Workshops & Masterclasses

Our workshops and masterclasses have been designed for maximum flexibility to meet your learning goals. They may be taken in a progressive, linear pathway to develop proficiency in Emotion Focused Therapy, or they may be taken individually to refine, advance, or expand your EFT skills. Whether you are a pre-licensed mental health professional, an early career therapist, or a senior-level clinician, we have training opportunities for you.

All of our workshops are held live, with recordings available for two months to support review, consolidation, and integration into clinical practice. Please review each training description for information regarding eligibility for continuing education credits.

Workshops & Masterclasses

Our workshops and masterclasses have been designed for maximum flexibility to meet your learning goals. They may be taken in a progressive, linear pathway to develop proficiency in Emotion Focused Therapy, or they may be taken individually to refine, advance, or expand your EFT skills. Whether you are a pre-licensed mental health professional, an early career therapist, or a senior-level clinician, we have training opportunities for you.

All of our workshops are held live, with recordings available for two months to support review, consolidation, and integration into clinical practice. Please review each training description for information regarding eligibility for continuing education credits.

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.

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)

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.

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. 



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.

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.

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.

Focusing in Emotion Focused Therapy: Deepening Emotional Experience

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

(Complimentary Workshop)

Emotion Focused Therapy to Resolve Unfinished Business: Foundational Skills

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.

Challenges in Resolving Unfinished Business: Advanced Skills and Interventions

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.

When Unfinished Business is Not Finished! Working with Past Hurts and Current Interpersonal Issues

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

20 Skills for Working with Emotion in 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.

Working with Shame and Anger in Psychotherapy

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.

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