EFT For Groups
Emotion-Focused Group Training
Combining individual and group therapy to effectively shift depression and anxiety.
Workshops Being Offered Virtually
Have you noticed how many of your clients struggle with shame, fear, and isolation underneath their symptoms of depression or anxiety? Imagine the impact of having clients meet one another in a safe and supported environment where their ‘real selves’ have room to surface and connect with each other.
In this workshop, participants will learn how to utilize individual EFT interventions in a group setting to undo aloneness and meaningfully reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. This workshop blends didactic instruction and experiential participation in a facilitated training group. This group model, based on the prior work of psychologists including Dr. Susan Wnuk, Dr. Adele LaFrance, Dr. Joanne Dolhanty, and Dr. Leslie Greenberg, is generalizable to evocative experiential therapies with a focus on working in real-time with emotional experience and expression (e.g. EFT, IFS, AEDP).
Trainers: Dr. Sarah Thompson & Dr. Laura Girz
See below for more information on group training.
“In terms of sheer professionalism, learning objectives, pacing, content, and delivery, this is one of the most valuable and well-thought-out trainings I have attended. This richly immersive, experiential training combines the clarity and effectiveness of EFT emotion theory and task work, with the transformational power and connection offered by group processing. It is delivered in a spirit of warmth and inclusivity. Our team left this comprehensive and inspirational training with increased confidence in our ability to meet our clients’ needs through delivery of our group EFT programme.”
Dr James McElvaney,
Chartered Senior Counselling Psychologist and Clinical Lead: Group Emotion-focused-Therapy for Young Adults.St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, Dublin, Ireland.
This training will focus on the following key areas:
- Exploration of the unique benefits of individual therapy in a group setting
- Brief overview of emotion theory and interpersonal group theory and their application
- How to select appropriate clients
- Structuring your first, middle, and end groups
- Review of EFT’s Critic Split Task and Unfinished Business Task for group settings
- Exploration of possible group process interventions
- Experiential components include
- Video review of an intake session
- Experiential exercises suitable for a first group
- Participation in demonstration groups led by the trainers through the lens of the client role and the therapist role
- Overview of a comprehensive group model
- Review of EFT group outcome data
Note: This training does not focus specifically on teaching individual therapy techniques. The focus will be structuring a group psychotherapy experience and effectively utilizing individual therapy techniques within a group setting. Prior knowledge of an individual psychotherapy modality is required.
Time & Dates
Join our 4-day virtual institute February 25-28, 2026. This training will run. Times will be 9:30am-4:30pm (Eastern) for the first three days, and 9:30am-3pm (Eastern) on the final day.
Please contact us at welcome@transformingemotions.ca to be added to our mailing list for future training dates in the Eastern time zone, or to request a specialized in-person training for your team.
Fees:
Fees for Emotion-Focused Group Training Offered Through Transforming Emotions:
Early Bird Fees: $1,295 (CAD) if registering on or before the early bird deadline of December 1, 2025.
Regular Fees: $1,445 (CAD)
All fees include a $250 non-refundable deposit. Installment plans may be requested in writing.
If you identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Colour, or if you are an early career practitioner within two years of graduation, or are seeking to register from a country where the currency is valued much lower than Canadian dollars, we have a select number of sliding scale spaces available. Please reach out to laurapgirz@gmail.com for further details.
Enrollment will be limited to 32 individuals.
TO BE ADDED TO OUR EMAIL LIST FOR FUTURE TRAINING, PLEASE EMAIL YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION TO: welcome@transformingemotions.ca
