We aim to create a safe, welcoming, low-cost space to gather, engage, learn and bask in the richness of our gifted EFT community. We hope you can join us! Attendees may purchase a pass to the entire season (all eight episodes), or may purchase a single episode at a time. If selecting a single episode, please indicate which episode you intend to attend.

Some episodes will be recorded for later viewing.

S2E1 | “Healing Trauma with EFT,” with Dr Sue Johnson

FRIDAY, MARCH 24 2023, 10:00AM-12:00PM PST

We are thrilled to kick off Season 2 of Leaning Into EFT with Dr. Sue Johnson herself! Join us for this very special episode where we will learn about the power to heal trauma through EFT with Individuals with the developer of EFT and founder of the International Center for Excellence in EFT. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn with Sue where will share and discuss segments of her sessions with individuals. You can leave inspired to bring this powerful model to your work with individuals..

S2E2 | “Fighting for Connection: Intimate Partner Violence,” with Jef Slootmaekers

FRIDAY, APRIL 28 2023, 10:00-12:00PM PST

Intimate partner violence is not uncommon in our work with couples, but so often we feel unprepared to assess, address, and support couples whose cycles escalate to the point of physical violence. Join us for an illuminating and rich episode where EFT Trainer from Belgium, Jef Slootmaekers, co-author of Intimate Partner Violence: A Roadmap to De-escalating Violent Patterns, will share insights and his clinical work on how to work with intimate partner violence in our practices.

S2E3 | Dr. Cindy Zane

FRIDAY, MAY 26 2023, 10:00AM-12:00PM PST

S2E4 | “The CARE Model” with Dr. Feion Villodas

FRIDAY, JUNE 23 2023, 10:00AM-12:00PM PST

In Episode 5 of Leaning Into EFT, Dr. Feion Villodas will bring us into the leading edge of the EFT model, introducing and teaching how to apply the CARE model/framework. The CARE model is used to strengthen therapist’s ability to engage emotion and process experience within the context of a client's experience, history (personal and family/intergenerational), and context. Dr. Villodas is an integral part of the EFT community as an anti-racist consultant, and has worked extensively with the EFT community to develop more culturally attuned lenses and interventions in our work with clients in workshops she has offered to EFT therapists at all levels.

S2E5 | “EFT with Collectivist Cultures,” with Ting Liu, PhD

FRIDAY, AUGUST 25 2023, 10:00AM-12:00PM PST

One size does not fit all! In service of being culturally attuned and informed EFT clinicians, what are some considerations when working within collectivist cultures? Hailing from Pennsylvania, EFT Trainer Ting Liu will join us for Episode 5, and will share her wisdom and experience through discussion and sharing her clinical work. Ting’s contributions to the field are numerous, including four books she has translated into Chinese in the fields of MFT and EFT. She has also published several journal articles on different applications of EFT and wrote a chapter on multi-cultural therapy in the EFT casebook, and is currently involved in several outcome studies examining the cultural applicability of EFT to diverse populations. She has trained EFT therapist around the globe, including Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo to name a few!

S2E6 | Ali Barbosa

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 2023, 10:00AM-12:00PM PST

In this episode, Ali Barbosa, EFT Trainer from Mexico, will bring us into his psychotherapy process with an individual cisgender heterosexual woman of color addressing Racial Trauma and Complex PTSD. Ali will take us through the arc of the treatment process, with examples of his skillful work in Stage 1 and in Stage 2. Embedded in this episode will be discussion on working through a trauma- informed sociocultural lens in both conceptualization and interventions. Don’t miss the opportunity to deepen your EFIT work with individuals from this gifted trainer!

S2E7 | “EFT with Addiction,” with Michael Barnett

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 2023, 10:00AM-12:00PM PST

Working with addictive processes in couples therapy can be a challenge for even the most seasoned couples therapist. Michael Barnett, EFT Trainer from Los Angeles, will share with us his work with a couple struggling to heal from the impact of addiction on their relationship.

S2E8 | “EFT with Families,” with Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 2023, 10:00AM-12:00PM PST

S2E9 | Dr. James Hawkins

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15 2023, 10:00AM-12:00PM PST

Leaning Into EFT (Season 2)