Training at EFTpnw
Experiential Training
Our trainings provide attendees with solid grounding in the skills require to work more directly with emotions in psychotherapy.
EFTpnw trainings are experiential in two ways:
- Learn how to apply experiential interventions with clients to facilitate change in core emotional structures, and
- An experiential approach to learning for the attendees.
This may include a combination of lectures, video demonstrations, live modeling, case discussions, and supervised role-play practice.
With this approach, it is our aim for you to have completed each course having increased your own ‘gut-level’ understanding of how to work directly with emotions and apply experiential interventions in therapy.
Upcoming Courses
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If no spots become available, you will still be notified of future trainings at EFTpnw!
Training Description:
This intensive introductory 4-day training will provide you with an understanding of the empirically-supported couple therapy developed by Leslie Greenberg and Susan Johnson. You will learn recent advances to theory and practice made by Leslie Greenberg and Rhonda Goldman that will help you conceptualize and resolve relationship difficulties stemming from both love and power.
This training is both didactic and experiential, geared to help you become deeply familiar with the EFT-C model and interventions. You will receive in-depth skill training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modeling, case discussions, and extensive supervised role-playing practice. 26 hours of CE credit are available for purchase.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this training, you will be able to:
- Identify the three motivational systems underlying couples’ interactions
- Describe the difference between primary and secondary emotions
- Name two different examples of interaction cycles
- Identify examples of micro-responses used in EFT-C
- Describe how and when homework is used in EFT-C
- Provide a rationale for EFT-C
- Identify conflict issues in a couple
- Describe how conflict issues relate to core problems with connectedness and/or identity
- Demonstrate validating both partners’ experiences
- Reframe a couple’s conflict in terms of their negative interaction cycle
- Differentiate between intrapersonal and interpersonal blocks and provide an example of each
- Reframe intrapersonal and interpersonal blocks in terms of their protective function
- Provide an example of an enactment and describe when one might be used
- Describe how self-soothing is used in EFT-C
- Identify an emotional injury
- Differentiate between states of forgiveness and unforgiveness
Schedule
• Day 1: Friday, December 5, 2025 (9am to 4:30pm CT/UTC-6)
• Day 2: Saturday, December 6, 2025 (9am to 4:30pm CT/UTC-6)
• Day 3: Sunday, December 7, 2025 (9am to 4:30pm CT/UTC-6)
• Day 4: Monday, December 8, 2025 (9am to 4:30pm CT/UTC-6)
Intended Audience:
This training was developed for licensed psychologists and accredited counselors/psychotherapists, regardless of prior knowledge of EFT. All backgrounds, license types, and therapeutic orientations are welcome. Pre-licensure therapists in training are also welcome.
Regular Rate:
$1175 (USD)
CE Credit: 26 hours of CE credit are available for participants who attend the entire program. Partial credit cannot be awarded. We ask that all participants return the post-program evaluation form at the conclusion of the program. An additional payment of $30 is required to be awarded CEs.
Cancellation Policy:
Training policies are detailed here on EFTpnw’s website.
Trainer:
Dr. Rhonda Goldman (Ph.D., C.Psych.) is one of the primary developers of Emotion-Focused Therapy for individuals and couples. She is a Professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is actively involved with research, development, and training in EFT. Psychology. She has co-authored six texts on Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), including Deliberate Practice in Emotion-Focused therapy (2021), the Clinical Handbook of Emotion-Focused Therapy (2019), Case Formulation in Emotion-focused Therapy (2015), Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (2008), Case Studies in Emotion-Focused Therapy (2007), and Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy (2004). She is a founding board member of the International Society of Emotion-Focused Therapy (ISEFT). She is currently an action editor of the journal Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies. She runs the Emotion-Focused Therapy Institute in Chicago. She travels internationally conducting training workshops for mental health professionals in Emotion-focused therapy for Couples and Individuals.
Host:
Dr. Narayan Singh is a licensed and board certified clinical psychologist and he is the founder of the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute of the Pacific Northwest (EFTpnw). He is a current member of the International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy (ISEFT) and is currently engaged in research collaborations on Emotion-Focused Therapy for individuals and couples. He maintains a private practice out of Seattle, Washington, USA and is the host of the YouTube channel EFT Psychologist.
This event is co-sponsored by Emotion-Focused Therapy Institute and EFT Institute of the Pacific Northwest. Emotion-Focused Therapy Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Emotion-Focused Therapy Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.
Click to register today and secure your spot at our early-bird discounted rate!
(until Jan 20th, 2026)
Training Description:
This intensive 4-day workshop trains participants in the empirically-supported EFT-C therapy.
