UNC Greensboro
May 14-17, 2025
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EFCT Externship

Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy
A simple, practical introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals.
The only EFT book which parallels EFCT and EFIT!
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Workouts for Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy
Exercises in deliberate practice format through each move and micro-skill of EFCT and EFIT.
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Videos for therapists
Check out my training videos on couple (EFCT) and individual (EFIT) therapy.

EFT’s Attachment Injury Repair Model (AIRM) Training
With ICEEFT Trainer Lorrie Brubacher, M.Ed., LMFT (NC) RMFT. Details

EFT and Me
A safe space to learn and grow your skills to practice Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
Featuring:
The International spread of EFT:
- There are 90 EFT communities, centers, and other ICEEFT-affiliated EFT organizations around the world–closing in on the big 100!
- Translations of EFT materials exist in a whopping 34 languages and counting
- ICEEFT has grown to around 7000 members from nearly 80 countries
Thanks to Sue Johnson for bringing EFT into the world, and to all of you for your hard work!
As an EFT therapist I am committed to helping clients and colleagues stand together for healing and safety during the increase in hate crimes and protests of white supremacy across the US. These activities are also reverberating in Canada with anti-immigrant and nationalist rallies. EFT therapists are committed to creating safe, secure bonds in couples, families and societies, and we decry the messages of hatred and white supremacy recently being advanced.
Many of our colleagues, clients and members of our communities have grown up as targets of different types of oppression, and expressions of hatred and protests are reopening old wounds. We work and pray for a society that attends to its most vulnerable, in our belief that this is what creates a safe and thriving community for all.
EFT Training and Therapy aims to cultivate a climate of inclusion, where all can feel safe, valued, and affirmed. We view love and meaningful secure connections with one another as a birthright to all human beings and strive to promote a more loving humanity and community for all. We hope for a world in which every person can embrace their universal human attachment needs and thrive without fear of persecution or marginalization as a result of gender expression, race, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual/affectional orientation, family structure, age, class, mental health, physical character or disability.
Here are two videos portraying examples of love at its best, in a diverse world:
- The devotion and love between John and Bill as they built and nurtured their connection over a 57 year-relationship, from their initial meeting until Bills’ death is one powerful story of secure bond. Devotion: Relationship of John and Bill
- In 2017 there was a devasting highway crash in western Canada where truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu blew through a highway stop sign, killing 16 and injuring 13 on the Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus. It is a tragic, powerful story of love at its best and the healing power of remorse. While there is no appropriate penalty in Canadian law for causing a tragedy of this magnitude, the response from one of the victim’s father to the driver’s guilty plea shows how expressed remorse and acknowledgement of responsibility can open the door to closure and forgiveness. That the driver has received sympathy and kindness from families touched by the tragedy also illustrates the universality of the human heart and our needs for compassion, care and understanding. Healing can come when we tap into these deepest needs and drives for connection.
Save Your Relationship
Lorrie Brubacher
- M.Ed., LMFT (NC) #1245
- Registered Marriage and Family Therapist and Supervisor #89116 (AAMFT)
- Member, Canadian Association of Couple and Family Therapy (CACFT) # 20171235
- Certified Canadian Counsellor (CCC) with the Canadian Counsellng and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA # 1964)
- Certified Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer with International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
- Adjunct, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
- Practicing Online
Couple therapy can help you rediscover the love that brought you together.
You may be in a couple relationship that:
- is filled with loneliness and silence
- is full of arguing, blaming, withdrawing or distancing
- is in constant conflict that never gets resolved
- feels discouraging and hopeless
- lacks affection and tender touch
- feels like the two of you are strangers in the same house
- seems like you can’t talk to each other anymore: where you and your partner don’t feel heard or understood
- has lost the spark that brought you together
- is lacking in sexual intimacy
- longs for closeness with one another again…
If you are feeling lonely, depressed or anxious because of relationship problems, you are not alone. If your relationship is stuck in a rut of conflict, sadness, distance and frustration, you know how heavily this weighs on your entire life. You may see how it darkens your moods, damages your physical health and even upsets your children, other family members and friends.
The important thing is that your relationship doesn’t have to stay this way…
Together, we can save your relationship and open the doors to those lost feelings of love for one another.
You can find your best friend again!
Through marriage or couples therapy, you can save your relationship and:
- Be “Number One” for each other again
- Make up quickly after disagreements
- Communicate so that you both feel valued and cared for
- Trust each other again
- Hug, kiss and cuddle frequently
- Have fun together and comfort each other
- Look forward to being together
- Have a better-than-ever sex life
- Ask for and receive the support you need
- Value and appreciate your differences and what they bring to your relationship
Your relationship does not need to be dragging your life down!
In fact couples or marriage therapy can help you have a positive, loving relationship that will strengthen your confidence, lighten your mood and fill you with energy and hope.
Marriage and Couples Therapy that Works!
I am a registered marriage and family therapist who has enjoyed practicing couples and marriage therapy for 20 years. I use an approach that has been rigorously researched and found to be one of the most effective approaches to couples therapy. It is known as Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).
A meta-analysis (analysis of several studies) in 1999 found that 73% of couples treated with EFT recovered from their distress and 86% made significant improvements in their relationship.
Couples Counselling Can be the Answer to Saving Your Relationship
If you are at a loss as to how to begin to save your relationship now is the time to meet with a couples or marriage therapist. If you long to be “Number One” for each other again and to feel the comfort of the other’s arms, contact me to find out how. As a marriage and couples therapist, I can help to open the door to find your lost love and friendship.
If you don’t know where else to turn, I have the mix of therapy experience, credentials, skills and a warm empathic heart, that will help you save your relationship. You can rediscover love that binds and saves you from separation or divorce.
As a marriage and family therapist, I can help you to create a loving bond that will relieve your relationship stress and increase your happiness and love for each other. See How I Work and My Approach for more detail about what is unique about my approach.
Through marriage or couples therapy, I can help you save your relationship before it breaks apart completely.
Why not step out of your negative and painful ruts?
You can experience renewed happiness and intimacy!
Let’s explore whether you are both willing to rediscover what is lost and save your relationship.
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Lorrie Brubacher
- M.Ed., LMFT (NC) #1245
- Registered Marriage and Family Therapist #89116 (Can.)
- Certified Emotionally Focused Therapy Supervisor and Trainer
- Winnipeg, Canada & Greensboro, NC
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