EFT Supervisor Services

Supervision in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) centers around creating a safe and supportive environment where therapists can closely examine video recordings of their sessions, focusing on the client's emotional process and the therapist's responses, with the goal of developing the therapist's skills in attunement, empathy, and interventions that facilitate secure attachment by identifying and addressing underlying emotional needs within the client-therapist relationship; essentially, it emphasizes the therapist's ability to "see" and understand the client's moment-to-moment emotional experiences to guide them towards deeper emotional processing and healing.

• Enhanced clinical skills:

  Develops proficiency in utilizing EFT techniques, including identifying emotional process, facilitating emotional expression, and guiding clients towards deeper emotional understanding. 

• Increased confidence:

  Provides a safe space to practice new skills and gain confidence in working with complex emotional issues. 

• Personal and professional growth:

  Helps therapists reflect on their own emotional patterns and how they might influence the therapeutic relationship.

• Licensed or registered to practice psychotherapy in the state/province/region in which the applicant resides.

• Current clinical therapy practice (must include some couples).

• Proof of malpractice insurance.

• Membership in ICEEFT.

• An ICEEFT-endorsed EFT Externship led by a Certified EFT Trainer: 24 hours over 4 days.

• Core Skills Training led by a Certified EFT Trainer, 24 or 48 hours.

• Supervision (min. of 8 hours) by a Certified ICEEFT Trainer, EFCT Supervisor, or approved EFCT Supervisor Candidate, which can include 4 hours of group supervision, as long as the therapist has the undivided attention of the Supervisor for the hour. (There is no limit on the group size.) Individual supervision may be with two people. Supervision can be face-to-face or long distance. ICEEFT requires that every effort be made to protect the confidentiality of the client. ICEEFT is not responsible for supervisors’ actions in this regard. Supervisors can be found using this list or the Find a Therapist tool.

• Required reading: The Practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy: Creating Connection (3rd edition, 2020) by Susan M. Johnson

• Video submission Requirements (Therapy Excerpts): Applicants are asked to provide a minimum of two therapy excerpts. The emphasis for certification is the therapist’s use of the EFT Tango to process emotion and create bonding conversations. Therapists need to show competence in relational dyads to receive EFCT Certification. Each excerpt is to be a total of 20 minutes. If you want the reviewer to review certain segments of the same session, please submit the entire session and indicate the minute times of the excerpts to be reviewed. Excerpts are to be video sessions. Zoom sessions are acceptable. Audio sessions are not acceptable. A case conceptualization for each couple in the video excerpt(s) is to be submitted and should include a summary of presenting problem(s), attachment history, cycle, case progress to date, and therapist self reflections – see below for further information. A video release form is also required for each excerpt. The whole session is to be submitted, with excerpt to be reviewed start and stop times to be indicated on transcripts. For more information on the video submission guidelines, please refer to EFCT Certification Video Guidelines.