Columbia, S.C. Externship 2026-In Person

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Columbia, S.C.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

Externship:

 

May 19-22, 2026

9 AM- 4 PM Tues.-Fri.

We are pleased to bring you

Attachment Theory in Practice

4-Day Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Externship®

This is an official Externship, endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and brought to you by TRI EFT Alliant and Alliant International University.

Attending this Externship is the first step to being listed at the EFT website, where couples are going to find trained couple therapists. Attending this externship is also a step towards becoming a certified EFT therapist. For further details about the certification process please refer to Susan Johnson’s International Centre for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT). In this Externship, you will learn to:

• See marital 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 by Therapy Originator: Dr. Sue Johnson

Dr. Sue Johnson is an author, clinical psychologist, researcher, professor, popular presenter and speaker and a leading innovator in the field of couple therapy and adult attachment. Sue is 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 is 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 has 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 has been 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.

Facilitated Certified EFT Trainer Rebecca Jorgensen with support from

Certified EFCT Supervisor Natalie Milom

Rebecca Jorgensen, PhD

Dr. Jorgensen is a Founder and Director of the San Diego Center for EFT, TRI EFT Alliant and Building A Lasting Connection®

Becca provides EFT training and consultation internationally and is known for bringing clarity, warmth, and depth to therapists learning and applying the model. Her teaching emphasizes emotional process, therapeutic presence, responsiveness, and helping clinicians facilitate transformational enactments that reorganize emotional experience and relational patterns.

She is well known for her clinical resources including her best selling therapy videos:EFT Step by Step, online course Emotionally Focused Therapy: A Complete Treatment as well as the Lasting Connection System™ that helps therapists learn EFT and supports couples through the therapy process.  

Dr. Jorgensen holds the PhD in Clinical Psychology and is a Sex Therapist with specialized training in treating trauma, shame and utilizing polyvagal theory in couple’s therapy. She trained directly with Dr. Sue Johnson and has been part of ICEEFT’s Training Team since the organization’s inception, helping to build access to high-quality training, supervision, and community development in multiple regions throughout the world.

She provides advanced training and workshops on EFIT, sexuality and leadership. She supports therapists in developing skill working with complex presentations, trauma histories, attachment injuries and Stage 2 change processes.

She maintains a clinical practice providing Intensive Therapy for Couples and Individuals, Sex Therapy and provides training and consultation across the world.

Natalie Milom, LCSW

Natalie Milom, LCSW is a Certified EFCT and EFFT Therapist and Supervisor. She is known for her work helping individual, couples and families heal attachment injuries and build secure, thriving relationships. She is ICEEFT certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy and an EMDRIA-Approved Consultant, integrating attachment-based treatment and trauma-processing approaches in her clinical and supervisor work.

For over 15 years, Natalie has specialized in treating complex attachment trauma, including emotional and relational betrayal wounds, and guides clients toward deeper self-acceptance, emotional safety, and connection. Her clinical work includes children, adults, families, and couples, with a focus on helping couples repair patterns that block closeness. She provides therapy both virtually and in-person through established practices in CA and GA and supports therapists internationally through consultation and training.

Natalie joins this Externship as a cultural consultant, supporting clinicians in applying EFT with greater cultural attunement, practical language for working across difference, and confidence in holding clients’ lived experience in the room. Her consultation presence offers both support and insight, helping therapists integrate EFT with depth, sensitivity and clinical clarity.

Transform the way you work with Couples

Earn 24 CE’s

General Objectives of the EFT Externship

* To gain a clear understanding of the systemic concepts and basic experiential moves of an “Emotionally Focused Therapy” approach.

* To hold an attachment view 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” in order to improve clients’ affect regulation, models of self and other, strategies for engaging with others and changing interactional patterns.

* To develop 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 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 to learn to work experientially using attachment science with an emphasis on successful couple therapy.

This training is the prerequisite for Core Skills, the next training on the Certification path.

Daily Schedule

May 19-22, 2026

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time Tues.-Fri.

Lunch from 12:30-1:30 PM

 

  •  Day 1: What makes EFT work: The theoretical underpinnings, the research and the map from insecure attachment to secure attachment.

  •  Day 2: Demonstration Session, EFT Interventions and Stage 1.

  •  Day 3: EFIT, Demonstration Session and Stage 2

  •  Day 4: Becoming an EFT Therapist, Stage 3 and Attachment Injuries.

Location

Eight Sixty Station

554 Meeting Street

West Columbia, SC  29169

Participation Requirements

Participants must be familiar with and abide by professional and legal confidentiality requirements regarding all client information shared in the training. 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.

Pricing Information

  • Regular: $1,195

  • Early Bird Discount (ends March. 14): $895

  • Intern/Associate/Military: $695

  • Full-Time Student: $595

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.”

Questions?

Click Here to send us an email or call us at 619-832-2297.

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*Alliant International University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Alliant International University maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Alliant International University is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing to provide continuing education for Nurses (provider #CEP11235).

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