Deepen Your EFIT Practice: Consultation & Guided Practice Workshop

Date: Friday, May 16th, 2025

Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Location: Balance Arts Center 151 W 30th Street, 3rd floor (Room 1), New York, NY 10001

4 CEs Credits (CEUs through TRIEFT)

Take your EFIT skills to the next level and improve client outcomes in this immersive one-day workshop with EFIT trainer Ali Barbosa.

• Watch and analyze a real therapy session as Ali Barbosa demonstrates how to navigate common challenges in EFIT. Discover where therapists often get stuck, how to move forward, and how the attachment map and EFT Tango serve as beacon in every case.
• Gain insights from your peers as they share their own “sticky” moments in EFIT.  Selected participants will have the chance to present a 10-minute session excerpt, receive feedback, and engage in a targeted practice exercise to refine their skills.

Learn, Play and Explore through feedback, consultation, and role plays specifically aimed at framing clients’ problems through the lens of attachment to master mapping the process, maintaining momentum, unblocking barriers to growth, and more!

This is a unique opportunity to strengthen your confidence, sharpen your interventions, and connect with fellow EFIT therapists in a supportive, learning-focused environment.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and apply the the key principles of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) to clinical cases.
• Recognize and understand ineffective affect regulation patterns of individual clients.
• Follow the process of emotion, assemble and deepen core emotions that drive those patterns. 
• Identify core attachment longings and needs.
• Reshape strategies for engagement with self, others, the world and with emotional experience. 
• Guide clients in restructuring their emotional and relational patterns to foster flexibility, growth and resilience. 
• Integrate supervision and peer feedback to strengthen competence.
• Engage in structured case consultation to refine EFIT skills through discussion and role-play.

Workshop Schedule:

10:00 am – 10:50 am Welcome, introduction to workshop, Overview of the EFIT map of change, Assessment, stabilization, restructuring and consolidation, The EFIT Tango Moves, Video Case review, Overcoming blocks, Q&A, Experiential practice

10:50 am – 11:00 am Break 

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Case consultation 1, Experiential practice

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Case Consultation 2, Experiential practice, Closing and takeaways

TRAINER: ALI BARBOSA, LMFT

Ali Barbosa is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer. He serves as a member of the ICEEFT Board and is the Director of EFT México, the first ICEEFT-affiliated center in Latin America. Based in Mérida, México, Ali maintains a full-time private practice, working with adult individuals and couples, often in bilingual settings. He has trained extensively with a variety of EFT trainers, valuing the depth and richness that collaboration brings to his work. Ali is deeply passionate about training and has taught Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) across the United States, Sweden, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, and Spain, bringing his warmth and enthusiasm to therapists worldwide.

Satisfactory Completion:

Participants must have paid registration fees, signed in, attended the entire seminar,  and signed out to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

Accessibility and Support:

NYCEFT is deeply committed to supporting the diverse learning needs of every participant in our trainings. We are very aware that this essentials may be a physically and cognitively demanding experience, involving sustained attention, extended sitting, etc. over many hours. If you feel comfortable, we would love to hear from you if there is anything we can do to make the training more accessible, or if there’s any additional support we can provide.

Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days Or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

Disclosure statement: There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

Cancellation Policy: If notified in writing of canceling by May 2, the fee will be refunded minus $50 administrative fee. Registrations canceled after May 2 are not refundable.

Financial Assistance: If you would like to attend but require a reduced fee, please contact us at infonyceft@gmail.com