EFT Core Skills
Announcing Dates for 2024-2025
October 25-26, 2024, December 6-7, 2024, January 24-25, 2025, March 14-15, 2025
If you have completed the EFT Externship, are legally allowed to practice psychotherapy in your state, and are interested in deepening your understanding of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) while strengthening your confidence in practicing EFT, please join us!
Our Core Skills of EFT offers therapists supportive opportunities for direct, hands on learning of the EFT approach in a safe, positive, and fun environment.
We will practice how to facilitate new couple conversations that increase the feelings of secure attachment, closeness, and connection. In this small group environment, you will learn the EFT model, the steps, stages, and interventions through experiential exercises, role-plays, and watching videotaped examples. Together, we will also observe your own work and your peers’ work via video recordings and offer you feedback and guidance. Throughout this process, you will receive personal attention from experienced EFT Therapists and Supervisors.
Emotion is the primary focus when it comes to EFT so we need to learn how to work with emotions and how to access and deepen them. In the process of safe, positive experiential exercises, we will get in touch with emotions. One of our goals as EFT Therapists is to learn how to attune and drop down into our clients’ experience with curiosity, wonder, and compassion. Once we have that down, we can more easily track emotions and attachment-related themes and understand how the couple’s negative patterns are co-created and maintained. It can be quite helpful and important to understand what happens moment by moment within them and within you.
Emotions are the music of the relational dance. Our couples need our help changing the music of their distressed relationship so that they can begin to change the steps in their dance towards increased safety, connection, closeness, and intimacy. In our Core Skills Advanced Training, we will spend time together learning how to tune our ears to the music of the relational dances.
Each participant is required to present one couples therapy session audio or video (15 minute segment) for case consultation. Please do not sign up for core skills if you don’t currently see 1-3 couples regularly. We will discuss the details at our 1st Core Skills session. If you choose to pursue EFT Certification, the four sessions and brief video presentation will fulfill some of the ICEEFT requirements for certification. More details about EFT Certification are available at ICEEFT.com.
At the end of our Core Skills Series, we believe that you will feel a greater sense of confidence in your ability to help couples in distress and a renewed sense of enthusiasm and passion about your clinical work.
Details about the 2024-2025 MNCEFT Core Skills Series:
Dates: October 25-26, 2024, December 6-7, 2024, January 24-25, 2025, March 14-15, 2025 at St. Michael’s Church in Roseville, MN (1660 County B Rd W, Roseville, MN 55113)
By signing up you are committing to all four weekends.
Click here to register today!
This is advanced training in the practice of EFT and consists of four 2-day sessions spread out over the course of a year. One must have completed the Basic Externship to participate. A new group forms in the fall each year. Registration is limited to roughly 16 participants.
2024-2025 Core Skills Pricing (per weekend)
Fully licensed Therapists - $450 per weekend
Pre-licensed - $400 per weekend
Students/Interns - $350 per weekend
10% discount if you pay for them all at once
Scholarships are available to therapists who work with diverse populations or who identify as BIPOC/global majority or LGBTQ2IA+. Click here for more details and to request a scholarship.
Who should attend: EFT Core Skills is limited to all licensed professionals, pre-licensed clinicians, and interns who counsel couples, including psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, licensed pastoral counselors, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and counselors.
Continuing Education Credits: We will apply for 48 hours of continuing education credits from the MN Board of Marriage and Family Therapists.
Diversity: We aim to cultivate a climate of inclusion, an environment where all can feel safe, valued, cared for, and given an opportunity to form meaningful connections with each other. In all facets of our work we strive to embody what we hope to see in the world – a just, loving humanity and community in which people are free to be themselves fully – where people can embrace their most basic universal human attachment needs without fear of persecution or marginalization as a result of religion, race, ethnic or national origin, sexual/affectional orientation and preferences, gender expression, family structure, age, class, mental health, physical character or disability. These values are inherent in the attachment science and humanistic approach to intervention that all our work is based on.
Click here for the scholarship application link.
Cancellation Policy: A $50 flat administration fee will be charged for all refunds. Refunds of course fees (minus the $50.00 administrative fee) will be issued for requests made up to 14 days prior to the start date. Cancellations within 8-13 days of the start date of the event will be offered a 50% refund. No refunds will be offered within 7 days of the start date of the event. All workshops are enrolled on a first come, first serve basis.
Minimum Requirement: Completion of a 4-day EFT Externship is required. Participants must be licensed or pre-licensed therapists or license-eligible psychotherapy interns or otherwise legally allowed to practice as mental health professionals in your jurisdiction and should have prior experience working with couples. Participants must strive to have at least 1-3 couples in their current caseload willing to be videotaped in order for you to present a sample of your work. You must have a signed release from your clients for sharing video. ICEEFT does not offer the Certification as EFT Therapist to non-licensed professionals. All participants must be familiar with and commit to abide by all HIPAA regulations.
Commitment: PLEASE NOTE: Signing up for the Core Skills series is a commitment to attend ALL 4 Core Skills Modules. This is needed in order to guarantee group cohesion and safety. Please do not sign up if you can't commit to all 4 dates of the training.
We look forward to working with you!
This training is appropriate for licensed (and license eligible) mental health practitioners who have experience working with couples. Level is intermediate.