Certified Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) Training

Next Dates: October 6, 13, 20, & 27, 2026 

This intensive four-day Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) Certification Training teaches the foundational knowledge and practical skills to work effectively with emotion in psychotherapy. Participants will learn to identify different types of emotional processes and understand their role in psychological distress, and use evidence-based, marker-guided interventions to facilitate meaningful and lasting change.

EFT is a well-established, evidence-based approach that views emotional change as the key to lasting therapeutic change. By helping clients transform maladaptive emotional patterns through the activation of adaptive emotions within a strong empathic therapeutic relationship, EFT promotes emotional resilience, a stronger sense of self, and healthier relationships.

This experiential training combines lectures, video demonstrations, case discussions, and extensive supervised practice in small breakout groups, allowing participants to develop confidence in applying EFT interventions from the very beginning.

Through this intensive training you will learn to:

• Identify different types of emotions and emotional processes and how to intervene: adaptive, maladaptive, instrumental, secondary.
• Provide emotion psychoeducation to clients and give rationales about the therapy change process.
• Recognize in-session markers and their corresponding interventions.
• Facilitate the Principles of Emotion Change (utilize, regulate and transform emotion).
• Use the different types of empathic responses and understand their function.
• Engage in collaborative case formulation in EFT and following the client’s core pain.
• Recognize Problematic Reactions and use the Intervention of Systematic Evocative Unfolding
• Use the Focusing intervention to deepen emotional experience.
• Work with Self-Criticism using the 2-Chair Intervention for Self-Criticism.
• Work with Unfinished Business using the Empty Chair Intervention.
• Work with avoidance and blocking using the 2 Chair Enactment for Self-Interruption.
• Learn how to recognize a vulnerability marker.

Who should attend: Licensed psychologists, registered psychotherapists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, counsellors, and other regulated mental health professionals. Graduate students are also welcome. 

Please note that full attendance and active participation throughout all four days are required to receive a certificate of completion.

Next Dates TBD for 2027

This intensive four-day EFT Training Institute is designed to deepen participants’ competence in Emotion Focused Therapy for individual psychotherapy. Building on Level 1, the institute focuses on refining emotion-focused interventions and developing greater confidence in working with complex emotional processes. 

Training includes advanced work with self-interruption, anxiety, depression, self-criticism, emotion regulation, self-soothing, and unfinished business. 

Participants will also strengthen their skills in emotion assessment, identifying productive and unproductive emotional processes, and collaborative case formulation through the observation of videos of an extended therapy case across multiple sessions.

EFT is a well-established, evidence-based approach that views emotional change as the foundation of lasting therapeutic change. By helping clients transform maladaptive emotional patterns through the activation of adaptive emotions within a strong empathic therapeutic relationship, EFT promotes emotional resilience, a stronger sense of self, and healthier relationships.

This highly experiential training combines brief lectures, extensive clinical video demonstrations, supervised small-group practice, live coaching and modelling interventions, as well as feedback to help participants integrate advanced EFT skills into their clinical practice.

Who should attend: Licensed psychologists, registered psychotherapists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, counsellors, other regulated mental health professionals, and graduate students. 

Please note that full attendance and active participation are required to receive a certificate of completion.

 Through this advanced intensive training participants will:

• Deepen their understanding of EFT theory and advanced clinical practice.
• Refine skills in assessing emotional processes and facilitating productive emotional processing.
• Master advanced two-chair interventions for self-criticism, self-interruption, and anxiety.
• Learn advanced unfinished business interventions, including age regression, imaginal re-entry, and transformation.
• Use focusing micro-interventions to deepen emotional processing.
• Apply self-soothing interventions to facilitate adaptive grief, self-compassion, and healthy sadness.
• Strengthen collaborative case formulation through in-depth video analysis and discussion.
• Deepen their experience of working with blocks using the 2 Chair Enactment for Self-Interruption.

Requires completion of Emotion Focused Therapy Level 1.

Please note, participation and attendance during the full 4 days of the training is required in order to receive a completion certificate

Next Dates: September 23, 24, & 25, 2026

This three-day small group workshop is for therapists who wish to advance their practice of EFT through video consultation and case discussion.  In addition, Dr. Greenberg will present EFT theory related to more complex therapeutic issues and advanced clinical skills in EFT practice. 

*Please note that each participant in this training will be expected to present one or more video or audio recordings of client sessions for supervision and discussion. If your therapy recordings are in a language other than English, you may still participate, if you subtitle the recordings to English subtitles. Additionally, participants will be required to prepare a brief EFT case formulation of the client they are presenting.  

