Externship in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy with Cindy Goodness Zane, PsyD
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4-day Externship
Location: Portland, Oregon with venue TBA
October 14-17, 2026 (IN PERSON) 9 AM – 4:30 PM PST
EFT TRAINER: Cindy Goodness Zane PsyD, JD
CE’s available: 24
Overview
This is the most comprehensive and basic level of training and education in EFT, taught by an ICEEFT registered trainer. An externship includes observation of live interviews, presentations of theory and clinical techniques, skills training exercises, and discussion of specific cases, clinical material and issues. Through a multifaceted learning experience from lecture, videos, experiential exercises and live demonstration, participants will learn to see relationship distress from an attachment lens, recognize attachment and affect regulation strategies that maintain couple distress, facilitate reprocessing of underlying emotional responses and shape new bonding events.
Take the first step of your journey, with this beginning level course, towards becoming an ICEEFT Certified EFT therapist. For more info on all of the requirements on how to become an ICEEFT Certified EFT therapist, click this link.
This 4-day course is a comprehensive introductory course to Emotionally Focused Therapy.
What You’ll Learn
The course includes observation of live, unscripted therapy sessions with real couples, presentations of attachment theory and clinical techniques, skills training exercises, and discussion of specific cases of clinical material. By attending, participants will:
- Obtain a clear understanding of the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an “Emotionally Focused” approach to couples therapy.
- Develop skills in helping partners reprocess the emotional responses that create and maintain relational distress.
- Develop skills in helping partners shape new interaction patterns and bonding events.
- Develop skills to overcome therapeutic impasses with couples.
Daily Educational Objectives and Schedule for Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Daily Schedule
- 9:00 am to 4:30 pm PST
- 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch Break
Daily Schedule
- Day 1: What makes EFT work: Theoretical underpinnings, research and the EFT road map from insecure to secure attachment
- Day 2: EFT Interventions and Stage 1, EFT Tango, Live Demonstration of EFT in Action
- Day 3: Stage 2, Stage 3, Common Impasses
- Day 4: Introduction to EFIT, Becoming an EFT Therapist.
Course Prerequisites
QUALIFICATIONS
Who can enroll in a 4-Day Externship?
All mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, counsellors, pastors and clergy, and students training in these professions. Registrants will be required to declare their professional designation. School counsellors are permitted to attend if they are licensed and belong to a professional body that has standards of practice for psychotherapy/counseling. Life coaches are not permitted to attend unless they also belong to one of the mental health professional categories listed above.
Recommended Readings:
- Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families by Dr. Susan M. Johnson, 2019. Guildford Press
- The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Creating Connection by Dr. Susan M. Johnson, 2020. Routledge
Meet Your Trainer:
Cindy Goodness Zane, PsyD, JD
ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Supervisor, Therapist
Born and raised in Hawaiʻi, Dr. Zane is a local girl of multiethnic backgrounds who strongly identifies with her Hawaiian and Japanese ancestries. She started her professional life as an attorney, but discovered that she was drawn to helping people to improve their lives.
As a Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Zane enjoys working with clients of diverse backgrounds, identities and varied life experiences to overcome life challenges and strengthen their relationships. Afterall, life is less scary and most meaningful when we have close others to share it with.
Now an ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer and Supervisor, Dr. Zane is passionate about training more EFT clinicians throughout Hawaiʻi and around the world, including Iran, Japan, Malaysia, the Caribbean, and North American. She especially enjoys supporting the development of EFT’ers of diverse backgrounds and identities, as well as those who work with diverse populations.
Price:
Early bird rate (through May 1, 2026) $995.00
Regular Price $1,095.00
Student/associate rate $895
**CEs not included in registration & can be purchased separately
Completion of registration and payment reserves one’s space for the Externship.
Refunds/Cancellations:
Cancellation requests received more than 30 days before the event will be refunded in full. Cancellation requests received 30 days or less before the event will will be refunded of the registration amount minus a $100 administration fee. The organizer reserves the right to cancel or reschedule the event for reasons of safety, act of God, minimum number of participants have not registered or any circumstance that reasonably detracts from the educative purpose &/or learning objective of this training. If the event is cancelled by the organizer, registrants will be issued a full refund.
Requests to cancel, questions or concerns can be emailed to [email protected]
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