Full Course Description
Introduction
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04/23/2024
Module 1 | Establishing the foundations for effective couples therapy work
This Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy course provides a thorough overview training experience, serving as a foundational program for therapists aspiring to specialize in EFCT. Guided by certified EFCT trainers, the course delivers a comprehensive introduction to the EFCT model, emphasizing the science of attachment and a systematic approach to couple therapy. Absolutely essential for therapists, this training instills the crucial skills needed to cultivate secure and resilient relationships in couples therapy. Clinicians registering for this course will ultimately boost their effectiveness and confidence navigating the wonderful yet often overwhelming world of couples therapy.
Program Information
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Create a ‘Safe Haven’ alliance to promote exploration of a couple’s relationship distress.
- Apply the C.A.R.E. model in early sessions and throughout the three-stage therapy process.
- Utilize the EFT structure of assessment with every couple.
- Conduct individual sessions in couple therapy.
- Compare key considerations in the initial assessment phase of Stage 1 when working with couples.
- Differentiate and attune to clients’ emotion states and adjust interventions accordingly.
- Unpack the emotional music between partners that cause disconnection.
- Reframe for couples - the cycle is the enemy.
- Distinguish markers of moving through the EFT process of change.
- List and use the Micro-Interventions of the EFCT Model (e.g., heightening, tracking, validation).
- Conduct the EFT Tango with various types of relationship distress.
- Identify and address core emotion themes.
- Identify skills to work with emotion with attention to pacing and building on momentum.
- Describe the five moves of the EFT Tango.
- Utilize corrective emotional experiences to help shift working models of self and other.
- Plan corrective emotional experiences that promote couples to establishing a secure bond.
Outline
Introduction
Welcome and introduction to the course instructors
Module 1: Establishing the foundations for effective couples therapy work
- The problem and solution in couples therapy
- Is EFCT right for my clients?
- EFCT – Gold Standard therapy
- Relevant research – Attachment from theory to science
- Guidance for those new to couples therapy
- EFCT underpinnings – Bowlby, Rogers, Minuchin, Arnold
- What an EFT therapist does to begin treatment
- In-session clip
- Frequently asked questions
Module 2: Beginning the EFT healing process
- Understanding the EFT Map
- Introduction to the 3 EFT Stages
- Introduction to the 5 moves of the EFT Tango
- Preparing clients for EFT
- Overview on ending and EFT session
Module 3: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Stage 1
- Alliance and Assessment
- Structure of Assessment
- Mico Interventions in Stage 1
- Move 1 of the EFCT Tango: Figuring out the negative cycle
- In-session clip
- Frequently asked questions
Module 4: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Stage 1 continued
- Tango Move 2: Affect Assembly & Deepening
- Tango Move 3: Engaged Encounter
- Facilitating the attachment process
- Work toward corrective emotional experiences
- Tango Move 4: Processing the enactment
- In-session clip
Module 5: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Stage 2
Restructuring the bond: withdrawer re-engagement & pursuer softening
Putting attachment into action
6 themes in withdrawer re-engagement
In-session clip
Pursuer softening: challenges and opportunities
In-session clip
Module 6: Impasses | Escalated Couples | Injuries
- Understand what types of impasses can occur for clients
- Overview of the type of impasses that occur for therapists
- Three interventions to address an impasse
- Three interventions to use with an escalated couple
- Define an attachment injury in EFT
- Dysregulated, escalated, and shut down, dismissing clients
- In-session clip
- Frequently asked questions
Module 7: Sex in adult relationships
- Introducing the conversation with clients
- Multicultural orientation: cultural humility, opportunities, and comfort
- Sex assessment
- Sexual and Emotional cycle
- Case examples
Module 8: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Stage 3
- Consolidation
- Transitioning to Stage 3: recognizing when the couple is ready
- Experiential exercise IV.
- Developing relationship rituals and creating a future love story V.
