Training at the Greenberg Institute
Learn About our Comprehensive EFT Training Program
Training at the Greenberg Institute
Learn About our Comprehensive EFT Training Program
Learning to work effectively with emotion involves more than understanding theory and learning interventions. It also requires developing the ability to recognize emotional processes as they emerge in therapy and respond skillfully in the moment to facilitate therapeutic change.
The Greenberg Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy offers a comprehensive training program designed to support the development of both EFT knowledge and therapy skills through multiple learning modalities:
- Foundational and advanced didactic training
- Experiential “hands-on” practice (coming soon)
- Skills-based workshops and masterclasses
- Focused training in EFT micro-skills and micro-interventions
- Expert-led observation and discussion of real therapy sessions
- Expert-led video-based EFT supervision
Our workshops and masterclasses offer flexibility to meet different learning goals. Therapists can follow a progressive training pathway to systematically develop their knowledge and skills in Emotion Focused Therapy or select individual workshops and masterclasses to deepen, refine, or expand specific areas of their EFT practice.
Training is provided by internationally recognized experts in psychotherapy and Emotion Focused Therapy. Most workshops are offered live online, with recordings available for two months to support review, consolidation, and integration into therapy practice. Please review individual training descriptions for information about prerequisites, recording access, attendance requirements, and eligibility for continuing education credits.
Who is our training for?
Our training is designed for therapists with different levels of experience in EFT, from those who are new to the approach to experienced EFT therapists seeking advanced training and specialization. Programs are available for graduate students, early-career therapists, and established practitioners who want to develop or deepen their skills for working with emotion in therapy.
Who is our training for?
Our training is designed for therapists with different levels of experience in EFT, from those who are new to the approach to experienced EFT therapists seeking advanced training and specialization. Programs are available for graduate students, early-career therapists, and established practitioners who want to develop or deepen their skills for working with emotion in therapy.
EFT Core Competencies: In-Depth
EFT Core Competencies are the essential areas of knowledge and skill that guide effective work with emotion in therapy. These focused three-hour workshops provide an in-depth exploration of core areas of EFT, with particular attention to therapist micro-skills, micro-interventions, and the subtle emotional processes that guide effective therapy.
Each workshop provides sufficient grounding in the relevant EFT principles before moving into more advanced knowledge and application, making the series valuable for therapists with different levels of EFT training. Video recordings of real therapy sessions are used extensively to examine emotional processes as they unfold, therapist responses, and the moment-to-moment application of EFT skills and interventions.
EFT Core Competencies: In-Depth
EFT Core Competencies are the essential areas of knowledge and skill that guide effective work with emotion in therapy. These focused three-hour workshops provide an in-depth exploration of core areas of EFT, with particular attention to therapist micro-skills, micro-interventions, and the subtle emotional processes that guide effective therapy.
Each workshop provides sufficient grounding in the relevant EFT principles before moving into more advanced knowledge and application, making the series valuable for therapists with different levels of EFT training. Video recordings of real therapy sessions are used extensively to examine emotional processes as they unfold, therapist responses, and the moment-to-moment application of EFT skills and interventions.
Emotion Assessment: Assess In-session Emotional Processes to Guide Therapeutic Interventions
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: October 16, 2026
Time: 11:00AM to 2:00PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
One of the most challenging issues that we face in working with emotion is identifying what type of client emotion is being expressed and how to respond in the moment most effectively. This workshop provides an in-depth focus on assessing emotions in psychotherapy. Through extensive observation of clinical video examples, participants will learn how to accurately identify and differentiate emotion types (primary adaptive, primary maladaptive, secondary, instrumental). Dr. Greenberg will provide in-depth analysis of micro-moments in therapy to illustrate specific differences between emotion types, attending to verbal content, vocal quality and prosody, facial expression, gaze, posture, bodily cues, and the moment-by-moment unfolding of emotional experience.
