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Join EFT developer Sue Johnson's hand-selected team of trainers to discover the empirically validated approach that's now the gold-standard for treating couples

There's no denying that couples therapy is one of the most challenging forms of therapy…

…and it can quickly leave you feeling overwhelmed, disheartened, and questioning if you've failed your clients.

Fortunately, thanks to the revolutionary work of Dr. Sue Johnson, there's a far better way to work with couples and relationships.

Her Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) approach revolutionized our field by offering the clear, structured roadmap we need to guide partners from disconnection to deeply connected, fulfilling relationships — even when working with relationships troubled by issues such as trauma, anxiety, and grief.

Now, you can be part of this exclusive training that's led by the three expert instructors whom Sue Johnson personally chose as guides for the next generation of couples therapists.

Featuring certified EFCT trainers Robin Williams Blake, James Hawkins, and Kathryn de Bruin — who come from diverse clinical backgrounds and actively see clients just like yours — this essential training will equip you with the crucial skills to build secure, resilient relationships.

With this program, you'll get access to tailored instruction, real in-session videos, and in-depth dialogues between the trainers that break down, step by step, exactly how to apply the evidence-based EFCT interventions — from the very first moment of therapy until its conclusion.

Register today and become confident in your ability to offer clients secure and satisfying relationships.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Certificate Course
A Start-to-Finish Training for Repairing Relationships and Healing Emotional Disconnection
Valued at $961.96 — Register Today for Just  $389.99!
GET STARTED NOW
Plus, earn up to 17.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
When EFT is successfully implemented, each partner becomes a source of security, protection, and contact comfort for each other. Each partner can then assist the other in regulating negative affect and constructing a positive and potent sense of self.
— Sue Johnson
Here's what therapy experts are saying about Emotionally Focused Therapy

John Gottman
"[EFT] is really what is missing in behavioral marital therapy. It's all so intellectual. It really isn't looking at what is going on at a level of depth that really matters.
— Internationally renowned couples therapist, John Gottman, PhD
Daniel J. Siegel
"[EFT] blends the best in research findings with practical suggestions from a caring and compassionate clinician. This fabulous technique will be of great benefit...to couples trying to find their way to better communication and deeper, more fulfilling ways of being with each other.
— Daniel J. Siegel, MD, Executive Director, Mindsight Institute
Thorana Nelson
"Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) is a deceptively simple approach to work with couples in therapy because the tenets, practices, and integration are so clear because there clearly is a lot of art to doing this work.
— Family therapy professor, Thorana Nelson
Your Roadmap to this Intensive Certificate Program

Join EFCT expert trainers for this intensive course that provides a comprehensive overview of the field's premier couples approach.

Through engaging and experiential learning modules, aided by real in-session clinical videos, you'll discover exactly how to apply the empirically validated EFT interventions — from the very first session to the final closing therapy moments.

Plus, this training includes exclusive therapist-to-therapist conversations between the trainers that provide "behind-the-scenes" insight into key therapy moments, including:

  • How to understand the negative cycles that are causing relationship distress
  • How to tune into the body to discover the true source of emotion that reveals each partner's specific need for connection
  • How to rebuild the connection between the partners
  • When and how to address sex and intimacy during the EFT process
  • What to do when you hit an impasse and therapy begins to feel stuck
  • How and when the EFT therapy process is ready to be ended and your clients are able to exit therapy
  • And much more!

Be part of a unique program that's specially designed for you to feel confident applying EFCT interventions right away with your clients.

Establishing the foundations for effective couples therapy work
Begin this program by accessing the essential insights every therapist needs to start applying Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. You'll get an overview of the relevant attachment science research that forms the basis of EFCT and hear why dozens of empirical studies have shown this model to be the gold standard for working with couples.

Then you'll discover exactly how to get started with EFCT, including how to determine whether this treatment model is the right fit for your clients and guidance for those new to couples work. Plus, this module includes in-session clips and a review of your colleagues' frequently asked questions, you can feel confident that you know exactly how to begin an EFCT session.

