NCCEFT upcoming events

NCCEFT Board of Directors Meeting – Member Open Session (13 Sep 2026)

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:00:00 GMT

NCCEFT Board of Directors Meeting – Member Open Session

All members are invited to attend the NCCEFT Board of Directors Meeting. We will devote the first 20 minutes of the meeting to members who would like to bring their questions, ideas, or suggestions.

After the first 15 minutes, the Board will continue with the remainder of the meeting in a closed session.

Date: Sunday, September 13, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM (Member Session)
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM (Board Closed Session)

Format: Online (Zoom link will be provided upon registration)

We look forward to seeing you there.

Brave Love, Great Sex- A Full Day Training with George Faller (10 Oct 2026)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT

PRESENTS:

Brave Love, Great Sex

A Full Day Training with George Faller

Saturday, October 10, 2026

9AM to 5PM

Location: Preservation Park 1233 Preservation Park Way Oakland, CA 94612

Harnessing the Power of Sexual Attachment: The Sex Talk Your Clients Desperately Need—But Likely Aren’t Having

An EFT Approach to working with Sex

Sex is one of the most powerful—and avoided—topics in couples therapy.

In this dynamic workshop, George will guide you in working with the often overlooked—but essential—third attachment system of romantic love: the sexual system. You’ll learn how the sexual attachment system interacts with the emotional and caregiving attachment systems to create predictable patterns of interaction. Armed with an attachment MAP to integrate what happens inside and outside the bedroom, therapists can help couples transform shame, pressure, and avoidance into deeper connection.

Through practical interventions, case examples, and step-by-step guidance, you’ll gain tools you can use immediately to:

Bring sex into the therapy room with clarity and confidence
Identify and de-escalate negative sexual cycles
Work effectively with desire discrepancies and sexual avoidance
Help partners express vulnerability and respond with caregiving
Strengthen both emotional and sexual bonds using an attachment lens
Hit the target of great sex and sexual secure attachment

When therapists can skillfully address sex, they don’t just improve intimacy—they help couples build more secure, resilient relationships. Learn how to turn Brave Love and Great Sex into a lived reality.

George’s podcast Brave Love/ Great Sex has over 15 million downloads and the book Brave Love/ Great Sex is being released by Penguin in the fall of 2026.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Identify the key assumptions of attachment theory as it applies to adult sexuality.

2. Identify the assumptions, stages, and steps of EFT, as well as key change events.

3. Describe key interventions that help clients to reprocess key emotional responses and reduce reactivity

4. Discuss common therapeutic impasses in EFT with sexuality and how to address them and implement EFT interventions in clinical exercises and case examples.

5. Apply techniques of sexual assessment in EFT treatment

6. Identify negative cycle around sexual issues and its interplay with the negative emotional cycle (MAP)

7. Apply techniques to transform negative cycles into stage two positive cycles and secure attachment

PRESENTER BIO:

George Faller is a retired Lieutenant of the NYC Fire Department who served during 9/11, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in both New York and Connecticut. His unique background and dynamic teaching style make him a highly sought-after speaker around the world.

George is an ICEEFT Trainer in EFT, the founder of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy, an AAMFT-approved supervisor, teaches at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, serves as the Director of Training at Greenwich Advanced Counseling Center, and sits on the Board of the Tulane School of Social Work. Through his books—True Connection, Sacred Stress, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy, and Brave Love/ Great Sex along with his popular podcast Brave Love/ Great Sex and therapist training platform www.SuccessInVulnerability.com, George is committed to the mission of building a more emotionally secure world.

AGENDA:

9:00 AM - Registration

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM - Training

11:00 AM - Break

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM - Training

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM - Lunch

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM - Training

3:15 PM - Break

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM - Training

LUNCH INFORMATION:

Lunch is offered with your registration. You will be able to select a Meat, Vegetarian, or Gluten Free option directly on the form when you buy your ticket. If you have a strict dietary restriction, please email us at ncceftinfo@gmail.com by September 26, 2026.

COST: $250

Registration deadline: October 3 2026

Registrants can choose to get 6.5 Continuing Education (CE) credits for $40. A link to buy CES will be emailed to participants closer to the event date.

CONTINUING EDUCATION:

Details regarding the availability of Continuing Education credits will be provided following formal endorsement from Alliant International University.

There are no known conflicts of interest, and no commercial support, associated with this program.

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We are not authorized to speak on behalf of any licensing boards. If you have questions, check your licensing board’s website for their approved CE providers (for example, to see if they accept APA- or NBCC-approved CE providers). If you are still not sure, feel free to send what you have found on your licensing board’s website to help@trieft.org and they can help further clarify.

