2026 Mar. | EFFT & Adult Children
Adults who experience conflict, estrangement, and negative dynamics with their parents and/or siblings often suffer impacts that can last a lifetime. Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an attachment-based approach that combines both systemic and experiential interventions to restore family relationships and strengthen their resilience.
A primary goal of EFFT is to reduce problematic behaviour by creating new patterns of emotional accessibility and responsiveness that offer an opportunity to repair. Training in EFFT provides therapists with a means to conceptualize family dilemmas and offers a practical approach to engage families at an emotional level.
This course offers an intensive focus on key elements in the EFT process applied to adult family relationships. Demonstration and practice exercises provide participants opportunities to understand the EFT skills utilized in intervening with these family relationships. There will be an opportunity to view the treatment of one family over time from the beginning of therapy to termination.
Register for “EFFT & Adult Children” (Emotionally Focused Family Therapy)
1 Day Event
Thursday, Mar. 5, 2026
Daily Schedule
6hr training + 40min lunch + two 10min breaks
Event Time by North American Time Zone
Pacific: 7:00am- 2:00pm
Mountain: 8:00am – 3:00pm
Central: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Eastern: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Need more information?
Interested in a future date for this course?
If this date doesn’t work for you and you’d like to be notified when the next one is scheduled, please submit your details here:
Readings
Discount: Each publisher offers Courses attendees a discount of 20-25% off the following texts. Once you have registered for a course, you may access the relevant discount codes via the Courses Portal.
There are no required readings for this course. The follow texts are recommended:
Recommended
“Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience” by James L. Furrow, Gail Palmer, Susan M. Johnson, George Faller, Lisa Palmer-Olsen, 2019.
Routledge offers this publication in paperback, hardcover or eBook.
Recommended
“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 offers this publication in paperback, hardcover or eBook.
Recommended
“Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families” by Dr. Susan M. Johnson, 2019.
Guildford Press offers this publication in hardcover or eBook.
Become the therapist you want to be! Register today.
Registrations close 2 days prior to the event unless sold out prior.
Trainers
-
Kathryn de BruinICEEFT Certified TrainerKathryn de Bruin is a Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified EFT Trainer and Supervisor. She is the Director of Renova in San Diego which is a non-profit serving children and families. Kathryn teaches Play Therapy at the University of California, San Diego, in the Play Therapy Program. She started EFT South Africa, she supports various EFT communities and is a Director for the San Diego Center for EFT. As an AAMFT supervisor, Kathryn enjoys providing supervision in person and online. Supervisees have described her as warm, perceptive and skilled. With her strong work ethic, it is important to Kathryn to be accessible and responsive to those who work with her. For more information on Kathryn, visit her online at www.kathryndebruin.com
-
James FurrowICEEFT Certified TrainerJames L Furrow, Ph.D., is a recognized leader and contributor to the practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with couples and families. He is contributing author and editor to five EFT texts including Emotionally Focus Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience and Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook. His research on couple therapy, positive youth development and spirituality are featured in leading professional journals. He is a clinical fellow and an approved supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a Certified Family Life Educator. Jim is an ICEEFT certified EFT therapist, supervisor, and trainer. He resides in Seattle Washington.