In this module, you'll explore:
  • The problem and solution in couples therapy
  • Is EFCT right for my clients?
  • EFCT — the Gold-Standard therapy based on 20+ research studies
  • 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
Beginning the EFT healing process
This module sets the foundation for exactly how to apply the EFT model. You'll join the expert trainers for a foundational overview of the EFT process, including an introduction to the clinical map and the specific interventions that an EFT therapist uses in every session.

You'll get access to real in-session examples that demonstrate how key EFT interventions that help couples overcome stuck points and begin to reconnect. Plus, you'll learn how to effectively end a client session, so the partners are able to continue their relationship growth even after they've left your office.

This module includes:
  • 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 an EFT session
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Stage 1
In this module, you'll go deeper into the first stage of EFT. Through in-depth instruction and in-session footage, you'll discover how to conduct an effective relationship assessment, how to create a positive working alliance between partners, and how to tune into the couple's relationship story, so you can understand the negative cycles that are causing distress.

In this module, you'll explore:
  • 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
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Stage 1 continued
In module 4, you'll discover new EFT skills to access the underlying attachment needs that clients have been unable to reach themselves. You'll also learn how to tune into the body to discover the true source of emotion that reveals each partner's specific need for connection.

Then you'll discover EFT's powerful interventions to facilitate the attachment process live in your office, so you can help your clients understand and process their challenges and offer the corrective experiences that they need in order to have a healthy relationship together.

As in previous modules, you'll be able to see the skills in action through real client session clips, and you'll get an insider's understanding of the interventions as the trainers unpack the specific techniques used in the session.

EFT interventions in this module include:
  • 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
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Stage 2: Restructuring the Bond
Join the expert trainers as you progress through the EFT model to discover how to rebuild connection between the partners. First, you'll learn specific skills to de-escalate and stabilize the negative, chaotic behaviors that have been keeping your clients from finding their way back to each other.

And once you've help establish stability between the partners, you'll learn how to guide the partners to developing a secure and loving bond together. Through in-session clips and clinical dialogue, you'll discover specific skills to help both the partner who withdraws and the partner who pursues reconnecting with each other's specific relationship needs.

Skill-building opportunities in this module include:
  • Restructuring the bond: withdrawer re-engagement & pursuer softening
  • Putting attachment into action
  • 6 themes in withdrawer re-engagement
  • Pursuer softening: challenges and opportunities
Impasses | Escalated Couples | Injuries
This module is specifically designed to prepare you for when the healing process doesn't go according to plan.

First, our trainers will guide in what to do when you hit an impasse and therapy begins to feel stuck, partner(s) disengage, and it starts feeling hopeless that change will ever occur for this relationship.

Then, you'll learn the specific steps to take when dealing with escalated couples. These are the times that most therapists feel the need to run from, but with EFT, you'll discover skills to instead lean into the anger, so you can figure out its source and provide repair.

Skill-building opportunities in the modules include:
  • 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
Sex in adult relationships
Being a couples therapist means we need to talk about intimacy and touch with our clients, and very few therapists feel adequately prepared for this.

In this module, our expert trainers will guide you to understand when and how to address sex during the EFT process. They'll teach you how to make it safe for clients to talk about intimacy and provide specific questions you can use in your sessions to discuss this topic in a healthy and helpful way.

Skill-building opportunities in the modules include:
  • Introducing the conversation with clients
  • Multicultural orientation: cultural humility, opportunities, and comfort
  • Sex assessment
  • Sexual and Emotional cycle
  • Case examples
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Stage 3: Consolidation and Wrapping up the EFT Process
In this final module, you'll learn how and when the EFT therapy process is ready to be ended and your clients are able to exit therapy — with you available to them as a resource.

You'll discover how to help the couple celebrate this moment by reflecting on the work they've done and recognizing their ability to work through problems on a deep level…

…so, you and your clients can be confident that their relationship will continue to be a strong and lasting foundation of security and connection.