ACCOMMODATIONS:

NCCEFT meets all applicable local, state and federal standards, including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42, U.S.C. 12101-12213 (2008)). We hold events only at professional venues that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42, U.S.C. 12101-12213 (2008)

ADA NEEDS: We will be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please contact us at ncceftinfo@gmail.com at least two weeks prior to the seminar date.

NCCEFT PROGRAM GRIEVANCE AND REFUND POLICY:

The Northern California Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy (NCCEFT) is fully committed to conducting all activities in strict conformance with the American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles of Psychologists. NCCEFT will comply with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content and in the treatment of program participants. The monitoring and assessment of compliance with these standards will be the responsibility of the CPA PAS CE Program Director in consultation with the Board of Directors (Steering Committee).

While NCCEFT works to assure fair treatment for all participants and attempts to anticipate problems, there will be occasional issues which will require intervention and/or action on the part of NCCEFT. This procedural description serves as a guideline for handling such complaints.

When a participant, either orally or in written format, files a grievance and expects action on the complaint, the following actions will be taken:

1. If the complaint concerns a speaker, the content presented by the speaker, or the style of presentation, the individual filing the complaint will be asked to put his/her comments in written format. The CE Program Director will then pass on the comments to the speaker, assuring the confidentiality of the aggrieved individual.

2. If the complaint concerns a workshop offering, its content, level of presentation, or the facilities in which the workshop was offered, the CE Program Director will mediate and will be the final arbitrator. If the participant requests action during a workshop or conference, the CE Program Director or his/her representative will:

a. attempt to rectify the situation, and/or

b. provide a credit for a subsequent presentation, in the event of a program having an attendance fee or

c. provide a partial or full refund of the registration fee, in the event of a program having an attendance fee.

Actions 2b and 2c will require a written note, documenting the grievance, for record keeping purposes. The note need not be signed by the aggrieved individual.

3. If the grievance concerns the business practices of the NCCEFT CE program in a specific regard, the CE Program Director or Administrator will attempt to arbitrate.

CODE OF CONDUCT:

By registering for this training, participants agree to abide by the NCCEFT Code of Conduct, which ensures a respectful, inclusive, and supportive environment for all attendees. Failure to adhere to this Code may result in removal from the event without refund. Additionally, you give NCCEFT permission to take and use photos from the event for our website and community materials.

REFUND AND ATTENDANCE POLICY:

In the event that a program presentation has an attendance fee, CANCELLATIONS are subject to a $50.00 processing fee and must be received 14 days prior to be eligible for a refund.

Finding the Sun Again: Opening the Attachment Channel Through EFT Micro-Interventions Presented by: Sam Jinich, PhD (17 Oct 2026)

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT

In Person Quarterly Event

Finding the Sun Again
Opening the Attachment Channel Through EFT Micro-Interventions

Presented by:

Sam Jinich, PhD

When: October 17, 2026

Time: 10am to 4pm

Where: First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, 2407 Dana Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

SUBJECT:

This 4-hour clinical workshop uses excerpts from a live EFT couple session to study the moment-to-moment interventions that help partners move through reactivity and protective defenses into the attachment channel. Conducted in Spanish in Argentina and presented with English subtitles, the session offers participants a chance to observe both the universality of attachment distress and the ways language, metaphor, and culture can shape its expression.

A central metaphor that emerged organically in the session is that of “space trash”: the painful accumulation of disappointments, irritations, and negative meanings that one partner has come to focus on so fully that she can no longer see the “sun” — the other partner’s core self, the self she once recognized and loved more easily. By slowing the session down and pausing at key moments, we will examine how the therapist helps the couple move beyond this painful narrowing of perception and reconnect with the emotional bond itself.

The workshop will focus on the EFT micro-interventions that open the attachment channel, including validation, active empathy, attachment reframes, reflections that seed attachment, lateral reflections, empathic conjectures, and interventions that deepen and heighten primary emotion. Special attention will be given to how one partner moves from protest into sadness and longing, while the other moves from distress and self-protection into shame, fear, and the longing to be seen and accepted. Participants will observe key moments in the session, discuss the interventions being used, and practice selected moves through structured exercises and role play.

