Trainer: Leanne Campbell, PhD
Where: On Zoom live
Level: Completion of 4-day Externship required
Target Audience: Marriage & Family Therapists, Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Psychologists
Cost: Nonmembers: Early Bird (before 7/24/26) $365; After 2/24/26 $400;
EFT MA Members: Early Bird (before 7/24/26) $325; After 2/24/26 $375 (use discount code at checkout)
CEs: 12 CEs for LMFTs, LICSWs, LMHCs and Lic. Psychologists
*Evaluations and certificates are available online following course completion for $30.
Cancellation Policy: 50% refund up to 7 days prior to the training: no refunds issued after September 17, 2026.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
For questions about the training, contact: Heidi Bercovici (heidibercovici@gmail.com) or Ann Zierler (annzierler@hotmail.com).
Description of the course :
Navigating the potential impacts of attachment injuries, loss and trauma can be overwhelming for therapists and clients alike. Attachment theory and science provide the map, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) offers a method. Informed by more than 30 years of attachment science research and clinical experience, EFT gets to the heart of the matter. That is, the core elements of attachment that can either impact clients’ capacity to move into and through emotion toward resilience, or somewhere along a continuum characterized by recurring patterns of distress.
This training will provide you with the understanding and skills to join clients on their unique journeys through loss and trauma into growth and resilience. Deepening your capacity to harness the power and potency of emotion and the healing power of relationships in couple therapy will help you feel more competent and confident, and your clients more connected and complete!
In this workshop, using real-life video case examples and other stories from the therapist’s chair, along with didactic instruction and skills building, you’ll learn how to harness the power of emotion and the wisdom of attachment science to:
Adopt an attachment frame for understanding health and resilience, how clientsget stuck in the face of loss and trauma, and how they find their way home
Join with clients with CARE (i.e., attention to four key dimensions, context, attachment, relationship/therapeutic alliance, emotion) at therapy outset and throughout the therapy process
Create a ‘safe haven alliance’ and conduct an attachment-based experiential assessment to guide the therapy process
Deepen your skills in working with emotion with attention to pacing, focus and momentum
Outline and apply the steps of the Attachment Injury Resolution/Repair Model (AIRM)
Track the impacts of shame and loss in resolving attachment injuries and learn how and when to address them
Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other
Discern markers for next steps in helping couples resolve attachment injuries
Summarize basic tenets for how to work with Attachment Injuries across the three stages of EFCT
Apply and adapt AIRM to work with clients in resolving attachment injuries
Identify any blocks to moving with and through emotion (i.e., effective affect regulation), and implement the five moves of the EFT Tango to dissolve blocks and shape corrective emotional experiences
Guide clients in integrating new meaningful emotional and relational experiences to shift and update models of self and other
Help clients consolidate, integrate, and celebrate gains and growth, live fully and love bravely in the present, and prepare for the future
Recommended Readings:
Furrow, J., Johnson, S., Bradley, B., Brubacher, L., Campbell, T. L., Kallos-Lilly, V., Palmer, G., Rheem, K. & Woolley, S. (2022). Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook (2 nd edition). England, UK: Routledge.
Guillory, P. T. (2021). Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples: Love Heals. New York, NY: Routledge.
Johnson, S. M. (2019). Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Johnson, S. M. (2020). The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (third edition). New York, NY: Routledge.
Johnson, S. M. & Campbell, T. L. (2026). Emotionally Focused Therapy for Trauma. Guilford, New York, NY.
Leanne Campbell, PhD is co-developer of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) and co-author with Susan Johnson of the first basic EFIT text, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Growth and Fitness in Every Client (Routledge, 2022) and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Trauma (Guilford, 2026). She is a Registered Psychologist in the province of British Columbia, an executive board member of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT), and an international speaker, writer, trainer and co-author of various EFT-related educational programs and materials. She contributed as well to the second edition of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook (Routledge, 2022) with her insights surrounding the application of EFT in working with trauma both individually and relationally (in EFIT and EFCT). In addition to providing psychological services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past about three decades, Dr. Campbell provides trainings in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to professionals around the globe with a primary focus in the areas of loss and trauma.
Nonmembers: Early Bird (until 7/24/26) $365; After 7/24/26 $400
EFT MA Members: Early Bird (until 7/24/26) $325; After 7/24/26 $375
(Use discount code at checkout)