ICEEFT EFT Training Track
ICEEFT Therapist Certification in EFT
2026 EFT Training
Outline of EFIT Consultation
Part 1:
Participants will learn from expert trainers as they share and discuss their work. Key points considered include:
- Maintaining a Robust Alliance
- Finding and Keeping Focus in Session
- Identifying Key Inner and Interpersonal Patterns that Block Progress
- Deepening Engagement in the Face of Avoidance and Intellectualization
- Working with Blocks at Leading Edge of Experience
- Assembling, Befriending, and Ordering Emotion
- Maintaining Focus, Depth, and Momentum with Complex Client Presentations
- Shaping Core Identity Dramas with Elements of Self or with Others
Part 2:
As part of an effective learning experience, some participants will present their cases. Expert trainers will offer feedback and consultation, and engage in role plays with each other and/or participants to demonstrate how the EFIT model can be applied to the specific cases and presenting issues discussed.
What will I learn in an "Externship"?
- Participants will obtain a clear understanding of the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an “Emotionally Focused” approach to therapy.
- Participants will be able to view clients in the web of their interpersonal attachments and conceptualize relationship distress and repair based on theories of attachment and emotion.
- EFT is a relational therapy. The Externship will focus on the model of EFCT laid out in the 2019 book, Attachment Theory in Practice, and teach the model as implemented in couple therapy sessions.
- Participants will develop skills in sharing and maintaining an engaged, open and collaborative alliance with clients.
- Participants will develop skills in the 5 moves of the basic macro-intervention – the EFT Tango – in order to change patterns of affect regulation, models of self and other, strategies for engaging others and interactional patterns.
- Participants will develop skills in EFT micro interventions taken from experiential and attachment systemic models of intervention.
- Participants will develop skills in overcoming common blocks and impasses in couple therapy and so shape core corrective emotional experiences that lead to constructive dependency and what Rogers termed ‘existential living.’