EFT for Trauma: Healing Attachment Wounds with EFIT

PART 1 -THU, JAN 29 & PART 2 THU, FEB 5 - 1:00 TO 4:15 pm both dates

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for trauma offers an attachment-based, experiential, and systemic framework that provides both a map and a method for meaningful transformation.

Why EFT for Trauma Matters

Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) gives therapists a non-pathologizing lens through which to understand distress. Instead of focusing on deficits, EFIT views trauma responses as survival strategies born of disrupted attachment. With this compassionate framework, clinicians can help clients regulate emotions, access vulnerability, and move toward secure connection and resilience.

A Proven Model with Practical Tools

Dr. Leanne Campbell is an internationally recognized EFT trainer, bringing decades of clinical expertise to this training. She is the co-author with the late Dr. Sue Johnson of A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) (2022) and the forthcoming EFT for Trauma volume. Through didactic teaching, real client video sessions, and case commentary, Leanne demonstrates how the EFIT Tango—a five-move intervention sequence—creates corrective emotional experiences that foster growth session by session.

Therapists will learn how to:

  • Frame trauma within an attachment perspective

  • Pace interventions safely and effectively

  • Apply the EFIT Tango to create change moments

  • Shape new patterns of emotional regulation and interpersonal engagement

What You’ll Gain

Whether you are new to using EFT for trauma or an experienced clinician, this training provides:

  • A clear roadmap through the three stages of EFIT, from stabilization to transformation

  • Tools for balancing deep emotional processing with client safety

  • Strategies to strengthen therapeutic alliances and foster post-traumatic growth

With Dr. Campbell’s guidance, you will leave with practical interventions you can immediately integrate into your clinical work. These new tools will allow you to help clients move out of the grip of trauma and into lasting resilience. This is more than a skills workshop. It’s an opportunity to deepen your therapeutic presence, expand your clinical toolkit, and join a community of practitioners committed to transforming trauma through the power of attachment and emotion.

TO REGISTER: EFT for Trauma: Healing with EFIT - Dr. Leanne Campbell

How to Work with Trauma Through the Lens of Loss, Attachment, and Connection

Emotionally Focused Therapy as a Step-by-Step Intervention

Leanne Campbell & George Faller

National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM)

How to Work with Trauma Through the Lens of Loss, Attachment, and Connection

An Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Approach

An often-overlooked aspect of trauma is that it almost always involves loss:

Loss of connection (with self and others)

  • Loss of control over emotions and bodily sensations

  • Loss of dreams for the future

  • Loss of opportunity while trapped in avoidance and survival strategies

  • Loss of hope

Yet, according to George Faller, LMFT, and Leanne Campbell, PhD, . . .

. . . working through these losses can create a doorway to a client’s deepest longings and needs.

In doing this, we make space for something new – new experiences, new relationships, new strength to heal and move forward.

In their own work with trauma – with both individuals and couples, George and Leanne have found Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) especially effective in doing just this.

And in this all-new experiential workshop, they’ll show you a step-by-step process you can use to help clients shift from the loss of trauma into growth, resilience, and connection.

REGISTER HERE: An Attachment Focused Approach to Trauma and Loss

EFT with Trauma, Infidelity & Beyond, and Supervision & Case Consultation; Melbourne Community for EFT

This is an in-person training event at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne.

MCEFT warmly welcomes you to join us for a gathering of EFT therapists from around Australasia for our second 4-day advanced EFT training event with an internationally renowned Trainer. Enjoy the camaraderie of coming together as a community complete with a complimentary wine & cheese gathering, festive gala dinner and entertainment exclusively for attendees.

Dr. Leanne Campbell, registered Psychologist and ICEEFT Certified Trainer, is coming to Melbourne to deliver three different workshops over four days. Join Leanne and explore EFT and trauma (a 2-day workshop), infidelity with couples struggling with personal and relational trauma (a 1-day workshop) and/or a workshop for supervision and case consultation (a 1-day workshop). Multi-day packages available.

  • March 11th & 12th 2026 (2-day workshop) – Emotionally Focused Therapy with Trauma:

Harness relationship resources and an emotional focus to transform trauma and promote growth in individual and couple therapy  (attendance at this workshop can be applied towards EFIT Certification).

