Homeward Bound: A Journey to Safe Connection and Healing with EFFT/EFIT

A Journey to Safe Connection and Healing with EFFT and EFIT

Homeward Bound is a two-day, 12-hour training designed for clinicians who want to deepen their understanding and application of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). This training invites you to see how individual and family work are part of the same story—the story of attachment. You’ll learn how to support families by offering individual sessions when a family member feels stuck, creating space to process emotional blocks, deepen self-awareness, and promote emotional accessibility and responsiveness in family sessions.

You’ll also explore how bringing family members into individual therapy can amplify the client’s growth, allowing them to repair and strengthen important bonds. Together, we’ll discuss how to navigate seamlessly between these modalities—without “switching hats” or diluting the model—by staying grounded in the core principles of Emotionally Focused Therapy.

You’ll leave this training equipped to:

Know when and how to incorporate individual work into family therapy—and vice versa

Use EFIT interventions like emotion processing to unlock movement in family systems

Apply EFFT techniques, such as enactments and family sessions, to enrich individual therapy

Maintain clarity about treatment goals while shifting between contexts

Understand the boundaries and cautions of integrating EFIT and EFFT, including key contraindications

We’ll also introduce the C.A.R.E. model of assessment (Context, Attachment, Relationship, and Emotion Regulation) to deepen your understanding of clients’ relational and cultural worlds—ensuring your work is attuned, ethical, and effective.

Ultimately, Homeward Bound is about helping clients reconnect—to themselves, to their families, and to the love and safety they long for.

Whether you work primarily with families or individuals, this training will help you bridge these two modalities to deepen client change and relational repair.

Prerequisites are ONE of the following: EFT Fundamentals, EFFT Essentials, or EFIT Essentials.

CEs will be available for purchase

Refund and Cancellation: Cancellations made more than 30 days before training receive an 80% refund with 20% retained for admin work. No refund within 30 days.

The training begins at 9:00 AM (EST) and ends at 5:00 PM (EST) on both days