India EFT Council Virtual Externship | September 2026
Four Monday's and Thursday’s
Together with India EFT Council, we are pleased to bring you the Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Externship®.
The first step towards EFCT Certification!
A Interactive 24 hour Training.
This is an official Externship, endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT), brought to you by ICEEFT Certified Trainer Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen with video introduction and training by Dr. Sue Johnson.
Attending this Externship is the first step towards becoming a certified EFT therapist–which allows you to be listed on the EFT website, a popular source for finding trained couples therapists.
For further details about the certification process please refer to Susan Johnson’s International Centre for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT).
Get the training you need to be successful.
This Externship provides an overview of the entire EFT model, including stages of treatment and the moves of the EFT Tango. Gain the tools to see which patterns keep clients stuck in distress, and learn how principles of attachment theory translate to organic, on-target interventions. Backed by 30 years of empirical research–guide your individual, couple, and family clients to see change in every session.
LEARN TO:
• See relationship distress from an attachment perspective.
• Help partners reprocess the emotional responses that maintain couple distress.
• Shape key new interactional and bonding events.
• Overcome therapeutic impasses.
You will see a live demonstration session, a profound learning experience.
Endorsed and Featuring 4.5 hours of pre-recorded video instruction by Therapy Originator Dr. Sue Johnson.
Dr. Sue Johnson is known as an author, clinical psychologist, researcher, professor, popular presenter and speaker and a leading innovator in the field of couple therapy and adult attachment. Sue was the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Couples and Family Therapy (EFT), which has demonstrated its effectiveness in over 30 years of peer-reviewed clinical research.
Sue Johnson was founding Director of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy and Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California, as well as Professor Emeritus, Clinical Psychology, at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Dr. Johnson received a variety of awards acknowledging her development of EFT and her significant contribution to the field of couple and family therapy and adult attachment. Sue was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor recognizing outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to Canada. In 2016, she was named Psychologist of the Year by APA, and has been honored by AAMFT for her Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Couple and Family Therapy.
We continue to honor Sue’s extraordinary legacy, celebrating her groundbreaking work in EFT and acknowledge that her vision transformed our understanding of how humans’ flourish through secure attachment and how we can help our clients earn security through building meaningful relationships rooted in connection and trust.
Facilitated by Certified EFT Trainer Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen
ICEEFT Certified EFT Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer
Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen is internationally recognized for her leadership in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). As a pioneer in online and in-person EFT training and supervision, she is best known for developing widely used learning tools, including the best-selling videos EFT Step by Step and Emotionally Focused Therapy: A Complete Treatment. She has trained thousands of therapists worldwide and continues to offer consultation, advanced workshops, and immersive learning experiences to clinicians seeking mastery in the EFT model.
Dr. Jorgensen is the Founder and Director of the San Diego Center for EFT, the Training and Research Institute for Emotionally Focused Therapy (TRI EFT) and Building a Lasting Connection®—a relationship program designed to help couples create secure, lasting bonds.
She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology, with specialized training in trauma, sexual functioning, and leadership. She maintains a clinical practice at the EFT Counseling and Education Center, where she also co-directs the organization and provides training and supervision to students and clinicians in a vibrant, local EFT community. Her EFT training began directly with Dr. Sue Johnson, and she has served on the ICEEFT Training Team since its inception. Until the month before Sue’s passing, Becca was honored to co-present with Sue regularly, sharing a deep commitment to strengthening relationships through secure attachment.
Rooted in both clinical excellence and personal connection, Becca brings warmth, clarity, and care to everything she does. She is married to the love of her life, Max, and together they thirteen delightful grandchildren.
In Collaboration with India EFT Council
India EFT Council is the International Centre of Excellence In Emotionally Focused Therapy, founded by Dr. Sue Johnson is the officially affiliated organizing and training body for therapists learning and practicing Emotionally Focused Therapy, in all modalities. We’re here to support therapists on their journey to become ICEEFT Certified as EFT Therapists and Supervisors.
We are passionate about Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Our mission is to support mental health professionals in India to learn, practice and grow in EFT.
We organize trainings with certified EFT trainers, host peer consultation groups, and create learning spaces that are culturally sensitive and grounded in Indian realities. Whether you are just beginning your EFT journey or are an experienced practitioner, you are welcome here.
General Objectives of the EFT Externship
This is the first step towards EFT Certification
The path to EFT Certification
This training includes an overview of the entire model of Emotionally Focused Therapy including steps and stages, interventions, adult attachment theory, and application of EFT with couples and individuals. The externship is recommended for all types of mental health clinicians who counsel couples.
* To gain a clear understanding of the systemic concepts and basic experiential moves of an “Emotionally Focused Therapy” approach.
* To hold an attachment view of clients coping with their interpersonal dilemmas so you can conceptualize relationship distress and repair based on theories of attachment and emotion.
* The focus of this training is on the general model of EFT as presented in the 2019 book, Attachment Theory In Practice, and how you can implement the model in couple and individual therapy sessions.
* To provide the opportunity to develop skills in sharing, maintaining and engaging in an open and collaborative alliance with your clients.
