your clients.
- To develop skillful use of the 5 moves of the basic macro-intervention “the EFT tango” in order to improve clients’ affect regulation, models of self and other, strategies for engaging with others and changing interactional patterns.
- To develop ability to utilize systemic and experiential models of interventions applied as EFT micro interventions.
- To participate in skills development to overcome common blocks and impasses across EFT therapy modalities so you can shape core corrective emotional experience that leads to constructive dependency and what we conceptualize as ‘secure attachment’.
- This training 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. The externship is recommended for all types of mental health clinicians to counsel or want to cancel couples.
- Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families
- The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection by Susan M. Johnson, 3nd Edition, 2019.
- Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook by Susan M. Johnson, et al, 2005.
Participation Requirements:
Participants must be familiar with and abide by professional and legal confidentiality requirements regarding all client information shared in the training. Certification in EFT is offered by ICEEFT based on completion of all requirements and demonstrated competence in the model. Completion of training does not guarantee competence or certification. Enrollment in this training constitutes an agreement to hold harmless The San Diego Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Training and Research Institute for Emotionally Focused Therapy (TRI-EFT), and all presenters and trainers from any and all claims, actions, and judgements, including all costs of defense and attorney’s fees incurred in defending against the same. I have read and agree to follow the terms for participation.
About the Speakers:
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, Supervisor, and Trainer. 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.
Rachel Thomas, LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer-in-Training. Rachel has been an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Approved Supervisor since 2005 and has provided supervision to many other practicing professionals as they progress forward in obtaining their license. Rachel is founder and owner of the largest EFT group practice in Scottsdale, Arizona, Therapy With Heart, and she provides on-going clinical supervision and consultation to the therapists. She also currently serves as President of AzEFT. Recently, Rachel has led trainings in EFT and Affairs, EFT Across Systems, Attachment-Based Suicide Prevention, EFT Supervision Reboot, and Intro to EFT.
To learn more about the general objectives of EFCT Essentials/Externship and to register, click the button below!
2023-2024 Core Skills
IN-PERSON ARIZONA CORE SKILLS
Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
ONLINE ARIZONA 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 Community Leader Rachel Thomas, LMFT.
Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
- Module One: December 1 and December 2, 2023
- Module Two: February 29 and March 1, 2024
- Module Three: April 25 and April 26, 2024
- Module Four: June 13 and June 14, 2024
ONLINE ARIZONA CORE SKILLS
Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
- Module One: December 14 and December 15, 2023
- Module Two: February 8 and February 9, 2024
- Module Three: March 21 and March 22, 2024
- Module Four: May 9 and May 10, 2024
Core Skills will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainer Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT, and Community Leader Rachel Thomas, LMFT.
About EFCT Essentials & Core Skills
The 3-Day EFCT Essentials, formerly referred to as 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 Essentials 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 Essentials 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 Essentials, 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 Essentials & Core Skills?
EFCT Essentials & 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 Essentials.
Questions? Contact Rachel Thomas at rachel@therapywithheart.com.
Once you complete Essentials, 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 Essentials & Core Skills?
EFCT Essentials & 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 Essentials.
Questions? Contact Rachel Thomas at rachel@therapywithheart.com.