Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Essentials Training
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Dates: Wednesday November 4th - Saturday, November 7th, 2026, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Location: Wyndham Bloomington - Mall of America: 1901 Killebrew Dr, Bloomington, MN 55425
Our Trainer:
Robin Williams Blake, is a Registered Psychotherapist, EFT Trainer, Supervisor, Therapist and Guest Speaker. Along with his passion for helping mental health professionals learn EFT, he has a heart for helping individuals, couples, and families navigate the complexities of emotional connections. He has been in private practice since 2001. His journey with EFT began in 2001 when he met Dr. Sue Johnson at a training session in Toronto. Becoming passionate about EFT, this encounter led to his certification as an EFT Therapist in 2007, and subsequently, he became an ICEEFT Certified EFT Supervisor in 2010 and an EFT Trainer in 2018. He has been involved in community-building within the EFT sphere and is dedicated to continuous learning and teaching, both online and in-person.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Explore the enriching journey of an EFIT Essentials course, the introductory 24-hour training in Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). This training provides a solid foundation and an advanced understanding of the EFIT model, embedded within an attachment science framework. Through a blend of theoretical instruction and experiential exercises, participants will be guided to apply the model with individuals in their practice, fostering their growth as adept, attuned, and responsive EFIT therapists. The training will delve into the heart of the empirically-validated EFIT model, presenting a coherent framework for understanding individual emotional processing and change.
This consolidated program is an amalgamation of our previous Level 1 and Level 2 trainings, now offered as a seamless, intensive learning experience.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
How to model safety as a surrogate attachment figure to promote relationship security and harness the potency of emotion to transform trauma, quell anxiety, dim the darkness of depression, and more!
Ways of creating and maintaining a robust therapeutic alliance.
Methods for tracking and identifying key inner and interpersonal patterns that block growth, connection, and progress in therapy.
How the EFIT therapist uses key interventions to first validate and then dissolve blocks.
How to harness the power of attunement, an attachment map, and key EFIT interventions to keep clients at their leading edge of discovery and promote growth within and between sessions.
A proven set of interventions that you can rely on to move any and all clients away from reactivity and numbing to greater emotional balance, paving the way for increased growth, and growth through connection.
Greater mastery of the core EFIT interventions, and how to use these skills to effectively move you and your clients out of stuck places and into growth!
A more nuanced understanding of the core EFIT macro-intervention, the EFIT Tango, and the power of attunement in using the Tango to propel the therapy process forward.
Key methods and interventions that will lead your clients into secure attachment, the platform for well-being and ongoing growth and connection!
The confidence and competence to help any type of client, with any presenting problem.
What is EFIT?
A revolutionary attachment-based approach to individual therapy
EFIT is an attachment science-based approach to individual therapy that, like the other EFT interventions, offers an integration of humanistic experiential interventions focused on reshaping intrapsychic experience and systemic interventions focused on reshaping patterns of engagement with significant others. Emotion is given precedence because of its powerful role in structuring inner experience, motivation, and key interactional patterns in relationships. Emotion links and organizes core experience and interaction.
Emotion moves people. Understanding the intuition of emotion and how to use it to create potent and sustainable change moves both the client and therapist. Sessions become more focused and effective. Corrective emotional experiences transform, shift perspectives, shift thoughts about self, about trust, confidence and competence. It is an organic process: when emotions are tapped into and used effectively, a shift in thoughts naturally follows.
Emotion is a reliable guide post, and the destination is clear: secure attachment. The lens of attachment helps us to see and understand individuals in context. EFT provides us with the tools, a roadmap, to help each individual achieve a secure connection with themselves and their most important relationships.
Goals of EFIT
To offer corrective experiences that positively impact models of self and other and shape stable, lasting change.
To offer transformative moments where vulnerability is encountered with balance.
To enable clients to move into the accessibility/openness, responsiveness and full engagement that characterizes secure attachment with others.
To enable clients to shape a coherent sense of a competent self that can deal with existential life issues and become a fully alive human being.
Readings:
Required reading for all EFIT Essentials participants is A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client, by Susan M. Johnson and T. Leanne Campbell (2022, Routledge).
Recommended reading are the books, Attachment Theory in Practice by Susan M. Johnson (2019, Guilford), and Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist – The Workbook by James L. Furrow, Susan M. Johnson, Brent Bradley, Lorrie L. Brubacher, T. Leanne Campbell, Veronica Kallos-Lilly, Gail Palmer, Kathryn Rheem, Scott R. Woolley (2022, Routledge).
ICEEFT discount codes for use on publisher websites are available upon registration.
Costs:
Early Bird Rates Through 6/1/26:
$525 for interns/students
$650 for pre-licensed professionals
$795 for fully licensed professionals
50% off for supervisors and trainers
$20 discount for MNCEFT members- Members! Make sure to pick the appropriate “level” from the drop down menu on the bottom of the registration page to ensure you are getting your discount!
Full Price Rates Starting 6/2/26:
$575 for interns/students
$700 for pre-licensed professionals
$845 for fully licensed professionals
50% off for supervisors and trainers
$20 discount for MNCEFT members- Members! Make sure to pick the appropriate “level” from the drop down menu on the bottom of the registration page to ensure you are getting your discount!
Registration closes at 10 pm on Friday, October 30th, 2026.
Pre-requisites: None
Continuing Education Credits: We have applied for 24 CEU’s from the MN Board of Marriage and Family Therapy. This includes 4 cultural CEUs and 3 ethics CEU’s. We will update this once we have heard back from the board. If you have a different board, please inquire with your board to see if you can get CEUs.
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.
Cancellation Policy: If you need to cancel. please email Amanda Pikala at amanda@amandapikala.com. If you cancel by October 21st, 2026 you will receive a full refund, minus a 5% administrative fee. If you cancel on or after October 22nd, 2026, no refund will be issued.