Emotion Assessment: Assess In-session Emotional Processes to Guide Therapeutic Interventions
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: October 16, 2026
Time: 11:00AM to 2:00PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
One of the most challenging issues that we face in working with emotion is identifying what type of client emotion is being expressed and how to respond in the moment most effectively. This workshop provides an in-depth focus on assessing emotions in psychotherapy. Through extensive observation of clinical video examples, participants will learn how to accurately identify and differentiate emotion types (primary adaptive, primary maladaptive, secondary, instrumental). Dr. Greenberg will provide in-depth analysis of micro-moments in therapy to illustrate specific differences between emotion types, attending to verbal content, vocal quality and prosody, facial expression, gaze, posture, bodily cues, and the moment-by-moment unfolding of emotional experience.
Working with Emotions: Identify Markers to Guide Effective Interventions
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: November 27, 2026
Time: 11:00AM to 2:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Many clients come to therapy because they feel stuck in recurring emotional patterns. Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) uses evidence-based, marker-guided therapeutic tasks to help clients access, process, and transform the underlying emotions that maintain these patterns. Markers are identifiable emotional processing states that signal specific therapeutic tasks and interventions. Through detailed discussion and analysis of therapy videos, Dr. Leslie Greenberg will demonstrate how experienced EFT therapists recognize markers in real time, understand the emotional processes they represent, and select the interventions most likely to facilitate productive emotional processing.
Working with Emotions: Identify Markers to Guide Effective Interventions
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: November 27, 2026
Time: 11:00AM to 2:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Many clients come to therapy because they feel stuck in recurring emotional patterns. Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) uses evidence-based, marker-guided therapeutic tasks to help clients access, process, and transform the underlying emotions that maintain these patterns. Markers are identifiable emotional processing states that signal specific therapeutic tasks and interventions. Through detailed discussion and analysis of therapy videos, Dr. Leslie Greenberg will demonstrate how experienced EFT therapists recognize markers in real time, understand the emotional processes they represent, and select the interventions most likely to facilitate productive emotional processing.
Forming an Initial Therapeutic Focus and Case Formulation
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: December 11, 2026
Time: 11:00AM to 2:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
One of the greatest challenges in the early stages of therapy is determining what to focus on. Clients often present with symptoms, stories, and secondary emotional reactions, while the core emotional issues underlying their difficulties remain outside of awareness. This workshop teaches how to collaboratively identify core, unhelpful emotional processes underlying clients’ presenting concerns, establish an initial therapeutic focus, and co-develop an emotion-focused case formulation.
Emotion Awareness, Expression & Reflection: Universal Processes of Change in Psychotherapy
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: January 13, 2027
Time: 11:00AM to 2:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Many therapists recognize that helping clients become aware of emotion is not the same as helping them fully experience it, express it, and make sense of it. For therapists, the challenge is knowing how to respond moment by moment to help clients access, deepen, and differentiate emotional experience so that it becomes therapeutically useful. Designed for psychotherapists from all theoretical orientations, in this workshop participants will learn how to facilitate emotional awareness, deepen emotional experiencing, support productive emotional expression, and use reflection to help clients develop new meaning and healthier identity and relationship narratives.
Emotion Awareness, Expression & Reflection: Universal Processes of Change in Psychotherapy
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: January 12, 2027
Time: 11:00AM to 2:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Many therapists recognize that helping clients become aware of emotion is not the same as helping them fully experience it, express it, and make sense of it. For therapists, the challenge is knowing how to respond moment by moment to help clients access, deepen, and differentiate emotional experience so that it becomes therapeutically useful. Designed for psychotherapists from all theoretical orientations, in this workshop participants will learn how to facilitate emotional awareness, deepen emotional experiencing, support productive emotional expression, and use reflection to help clients develop new meaning and healthier identity and relationship narratives.
EFT Masterclasses: Interventions and Therapy Skills
These focused three-hour Masterclasses provide an in-depth exploration of specific EFT interventions and therapy skills for therapists who want to deepen and refine their practice. Depending on the topic, the training may focus on advanced skills, therapist micro-skills, or a combination of both.
Through didactic teaching and detailed review of real therapy sessions, each Masterclass examines the skills, interventions, and emotional processes most relevant to the topic being taught.
EFT Masterclasses: Interventions and Therapy Skills
These focused three-hour Masterclasses provide an in-depth exploration of specific EFT interventions and therapy skills for therapists who want to deepen and refine their practice. Depending on the topic, the training may focus on advanced skills, therapist micro-skills, or a combination of both.
Through didactic teaching and detailed review of real therapy sessions, each Masterclass examines the skills, interventions, and emotional processes most relevant to the topic being taught.