  • March 13th 2026 (1-day workshop) – Infidelity and Beyond:

Apply the Attachment Injury Resolution Model (AIRM) with clients struggling with echoes of personal and relational trauma

  • March 14th 2026 (1-day workshop) – Supervision and Case Consultation:

Participant-led.

About the Presenter

Leanne Campbell, PhD, is an international speaker, writer, trainer, and co-developer of EFT-related educational programs and materials. She has provided psychological services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past many years, with a focus primarily in the areas of loss and trauma, and continues to maintain an active practice. She’s co-author, with Dr. Susan Johnson, of the first basic EFIT text, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Growth and Fitness in Every Client. Most recently, as well, she contributed to the second edition of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook.

Dates: Wed 11th March, Thurs 12th March, Fri 13th March & Saturday 14th March 2026

Times: 9:30am – 5:00pm, each day

Location: Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne VIC
Contact:For further information, please contact MCEFT on info@melbourneeft.com

Price: Early bird pricing will end in January 2026.

Registration: 4-Day In Person Event - EFT and Trauma with Dr Leanne Campbell - Melbourne Community for EFT

Psychotherapy Networker Symposium 2026

Psychotherapy Networker & PESI US; Washington, DC

Friday, Mar 20th 3:00 to 5:00 pm

307: Transforming Shame into Secure Connection

Emotionally Focused Therapy as a Step-by-Step Intervention

We know shame inhibits growth and connection. We can see and feel it happen in our therapy spaces every day. So how do we heal it? In this workshop, featuring videos of individual and couple sessions, you’ll learn how to harness the power of emotion and the wisdom of attachment science to contain and manage clients’ shame— and then dissolve it—freeing up space for healing growth. You’ll leave with a tried-and-true set of interventions and a clear roadmap to move your clients out of shame’s inhibitory grip and into resilience and the exponential expansion that follows safe connection! You’ll explore how to:

  • Help clients normalize and destigmatize shame by viewing it through an attachment lens

  • Bring the power of self-regulation and co-regulation into shame experiences

  • Follow a step-by-step EFT program for addressing, dissolving, and ultimately transforming shame into connection

  • Help clients create shame-free cognitive narratives that are foundational for secure relationships 

  • Learn how to foster shame resilience

Registration: 2026 Symposium Registration. Live from Washington, DC!

2026 Attachment Summit; PESI US

Dr. Campbell’s Presentation: Mar 26th 10:10 am to 11:40 am PST

The Richest Path to Understanding Personality and Relationship Development

In a world where disconnection and uncertainty have become the norm, attachment work has never been more essential—or more complex!

That’s why we’ve gathered the leading researchers and clinicians for a groundbreaking summit that will transform the way you approach attachment work.

Keynote speaker Dan Siegel—whose revolutionary work made attachment science brain-based, actionable and relational —is joined by leading voices like Leanne Campbell, Frank Anderson, Clair Mellenthin, and more.

These pioneers have defined our understanding of healing, identity, personality development, and resilience.

Together, they’ll guide you through the integration of attachment science with the most influential, evidenced-based approaches in psychotherapy today...

* Internal Family Systems (IFS) * Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)* Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) * Polyvagal Theory * EMDR * Play Therapy * Somatic Therapy * Expressive Arts * Digital Play Therapy * Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

Reinvigorate your practice with these popular approaches to loosen the grip of attachment ruptures —restoring your client’s secure sense of self and ability to connect and repair!

Registration: https://www.pesi.com/sales/bh_s_002304_attachmentsummit_organic-1667628

EFT Consultation Group with Drs. Leanne Campbell & Joanne Bihari

EFIT & EFCT Group Consultation Online

Come join us for an engaging 8-session online consultation group where learning feels warm, safe, and genuinely collaborative. Each 2-hour meeting begins with an EFT “nugget” of inspiration, followed by two supportive case discussions focused on strengthening your attunement, confidence, and in-the-moment EFT moves.

16-Hours of Group Supervision & Learning

All participants will have the opportunity to present a case and share video featuring either a couple or in individual.

