EFT Certification Program

Emotion Focused Therapy for Individuals Level 1

EFT Certification Program

Emotion Focused Therapy for Individuals Level 1

4-Day Foundational Certification Training

This intensive four-day Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) Certification Training teaches the foundational knowledge and practical skills to work effectively with emotion in psychotherapy. Participants will learn to identify different types of emotional processes and understand their role in psychological distress, and use evidence-based, marker-guided interventions to facilitate meaningful and lasting change. 

EFT is a well-established, evidence-based approach that views emotional change as the key to lasting therapeutic change. By helping clients transform maladaptive emotional patterns through the activation of adaptive emotions within a strong empathic therapeutic relationship, EFT promotes emotional resilience, a stronger sense of self, and healthier relationships. 

This experiential training combines lectures, video demonstrations, case discussions, and extensive supervised practice in small breakout groups, allowing participants to develop confidence in applying EFT interventions from the very beginning. 

Who should attend: Licensed psychologists, registered psychotherapists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, counsellors, other regulated mental health professionals, and graduate students in a clinical or counselling program. Please note that full attendance and active participation are required to receive a certificate of completion.

Please note that full attendance and active participation throughout all four days are required to receive a certificate of completion.

Learning Objectives

In this intensive training, participants will learn how to: 

• Identify different types of emotions and emotional processes and how to intervene: adaptive, maladaptive, instrumental, secondary. 
• Provide emotion psychoeducation to clients and give rationales about the therapy change process. 
• Recognize in-session markers and their corresponding interventions. 
• Facilitate the Principles of Emotion Change (utilize, regulate and transform emotion). 
• Use the different types of empathic responses and understand their function. 
• Engage in collaborative case formulation in EFT and following the client’s core pain. 
• Recognize Problematic Reactions and use the Intervention of Systematic Evocative Unfolding 
• Use the Focusing intervention to deepen emotional experience. 
• Work with Self-Criticism using the 2-Chair Intervention for Self-Criticism. 
• Work with Unfinished Business using the Empty Chair Intervention. 
• Work with avoidance and blocking using the 2 Chair Enactment for Self-Interruption. 
• Recognize a vulnerability marker.

Upcoming Dates

Emotion Focused Therapy for Individuals Level 1

Next Training Session: October 6, 13, 20, 27, 2026

Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm (Eastern Daylight Time)

EFT Trainer: Dr. Serine Warwar

Format: Live Online Training

Continuing Education Credits (CECs)

Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)

• 24 Credits

*This workshop has been approved by the Canadian Psychological Association for continuing education.

**The Greenberg Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Greenberg Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy maintains responsibility for the program.

The Greenberg Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy has the right to cancel or reschedule any Emotion-Focused Therapy Training Institutes. In the event that the Greenberg Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy needs to cancel or reschedule an upcoming EFT Training Institute, you will have the option to either receive a full refund, or transfer the full training fee to another available training.

Please note that live attendance is required in order to receive CE credits