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:

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 October 27th (ten days before the event) so we can order a special meal for you.

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

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.

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.