A Four Day Externship EFT Training®
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)
with ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer, James Parrin (MIAHIP)
EFT Externship Training®
Live – Online from Wicklow, Ireland
Two Training Session Dates Available:
10th – 11th May & 24th – 25th May 2025
or
12th – 13th July & 26th – 27th July 2025
9:30am – 5:00pm Daily
CPD: 28 Hours
Join us in taking the first step towards training in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
Are you skilled in relationship therapy but seeking a fresh approach to improve your success with couples? If so, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an effective solution.
Transform how you work with Couples and earn 30 CPD hours at this 4-day intensive training. The Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Externship, developed by Dr Susan Johnson, is an immersion into the science and power of attachment, emotion and relatedness that can transform how you understand couples in distress and change how you work with families and individuals. This experiential and didactic training will assist your success in your clinical practice and strengthen relationships in your own life.
This is an official EFT Externship, endorsed by the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
Pioneered by Dr. Susan Johnson, EFT for couples is a rigorously researched therapy based on the science of adult love and attachment. It gives the therapist a clear guide through the confusing drama of relational conflict and distress in couples, families, and individuals. The EFT change process is mapped into a systematic sequence and framework that restructures interactional patterns, bringing about positive relationship change.
This structure reliably provides a safe and effective path for long term relational healing. EFT is widely used and is becoming very popular worldwide.
Ireland’s EFT Community is a gathering and network of therapists who recognise the value of like-minded support from one another in the challenging task of working with couples and Emotionally Focused Therapy. Join our community of therapists and avail yourself of the dynamic and effective EFT Externship Training®, which is suitable for professional therapists and counsellors who are new to couples therapy and also for those who are experienced in this field.
Event Schedule:
This EFT Externship is a 4-day workshop spread over two weekends. Starting at 9:30 am and ending at 5:00 pm each day, participants will learn using a combination of lectures, videotapes, live case consultations and role-play exercises. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- See emotional disorders & relationship distress from an attachment perspective.
- Obtain a clear understanding of the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an “Emotionally Focused” approach to couples therapy.
- Develop skills in helping partners reprocess the emotional responses that maintain relational distress.
- Develop skills in helping partners shape new interaction patterns and bonding events.
- Develop skills to overcome therapeutic impasses with couples.
- Delineate the stages of the model, interventions most commonly used, and methods to use with couples’ underlying interactional patterns.
Continuing Professional Development:
Certificates for CPD days will be awarded after completing the four days, totalling 28 hours of training. Participants must attend all four days to receive their full 28 hours of CPD points and a certificate of completion from ICEEFT. The EFT Externship is a prerequisite for the EFT Couples Core Skills Programme and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy certification with ICEEFT.
Cost & Booking Information:
€830 or Early Bird Discounted Rate of €770
Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis, as places are limited.
| Chose one of the following EFT 2024 Externships | Early Bird Ends | Final Payment Due |
| 10th – 11th May & 24th – 25th May 2025 | 28th March 2025 (6 Weeks Prior) |
25th April 2025 (2 Weeks Prior) |
| 12th – 13th July & 26th – 27th July 2025 | 30th May 2025 (6 Weeks Prior) |
27th June 2025 (2 Weeks Prior) |
Registration Form:
To secure your place in the training, please complete all fields in the registration form and select your preferred payment option: deposit, early bird, or full payment.
Please do not hesitate to email us with any questions or enquiries or to arrange a phone call. We are always happy to discuss EFT.
Select One of the Following Externships
Cancellation Information:
Refund requests will be accepted up to 14 days before the workshop commences. However, all refund requests will be subject to a €50 processing fee. No refunds will be given after two weeks before the start of the Externship. However, transferring funds to the following Externship may be possible. If you need any help, please don’t hesitate to email us at [email protected]. We’re happy to assist you in any way we can.
Note
We are a heartfelt community, so we understand that paying the total upfront may be challenging. Please email us if you find it difficult to pay all the fees at once. We want to support your participation in this workshop.
Educational Objectives for each day:
Day 1: Introduction to Couple Distress, Attachment Theory, Process of EFT, the Model, The Research, and The Map
- Describe the nature and causes of relationship distress from an attachment perspective.
- Describe basic Attachment Theory and how it informs working with couples in EFT.
- Describe the systemic elements of EFT.
- Describe change factors involved in a couple moving from distress to recovery.
- Describe the three stages of EFT.
- Practice the basic empathy skills that are central to the therapeutic process in EFT.
Day 2: Assessment, Alliance Stage 1
- Describe and practice assessment skills in EFT
- Describe and practice how to create a therapeutic alliance using: empathic attunement, validation, acceptance, genuineness.
- Describe and practice how to enter partners’ experience to find out how each constructs their experience of their relationship.
- Describe and practice how to track and frame the sequences of interaction that perpetuate couples’ distress.
- Describe the difference between primary and secondary emotions.
- Describe and practice how to frame the negative cycle (e.g., pursue/withdraw) emphasizing attachment needs (e.g., closeness, connection, importance of the other, fear of loss).
Day 3: EFT Interventions and Change Events Stage 2
- Describe systemic and experiential theories that underlie EFT interventions.
- Describe and practice the basic EFT interventions for working with emotion, i.e. reflection, validation, evocative responding, empathic conjecture and heightening.
- Describe and practice how to use RISSSC to access and heighten emotional experience.
- Describe and practice how to facilitate interaction between partners by using enactments.
- Explain how to put the interventions together to facilitate change events.
- Describe the three change events in EFT: de-escalation, withdrawer re-engagement and pursuer softening.
- Describe and practice the skills of accessing, exploring and deepening emotion.
- Describe and practice the skills of facilitating acceptance.
- Describe how to choreograph change events using enactments.
Day 4: Individual Therapy and Attachment Injuries
- Explain attachment injuries from an Attachment Theory perspective.
- Explain the steps toward resolving attachment injuries, creating forgiveness.
- Summarize ways to continue learning EFT and refining skills in this method of therapy.
ICEEFT Position Statement on Diversity and Racism:
EFT Ireland is a community affiliated with ICEEFT (International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy). ICEEFT’s focus is to foster research in the use of EFT, promote quality training and certification in EFT and as a tool and resource for couples and therapists. ICEEFT has a body of process research that demonstrates the rigorous studies conducted in the effectiveness of EFT. More details of these studies are available on www.iceeft.com.