EFT interventions in this module include:
  • Consolidation
  • Transitioning to Stage 3: recognizing when the couple is ready
  • Experiential exercise
  • Developing relationship rituals and creating a future love story
  • Case examples
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Certificate Course
A Start-to-Finish Training for Repairing Relationships and Healing Emotional Disconnection
Valued at $961.96 — Register Today for Just  $389.99!
GET STARTED NOW
Plus, earn up to 17.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Certificate

Earn Your Certificate

When you complete this course, you'll be awarded your printable certificate to showcase that you've completed the Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Certificate Course.

With signatures from the expert EFCT trainers, this certificate is to recognize your new skills and knowledge to work with couples and intimate relationships.

Plus, You'll Get Two Free Bonus CE Workshops (181.97 Value)!
Brave New Future for Love and Couplehood
Brave New Future for Love and Couplehood with Dr. Sue Johnson

Throughout her distinguished career, for which she received the Order of Canada, Sue Johnson established that it's not an oxymoron to speak of the "science of love." In this on-demand CE recording, Sue discussed how in today's world—where close, exclusive relationships are often framed as incidentals rather than essentials in people's lives—we have the power to shape our intimate relationships in ways that lead to true, secure connection.
Attachment in Action
Attachment in Action with Dr. Sue Johnson

Regardless of your preferred therapy model or the conditions that you treat, attachment science can offer a coherent framework for understanding clients' problems and leading them home to balance, agency, and connection with others.

In this on-demand CE workshop, using video clips of sessions and short exercises, you'll learn how these principles can be applied in individual, couple, and family sessions to ultimately transform both self and system.

Click here for information about Susan Johnson

MEET THE PRESENTERS

Robin Williams Blake is an EFCT Supervisor, International Trainer, Presenter and Popular Speaker, and Adjunct Faculty Member.

He's also the host of Zooming in on EFT training webinars, Cofounder and Director of the Toronto Centre for Emotionally Focused Therapy and has been in private practice for over 20 years.

Click here for information about Robin Williams Blake
Robin Williams Blake

Dr. James Hawkins - ICEEFT-certified trainer, supervisor, and therapist, Dr. Hawkins is deeply involved in advancing the learning and practice of Emotional-Focused Therapy (EFT). He co-hosts two insightful podcasts, where he shares his knowledge and insights on EFT and leadership development.

In addition to his hands-on work and educational initiatives, Dr. Hawkins contributes to the online training program successinvulnerability.com that supports EFT therapists and supervisors in enhancing their clinical skills and focus.

Click here for information about James Hawkins
Dr. James Hawkins

Kathryn de Bruin is a Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Emotional Focused Therapy Trainer and Supervisor, and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. She has a full-time private practice in San Diego, CA where she works with children and families.

Kathryn teaches Play Therapy at the University of California, San Diego, in the Play Therapy Program. She is a Director for the San Diego Center for EFT and serves various EFT communities.

Click here for information about Kathryn De Bruin
Kathryn de Bruin
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Certificate Course
A Start-to-Finish Training for Repairing Relationships and Healing Emotional Disconnection
Valued at $961.96 — Register Today for Just  $389.99!
GET STARTED NOW
Plus, earn up to 17.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Frequently Asked Questions

Developed in cooperation with the ICEEFT organization, this intensive course features the expert trainers that Sue Johnson hand-selected to teach her Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples approach to the next generation of therapists.

However, this course is not part of the official ICEEFT training curriculum, and it does not qualify as training toward the EFCT certification path.

Immediately! You can get started with this Emotionally Focused Therapy course as soon as you register.

Your access to this course is unlimited for as long as you have your account.

With over 16 hours of online video content, real client footage, insightful commentary, interventions, and examples, you will have compelling new clinical strategies that you can immediately start applying in your practice! We encourage you to take the time to fully absorb everything. Watch the videos. Read the materials. Get your CE hours!

But if you review all of the course materials and are still not satisfied, give us a call at 800-844-8260. Your satisfaction is guaranteed.

Yes! Once you register for this self-paced course, you will have unlimited access to all the materials.
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Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Certificate Course
A Start-to-Finish Training for Repairing Relationships and Healing Emotional Disconnection
Valued at $961.96 — Register Today for Just  $389.99!
GET STARTED NOW
Plus, earn up to 17.5 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
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