Arizona Externship

Name: Arizona Externship
Start: 2025-09-10T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-12T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Franciscan Renewal Center

Schedule

Wed, 10 Sep, 2025 at 09:00 am to Fri, 12 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Franciscan Renewal Center | Paradise Valley, AZ

Trainers: Rachel Thomas & Robin Blake
This is an official Externship, endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and brought to you by TRI EFT Alliant and Alliant International University.
Attending this Externship is the first step to being listed at the EFT website, where couples are going to find trained couple therapists. Attending this externship is also a step towards becoming a certified EFT therapist. For further details about the certification process please refer to Susan Johnson’s International Centre for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT). In this Externship, you will learn to:
See couples distress from an attachment perspective.
Help partners reprocess the emotional responses that maintain couple distress.
Shape key new interactional and bonding events.
Overcome therapeutic impasses.
You will see a live demonstration session, a profound learning experience.
General Objectives of the EFT Externship
To gain a clear understanding of the systemic concepts and basic experiential moves of an “Emotionally Focused Therapy” approach.
To hold an attachment view clients coping with their interpersonal dilemmas so you can conceptualize relationship distress and repair based on theories of attachment and emotion.
The focus of this training is on the general model of EFT as presented in the 2019 book, Attachment Theory In Practice, and how you can implement the model in couple and individual therapy sessions.
To provide the opportunity to develop skills in sharing, maintaining and engaging in an open and collaborative alliance with your clients.
To develop skillful use of the 5 moves of the basic macro-intervention “the EFT tango” in order to improve clients’ affect regulation, models of self and other, strategies for engaging with others and changing interactional patterns.
To develop ability to utilize systemic and experiential models of interventions applied as EFT micro interventions.
To participate in skills development to overcome common blocks and impasses across EFT therapy modalities so you can shape core corrective emotional experience that leads to constructive dependency and what we conceptualize as ‘secure attachment’.
This training includes an overview of the entire model of Emotionally Focused Therapy including steps and stages, interventions, adult attachment theory, and application of EFT with couples and individuals. The externship is recommended for all types of mental health clinicians to counsel or want to cancel couples.This training is the prerequisite for all other EFT trainings.
Reference Materials for Study
Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families
The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection” by Susan M. Johnson, 3nd Edition, 2019.
Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook” by Susan M. Johnson, et al, 2005.
Daily Schedule
9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Arizona Time
60 minute lunch breaks each day. The training is Limited to 70 participants. Support from EFT practitioners to help you practice and learn in small groups.
Participation Requirements
Participants must be familiar with and abide by professional and legal confidentiality requirements regarding all client information shared in the training. Certification in EFT is offered by ICEEFT based on completion of all requirements and demonstrated competence in the model. Completion of training does not guarantee competence or certification. Enrollment in this training constitutes an agreement to hold harmless The San Diego Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Training and Research Institute for Emotionally Focused Therapy (TRI-EFT), and all presenters and trainers from any and all claims, actions, and judgements, including all costs of defense and attorney’s fees incurred in defending against the same. I have read and agree to follow the terms for participation.