Working with Emotional Avoidance and Blocks: Two-Chair Work with Self-Interruption
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: February 19, 2027
Time: 11:00AM to 2:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
EFT therapists work to deepen emotional experience, but clients often self-interrupt or block important emotions as they begin to emerge. This focused 3-hour workshop explores how to recognize subtle markers of self-interruption and use the EFT two-chair enactment intrventio to help clients become aware of how they stop themselves, access the painful experience of being interrupted, and reconnect with previously blocked emotions. Through detailed review of real psychotherapy sessions, participants will refine the clinical decision-making, micro-skills, and moment-to-moment interventions involved in identifying and resolving blocks to emotional experience.
Two-Chair Dialogue for Self-Criticism
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: March 12, 2027
Time: 11:00AM to 2:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Many clients struggle with a harsh inner critic that contributes to shame, low self-worth, anxiety, depression, and feeling emotionally stuck. This 3-hour workshop teaches therapists how to use EFT two-chair dialogue to help clients move beyond intellectual discussion, access the emotional impact of self-criticism, and transform harsh self-attack into greater self-compassion, self-acceptance, and a healthier sense of self. Through detailed, moment-to-moment analysis of real psychotherapy sessions, participants will learn the therapist micro-skills and clinical decisions that make two-chair work more effective, including how to deepen emotion, work through blocks and impasses, and keep the dialogue moving toward change.
Knowing When to Follow and When to Guide
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: May 21, 2027
Time: 11:00AM to 2:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Knowing when to follow a client’s emotional experience and when to actively guide it toward change is one of the most important and challenging skills in Emotion-Focused Therapy. Through detailed, moment-by-moment analysis of real psychotherapy sessions, participants will learn to recognize the clinical markers that signal when to follow, deepen, or shift toward more active intervention. This focused workshop will help therapists refine their clinical decision-making while maintaining empathic attunement and a strong therapeutic relationship.
Homework in Emotion Focused Therapy: Carrying Forward In-Session Emotional Work Into Everyday Life
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Homework can be a powerful way to deepen and carry forward the emotional work that occurs in an EFT session, but knowing what homework to offer, when to offer it, and how to tailor it to the client is a complex clinical skill. This focused 3-hour workshop will show therapists how to develop effective homework that emerges from the client’s in-session emotional process and is guided by EFT case formulation, therapeutic goals, and principles of emotional change. Through real psychotherapy videos, participants will see how homework can be used across different EFT interventions to consolidate emerging change and help clients bring new emotional experiences and ways of responding into their everyday lives.
Mapping Emotion Focused Therapy Chair-Work Interventions: Consolidating and Carrying Forward Experiential Change
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Mapping can be a powerful way to help clients make meaning of emotionally significant chair work, consolidate emerging changes, and carry the therapeutic process forward. This focused 3-hour workshop will show therapists how to collaboratively map both resolved and unresolved two-chair work, with particular attention to self-criticism, anxiety, and self-interruption. Through real psychotherapy videos, participants will see how mapping can strengthen emotional change, promote the resolution of chair-work interventions, guide subsequent therapeutic work, and provide a foundation for individualized between-session homework.
Self-Soothing in Emotion Focused Therapy: Building the Capacity for Emotion Regulation
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Emotion regulation involves knowing when clients need help managing overwhelming emotion and when emotion needs to be accessed and deepened for therapeutic change. This 3-hour workshop explores deliberate regulation strategies, with a primary focus on transformative self-soothing as an EFT intervention for helping clients respond to familiar emotional pain and anguish with compassion, caring, and comfort. Through teaching and detailed analysis of clinical video demonstrations, participants will learn how to facilitate the two-chair self-soothing process, evoke compassion, work through common challenges, and help clients move toward greater self-compassion, grieving, security, and resilience.
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Depth of experiencing has been shown to predict better psychotherapy outcomes and is an important part of productive emotional processing. This 3-hour workshop explores how Focusing is used in Emotion-Focused Therapy, both in response to specific Focusing markers and as a flexible moment-to-moment micro-intervention to help clients move beyond intellectual or surface-level processing and deepen contact with emerging emotional and bodily experience. Through detailed analysis of EFT clinical video demonstrations, participants will learn practical micro-skills for recognizing when and how to use Focusing to deepen emotional experiencing and facilitate productive emotional processing.
