This intensive four-day Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) Certification Training teaches the foundational knowledge and practical skills to work effectively with emotion in psychotherapy. Participants will learn to identify different types of emotional processes and understand their role in psychological distress, and use evidence-based, marker-guided interventions to facilitate meaningful and lasting change.
EFT is a well-established, evidence-based approach that views emotional change as the key to lasting therapeutic change. By helping clients transform maladaptive emotional patterns through the activation of adaptive emotions within a strong empathic therapeutic relationship, EFT promotes emotional resilience, a stronger sense of self, and healthier relationships.
This experiential training combines lectures, video demonstrations, case discussions, and extensive supervised practice in small breakout groups, allowing participants to develop confidence in applying EFT interventions from the very beginning.
Through this intensive training you will learn to:
- Identify different types of emotions and emotional processes and how to intervene: adaptive, maladaptive, instrumental, secondary.
- Provide emotion psychoeducation to clients and give rationales about the therapy change process.
- Recognize in-session markers and their corresponding interventions.
- Facilitate the Principles of Emotion Change (utilize, regulate and transform emotion).
- Use the different types of empathic responses and understand their function.
- Engage in collaborative case formulation in EFT and following the client’s core pain.
- Recognize Problematic Reactions and use the Intervention of Systematic Evocative Unfolding
- Use the Focusing intervention to deepen emotional experience.
- Work with Self-Criticism using the 2-Chair Intervention for Self-Criticism.
- Work with Unfinished Business using the Empty Chair Intervention.
- Work with avoidance and blocking using the 2 Chair Enactment for Self-Interruption.
- Learn how to recognize a vulnerability marker.
Who should attend: Licensed psychologists, registered psychotherapists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, counsellors, and other regulated mental health professionals. Graduate students are also welcome. Please note that full attendance and active participation throughout all four days are required to receive a certificate of completion.
Please contact us directly at training@cpeh.ca to inquire about your credentials and eligibility to take the trainings.Â
Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)
- Approved for 24 CEC
**This workshop has been approved by the Canadian Psychological Association for continuing education
***The Centre for Psychology and Emotional Health is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Centre for Psychology and Emotional Health maintains responsibility for the program.
Refund & Cancellation Policy for Certified EFT Trainings
Cancelling 30 days or more prior to the start of a training:
- Refund:Â Full refund will be processed, minus a $200 administrative fee
or
- Transfer:Â Full payment will be transferred to a future Emotion Focused Therapy Training Institute. You may transfer your payment to another EFT training institute one time.
Cancelling after 30 days prior to the start of a training:
- Refund:Â No refund
- Transfers: No transfers to another EFT Training Institute
The Centre for Psychology and Emotional Health has the right to cancel or reschedule any Emotion Focused Therapy Training Institutes. In the event that the Centre for Psychology and Emotional Health needs to cancel or reschedule an upcoming EFT Training Institute, you will have the option to either receive a full refund, or transfer the full training fee to another available training.
