EFTC Core Skills Extended Training Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
About the Training
EFT Core Skills Training helps therapists deepen their understanding of the model and strengthen their ability to use it in clinical practice. With the EFT Tango as a guiding framework, each module explores specific steps of the therapeutic process and the interventions that help couples move toward greater emotional safety and connection.
The training progresses through four modules:
Core Skills 1 & 2 (January 14-16, 2027)
Assessment, alliance building, and identifying the negative interactional cycle—Stage One, Steps 1 and 2.
Accessing underlying emotions and reframing the cycle through an attachment lens to support de-escalation—Stage One, Steps 3 and 4.
Core Skills 3 & 4 (February 18-20, 2027)
Facilitating withdrawer re-engagement—Stage Two, Steps 5, 6, and 7.
Facilitating pursuer softening—Stage Two, Steps 5, 6, and 7.
Participants will have opportunities to receive feedback on video recordings of their own clinical work, helping them connect what they are learning with the moments where they feel challenged in session. Participants pursuing EFT certification must present a recording of their work to fulfill the applicable training requirement.
The primary focus is couples therapy, including the complexities of working with partners caught in relational distress. The attachment framework and many of the interventions explored also have applications in individual and family therapy.
Learning Objectives
Core Skills 1 & 2
By the end of this module, participants will be able to:
Identify the essential components of an EFT assessment.
Demonstrate strategies for establishing a therapeutic alliance with both partners.
Recognize the central relational conflict and map the negative interactional cycle that maintains the couple’s distress.
Describe key EFT interventions and their purpose in the therapeutic process.
Explain how EFT interventions support Steps 3 and 4 of Stage One.
Describe the process of cycle de-escalation and its role in creating greater relational safety.
Demonstrate interventions that help each partner access previously unacknowledged emotions underlying their reactive responses.
Reframe the couple’s negative cycle in terms of underlying emotions and attachment needs, helping partners develop a shared understanding of their distress.
Core Skills 3 & 4
By the end of this module, participants will be able to:
Define EFT Stage 2, Steps 5-7 working with Withdrawer Re-engagement
Identify the implicit attachment needs, fears and view(s) of the Withdrawer - Step 5
Initiate acceptance of the partner once the sharing has occurred - Step 6
Initiate engagement of couple when the Withdrawer expresses their needs and wants - Step 7
Define EFT Stage 2, Steps 5-7 working with Pursuer softening
Identify the Pursuer's disowned attachment needs and fears and view of self and other - Step 5
Assist the Pursuer expressing their attachment needs and fears - Step 5
Initiate acceptance of the Pursuer's experiences by the Withdrawer - Step 6
Initiate Pursuer requesting emotional engagement and organizing bonding events that redefine the attachment between the partners - Step 7
CEUs:
Participants earn a total of 48 CEUs upon completion of all training modules. Full attendance is required and partial credit is not available.
About Dr. Ryan Rana
Ryan Rana, PhD, LMFT, LPC is a certified EFT Supervisor Trainer/Therapist. He is the current president and founder of the Arkansas EFT Center. He and his wife, Anne, founded The Joshua Center in Arkansas, where he currently practices and acts as the Executive Director. His specializations include work with couples, sexuality, depression, and traumatic stress. He studies military training processes and practice and performance psychology. Ryan currently co-hosts The Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy podcast, and is part of the Success in Vulnerability training team. Before become a therapist, he was a baseball pitching coach at the collegiate level.
Learn more at ryanranatraining.com
Secure Your Spot
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This training is designed for mental health professionals who seek a deeper mastery of EFT for couples therapy. This includes psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, registered marriage and family therapists, counsellors, and specialists in abuse and addiction. Participants are required to be a member of a mental health professional organization and currently working, or in the process of training to work, with couples in their clinical practice. The program equips participants with advanced skills in applying EFT’s therapeutic techniques and interventions, essential for those on the path to becoming certified EFT therapists.
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In addition to the training materials that will be provided, it is recommended that if you are just beginning your EFT journey, you review Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook.
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We understand that professional scheduling can be complex. Please note our refund structure:
Full Refund: Available for all cancellations requested 30 days or more prior to the start of the event.
50% Refund: Available for cancellations requested between 15 and 30 days prior to the start of the event.
Non-Refundable: Cancellations requested within 14 days of the event start date are non-refundable.
How to Request: To initiate a refund, please contact us directly at northtexaseft@gmail.com with your purchase details.