Have you experienced the dilemma of helping couples achieve greater emotional connection through EFT, and yet found that this does not always translate directly into greater sexual desire, contact and flexibility between the partners?

This workshop will present a frame for understanding that dilemma and offer approaches for more fully integrating sexual concerns into our EFT work, with the goal of helping couples share a more vibrant sexual connection.

This Training is brought to you by the EFT Resource Center, a Collaborating Organization and Friend of EFTCLA.

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Because so many couples show up in couples therapy with (often unnamed) sexual concerns, couples therapists are de facto sex therapists as well.  Sex is an important part of couple’s bond, yet even the most seasoned EFT couples’ therapists often feel at a loss for how to work with a couple’s sexual cycle. This is because couples therapy and sex therapy have long been divided into separate worlds.  Yet, as EFT therapists, you already have many of the skills to work effectively your clients’ sexual relationship concerns.

Join EFT Trainer Dr. Silvina Irwin and Supervisor Dr. Lisa Blum in this immersive 2-Day training for EFT therapists to address how to work effectively with a couple’s sexual concerns. You'll leave equipped to work thoughtfully and effectively with the sexual dimension of your clients' relationships. We will offer discussions on theoretical foundations, clinical interventions, assessment protocols, and explore behavioral exercises to integrate immediately into your EFT practice.  Clinical videos will also be shared to bring these interventions and concepts alive.  Walk away with the skills, knowledge, confidence, and clinical judgment to meet this need head-on.

What you'll gain:

·      Conceptual understanding on how attachment and sexual systems inform one another.

·      Clinical interventions to assess the couple’s negative sexual cycle, and where to begin to intervene

·      Assessment of both the couple’s and individuals’ sexual history, crucial for understanding their sexual cycle dynamics

·      Real clinical session video review and small-group practice to make it stick

Bonus Half-Day Practical Applications Workshop* (Optional, Feb 5th, 2027): 

Go deeper with a workshop practice session focused on assessing, preparing, and debriefing behavioral touch exercises with your couples — practical tools to integrate right away into your EFT practice.

*Bonus Half-Day Pre-Requisite: Only available to those who have completed either this 11/2026 two-day training, or a prior advanced seminar on addressing sexual concerns in EFCT offered by ICEEFT trainers.

·      Identify several touch / behavioral experiences to integrate into therapy when addressing a couple’s sexual relationship

·      Describe when and how to introduce touch exercises with your couples

·      Practice skills in introducing touch exercises

·      Practice skills in debriefing touch exercises

Feedback from prior participants of this seminar:

• “The case material on video was especially helpful to watch and experience. I really appreciated the Q & A moments. People asked thoughtful questions and the answers offered additional useful information. I also really appreciated how the trainers often redirected us to the process vs. content for many of the questions that were asked. That really supported a big takeaway for me of the EFT model being so relational and process-oriented. The role play opportunity was useful too.”

•  “The varied video clips were amazing”.

• “Such wonderful instructors--empathic, clear, thorough”.

• “The trainers are warm and supportive, making me feel encouraged and more confident to learn and practice”.

•  “The interview, how the negative cycle is shown, the physical contact exercise”,

• “Watching real couple videos, and doing role play was particularly helpful”.