UNC Greensboro
May 14-17, 2025, 9am-5pm
Trainer: Lorrie Brubacher
26 NBCC CE hours available
Questions? Contact Lorrie Brubacher
The 4-Day Externship is the first step towards certification as an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist.
Equity rates available.
Registration is closed.
Externship Flyer Learning Objectives & Overview
Presenting is Lorrie Brubacher, Founding Director of the Carolina Center for EFT. A certified trainer with the International Centre for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT), she has been an individual, couple and family therapist since 1989. An adjunct at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Lorrie trains internationally and publishes on the topic of EFT, and EFIT specifically. She co-developed EFT’s first inter-active video training program on the EFT Attachment Injury Resolution Model and has many EFT couple and individual training videos available at at http://steppingintoeft.com. Her book Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change (2018), available in seven languages, has been called “an amazing book! … a must-read for anyone interested in learning EFT!” – Scott R. Woolley, Ph.D., Alliant International University.
Participants learn:
- To view relationship distress from an attachment perspective.
- To help clients identify the relational patterns and emotional responses that maintain their distress.
- To shape key new interactions and events that build secure attachment bonds.
- To overcome therapeutic impasses and consolidate partners’ secure bond.
Join the thousands of therapists across the world who every year experience the four day EFT Externship and transform their practice. 85% of participants give this standardized training the highest rating possible (that is 5/5) on all major aspects. Participants have said:
“In 20 years of workshops and presentations this was absolutely and easily the tops!”
“Thanks so much. It is really a joy to be in conversation and see in practice the humanistic tradition.”
“The Externship was the best training I have ever had! It was fun. It was poignant. It was worthwhile. It made a difference.”
“Really a terrific learning experience – exceeded my expectations!”
Prerequisite:
To take this training you must have the training and educational qualifications to legally practice as a professional mental health practitioner or be in formal training to be a professional mental health practitioner.
Summary of Training Events for EFT Certification as Set Out by ICEEFT
Equity Rate
Diversity/Inclusion scholarships are being offered to encourage participation from people from underrepresented groups, whose presence will enrich the training experience for everyone. If you can benefit from the equity rate pricing and identify with one of the following categories, please come and participate in the upcoming EFT training course. The categories are: 1) Those who identify with an underrepresented group and 2) those who work with historically marginalized communities.
If you have any questions, please contact Lorrie Brubacher.
Cancellation Policy:
Cancellations subject to a $75 administration fee and must be made in writing at least 14 days prior to the first session to qualify for a refund of the balance paid. If you cancel with less than 14 days notice, but before the course begins you will be refunded 50%. If you cancel after a course has begun, there will be no refund. In the event a course is cancelled due to low registration, a refund will be issued in the full amount paid.
Lorrie L. Brubacher has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6488. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. She is solely responsible for all aspects of this program.