Because the session is conducted in Spanish, this workshop also invites reflection on the relationship between attachment process and cultural context. While the couple’s cycle is immediately recognizable across cultures, participants will have the chance to consider how emotional language, metaphor, cultural context, and the influence of gender may shape the way vulnerability is expressed and received.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Identify key moments in a couple session when partners shift from secondary reactivity into primary attachment emotion.
Recognize and describe EFT interventions that help open the attachment channel, including validation, active empathy, attachment reframes, empathic conjectures, and reflections that seed attachment.
Use lateral reflections to expand cognitively presented material into more evocative, emotionally resonant, and attachment-focused language.
Apply EFT interventions that deepen and heighten primary emotion while helping partners stay engaged with vulnerable experience.
Describe how language, metaphor, cultural context, and the influence of gender may shape the expression and reception of attachment emotion in couple therapy.

PRESENTER

Sam Jinich, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer, Supervisor, and Therapist, and former Director of the San Francisco Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy. He is known for his experiential, attachment-based teaching style and for bringing Emotionally Focused Therapy to Spanish-speaking communities in Latin America and Spain. His work integrates EFT with a strong focus on clinical precision, emotional process, and the moment-to-moment interventions that help couples access deeper vulnerability and connection.

AGENDA

10:00 am - Registration/check-in/mingling with refreshments

10:30 am - Training begins

1:00-2:00 pm - Lunch - provided

2:00 pm - Training resumes

4:00 pm - Training adjourns

Two 15-minute breaks will be offered with refreshments mid-morning and mid-afternoon.

Choose lunch option: Meat, Vegetarian, or Gluten free. For other dietary restrictions, please contact us at least two weeks before the event at ncceftinfo@gmail.com

TARGET AUDIENCE

Appropriate for any and all levels of training past Externship.

FORMAT

Lecture, video analysis, discussion, experiential exercises, and role play

CLINICAL FOCUS / CE RELEVANCE

Couples therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, attachment-based intervention, therapist micro-skills, enactments, emotional processing

TRAINING METHODS

The workshop will include:

Brief didactic teaching
Selected video excerpts from a live couple session
Paused clinical analysis of key intervention moments
Structured dyad or triad exercises
Role play and group discussion

COST

This training is free to members, while non-members pay $10. Four Continuing Education (CE) credits are available to both members and non-members for a charge of $40. A link to register and pay $40 for CE's will be emailed to all registrants at a later date prior to the training.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Details regarding the availability of Continuing Education credits will be provided following formal endorsement from Alliant International University.

There are no known conflicts of interest, and no commercial support, associated with this program.

AI-assisted tools were used to help gather academic references and support the organization of presentation materials. All content was critically reviewed, revised, and clinically integrated by the presenter to ensure alignment with EFT principles and professional standards.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Those who attend this workshop in full, and complete the course evaluation will receive a certificate of completion via email within one week following the workshop. Please note that credit will only be granted to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credit.

ACCOMMODATIONS

ADA NEEDS: We will be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please contact us at NCCEFTinfo@gmail.com at least two weeks prior to the seminar date.

PARKING

For those with limited mobility, the underground church parking garage has disabled person parking spaces and an elevator up to the main floor. The entrance to the underground church parking garage is located on the south side of Channing Way between Telegraph Ave and Dana St. The cost is $1 per 20 minutes with a $10 maximum. A second option is across the street from the church on the north side of Channing Way at the Telegraph-Channing Garage. The cost is free for the first hour and $2 per hour after that.

NCCEFT PROGRAM GRIEVANCE AND REFUND POLICY

When a participant, either orally or in written format, files a grievance and expects action on the complaint, the following actions will be taken:

If the complaint concerns a speaker, the content presented by the speaker, or the style of presentation, the individual filing the complaint will be asked to put his/her comments in written format. The CE Program Director will then pass on the comments to the speaker, assuring the confidentiality of the aggrieved individual.
If the complaint concerns a workshop offering, its content, level of presentation, or the facilities in which the workshop was offered, the CE Program Director will mediate and will be the final arbitrator. If the participant requests action during a workshop or conference, the CE Program Director or his/her representative will:
- attempt to rectify the situation, and/or
- provide a credit for a subsequent presentation, in the event of a program having an attendance fee or
- provide a partial or full refund of the registration fee, in the event of a program having an attendance fee.
Actions 2b and 2c will require a written note, documenting the grievance, for record keeping purposes. The note need not be signed by the aggrieved individual.
If the grievance concerns the business practices of the NCCEFT CE program in a specific regard, the CE Program Director or Administrator will attempt to arbitrate.

CODE OF CONDUCT

REFUND AND ATTENDANCE POLICY

In the event that a program presentation has an attendance fee, CANCELLATIONS should be made 48 hours prior to the event.