* To develop skillful use of the 5 moves of the basic macro-intervention “the EFT tango” to improve clients’ affect regulation, models of self and others, strategies for engaging with others, and changing interactional patterns.
* To develop the ability to utilize systemic and experiential models of interventions applied as EFT micro-interventions.
* To participate in skills development to overcome common blocks and impasses across EFT therapy modalities so you can shape core corrective emotional experience that leads to constructive dependency and what we conceptualize as ‘secure attachment’.
This training is the prerequisite for all other EFT trainings.
You will receive a Certificate of Completion.
Reference Materials for Study
Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families
The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection” by Susan M. Johnson, 3nd Edition, 2019.
Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook” by Susan M. Johnson, et al, 2005.
Schedule
September 5th: Registration and Full Payment Deadline
September 1: The training begins with YOUR HOME STUDY REVIEW of a prerecorded video. You MUST complete these homestudy hours by September 10 (to be prepared for the Sept. 17th synchronous virtual meeting).
Live online on Zoom:
Monday and Thursday weekly beginning Thursday September 17th
DATES:
September 10 – fully completed homestudy hours
September 17 – first synchronous Zoom meeting
September 21 & 24
Skipping the week of September 28
October 5 & 8
October 12 & 15
TIMES:
6:30 pm to 9:00pm India Standard Time
(9:00am to 11:30am Eastern Standard Time)
WE WELCOME THERAPISTS IN ALL THEIR DIVERSITY
ICEEFT Stance on Diversity
We aim to cultivate a climate of inclusion, an environment where all can feel safe, valued, cared for, and given an opportunity to form meaningful connections with each other. In all facets of our work we strive to embody what we hope to see in the world — a just, loving humanity and community in which people are free to be themselves fully — where people can embrace their most basic universal human attachment needs without fear of persecution or marginalization as a result of religion, race, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, class, mental health, physical character or disability. These values are inherent in the attachment science and humanistic approach to intervention that all our work is based on.
Specifically, humanistic approaches such as EFT are collaborative and respectful. We create a safe place for people and treat them as persons, not problems or types. Our approach is non-pathologizing in practice.
Our values are inclusive and egalitarian while viewing human connection as sacred — something to be honoured and cultivated.
Our scientific and theoretical base outlines key universals, emotion and attachment, while respecting individual differences.
Participation Requirements
Participants must be familiar with and abide by professional and legal confidentiality requirements regarding all client information shared in the training and agree to hold conscious our stance on diversity.
Certification in EFT is offered by ICEEFT based on completion of all requirements and demonstrated competence in the model. Completion of training does not guarantee competence or certification. Enrollment in this training constitutes an agreement to hold harmless The San Diego Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Training and Research Institute for Emotionally Focused Therapy (TRI-EFT), and all presenters and trainers from any and all claims, actions, and judgements, including all costs of defense and attorney’s fees incurred in defending against the same. I have read and agree to follow the terms for participation./h3>
Confidentiality Agreement
I agree to keep confidential the personal identifying information of case material shared in the training. I agree to not record any part of this training in any format (audio, video, or visual). Personal written notes of non-confidential material are permitted.
In India Pricing Information
Price: 44,999 INR Early Bird until August 9.
48,000. INR regular
This price includes one free year of membership in the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT), a value of 2,136 INR. CLICK HERE to see the ICEEFT member benefits.
Registration and Full Payment Deadline: September 5, 2026
Outside of India Pricing Information
For Participants outside of India:
Professional: $895
Professional Early Bird Price: $825. until August 9.
Student: $590
Parity: $480 (other developing countries)
For parity rates or financial need you can apply for a scholarship here until August 1, 2025.
Registration and Full Payment Deadline: September 5, 2026
Here’s what people are saying about it!
“This is by far the best educational training I have ever been to. I feel much more competent & confident in using the EFT approach.”
“First day back in my office and I am feeling great about the training and YES able to put skills into practice immediately.”
“The externship was a deep learning experience, and I have new angles on many of the things (and people) I have been working with over many years.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a certificate for completion?
There is a certificate of completion! One must simply fully participate in the externship; if an hour is missed, but no more than 2 hours, Dr. Jorgensen will assign a makeup assignment that must be completed.
There are current plans for advanced EFT training in person in India?
There is great interest among ICEEFT supervisors and trainers to provide more training to India online and hopefully at some point in India. In the way EFT has grown around the world the local interest in the learning and promoting the model includes on-the-ground support.
The next step in EFT training, Core Skills in EFT, is commonly done online and is always done in small groups. If there is enough interest Core Skills will be done to cater to Indian clinicians. If not, there are lots of other Core Skills online trainings you can join.
Is the content of the training the same as other ICEEFT sponsored externships?
Yes, TRIEFT is affiliated with ICEEFT and Dr. Jorgensen is an ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer. This is an ICEEFT approved Externship. All ICEEFT approved externships provide the same externship material and content.
I'm having trouble making payment from the link, is there any other way of making the payment?
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What is the cancellation policy?
If you cancel, you will refunded 95%. There is a 5% admin fee.
Other questions?
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