Unfinished Business Series
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Unresolved emotional injuries from important past relationships can leave clients stuck in longstanding hurt, anger, shame, grief, and unmet relational needs that continue to affect their sense of self and current relationships. In this free 3-hour workshop, Dr. Serine Warwar will teach a structured five-stage Emotion-Focused Therapy approach to resolving unfinished business, using videos of real therapy sessions to demonstrate the clinical process and key therapist interventions. Designed for therapists who want to learn or strengthen their skills in this area, the workshop provides a practical framework for helping clients process past emotional injuries and move toward emotional resolution.
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Working with unfinished business does not always progress smoothly toward resolution, and therapists may encounter emotional blocks, persistent anger or blame, difficulty accessing painful memories, or other points where the process becomes stuck. In this advanced 3-hour workshop, participants will learn how to recognize these challenges and adapt unfinished business work using targeted EFT interventions for difficult emotional and therapeutic processes. Through videos of real therapy sessions, Dr. Serine Warwar will demonstrate the therapist micro-skills and clinical decisions involved in helping clients move through barriers to emotional resolution.
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
What happens when a client is trying to resolve painful unfinished business with a significant other, but ongoing interactions with that same person keep reopening the wound? In this focused 3-hour workshop, participants will learn a structured EFT framework for distinguishing past emotional injuries from current interpersonal issues and deciding when and how to work with each. Through videos of real therapy sessions, Dr. Serine Warwar will demonstrate the clinical decisions, EFT tasks, and therapist micro-interventions involved in helping clients move toward resolution of both past hurts and present-day relational difficulties.
Special Topics in Emotion and Psychotherapy
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: November 5 & 6, 2026
Time: 11:00AM to 2:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Working with emotion is at the heart of effective psychotherapy, yet many therapists encounter emotional processes in session that can be challenging to navigate. Learn 20 practical, evidence-based skills to help clients move beyond anxiety, depression, anger, avoidance, and other emotional struggles towards lasting change. Through video recordings of real therapy sessions and guided discussion, you'll see these skills in action and learn how to apply them in your own practice.
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: March 4 & 5, 2027
Time: 11:00AM to 2:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Shame is one of the most painful emotions therapists encounter in clinical practice and often underlies depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, perfectionism, and chronic self-criticism. In this workshop, Dr. Leslie Greenberg uses the discussion and video review of two complete therapy sessions to demonstrate the specific therapeutic interventions that help clients transform core shame through healthy assertive anger, emotional processing, and self-compassion. Designed for psychotherapists from all theoretical orientations, this workshop offers an in-depth look at the moment-to-moment process of emotional change and the therapist interventions that facilitate the transformation of shame.
EFT Certification Training
The Greenberg Institute makes the path to EFT certification easier to navigate through a structured training pathway, ongoing access to certified EFT supervision, and practical opportunities to help therapists progress toward certification as an EFT therapist or supervisor.
EFT Certification Training
The Greenberg Institute makes the path to EFT certification easier to navigate through a structured training pathway, ongoing access to certified EFT supervision, and practical opportunities to help therapists progress toward certification as an EFT therapist or supervisor.
EFT for Individuals Level 1
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Next Training Session: October 6, 13, 20, 27, 2026
Time: 9:00AM to 4:30PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
EFT for Individuals Level 1
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Next Training Session: October 6, 13, 20, 27, 2026
Time: 9:00AM to 4:30PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
EFT for Individuals Level 2
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist & Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Next Training Session: May 11, 12, 13, 14, 2027
Time: 9:00AM to 4:30PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
EFT for Individuals Level 2
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist & Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Next Training Session: May 11, 12, 13, 14, 2027
Time: 9:00AM to 4:30PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
EFT for Individuals Level 3
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Next Training Session: September 22, 23 & 24, 2027
Time: 9:00AM to 4:30PM (TBD)
EFT for Individuals Level 3
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Next Training Session: September 23, 24, 25, 2026
Time: 9:00AM to 4:30PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
EFT for Couples Level 1
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Next Training Session: November 16, 17, 23, 24, 2026
Time: 9:00AM to 5:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
EFT for Couples Level 1
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Next Training Session: November 16, 17, 23, 24, 2026
Time: 9:00AM to 5:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
EFT for Couples Level 2
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Next Training Session: January 14, 15, 21, 22, 2027
Time: 9:00AM to 5:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
EFT for Couples Level 2
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Next Training Session: January 14, 15, 21, 22, 2027
Time: 9:00AM to 5:00PM (Eastern Standard Time)
EFT Supervision
The Greenberg Institute offers small-group, video-based EFT supervision with Dr. Leslie Greenberg for therapists who want to deepen and refine their EFT skills, as well as for those working toward certification as an EFT therapist through the International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy (isEFT).
