Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Crash Course: A Complete Training on Treating Trauma, Attachment Injuries and Core Wounds

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Leanne Campbell, PhD Related seminars and products

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Leanne Campbell, PhD, is a registered psychologist, author, researcher, and co-founder and managing partner of Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group. As an ICEFT (International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy) Certified Trainer, Dr. Campbell has spent over 30 years providing psychological services to individuals, couples, and families while training professionals worldwide in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), with a particular focus on grief and trauma.

She is the co-author of A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Growth and Fitness in Every Client, written with the late Dr. Sue Johnson, and also contributed to Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook (2nd Edition). Dr. Campbell’s dedication to advancing EFT principles and her commitment to helping others grow through emotionally focused interventions have made her a foremost authority in the field.  

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: T. Leanne Campbell maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: T. Leanne Campbell is a board member International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is a member of the Canadian Psychological Association, the College of Psychologists of British Columbia, and the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

 

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Objectives

1. Identify the unique focus Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) has on attachment dynamics.
2. Determine strategies to foster trust, encourage vulnerability, and guide clients toward their own strengths and insights.
3. Choose EFIT techniques that align interventions with emotional readiness, attachment histories, and clinical challenges.
4. Utilise somatic interventions to regulate emotions.
5. Choose EFIT skills, including pacing, tone, reflection, and attunement, to deepen emotional awareness and repair relational ruptures.
6. Differentiate complex PTSD from single-event trauma.

Outline

• What is EFIT?
• EFIT’s unique focus and why it works
• Address personal attachment dynamics, emotional wounds, and relational templates

• Facilitator, not fixer
• Key steps to support clients in exploring emotions rather than solving problems for them
• Powerful strategies to foster trust and vulnerability
• Techniques to help clients discover their own strengths and insights

• How to analyse client stories to uncover unique emotional patterns
• Align therapy objectives with the client’s personal needs
• EFIT techniques o meet emotional readiness and clinical challenges

• Assessment and diagnosis tools for relational patterns in conditions like depression and anxiety
• Attachment-focused interventions to move beyond symptoms to heal underlying relational wounds
• Create a Therapy Roadmap: Step-by-step develop a structured, attachment-centred plan

• Somatic awareness
  • How to leverage the body as a gateway to access and regulate emotions
• Emotion as a catalyst
  • Powerful interventions to utilise emotional experiences to drive lasting change

• Pacing and tone
  • Ways to adjust to the client’s emotional bandwidth and use empathy-driven communication
  • New ways to mirror emotions to enhance understanding and connection
  • Employ nonverbal attunement, repair ruptures, and maintain presence

• Stepwise approach
  • Navigate EFIT’s stages – build safety, deepen emotional awareness, foster corrective experiences, and create new patterns
  • Research-backed techniques effective for trauma, anxiety, and depression
  • The EFIT Tango – The nuanced “dance” of attunement and intervention

• Understand complex trauma
• Differentiate complex PTSD from single-event trauma
• Repair attachment wounds
• Case Demonstration
  • Advanced techniques through real-world examples
• Tailored approaches for dysregulated clients and integrate advanced trauma tools

Integration and Practice

• Cohesive treatment plans that integrate attachment theory, emotional work, and somatic tools
• Skill Building
  • Role-playing, experiential exercises, and practical applications
• Next steps
  • Therapist self-awareness, learning, and continued refinement of EFIT skills

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counsellors
• Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Other Mental Health Professionals