EFIT for Trauma & Grief Training presented by: Leanne Campbell, Ph.D. (06 Nov 2026)

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:00:00 GMT

PRESENTS:

EFIT for Trauma

&

Grief Training

November 6 & 7, 2026, at Preservation Park, 1233 Preservation Park Way, Oakland, CA 94612

Presented by: Leanne Campbell, Ph.D.

You can now choose to register

and participate for either both days or one day only.

November 6: 9:00 a.m. – 5 p.m.

November 7: 9:00 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Can’t make it to the event but still want to support NCCEFT?

https://www.ncceft.com/Donations

DESCRIPTION:

Day One: EFIT and Trauma — Transforming Trauma with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy

On the first day of this two day training, Dr. Leanne Campbell offers a clear, compassionate, and practitioner-ready roadmap for using Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) to transform the impacts of trauma and kick-start the organic growth process. EFIT is an attachment-based, humanistic, experiential, systemic approach that helps clinicians understand trauma through the lens of bonding needs, emotion regulation, and working models of self and other.

Participants will learn how an attachment frame and an emotion focus make EFIT especially suited for working with diverse trauma presentations (including cumulative/work-related trauma, single-incident trauma, traumatic loss, complex/developmental trauma). You’ll be guided through EFIT’s step-by-step three-stage map and its “five-move set” of interventions—the dance of attunement, the EFIT Tango—to help you create focused, corrective emotional experiences that build safety, coherence, self-compassion, and a stronger, more resilient sense of self.

Day Two: EFIT and Grief — Moving Through Loss and Grief into Growth and Resilience with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)

Attachment theory and science offer a guide to understanding love and loss. On the second day of this training Dr. Leanne Campbell offers a clear, compassionate, and practitioner-ready roadmap for using Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) to work with grief and loss as an organic attachment-based process.

With loss comes change. At times, this involves a profound disruption of the attachment system. When bonds are broken, whether through death, separation, or relational disconnection, the emotional system reorganizes around yearning, protest, despair, and, at times, emotional constriction or shutdown. Attachment science offers a guide for making sense of such reactions in context. EFIT provides a structured and experiential approach to help clients process, integrate, and transform these responses.

Loss can emerge in various forms, those highlighted above, as well as other types of primary and secondary losses that might similarly disrupt the attachment system and/or force a shift in identity. Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) offers a method and a map for helping clients navigate various kinds of losses.

Grounded in attachment science and extending the well-established lineage of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), EFIT allows clinicians a guide to help clients move beyond symptom management toward deep emotional processing and reorganization. Using EFIT’s three-stage map of change and its five-move intervention sequence—the EFIT Tango, therapists are guided in working moment-by-moment with grief-related emotional experience.

Participants will learn how to conceptualize grief through an attachment lens, recognize how trauma and attachment injuries can complicate mourning, and use experiential interventions to help clients move from disorganization and aloneness toward integration, meaning, and continued connection.

This training emphasizes how the therapeutic relationship is central in offering a safe haven and secure base where grief can be experienced, expressed, and transformed in ways that restore flexibility, coherence, and resilience – whether clients are successfully navigating the emotional landscape of loss, on their own timelines and prescribed guidelines, or whether they might be stuck and constricted. The attachment-based experiential assessment guides the process and the role of the therapist.

Note. This course qualifies for the short course requirement for EFIT certification (see www.iceeft.com for further details regarding certification).

Teaching format: Step-by-step teaching supported by lectures, case examples, and in-session video-based learning.

Prerequisites: None required. Recommended preparation includes EFT externship, EFIT Essentials, or Fundamentals of EFT.

Recommended readings: Attachment Theory in Practice (Johnson, 2019); A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) (Johnson & Campbell, 2022); Emotionally Focused Therapy for Trauma (Johnson & Campbell, 2026).

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Day One: EFIT and Trauma

By the end of the day, participants will be able to:

Describe trauma and its impacts through an attachment perspective, including emotion dysregulation and protective strategies.
Create and maintain a safe haven secure base alliance that promotes exploration, discovery and growth, with attention to when to “use ourselves and when to remove ourselves” with the Tango as our guide.
Conduct an experiential attachment-based assessment and “chart the course” with attention to pacing and the C.A.R.E. frame (context, attachment, relationship/therapeutic alliance, and emotion).
Apply the EFIT Tango across the three-stage process, with ongoing attention to assessment and pacing as therapy progresses.
Identify and work with blocks (e.g., shame, overwhelm) with careful pacing and “window of tolerance/capacity” sensitivity.
Consolidate, integrate and celebrate therapeutic gains with the aim of promoting ongoing growth and resilience

Day Two: EFIT and Grief

By the End of the Day, Participants Will Be Able To:

Describe grief as an attachment-based process, including how loss disrupts bonding, safety, and emotional organization.
Differentiate grief presentations, including acute grief, traumatic loss, and grief complicated by various factors such as attachment injuries or shame.
Explain common emotional patterns in grief, including protest, longing, despair, numbness, and disconnection.
Conduct an experiential, attachment-based assessment using the C.A.R.E. frame (context, attachment, relationship/therapeutic alliance, emotion).
Apply the EFIT three-stage map to grief work, from stabilization and access to integration and meaning-making.
Use the EFIT Tango to process grief in real time, including accessing core emotional experience and organizing attachment meaning.
Identify and work with blocks to grief processing, including shame, emotional constriction, avoidance, and overwhelm, with attention to pacing and window of tolerance/capacity.
Facilitate corrective emotional experiences that support integration of loss, transformation of attachment responses, and restoration of resilience and connection.

PRESENTER BIO:

Leanne Campbell, PhD is co-developer of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) and co-author with Susan Johnson of the first basic EFIT text, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Growth and Fitness in Every Client (Routledge, 2022) and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Trauma (Guilford, 2026).

She contributed as well to the second edition of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook (Routledge, 2022) with her insights surrounding the application of EFT in working with trauma both individually and relationally (with individuals and couples).

She is Vice President of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT), a Registered Psychologist in the province of British Columbia, and an international speaker, writer, trainer and co-author of various other EFT-related educational programs and materials. In addition to providing psychological services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past about three decades, Dr. Campbell provides trainings in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to professionals around the globe.

AGENDA:

Day One:

9:00 am - Registration/check-in/mingling with refreshments

9:30 am - Training begins

1:00-2:00 pm - Lunch - provided

2:00 pm - Training resumes

5:00 pm - Training adjourns

Two 15-minute breaks will be offered with refreshments mid-morning and mid-afternoon.

Day Two:

9:00 am - Registration/check-in/mingling with refreshments

9:30 am - Training begins

1:00-2:00 pm - Lunch - provided

2:00 pm - Training resumes

5:00 pm - Training adjourns

Two 15-minute breaks will be offered with refreshments mid-morning and mid-afternoon.

LUNCH INFORMATION:

COST:

Registration:

Both Days: $425

One Day Only: $250

Early Bird Registration before October 6th:

Both Days: $400

One Day Only: $225

Student/Associate/Equity rate:

10% discount for either both days or one day only

Both Days Regular: $382.00

Both Days Early Bird: $360.00

One Day Only Regular: $225.00

One Day Only Early Bird: $202.00

Equity Rate: Accessibility is important to NCCEFT. As such we offer a reduced cost for our EFCT trainings to individuals from diverse backgrounds. Eligibility Criteria: Represent and/or work with underserved & underrepresented communities and/or work with clients with less financial means. This includes, but is not limited to, BIPOC clinicians, sexual and gender minorities, differently-abled individuals, immigrants & clinicians who are semi-retired.

Please note that this is a FUNDRAISER for NCCEFT and a majority of the profits go towards supporting DEIC efforts within the community.

Registrants can choose to get 6 Continuing Education (CE) credits for attending one day or 12 Continuing Education (CE) credits for attending both days. Cost for either 6 or 12 CE’s is $40. A link to buy CE's will be emailed to participants closer to the event date.

CONTINUING EDUCATION:

Details regarding the availability of Continuing Education credits will be provided following formal endorsement from Alliant International University.

There are no known conflicts of interest, and no commercial support, associated with this program.

AI WAS NOT used in the creation of this CE.

ACCOMMODATIONS:

ADA NEEDS: We will be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please contact us at ncceftinfo@gmail.com at least two weeks prior to the seminar date.

NCCEFT PROGRAM GRIEVANCE AND REFUND POLICY:

When a participant, either orally or in written format, files a grievance and expects action on the complaint, the following actions will be taken:

a. attempt to rectify the situation, and/or

b. provide a credit for a subsequent presentation, in the event of a program having an attendance fee or

c. provide a partial or full refund of the registration fee, in the event of a program having an attendance fee.

Actions 2b and 2c will require a written note, documenting the grievance, for record keeping purposes. The note need not be signed by the aggrieved individual.

3. If the grievance concerns the business practices of the NCCEFT CE program in a specific regard, the CE Program Director or Administrator will attempt to arbitrate.

CODE OF CONDUCT:

REFUND AND ATTENDANCE POLICY:

In the event that a program presentation has an attendance fee, CANCELLATIONS are subject to a $50.00 processing fee and must be received 14 days prior to be eligible for a refund.