Free Workshops
Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Workshop Pricing
Workshop Pricing
The following pricing applies to three-hour workshops and masterclasses offered within these two training categories.
EFT Core Competencies: In-Depth and Masterclasses: Interventions and Therapy Skills
Individual Workshop/Masterclass: $120 (+applicable taxes)
Choose 3 Workshops/Masterclasses: $300 (Save $60)
(+ applicable taxes
Choose 5 Workshops/Masterclasses: $450 (Save $150)
(+applicable taxes)
Choose 10 Workshops/Masterclasses: $800 (save $400)
(+applicable taxes)
Student Rate: Students receive an extra 10% discount
Students are eligible for a student rate. Please sign up here to access student benefits.
Student rates apply to individuals currently enrolled in an undergraduate, master's, or doctoral program at a recognized post-secondary institution.
Not included: Special Topics in Emotion and Psychotherapy, experiential groups, EFT certification training, EFT supervision and consultation groups, and certification examinations.
Completion of workshops and masterclasses does not constitute EFT certification or replace the training, supervision, and other requirements for certification. Please review individual training descriptions for information about prerequisites, attendance requirements, recording access, and eligibility for continuing education credits.
Early Bird Rate: $229 (+applicable taxes)
Regular Rate: $269 (+applicable taxes)
Student Rate: $179 (+applicable taxes)
Students are eligible for a student rate. Please sign up here to access student benefits.
Student rates apply to individuals currently enrolled in an undergraduate, master's, or doctoral program at a recognized post-secondary institution.
Participants who purchase both workshops will receive an extra 20% discount.
Completion of workshops and masterclasses does not constitute EFT certification or replace the training, supervision, and other requirements for certification. Please review individual training descriptions for information about prerequisites, attendance requirements, recording access, and eligibility for continuing education credits.
Special Topics in Emotion and Psychotherapy
The following pricing applies to three-hour workshops and masterclasses offered within these two training categories.
EFT Core Competencies: In-Depth and Masterclasses: Interventions and Therapy Skills
Individual Workshop/Masterclass: $120 (+applicable taxes)
Choose 3 Workshops/Masterclasses: $300 (Save $60)
(+ applicable taxes
Choose 5 Workshops/Masterclasses: $450 (Save $150)
(+applicable taxes)
Choose 10 Workshops/Masterclasses: $800 (save $400)
(+applicable taxes)
Student Rate: Students receive an extra 10% discount
Students are eligible for a student rate. Please sign up here to access student benefits.
Student rates apply to individuals currently enrolled in an undergraduate, master's, or doctoral program at a recognized post-secondary institution.
Not included: Special Topics in Emotion and Psychotherapy, experiential groups, EFT certification training, EFT supervision and consultation groups, and certification examinations.
Completion of workshops and masterclasses does not constitute EFT certification or replace the training, supervision, and other requirements for certification. Please review individual training descriptions for information about prerequisites, attendance requirements, recording access, and eligibility for continuing education credits.
Early Bird Rate: $229 (+applicable taxes)
Regular Rate: $269 (+applicable taxes)
Student Rate: $179 (+applicable taxes)
Students are eligible for a student rate. Please sign up here to access student benefits.
Student rates apply to individuals currently enrolled in an undergraduate, master's, or doctoral program at a recognized post-secondary institution.
Participants who purchase both workshops will receive an extra 20% discount.
Completion of workshops and masterclasses does not constitute EFT certification or replace the training, supervision, and other requirements for certification. Please review individual training descriptions for information about prerequisites, attendance requirements, recording access, and eligibility for continuing education credits.
