Professional Training and Supervision for Therapists and Licensed Practitioners

Four Day EFT Externship

The Four Day EFT Externship is the most complete immersion in EFT available, covering the theory, clinical process-model, and practice of EFT. It offers a comprehensive and basic level of training and education in the model and is taught by ICEEFT certified trainers. The externship includes didactic discussion, experiential exercises, observation of clinical video clips of EFT sessions, and two live therapy sessions to demonstrate the model.

Participants will learn to see relational distress from an attachment perspective, help partners to re-process the emotional responses that maintain relational distress and shape key interactions and bonding events in vivo to overcome therapeutic impasses.

The externship is recommended for all professionals working with relationship issues including psychiatrists, psychologists, family therapists, social workers, counselors, psychiatric nurses, pastors and clergy, as well as students training in these professions.

The feedback from participants who have taken this training has been nothing but outstanding. Comments regarding the training consistently speak to the accessibility and availability of the presenters, and to a deep enthusiasm for working with systemic attachment processes in therapy.

Continuing education credits will be offered for each externship.

UPCOMING EXTERNSHIP OFFERINGS

Core Skills Training

Core Skills Training is a year-long small group experience designed to enhance and refine the clinical skills associated with each of the stages in the EFT therapy process. Core Skills allows participants to deepen their understanding and engagement with the concepts and discrete skill sets of each segment of the series through hands-on, individualized guidance from EFT Trainers and supervisors. Each weekend is approached through a blend of didactic information, experiential practice exercises, a live demonstration with a couple, and supervision/case consultation to effectively guide participants through a thorough integration of the model.

Registration for Core Skills training requires a commitment to the entire series of five trainings that meet approximately every other month throughout the year.

Core skills participants must be accredited mental health practitioners, or currently in a formally accredited educational/training program to become one.

UPCOMING CORE SKILLS OFFERINGS

Supervision Groups

Ongoing supervision provides support, and continued education that deepens each member's clinical abilities and ability to integrate the model. Given that EFT is experiential psychotherapy, becoming adept at navigating clinical complexities requires quite a bit of nuance. It is from the ongoing immersion in supervision that clinicians gain excellence in the model.

My supervision groups are space-limited, and usually have a maximum of 7 people in them in order to create a predictable and intimate environment where therapists cannot only explore conceptual and clinical issues associated with implementing EFT well, but also be able to explore the more personal self of the therapist issues that arise in the course of doing attachment oriented therapy. 

The intention of this supervision format is to create a genuine learning community in which members support each other’s personal and professional growth over time both through exploring the EFT model together, as well as examining the many facets and realities of the self/life of the psychotherapist.

I also offer supervision groups focused on very specific complexities and therapies such as EFT and addiction, as well as EFT and trauma.

CURRENT SUPERVISION GROUP TIMES:

  • All groups meet every other week for an hour and a half. Space limit of seven members per group.

  • Tuesdays 10:30-12:00pm

  • Tuesdays 12:00-1:30pm

  • Wednesdays 9:30-11:00am

  • Wednesdays 12:30-2:00pm

  • Thursdays 10:30am-12:00pm

Advanced Classes, Specialty Training, & Workshops

Advanced classes and specialty training are advanced training for EFT therapists who have completed the four day externship. They address specific complexities in the therapeutic process and build upon both the fundamental clinical skills as well as the conceptual ideas that participants previously learned in the externship.

These classes and training guide the EFT therapist in how to tailor the model to address an integration of skills and interventions to be able to effectively work with more challenging populations and therapeutic considerations.

Examples include:

  • EFT and addictive processes

  • EFT and trauma 

  • Attachment injuries and betrayals

  • Using EFT with families

UPCOMING ADVANCED CLASS, SPECIALTY, AND WORKSHOP OFFERINGS

Testimonials from Participants

  • The way Michael breaks down what is happening with lots of heart and clear explication of theory really helped me.

    – Susan G. (Addictions Workshop Participant)

  • I also wanted to say how helpful the supervision session was yesterday. I'm seeing that same couple in 15 minutes and feel much more prepared and self-aware about my own issues coming up. I appreciate you taking the initiative to propose the role-play and let me take part in it. You balanced safety with challenge. That's exactly what I was hoping to get from the supervision experience. This is the most challenged I've felt in my supervisory experiences so far, and it's helping me to grow as a therapist.

    – Matthew R. (Supervision Participant)

  • He made the impossible understandable, and he responded to the needs of the participants with sensitivity, warmth and brilliance. Michael is a great presenter.

    – R. T. (Externship Participant)

  • Excellent training. It feels like it is opening the way for me to really do effective couples therapy.

    – Lin L. (Supervision Participant)

  • I want to thank Michael for being a wonderful and gifted trainer. He is so warm and open that his presence really created a warm and safe atmosphere in our group. We left our advanced externship feeling excited and energized to continue on our EFT journey to become certified!

    – Nicole T. (Externship Participant)

  • He did an amazing job. He opened me to a very different, and powerful way of working than I have been previously doing.

    – Meredith V. (Externship Participant)

  • We now have a template with which to work from regarding addictions. As an added bonus it was a lot of fun!

    – John P. (Addicitions Workshop Participant)

  • The [4-day externship] really helped me turn a corner in my understanding of the model and the attachment frame. I feel like I have done my best work ever with each client I have seen this week. It has been amazing and the EFT jig may wear a hole in my carpet. Anyway, I feel truly energized professionally and personally and I wanted to share that with you.

    – Aaron W. (Externship Participant)

  • I just wanted to say how meaningful this training was to me. I have often operated on two tracks [namely, EFT and addictions]. This workshop has allowed me to explore and discover helpful ways of integrating substance abuse concerns within an EFT framework, without ignoring the very real impact substance use can have on the partner and family relationships.

    — Marianne S. (Addictions Workshop Participant)