Ausbildung und Seminare in Emotionsfokussierter Therapie
Das Institut für Emotionsfokussierte Therapie (IEFT) bietet von der isEFT (International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy) anerkannte und zertifizierte Weiterbildungsgänge in Emotionsfokussierter Therapie (EFT) an. Seit vielen Jahren bilden wir Therapeut*innen der unterschiedlichen Schulen aus, die das emotionsfokussierte Arbeiten als enorme Bereicherung ihres therapeutischen Handelns erleben. Lesen Sie gerne die Erfahrungsberichte.
Kostenloser Online-Workshop »Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)« mit Leslie Greenberg
29. April 2026, 17:00–20:00 Uhr, online
Was du in diesem Workshop lernst
- Wie du mit Emotionen therapeutisch arbeitest
- Wie „empathic attunement to affect“ Veränderung ermöglicht
- Wie Veränderung im therapeutischen Prozess wirksam wird
English language program
We also offer advanced EFT courses and masterclasses in English. Here you can find our English language program.
Neue Online-Miniworkshops zur Emotionsfokussierten Therapie –
"Learning from the Masters" ab Januar 2025!
Ab Januar 2025 startet unser exklusives Angebot an Online-Miniworkshops. Führende Expert*innen der Emotionsfokussierten Therapie (EFT) werden einmal im Monat ihr Wissen und ihre praktischen Erfahrungen mit euch teilen. Einmal im Monat habt ihr die Gelegenheit, von den Besten zu lernen – bequem und flexibel von zu Hause aus!
Kalender
| Monat | Datum | Dozent | Thema |
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| 2026 | |||
| Januar | 15. Januar 2026 |
Prof. Leslie Greenberg
Dr. Greenberg is the primary originator and developer of Emotion-focused Therapy for individuals and couples. He is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
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Phases of Development of EFT and Key Learnings from 45 Years of Experience |
| Februar | 10. Februar 2026 |
Prof. Jeanne Watson
Dr Watson is a professor at OISE, the University of Toronto in Canada. She is a leading advocate of humanistic-experiential psychotherapy and one of the main developers of Emotion-focused Therapy.
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EFT for Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
| Februar | 26. Februar 2026 |
Dr. Joanne Dolhanty
Dr. Dolhanty is a supervising and consulting clinical psychologist, as well as a trainer for mental health organizations across Canada and internationally. Together with Dr Leslie Greenberg, she developed the application of Emotion-focused Therapy to eating disorders. She is the primary developer of Emotion-Focused Skills Training (EFST).
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Emotion Focused Skill Training (EFST)
Not only parents but also other clients get frustrated and stuck in interpersonal power struggles, helpless to break the cycle. In this introduction to EFST, learn to use your EFT abilities to empower clients with simple tools that will transform the boundaries and power dynamic in their relationships.
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| März | 26. März 2026 |
Prof. Robert Elliott
Prof. Robert Elliott (them/they): Dr Elliott is Professor Emeritus of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde and of Psychology at the University of Toledo, Ohio. They are one of the leading figures in person-centered experiential psychotherapy and one of the main originators of Emotion-focused Therapy.
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EFT for Social Anxiety
Applying EFT to clients presenting with social anxiety (EFT-AS), a debilitating fear of other people. This approach is promising because it provides an alternative to a common but difficult-to-treat psychological difficulty that up until now has been almost exclusively the province of CBT. This is important because many clients have either had previous unsuccessful courses of CBT for SA or prefer a less directive, more relational approach. In addition, EFT-AS can help EFT practitioners extend their practice to a new, challenging and complex client population, helping them to develop additional skills for working effectively with all their clients.
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| April | 16. April 2026 |
Dr. Joanne Dolhanty
We’re trained and skilled in using EFT for deep emotion processing and transformation. But clients also come to us with relational challenges that will only be remedied if they can change the way they approach the situation. Learn to use and integrate Emotion-Guided Skill Practice in your everyday EFT work. You can help clients transform their relationships with this emotion-focused experiential technique to teach the emotion skills of validation, apology, and effective limit-setting.
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Integrating EFST into EFT for Individuals I
Part I of integrating EFST and EFT will focus on how to employ Emotion-Guided Skill Practice (EGSP) in the context of EFT.
EGSP uses chairs to coach and have clients practice the skills of validation, apology, and limit-setting.
Video demonstration will show why and how a therapist would incorporate this guided practice seamlessly and fruitfully into a session.
Markers and rationale will be discussed.
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| Mai | 21. Mai 2026 |
Dr. Catalina Woldarsky Meneses
Clinical psychologist and adjunct professor at Webster University, Geneva. Her psychotherapy research focuses on understanding how forgiveness unfolds in the context of couple’s therapy. She has authored academic papers and chapters on forgiveness and emotions in couples.
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Facilitating forgiveness in EFT
An emotion-focused approach to resolving emotional injuries.
A set of empirically-supported interventions for facilitating forgiveness will be outlined
and demonstrated using video-tapes. Participants will learn how to help individuals work
through the pain, sadness and anger of a betrayal or abandonment in adaptive ways,
inviting access to compassion and empathy.
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| Juni | 25. Juni 2026 |
Dr. Joanne Dolhanty
Dr. Dolhanty is a supervising and consulting clinical psychologist, as well as a trainer for mental health organizations across Canada and internationally. Together with Dr Leslie Greenberg, she developed the application of Emotion-focused Therapy to eating disorders. She is the primary developer of Emotion-Focused Skills Training (EFST).
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Integrating EFST into EFT for Individuals II
We’ve all been there with some clients – in a cycle of non-resolving self-criticism or unfinished business. Learn how to integrate the EFST Discrepancy chair task into your EFT work, to help your client discover, process, and resolve the “competing motivations” that keep them stuck. For EFSTers, learn how to integrate traditional EFT chair tasks into EFST, to resolve underlying issues that prevent the resolution of competing motivations.
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| Juli | Ferienmonat | ||
| August | Ferienmonat | ||
| September | 17. September 2026 |
Prof. Greet Vanaerschot |
Working with fragile processe |
| Oktober | 08. Oktober 2026 |
Prof. Leslie Greenberg
Dr. Greenberg is the primary originator and developer of Emotion-Focused Therapy for individuals and couples.
He is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
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Dealing with Difficult Situations in EFT
This workshop focuses on dealing with difficult (interpersonal) situations in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). The emphasis is on those moments when our usual therapeutic practices reach their limits.
In addition to specifying these difficulties in more detail, concrete approaches will be developed from an EFT perspective. The focus is less on techniques and more on basic therapeutic attitudes—in particular, congruence.
The workshop is a repetition of the workshop held in October 2025, which received such positive feedback.
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| November | TBD |
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| Dezember | 10. Dezember 2026 |
Prof. Antonio Pascual-Leone
Prof. Antonio Pascual-Leone holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from York University in
Canada. He is a professor at the University of Windsor, Canada, and an honorary professor at the University of
Lausanne, Switzerland.
He has published groundbreaking contributions to the theory and research of Emotion-Focused Therapy
and is recognized worldwide as an expert in emotional processing
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EFT for Complex Trauma |
| 2027 | |||
| Januar | 14. Januar 2027 |
Prof. Antonio Pascual-Leone
Prof. Antonio Pascual-Leone holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from York University in
Canada. He is a professor at the University of Windsor, Canada, and an honorary professor at the University of
Lausanne, Switzerland.
He has published groundbreaking contributions to the theory and research of Emotion-Focused Therapy
and is recognized worldwide as an expert in emotional processing.
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TBD |