Externship 2026

Current CEU Events

​Everyone must register for CEU: Register for CEU here

CEUs are free for our current CTCEFT members (you can join CTCEFT here) or $10 for non-members (which can be purchased here).

Mastering EFT Tango Moves 3&4

Date: October 2nd

Time: 4:30-6:30 cst

location: zoom, must register below for zoom link

• About This Workshop

• The EFT Tango is a core clinical map in Emotionally Focused Therapy, guiding therapists through the moment-to-moment process of tracking emotion, deepening experience, and shaping corrective emotional experiences in session.

• In this live online workshop, Certified EFT Supervisor Michael Preston will focus on Tango Moves 3 and 4, with an emphasis on how these moves show up in real clinical process and how therapists can use them more fluidly in session work.

• This is a skills-focused training designed to support clinicians in moving from conceptual understanding of EFT into embodied clinical practice.

• What You Will Learn

• Participants will:

• • Strengthen fluency with EFT Tango Moves 3 and 4

  • Improve moment-to-moment tracking of emotional process

  • Deepen experiential interventions in couple sessions

  • Increase confidence working with in-session emotional shifts

  • Observe applied EFT skills in real clinical framing

• About Michael Preston

• Michael Preston, LPC, is a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist and Supervisor. He is known for his work teaching clinicians how to bring greater clarity, precision, and confidence to EFT process work.

• He offers EFT supervision, consultation, and deliberate practice groups focused on developing real-time clinical skills with the EFT Tango.

• Michael is also a co-host of the Emotionally Focused Therapy Podcast, where he discusses EFT theory and clinical application with other EFT trainers and supervisors.

• Learn more: https://www.michaelprestonlpc.com/podcast

• Who This Is For

• This workshop is designed for:

• • EFT therapists at all levels of training

  • EFT Core Skills participants

  • Certified EFT therapists

  • EFT supervisors and supervisor candidates

  • Clinicians seeking to strengthen experiential couples work

• Format

• • Live Zoom workshop

  • Teaching + clinical discussion

  • Q&A with Michael Preston

  • Focus on applied EFT process work

• Registration is required to receive the Zoom link:  Register for Mastering Tango Moves 3 & 4 with Michael Preston

• Optional Learning Resource

• To learn more about the EFT Tango framework, you can explore Michael Preston’s podcast and teaching work here: https://www.michaelprestonlpc.com/tango and https://www.michaelprestonlpc.com/podcast

• EFT With Couples Healing From Religious Trauma

  • July 31, Friday: 3:00pm -4:30pm, on zoom.

    • Cultural Competency CEU

      • When a partner defaults to people-pleasing or shutting down entirely when asked to assert a need due to high-control religious environments teach obedience and penalize questioning

      • Purity culture and feelings of shame, anxiety, and disgust regarding sexual pleasure.

      • Shifting from toxic compliance and co-dependency to mutual respect and shared decision-making.

      • Rebuild self-trust, separate inherited dogmas from personal values, and establish guilt-free boundaries due to religious trauma causing individuals to mistrust their own instincts.

    • Presented by:

      • Robyn Harrington, LCSW, #1730054651

        Certified in Religious Trauma Studies,

        Registry #03183-RT101, ADHD-Certified Clinical Services

Past CEU events

2024:

• August 30, Friday: 1:30-3pm, on zoom.

  • Stage 1 work: We will watch Sue Johnson​ doing Stage one work then we will discuss concepts and interventions!

    • The discussion will be lead by Jason Northrup, Ph.D, LMFT-S

    • This CEU is free for our current members (you can join here) or $20 for non-members (which can be purchased here).

• May 31, Friday :1:30-3pm on zoom

  • RISSSC: The art of deepening, Presented by Jason Northrup, Ph.D, LMFT-S

    • Objectives: ​

      • learning to go deeper, bringing emotion into the session​

      • This CEU is free for our current members (you can join here) or $20 for non-members (which can be purchased here).

• February 23rd, Friday: 1:30 - 3:00 pm on zoom

  • KEEPING FOCUS: A DISCUSSION​, Presented by Jason Northrup, Ph.D, LMFT-S

  • Objectives:

    • Discuss common distractions that break focus​

    • Identify the objective EFT therapists should be focusing on in each session

    • discuss ways to regain focus

  • This CEU is free for our current members (you can join here) or $20 for non-members (which can be purchased here).

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​2023:

• November 3rd, Friday: 1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. on zoom

  • ​Honoring Their Sacrifice: Using EFT with Military Clients with Greg Cheney, PhD, LMFT, LCMHC

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a powerful tool to make sense of how military Service Members can be extremely capable and successful in their profession yet struggle to connect in their most important relationships.

  • Objectives*

  • Understand the mindset of “the protector." Understand the complexity of cultures within culture in the military and how EFT helps to gain an understanding of this culture. Understand how to use EFT with military clients by honoring their adaptive behavior that enables competence in their dangerous profession. Identify how EFT leverages attachment science to understand common military struggles of relationship disconnection, combat trauma, traumatic brain injury, moral injury, and addiction. Reflect on the self of the therapist and personal capacity for working with the military and first responders.

    • This CEU is free for our current members (you can join here) or $25 for non-members (which can be purchased here).

    • Current members, to register please email us at saeftcomm@gmail.com.