Participants will learn the 5-stage EFT-C framework; transforming attachment and identity cycles,
working with emotions related to love and attachment, working with dominance, and working with
emotional injuries. Participants will receive in-depth skill training through a combination of brief
lectures, video demonstrations, live modeling, case discussions, and extensive supervised role-playing
practice. As an intermediate level training, EFT-C Level 1 is a pre-requisite. 26 hours of APA CE credit are
available.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this training, you will be able to:
1. Name the two theoretical origins of EFT-C
2. Describe adaptive emotion regulation in a couple
3. Name three motivational systems underlying couples interactional cycles
4. Reframe relationship problems in terms of negative interactional cycles
5. Identify sensitivities and vulnerabilities underlying negative interactional cycles
6. Access underlying feelings by attending to each partner’s moment-by-moment in-session experience
7. Reframe partner critiques by reaching in and speaking for more vulnerable primary emotion
8. Name three contraindications for EFT-C
9. Differentiate between intrapersonal and interpersonal blocks and provide an example of each
10. Describe an enactment and give an example of when you would use one
11. Differentiate between successful and unsuccessful enactments
12. Describe relapse prevention during the consolidation and integration stage
13. Describe how self-soothing is used in EFT-C
14. Name what the dominant partner and submissive partner each need to change to resolve a
dominance cycle
15. Differentiate between states of forgiveness and unforgiveness
16. Name the five tasks in successful resolution of an emotional injury
Schedule
• Day 1: Friday, March 20th, 2026 (9am to 4:30pm CT/UTC-6)
• Day 2: Saturday, March 21st, 2026 (9am to 4:30pm CT/UTC-6)
• Day 3: Sunday, March 22nd, 2026 (9am to 4:30pm CT/UTC-6)
• Day 4: Monday, March 23rd, 2026 (9am to 4:30pm CT/UTC-6)
Intended Audience:
Completion of EFT-C Level 1 is a prerequisite. This training was developed for licensed psychologists and accredited counselors/psychotherapists. All backgrounds, license types, and therapeutic orientations are welcome. Pre-licensure therapists in training are also welcome.
Regular Rate:
$1175 (USD)
Early Bird Discount: $1050 (USD; ends Jan 20th 2026)
CE Credit: 26 hours of CE credit are available for participants who attend the entire program. Partial credit cannot be awarded. We ask that all participants return the post-program evaluation form at the conclusion of the program. An additional payment of $30 is required to be awarded CEs.
Cancellation Policy:
Training policies are detailed here on EFTpnw’s website.
Trainer:
Dr. Rhonda Goldman (Ph.D., C.Psych.) is one of the primary developers of Emotion-Focused Therapy for individuals and couples. She is a Professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is actively involved with research, development, and training in EFT. Psychology. She has co-authored six texts on Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), including Deliberate Practice in Emotion-Focused therapy (2021), the Clinical Handbook of Emotion-Focused Therapy (2019), Case Formulation in Emotion-focused Therapy (2015), Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (2008), Case Studies in Emotion-Focused Therapy (2007), and Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy (2004). She is a founding board member of the International Society of Emotion-Focused Therapy (ISEFT). She is currently an action editor of the journal Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies. She runs the Emotion-Focused Therapy Institute in Chicago. She travels internationally conducting training workshops for mental health professionals in Emotion-focused therapy for Couples and Individuals.
Host:
Dr. Narayan Singh is a licensed and board-certified clinical psychologist and the founder of the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute of the Pacific Northwest (EFTpnw). He is a current member of the International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy (ISEFT) and is currently engaged in research collaborations on Emotion-Focused Therapy for individuals and couples. He maintains a private practice out of Seattle, Washington, USA and is the host of the YouTube channel EFT Psychologist.
This event is co-sponsored by Emotion-Focused Therapy Institute (EFTI) and EFT Institute of the Pacific Northwest. EFTI is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. EFTI maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.
Training Policies
Deposits
Your payment to attend a training includes a deposit of $50 for 1-2 day training or $250 for a 3-4 day training.
Deposits are non-refundable.
Full Payment
At this time, we are not able to process partial payments for trainings. Full payment is needed to reserve your spot in a training.
Cancellations
Cancellations made 14 or more days prior to start of training receive a full refund (minus deposit).
Cancellations made fewer than 14 days prior to the start of training will receive no refund.
In instances when too few attendees sign up for an event, the host and/or trainers may cancel the event and provide refunds (less Eventbrite’s fees).
Incomplete Attendance
Attendees who are not present for the entirety of an event are not entitled to a Completion Certificate, nor any additional associated benefits.
In most cases, EFTpnw will work with you to complete the course via another EFTpnw-Administered event. There may be a cost associated with this.
Privacy Policy
EFTpnw is committed to protecting the privacy of its attendees. EFTpnw does not rent, share, or sell your contact information or other personal information to any third parties without your express permission.
Restrictions on Attendance
Each ticket must be used by the same person (the “Attendee”) for each day of the event.
Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable: once you purchase a ticket, it is yours and yours alone.
Each Attendee is responsible for the technology they need to attend our online events: sufficient internet connection and video-enabled device.
This event is for industry professionals and graduate students only. To attend our events, you must be:
- A mental health* professional who is a member of a professional organization with standards of practice. OR,
- A student enrolled in a course of study to become a mental health* professional.
- A student may also be working within or outside of the mental health field.
For this purpose, “Mental Health” includes: psychology, couple and family therapy, psychotherapy, counseling, psychiatry, and social work, to name a few.
Attendees agree:
- To keep confidential the personal identifying information of case material shared in the training.
- Not to record any part of this training in any format (audio, video, or visual); my personal written notes of non-confidential material are permitted.
- That recording this training may result in me being asked to leave immediately without refund or compensation.
EFTpnw reserves the right to close registration when tickets are sold out. The total number of attendees permitted at any event is at EFTpnw’s sole discretion.