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Adapting EFCT Interventions for Couples Entering Stage 2
2025-10-17 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
PCEFT MEMBERS – FREE
PCEFT Guests – $20
Therapists learning EFT spend much of their time mastering skills needed for Stage 1. When their clients begin to de-escalate, many therapists find they are uncertain about how their interventions will differ in Stage 2. They may even discover that some of the skills that facilitated de-escalation are hindering progress in Stage 2.
In this 90-minute Lunch & Learn, Ruth Jampol, Ph.D., Certified EFCT Supervisor, and Jill Knerr, LMFT will explain how the therapist’s focus, pacing, and interventions change in Stage 2. Through teaching, video presentation, and group participation, participants will learn:

how to identify markers of readiness for Stage 2;
how therapist interventions change in Stage 2; and
how Stage 2 interventions allow a deeper exploration of each partner’s vulnerabilities, attachment longings, and fears.

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All the World’s a Stage: How to use EFIT to Unpack the Impact of Current Events in the Here and Now
2026-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Presented by: Purvi Parikh-Shah, PhD, Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor-in-Training
Friday, April 10, 202612-1 PM (ET)Zoom
PCEFT Members: FREENon-Members/Guests: $35
As EFT therapists, we need a way to explicitly discuss race, war, ICE raids, artificial intelligence or climate crises with our clients. These issues are more than “content” because the microcosm of clients’ attachment distress unfolds within the macrocosm of the world. Hence, the impact of current events cycles into our clients’ present moment experience. In more than one EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy) session in the past month, geopolitical events have presented as threats to Dr. Purvi Parikh-Shah’s clients’ relational spheres; you may have noticed a similar thing in your work. In this training, Purvi (Certified EFT & EFIT Therapist & Supervisor-in-Training) will model how she has used EFIT to apply an attachment lens to attune with her clients in their sociocultural distress. If you feel unsure of how to process your clients’ experience of a current event in a way that’s specific to them and true to EFT, please join this critical discussion.

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Breaking Up but Still Connecting: An EFT Approach to Healthier Breakups
2026-04-24 09:00 - 2026-04-25 16:30 | The Retreat at St. Thomas, 7020 Camp Hill Rd., Fort Washington, PA, 19034, United States
Not all couples who come to therapy want to save or fix their relationships. More importantly, breakups do not have to be traumatizing or detrimental; it also does not have to become the biggest failure in life. As couple therapists, we need to be able to help these couples break up with compassion, appreciation, dignity, clarity, and self-worth as they move through this painful and scary process.
This workshop will focus on two challenging issues in couple therapy: (1) how to help couples who are indecisive or with different goals whereas one wants to end and the other wants to save the relationship; (2) how to help couples go through three stages of EFT to end the relationship while maintaining some levels of connection. Methods of presentation will include didactic teaching, experiential exercise, video demonstration and discussion.’
Registration fees:
$600- full fee (after 4/10/26)
$575- early bird (before 4/10/26)
$550- CMH clinician, equity, student
$517- PCEFT member rate
CEUs:
12

Dates:
April 24-25, 2026
Time:
9 AM – 4:30 PM (Eastern)
Location:
The Retreat at St. Thomas (7020 Camp Hill Rd., Fort Washington, PA 19034)
Cancelation policy:
If notified in writing of canceling by 4/1/2026, the fee will be refunded minus $50 administrative fee. The fee is non-refundable after 4/1/2026.
CEU Provider
Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy (Lic. #004115) is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors to offer continuing education for social workers, marriage and family therapists and professional counselors. The Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy (Lic. # PSY000215) is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy maintains responsibility for the program.

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Working With Lesbian Couples: Special Issues Related to Attachment
2026-06-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Presented by Robin Sesan, Ph.D., Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor
Being a well trained couples’ therapist is of course necessary to provide our couples with the best possible care. When working with lesbian couples, this is also necessary, but not sufficient. Lesbian couples may present unique challenges to therapists who lack the knowledge or sensitivity to address the intricacies associated with sexual minority stress, traumatic attachment histories, coming out experiences, internal and external homophobia, as well as the negative interactional cycles that can develop when two women are partnered.
In this workshop, Robin will discuss these issues, heightening our awareness of the specific needs and dynamics present in lesbian couples, which may differ from those encountered in heterosexual relationships. Additionally, she will guide each of us in identifying areas of bias, often seen in acts of omission or lack of attunement, when working with lesbian couples. It’s important to note that many of the concepts discussed will be applicable to all same-sex couples. There will be ample time for questions and answers to foster a deeper understanding of these critical topics.
Friday, June 5, 2026Online via Zoom12-2 PM ET
Members: FREENon-Members/Guests: $35
This is a non-CE event.

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Dating Through an Attachment Lens
2026-07-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Presented by: Kate Forest, LCSW, Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor-in-Training
Friday, July 24, 202612-1 PM (ET)Zoom
PCEFT members: FREENon-Members/Guests: $35
Clients are inundated with dating advice. The noise of dating “dos and don’ts” drown out the “whys” of the need for romantic relationships. By focusing on attachment dynamics, EFT therapists can help clients build confidence in dating and experience more success in finding “a good match.” Kate Forest, LCSW, is a certified EFCT therapist and supervisor in training who has worked as a dating coach for a matchmaker and a best-selling author of self-help books. In this 1-hour workshop, Kate will share the way she has combined the EFT framework with best coaching practices to help individual clients seek and find their forever partners. Therapists will have the chance to ask questions so they will feel equipped to support clients in this phase of life.

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