Learn EFFT: Emotionally Focused family Therapy
Why learn EFFT?
EFFT Certification
ICEEFT created a certification pathway for EFFT in 2024.
A certificate of completion is available for all our courses.
Introducing our EFFT courses
Pre-requisite: none
EFFT short courses can be taken as a first taste of EFFT, or can be enjoyed after taking other EFFT training. Either way, approved EFFT short courses are part of the path to EFFT Certification.
Upcoming EFFT short courses offered by ICEEFT Courses
Live online on October 3, 2024 – registration closed.
Interested in a recorded version of “EFFT & Stepfamilies”?
If you would be interested in purchasing access to a recorded version of this course in 2025, please submit your interest here:
Live online on October 25, 2024 – register here.
Interested in a recorded version of “EFFT & Adult Children”?
If you would be interested in purchasing access to a recorded version of this course in 2025, please submit your interest here:
“EFFT Essentials” is, quite simply, our two-day Level 1 plus two-day Level 2 combined together into a four-day course.Learn the tools to navigate and mend familial emotional landscapes, fostering the restoration of family bonds. Participants will delve into attachment frameworks and experiential realms, explore emotion regulation, and learn practical EFFT steps to facilitate corrective emotional experiences. Completion of EFFT Essentials provides therapists with the tools to drive lasting positive change in the family dynamics of their clients.
Participants will learn to:
- Understand the empirical support for EFFT.- Outline the phases of EFFT treatment and key change events.
- Apply key interventions in EFFT through role-play.
- Identify markers and interventions for processing both adaptive and maladaptive emotions within family dynamics.
- Formulate cases using an attachment-based EFFT model.
- Work with emotional regulation strategies within a family context.
- Access and process emotional experience to facilitate transformative change within families.
- Develop a working alliance based on an attachment bond with each family member.
- Utilize the therapist’s relational presence within the family system.
- Develop a treatment plan and guide interventions using EFFT, based on markers and clinically relevant assessment.
- Access emotion to develop corrective emotional experiences that restructure maladaptive emotion schemes within family interactions.
- Work with and resolve fears and blocks to emotional engagement and processing within family dynamics.
More about Levels 1 and 2
Pre-requisite: EFFT Essentials -or- Levels 1 & 2
Advance your practice and improve your client outcomes by taking your EFFT skills to the next level! In this two-part course, you will learn from expert trainers as they show and talk about their therapy sessions – where they get stuck, how they get unstuck, and how the attachment map and EFT Tango provide a beacon for the family therapist.
Next, join as colleagues show their work. Watch expert trainers help guide the therapy process through feedback, consultation, and role plays specifically aimed at framing clients’ problems through the lens of attachment, mapping the process, maintaining momentum, unblocking barriers to caregiving, and more!
Participants will discover:
- How to create safety and structure in the EFFT process through conceptualization and organizing ongoing treatment.
- Ways of creating and maintaining a robust therapeutic alliance.
- Methods for tracking and identifying key inner and family patterns that block caregiving, connection, and progress in therapy.
- How the EFFT therapist uses key interventions to first validate and then dissolve relational blocks.
- How to focus therapist presence to promote parental and child engagement in the EFFT process.
- A proven set of interventions that you can rely on to shift family behaviours towards greater emotional balance in support of parental responsiveness and child vulnerability.
- Greater mastery of core EFFT interventions and how to use EFT skills to overcome in session challenges and gain therapists’ confidence in guiding families to greater resilience.
- A more nuanced understanding of the EFT Tango through stages of change in EFFT.
- Key methods and interventions that will lead your clients into secure attachment, resourcing families towards ongoing growth and meeting challenges over the life span.
- Increasing the greater confidence and competence of the therapist to lead the EFFT process of change.
Ready to start learning EFFT?
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Membership Discount
ICEEFT Courses offers a discounted rate for the first year of ICEEFT Membership to eligible EFFT Essentials (or Level 2) graduates. You may learn about the benefits of membership on the ICEEFT Members site.
“Membership in ICEEFT offers a supportive platform to learn, improve my skills using EFT, connect with different EFT communities around the world, and allows potential clients to find me.”
Aaron Oog, MCounsPrac., MFT
Joining ICEEFT has helped me personally and professionally. I have benefitted from growing my practice, learning more about stuck spots, and even improved my marriage. What a gift.
Dr. Dianna Troutt, LMFT, LPCC
Readings
Discounts
Each publisher offers Courses attendees a discount of 15-25% off the following texts. Once you have registered for a course, you may access the relevant discount codes via the Courses Portal.
Required for EFFT Essentials (or Level 2)
Recommended for all other EFFT courses
“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
“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.
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.
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