Small Group Size - 16 Participants max

Monthly Meetings - 2026/2027
Tuesdays @ 8:00AM Pacific / 11:00AM Eastern

April 14th, May 19th, June 23rd, September 22nd, October 13th, November 10th, December 8th, 2026 and January 12th, 2027

Registration: victoria@cfpsych.ca

Applying the evidence-based EFT model with couples, individuals, and families

PESI USA & Psychology Networker

FREE Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Workshop with Leanne Campbell and George Faller

Join renowned trainers Leanne Campell and George Faller and discover Dr. Sue Johnson's EFT approach that’s revolutionized our ability to guide clients to deeply connected relationships and trauma-free lives.

 

Whether you work with individuals, couples, or families, this workshop will provide the step-by-step, foundational instruction you need to start applying the EFT model with your clients.

 

Learn skills to match the affect of partners and help them put words to their inner experience, shifting their focus from blaming their partner (view-of-other) to their own vulnerability (view-of-self).  Renew your confidence by getting help in the areas where you lose focus and get lost in reactivity and mis-attunement. Learn multiple strategies to make explicit, expand and work through the blocks and defenses we all experience.

 

Go deeper with Leanne and George as they break down the moment-to-moment decisions that inform the treatment process so you can immediately incorporate powerful, proven techniques into your own work. Through video clips, experiential activities, and vibrant dialogue, we will learn how to freshen up, better attune, and refine our skills.

TO REGISTER: Continuing Education for Mental Health, Rehab & Healthcare Professionals | PESI

EFT Training

Israeli EFT Center - Jerusalem, Israel

Info & registration: Coming soon!

ICE EFT: EFIT Essentials

“EFIT Essentials” is, quite simply, our two-day Level 1 plus two-day Level 2 combined together into a four-day course!

Level 1
EFIT teaches you how to tune into, order, and use the power of potent emotion to literally ‘move’ clients into a new sense of self. As client’s construct their inner emotional world in new ways, the results are an increased sense of competence and worth, a sense of secure connection with self and others, and diminished symptoms of emotional disorders.

Level 2
Deepen your understanding of EFIT while discovering effective ways to overcome barriers and obstacles to change. Delve deeper into objectives, with more extensive discussion and practice, and gain support for challenging clients and situations. Participants are encouraged to identify examples where difficulty in implementing EFIT and/or the Tango may occur.

Transform your practice – and your clients – with EFIT through this live-online course.

To register: 2026 May | EFIT Essentials – ICEEFT Courses

EFIT & Grief and EFIT & Trauma

Two one-day trainings provided by EFT Romania

FROM LOSS TO RESILIENCE WITH EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED INDIVIDUAL THERAPY 

Dr. T. Leanne Campbell, Registered Psychologist

 

None of us escape loss. Many of our clients will successfully navigate the disorientation and disorganization that inevitably follows loss, some will get stuck. 

Join Dr. Leanne Campbell, Registered Psychologist,  ICEEFT Executive Board Member and international speaker and writer in this workshop where she details the attachment-based experiential assessment that helps guide the role of the therapist and each client’s unique grief journey. Watch, listen, and learn from the clients who share their therapeutic work and their stories as they find their way home to themselves, and renegotiate their identities and new realities in the wake of loss.

Attachment theory and science offer a guide to understanding love and loss. Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), an attachment-based humanistic experiential therapy, provides clinicians with a roadmap and set of interventions to support and guide individuals as they begin their unique journeys from loss to resilience.

In this one-day workshop (that qualifies for EFIT certification), join Dr. Leanne Campbell, as she explores, through the lens of attachment, some of the mystery and meaning of common terms and expectations surrounding loss, acceptance, letting go and moving on to name a few. Witness the power of harnessing and employing the deep emotion that so often accompanies loss, as Leanne guides the process from loss and grief to growth and resilience.

Participants will discover:

  • The key elements of the attachment perspective and its significance for understanding personality, healthy functioning, love, and loss, including traumatic loss

  • The process of tuning in and finding focus in EFIT with C.A.R.E. when working with loss: The attachment-based experiential assessment

  • A guide for working with loss across the three stages of EFIT with C.A.R.E.

  • How to apply key Attachment-based Experiential Humanistic interventions based on the EFT model and over thirty years of process and outcome research when working with loss.

