Presenters:
Hanna Pinomaa, Jef Slootmaeckers, Leanne Campbell, George Faller
Cost: Please note that the May 9 pre-Summit workshops are a separate ticketed offering, available for $95 CAD in addition to the Summit registration fee.
Format: Experiential learning, video examples, guided reflection
Session: Full Day — May 9, 2027
Modality: EFT across modalities (EFIT, EFCT, EFFT)
Level: Intermediate–Advanced
Trauma narrows perception, constricts connection, and often leaves clients feeling trapped in patterns of helplessness and isolation. In the therapy room, clinicians are asked to meet these realities with clarity, steadiness, and hope. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) offers a clear, attachment-based pathway for transforming trauma’s impact into resilience, connection, and growth.
In this experiential workshop, participants will learn how to leverage the attachment caregiving system and the EFT Tango to support trauma transformation across individual, couple, and family modalities. Through rich clinical video examples and guided reflection, presenters will demonstrate how to harness emotion and attachment to create transformative limbic shifts—moving clients from survival-based strategies toward secure connection and care.
This session emphasizes moment-to-moment clinical decision-making and the use of the safe haven–secure base alliance to keep clients at their leading edge of growth. Participants will leave with increased confidence and practical strategies they can apply immediately in trauma-focused EFT work.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Conceptualize trauma impacts through an attachment lens and structure the EFT process accordingly
- Use the safe haven–secure base alliance to support clients’ growth and regulation
- Work with the body as a gateway to emotional processing
- Adapt and apply the EFT Tango across stages and modalities based on ongoing assessment
- Recognize and address blocks to caregiving and care-seeking
- Track and support grief and integration following transformative limbic revision