- Case examples
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Module 2 | Beginning the EFT healing process
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Module 3 | Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Stage 1
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Module 4 | Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Stage 1 continued
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Module 5 | Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Stage 2
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Module 6 | Impasses | Escalated Couples | Injuries
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Module 7 | Sex in adult relationships
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Module 8 | Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Stage 3
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Live Consultation Call 1 - Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Certificate 3-Month Intensive
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06/16/2025
Live Consultation Call 2 - Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Certificate 3-Month Intensive
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07/14/2025
Live Consultation Call 3 - Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Certificate 3-Month Intensive
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08/25/2025
Live Consultation Call 4 - Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Certificate 3-Month Intensive
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09/08/2025
Brave New Future for Love and Couplehood
Clinical psychologist and groundbreaking researcher Susan Johnson is the developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), which focuses on uncovering and deepening attachment bonds to heal troubled relationships.
In 2016, Dr. Johnson was named Psychologist of the Year by the American Psychological Association, and received an award for outstanding research by the American Family Therapy Academy. She’s author of The Love Secret, Hold Me Tight, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy, and numerous other books. Throughout her distinguished career, for which she received the Order of Canada, Johnson has established that it’s not an oxymoron to speak of the “science of love.”
In this recording, Dr. Johnson will discuss how in today’s world—where close, exclusive relationships are often framed as incidentals rather than essentials in people’s lives, and a commitment like marriage as a quaint, unnecessary custom—we have the power to shape our intimate relationships as couples in ways that lead to true, secure connection, even when the pathway there is dark and hidden.
Program Information
Objectives
- Explore the threats to connected relationships and the solutions we can offer clients from attachment theory and science, so they can move from more avoidant relationships to secure bonding.
- Demonstrate the significance of loving emotional connection on clinical efforts to improve healthy relationship interactions and the assess the implications of attachment on effective daily functioning.
Outline
Societal Misunderstandings of Love
- Love vs. Infatuation
- Significance of relationship
- Role of Attachment in Parenting Styles
Emotional Balance
- Advantages of Healthy Attachment
- Destructiveness of Loneliness
Elements in a Loving Bond
- Accessibility
- Responsiveness
- Engagement
Healthy Dependence
- Healthy Corrective Experiences
Relationship Fears
- Missing Out
- Unattainability
Role of Choice
- An Existential Dilemma
- Risk of Emotional Vulnerability
Emotional Map
- Role of Fear on Emotional Responses
- Rationality of Emotions
- Necessity of Risk
Impact of Emotional Connection on the Brain
Video Case Study
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Behavioral Health Professionals
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Attachment in Action
With all the hundreds of models and interventions practitioners use and the vast range of disorders they treat, attachment science offers therapists a coherent framework for understanding clients’ problems and leading them home to balance, agency, and connection with others.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), epitomizes attachment-based intervention and can be used in all modalities—not just in a couples therapy context. This paradigm offers specific and on-target principles of intervention for clients struggling with depression, anxiety, and distressed relationships.
In this workshop recording, using video clips of sessions and short exercises, we’ll explore how these principles can be applied in individual, couple, and family sessions to ultimately transform both self and system.
Program Information
Objectives
- Outline the cross-modality attachment-oriented principles of intervention.
- Describe how the principles of EFT can be applied in different forms of therapy.
- Explain specific sequences of intervention that lead to change in self and system.
- Use focused empathic reflection to reconnect, repair, and rebuild clients’ bonds.
Outline
THE CHAOS IN THE FIELD OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
- The needs for an integrative solution for the field of psychotherapy
- The best solution for an integrative solution for the field of psychotherapy
ATTACHMENT THEORY
- The core tenets
- Features of more securely attached partners
EFT, ATTACHMENT THEORY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- EFT Stages
- EFT is Experiential
- EFT is Systemic
- Emotion
MICRO-INTERVENTIONS IN EFT
- The two tasks of EFT
- RISSSC
- The 5 steps of the EFT Tango
CHANGE EVENTS IN EFT
- Traditional Couple Therapy – EFT and EFFT (Emotionally Focused Family Therapy)
- Traditional Family Model – EFFT
- Model of Individual Therapy – EFIT (Emotional Focused Individual Therapy)
A VIDEO DEMONSTRATING EFIT
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
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