This workshop fulfills part of the requirements for certification as an EFT therapist based on the standards of the International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy. 

This training is open to participants who have already completed Level 1 and Level 2 Emotion Focused Therapy trainings (for individuals).  

This workshop offers an intimate small-group training experience, with enrollment strictly limited to 12 participants.

For more information, please email us at training@cpeh.ca

Next Dates: November 16, 17 & 23, 24, 2026

Developed by Leslie Greenberg and Rhonda Goldman, Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT-C) is one of the world's most researched, evidence-based approaches to couples’ therapy. Building on the pioneering work of Leslie Greenberg and Sue Johnson (1988), this intensive 4 day certification training provides therapists with a powerful framework for helping couples move beyond conflict, heal emotional injuries, and build stronger, more secure relationships.

Unlike approaches that focus primarily on attachment, EFT-C also addresses identity needs, including power, self-esteem, shame, and vulnerability, giving therapists a comprehensive model for understanding and treating relationship distress. You will learn how to recognize and transform the emotional processes that maintain conflict while helping partners create new patterns of connection.

Throughout this intensive 4 day certification training, you will learn the foundations of the 5 stages and 14 steps of the EFT-C model, including recent advances in theory and practice. You will learn how to:

• Identify and de-escalate destructive interactional cycles and survival strategies
• Help partners identify and express their sensitivities and vulnerabilities 
• Create new patterns of emotional responsiveness and secure connection
• Work effectively with attachment emotions such as anxiety, sadness, and longing
• Work effectively with identity-based emotions including shame, fear, anger, and struggles around power and self-worth
• Work with blocks, avoidances and interruptions
• Set up successful enactments
• Assign homework between sessions
• Engage in relapse prevention
• Use individual sessions within the couple’s therapy
• Recognize contraindications to therapy and address them
• Facilitate partners to self-soothe when needed
• Foster positive emotions such as warmth, love, caring, joy, and hope
• Apply the Forgiveness Treatment Approach for working with emotional injuries and betrayal, developed by Greenberg, Warwar, and Malcolm (2010)

Learning includes didactic lectures, video demonstrations, case discussions, and extensive supervised role-play in small break-out groups to build both conceptual understanding and practical therapeutic skills.

No prior couples training is required.

Who should attend: Licensed 

psychologists, registered psychotherapists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, counsellors, and other regulated mental health professionals. Graduate students are also welcome.

Please note that full attendance and active participation throughout all four days are required to receive a certificate of completion.

Next Dates: January 14, 15, 21, 22, 2027

Developed by Leslie Greenberg and Rhonda Goldman, Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT-C) is one of the world's most researched, evidence-based approaches to couples’ therapy. Building on the pioneering work of Leslie Greenberg and Sue Johnson (1988), this advanced four-day certification training is designed to deepen therapists’ skills in helping couples resolve conflict, heal emotional injuries, and create stronger, more secure relationships.  

Designed for EFT-C therapists, supervisors and trainers this institute focuses on advanced interventions for working with complex relationship dynamics. In addition to attachment, EFT-C addresses identity needs—including power, self-esteem, shame, and vulnerability—providing a comprehensive framework for understanding and transforming relationship distress. 

Participants will deepen their ability to:

• Work with challenging clinical presentations, including highly escalated couples, therapy impasses, blocks, and interruptions.
• Treat complex issues such as trauma, power struggles, dominance, and emotional injuries.
• Apply the Forgiveness Treatment Approach (Greenberg, Warwar, & Malcolm, 2010) to facilitate healing following betrayal and significant relationship injuries.
• Facilitate emotional processing that transforms destructive interactional cycles into secure patterns of connection.
• Work effectively with attachment- and identity-based emotions, including anxiety, shame, anger, sadness, longing, and struggles with self-worth.
• Conduct effective enactments, incorporate individual sessions, assign therapeutic homework, and implement relapse prevention strategies.
• Address physical intimacy concerns, foster positive emotional connection, and promote partners' capacity for self-soothing.

This highly experiential training combines brief lectures, extensive clinical video demonstrations, collaborative case discussions, supervised small-group practice, live coaching, modelling, and feedback to help participants confidently integrate advanced EFT-C interventions into their clinical practice.

Prerequisite: Equivalent of EFT-C Level 1

Please note, participation and attendance during the full 4 days of the training is required in order to receive a completion certificate