Registration is now open! 4-day Externship Location: TaborSpace 5441 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR 97215 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
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Join us for a 2-day in-person training on Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Grief and Trauma in Portland, Oregon on November 12-13, 2026. Location Taborspace 5441 SE Belmont St. Portland, OR 97215 By the end of the day on trauma, participants will be able to: Describe trauma and its impacts through an attachment perspective, including emotion dysregulation and protective strategies. Create and maintain a safe haven secure base alliance that promotes exploration, discovery and growth, with attention to when to “use ourselves and when to remove ourselves” with the Tango as our guide. Conduct an experiential attachment-based assessment and
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Using EFT With High-Conflict Couples This presentation explores how EFT can help therapists interrupt escalation, identify the attachment fears beneath blame and defensiveness, and create enough safety for more vulnerable emotions to emerge. Learning objectives: Recognize the attachment cycle driving high-conflict exchanges. Use EFT interventions to slow escalation and access primary emotion. Balance emotional safety with accountability for harmful behavior. We’re excited to invite you to our next PCEFT Lunch & Learn atSteeple Jack Restaurant (Fireside Room), 2400 NE Broadway, Portland, OR. Each month, we’ll gather to reconnect with familiar faces, meet new friends and colleagues, network, and enjoy a brief EFT presentation from
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We’re excited to invite you to our next PCEFT Lunch & Learn atSteeple Jack Restaurant (Fireside Room), 2400 NE Broadway, Portland, OR Each month, we’ll gather to reconnect with familiar faces, meet new friends and colleagues, network, and enjoy a brief EFT presentation from a fellow community member. Presentation: Laurel Marshall - EFT: Working with the Present Process - Help! I'm stuck in content.  Finding emotion in the session Come join us and learn more about using the power of present process in EFT. Learning Objectives: 1. Learning tools and tips for staying in the present process 2. Using the present process to reduce reactivity
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Even when therapists understand the EFT Tango, the work can stall when interventions move faster than the couple’s capacity. This is particularly true when trauma is shaping the process. Drawing from EFT trauma literature and trauma-informed concepts, this presentation introduces a practical Contact–Capacity–Choice framework for pacing the Tango without losing emotional depth.   Learning Objectives:  Describe how trauma-related dysregulation, hypervigilance, shame, or reduced reflective capacity may affect a couple’s participation in the EFT Tango. Identify common trauma-related pitfalls in Moves 1–4, including cognitive cycle mapping, deepening reactive emotion, premature enactments, and processing before containment. Apply a "Contact–Capacity–Choice" framework to select and
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Core Skills in Portland, OR Extended Training in EFCT Core Skills Extended Training in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) consists of 48-hours of learning EFCT in connection that will broaden, deepen and consolidate participants' EFCT knowledge and skills across the entire EFCT Road Map from assessment to de-escalation, to shifting working models of self and other, to co-creating and consolidating a new connecting relationship pattern. Participants will receive a multitude of experiential learning opportunities to enhance their knowledge, skills and attunement via didactics, video-based visual learning and applied exercises, within a supportive environment.​ There is also opportunity for participants to get
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We’re excited to invite you to our next PCEFT Lunch & Learn at Steeple Jack Restaurant (Fireside Room), 2400 NE Broadway, Portland, OR. Each month, we’ll gather to reconnect with familiar faces, meet new friends and colleagues, network, and enjoy a brief EFT presentation from a fellow community member. Presentation: Paige Thompson, PsyD - Attuning to Pursuers' Longings Where: SteepleJack Restaurant (Fireside Room) 2400 NE Broadway, Portland, OR 2400 NE Broadway, Portland, Oregon 97232 Schedule: 12 – 12:40pm – Lunch, conversation, connection, networking 12:40 – 1:00pm – Presentation 1 – 1:30pm – Conversation, connection, networking Please RSVP by sending an email to Laurel Marshall, [email protected]  We
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Utilizing EFT with First Responders Learning Objectives Understand the First Responder Culture: Explore the values, norms, and experiences that shape how first responders approach relationships, vulnerability, and emotional expression. Access Emotion Beneath the Armor: Learn EFT strategies for helping clients who have been trained to suppress, compartmentalize, or push aside difficult emotions access and communicate the feelings underneath. We’re excited to invite you to our next PCEFT Lunch & Learn atSteeple Jack Restaurant (Fireside Room), 2400 NE Broadway, Portland, OR. Each month, we’ll gather to reconnect with familiar faces, meet new friends and colleagues, network, and enjoy a brief EFT presentation from a fellow
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Parts Work and EFT: Working with Protectors to Access Primary Emotion EFT therapists are skilled at helping clients move beneath secondary reactivity toward primary emotion, attachment fears, and longings. At times, however, anger, withdrawal, hopelessness, intellectualization, or other protective responses remain firmly in place despite our best efforts to validate and deepen emotion. This presentation will explore how IFS-informed parts work can complement EFT by helping therapists approach these reactive responses as protectors with understandable concerns and intentions. We will look at ways to befriend and collaborate with protectors, gain permission to approach more vulnerable emotional experience, and identify additional
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For futher information and registration see the Core Skills weekend 1 information: https://pceft.com/event/core-skills-weekend-1/ In Person in Portland, Oregon 8:30 AM–5:30 PM PST (1h lunch break) DATES January 28-30, 2027:  Modules 1 & 2 Steps 1-2 Assessment & Cycle Assessment Steps 3-4 De-Escalation ​​ April 22-24, 2027:  Modules 3 & 4 Steps 5-7 Withdrawer Re-Engagement Steps 5-7 Pursuer Softening   Continue deepening your Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) skills with Modules 3 & 4 of Core Skills Extended Training, focused on Steps 5–7 of the EFT Road Map: Withdrawer Re-Engagement and Pursuer Softening. Registration: $900 for Modules 3 & 4 Full Core
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