EFT and Me!
EFT and Me is a safe space to learn and grow your skills to practice Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). During the webinar series, EFT trainer Lorrie Brubacher and EFT supervisor Caroline Gasparetto will review Lorrie Brubacher’s clips with real clients, while focusing on specific aspects of practicing EFIT.
Multi-language translations will be provided in Spanish, Portuguese and French!
Registrations are open! To learn more, visit our website www.eftandme.com or follow us on Facebook and Instagram!
EFIT Training Videos
- for professional mental health professionals: https://steppingintoeft.com/purchase-english/
Applying EFT to Individual Therapy – Use the E.A.R. of EFT = follow EMOTION, focus on ATTACHMENT; RESHAPE strategies for engagement.
EFIT Essentials
EFIT Essentials is an amalgamation of the previous Level 1 and Level 2 EFIT trainings, now offered as a seamless, intensive learning experience. The training is structured to provide a solid foundation and an advanced understanding of the EFIT model, embedded within an attachment science framework. Through a blend of theoretical instruction and experiential exercises, participants will be guided to apply the model with individuals in their practice, fostering their growth as adept, attuned, and responsive EFIT therapists.
This 4-day (24hr) training event is a didactic and experiential program where participants will be invited to apply the EFIT principles and interventions. The training will delve into the heart of the empirically-validated EFIT model, presenting a coherent framework for understanding individual emotional processing and change.
- Describe an attachment, humanistic, systemic perspective of clients, their problems, and the therapeutic interventions for change.
- Build a safe therapeutic alliance in accordance with principles of secure attachment and Rogerian ingredients of empathic responding, unconditional acceptance, and therapist genuineness.
- Outline the applicability of EFIT for clients with varying presenting problems.
- Delineate clients’ within and between patterns of affect regulation.
- Identify how clients’ protective, self-defining, and interactional iatrogenic patterns create and maintain each other as the core components of emotional disorders, such as anxiety and depression.
- Discover and distill core emotional experience and promote emotional balance.
- Outline the EFIT process of change: From stabilizing and finding emotional balance, to restructuring inner experience and ways of engaging with others.
- Implement the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to help clients recognize how they are shaping their world and to create corrective emotional experiences to restructure their world.
- Demonstrate the micro-interventions used by the EFT therapist.
- Demonstrate how to choreograph dramas that expand the self and open engagement with others.
- Integrate corrective emotional experiences into secure working models of self and other.
- Demonstrate how to move clients to become resilient, competent, fully alive selves who can deal with existential life issues within the context of meaningful connections with others.
- Validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session.
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) extends Dr. Sue Johnson’s model of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy to work with individuals. EFIT helps you to create corrective emotional experiences in individual therapy to shape safety and security with others and within self.
Johnson argues that psychotherapy is most effective when it focuses on the healing power of emotional connection. Attachment theory provides proven techniques for treating the two common presenting problems in individual therapy: anxiety and depression. It provides a practical map for shaping love or secure attachment that positively impacts emotion regulation, social adjustment and mental health (Johnson, 2019).
“But love is not only an end for therapy; it is also the means by which every end is reached” (Lewis, Amini, & Lannon, 2002). In EFIT, the therapeutic alliance is the heart from which emotion regulation and secure bonds with others and within self are shaped. Core attachment emotions are reprocessed to fuel corrective emotional experiences of love, between and within. Clients are helped to discover and validate inner emotional experience that can then be used as a guide for living. Confidence flows from secure connection with others, creating a safe haven and a secure base in the dynamic flow between interpersonal and internal worlds.
Lorrie Brubacher is the Founding Director of the Carolina Center for EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy). A certified trainer with the International Centre for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT), she has been an individual, couple and family therapist since 1989. She is an adjunct faculty at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She trains internationally and publishes frequently on the topic of EFT, often with its originator, Dr. Sue Johnson. She co-developed EFT’s first interactive video training program, has several training videos, available at https://steppingintoeft.com and published Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change (2018).
Recent Workshops
- EFIT Essentials, North Carolina, May 2024
- EFIT Essentials online from Greece, April 2024
- EFIT Level 2, Durham, NC, June 16-17, 2023
- EFIT Level 2, Las Vegas, March 23-24, 2023
- EFIT Level 1, Durham, NC, February 24-25, 2023
- Online, EFIT Level 2, hosted by Greek EFT Network, January, 21-22, 2023
- Online, EFIT Level 1, hosted by Southern NV EFT, November 3-4, 2022
- Online, EFIT Level 1, hosted by S Iranian EFT Community, October 4-6, 2022
- Online, EFIT Level 2, hosted by the South Florida Community for EFT, December 11, 12, 2020
- Online, EFIT Level 1, hosted by the South Florida Community for EFT, October 2, 3, 2020
- Online, hosted by New Zealand EFT Community, September 10, 11, 2020
- Online, August 28-30, 2020
- Las Vegas, NV, online webinar, May 2, 2020
- Atlanta, GA, EFIT Level 1, April 24-26, 2020
- Roseville, Minnesota, EFIT Level 1, February 28-29, 2020
- New Orleans, LA, EFIT Level 1, February 13-14, 2020
- Greensboro, NC, EFIT Level 1, January 17-18, 2020
- Cambridge, ON, Sept 13-14, 2019
- Athens, Greece, June 8-9, 2019
- Denver, Colorado, July 23-24, 2018
- London, England, July 6-7, 2018
- Bucharest, Romania, June 9-10, 2017
- Timisoara, Romania, June 11-12, 2017
- Ottawa, ON, November 21-22, 2017
- UNC Greensboro, NC, November 17-18, 2017
- Phoenix, AZ, September 22-23, 2017