Registration coming soon: https://eftromania.ro/ro/

EFIT Essentials

EFT Poland - Warsaw, Poland

  • For psychotherapists of all modalities or people training in psychotherapy after at least 2 years of comprehensive training, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists:

    • who want to expand their clinical practice to work with couples,

    • who want to enrich their therapeutic workshop with an effective way of intervening in working with couples,

    • interested in the practical application of attachment theory,

    • who want to learn about the effective, evidence-based EFT trend.

Register here: EFIT Essentials – Centrum EFT

EFT Triage Conference 2026: Learn the Secrets of Mastering Ruptures in Relationships

Las Vegas, Nevada

We are dedicated to providing training that leaves the counselors feeling empowered, excited for difficult sessions, and ready to address deep relational ruptures head on. 

The Essence of Triage

Triage means more than just addressing the immediate symptoms; it means healing a broken rupture at its core. At our conference, you will learn how to move beyond quick fixes and superficial solutions, diving deep into the heart of relational wounds. 

Healing Broken Bonds

In the realest sense, Triage is not about putting a bandaid on the problem. It’s about fostering genuine healing that lasts.

Registration: Eft Triage Conference 2026

Working with Trauma & AIRM/Infidelity

Online for New Zealand EFT Community

Details & registration coming soon!

Working with Trauma-Impacted Couples in EFT

EFT Massachusetts

Guiding Couples through Attachment Injuries, Loss and Trauma into Growth and Resilience with Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT)

  

Navigating the potential impacts of attachment injuries, loss and trauma can be overwhelming for therapists and clients alike. Attachment theory and science provide the map, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) offers a method. Informed by more than 30 years of attachment science research and clinical experience, EFT gets to the heart of the matter. That is, the core elements of attachment that can either impact clients’ capacity to move into and through emotion toward resilience, or somewhere along a continuum characterized by recurring patterns of distress.

This training will provide you with the understanding and skills to join clients on their unique journeys through loss and trauma into growth and resilience. Deepening your capacity to harness the power and potency of emotion and the healing power of relationships in couple therapy will help you feel more competent and confident, and your clients more connected and complete! 

In this workshop, using real-life video case examples and other stories from the therapist’s chair, along with didactic instruction and skills building, you’ll learn how to harness the power of emotion and the wisdom of attachment science to:

  • Adopt an attachment frame for understanding health and resilience, how clients get stuck in the face of loss and trauma, and how they find their way home

  • Join with clients with CARE (i.e., attention to four key dimensions, context, attachment, relationship/therapeutic alliance, emotion) at therapy outset and throughout the therapy process

  • Create a ‘safe haven alliance’ and conduct an attachment-based experiential assessment to guide the therapy process 

  • Deepen your skills in working with emotion with attention to pacing, focus and momentum 

·         Outline and apply the steps of the Attachment Injury Resolution/Repair Model (AIRM)

  • Track the impacts of shame and loss in resolving attachment injuries and learn how and when to address them

·         Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other

·         Discern markers for next steps in helping couples resolve attachment injuries

·         Summarize basic tenets for how to work with Attachment Injuries across the three stages of EFCT

·         Apply and adapt AIRM to work with clients in resolving attachment injuries

  • Identify any blocks to moving with and through emotion (i.e., effective affect regulation), and implement the five moves of the EFT Tango to dissolve blocks and shape corrective emotional experiences 

  • Guide clients in integrating new meaningful emotional and relational experiences to shift and update models of self and other

  • Help clients consolidate, integrate, and celebrate gains and growth, live fully and love bravely in the present, and prepare for the future

Registration: Guiding Couples through Loss, Trauma into Growth and Resilience with EFCT — EFT Massachusetts

EFT Training

PESI Canada - Toronto, ON

In-person EFT training with Dr. Leanne Campbell.

Details & registration coming soon: www.PESICanada.ca

EFIT, Trauma & Grief Training

Portland Center for EFT - Portland, Oregon

Join us for a 2-day in-person training on Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Grief and Trauma in Portland, Oregon.

More details including pricing, location, and learning objectives will be shared soon. This is a unique opportunity to learn in person how to apply EFIT when working with clients navigating grief and trauma. Join our mailing list to be the first to know when registration opens and to receive early-bird pricing.

Registration: EFIT, Trauma, and Grief Training with Leanne Campbell, PhD – Portland Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy