New online mini-workshops on Emotion-focused Therapy:
“Learning from the Masters” from January 2025!
Our exclusive range of online mini-workshops will start in January 2025. Leading experts in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) will share their knowledge and experience with you once a month. You will have the opportunity to learn from the best - from the comfort and flexibility of your own home!
The highlights of the online mini-workshops:
- Monthly 3-hour workshops with renowned EFT experts,
- Practical and well-founded content that you can apply directly in your therapeutic practice,
- Learning impulses through video demonstrations and time for discussion.
Register now and expand your knowledge of EFT!
Calendar
| Month | Date | Lecturer | Topic |
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| 2026 | |||
| January | 15. January 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 |
| February | 10. February 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 |
| February | 26. February 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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| March | 26. March 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
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 I
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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| May | 21. May 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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| June | 25. June 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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| July | holiday month | ||
| August | holiday month | ||
| September | 17. September 2026 |
Prof. Greet Vanaerschot |
Working with fragile processe |
| October | 08. October 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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| December | 10. December 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 | |||
| January | 14. January 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 |
Structure of the online mini-workshops:
- Theoretical introduction to the respective topic,
- Video demonstrations and guided exercises to illustrate the content,
- Interactive discussions to deepen the concepts learned,
- Joint follow-up in German: After each workshop, Dr. Imke Herrmann or Dr. Lars Auszra offer a 15-minute debriefing and discussion of the most important content in German
Details:
- Time: 6:00 PM to 9:15 PM (UTC +1 winter +2 summer)
- Price: 98,- Euro per workshop
- Prerequisite: Participation in a basic course in EFT / level one in EFT
- Payments: Either Bank transfer (see at registration button) or via PayPal at: schindler@psychotherapie-praxis-muenchen.com
Take the opportunity to take your EFT skills to the next level - with the best experts worldwide!