The clinic is pleased to announce its 2023 continuing education program for community-based professionals. Description of each Institute and registration forms come after the calendar section.
Additional institutes will be posted as we determine availability.
2023 Training Calendar**
| Dates | Types of Training Institute |
|---|---|
| May 16 to 19, 2023 | EFT Level 2 Spring Institute (Videoconference Format) Waitlist Only |
| July 25 to 28, 2023 | EFT Level 1 Summer Institute (Videoconference Format) Waitlist Only |
| August 1 to 4, 2023 | EFT Level 2 Summer Institute (Videoconference Format) |
| September 19 to 21, 2023 | EFT Level 3 Fall Institute (Videoconference Format) Waitlist Only |
| September 25 to 28, 2023 | EFT Couples (Videoconference Format) Waitlist Only |
| October 24 to 27, 2023 | EFT Complex Trauma - Yoga Therapy Masterclass (In Person) - Cancelled |
| November 7 to 10, 2023 | EFST for Parents (Videoconference Format) |
| November 13 to 16, 2023 | EFT Fall Level 1 (Videoconference Format) Waitlist Only |
** York University Psychology Clinic reserves the right to cancel any registration at its sole discretion, in which case a full refund will be provided.
This four-day Institute is designed to continue the development of emotion-focused skills for individual therapy. The enrollment is limited to 20 registrants so that participants get more opportunity to practice and experience advanced work with two-chair dialogue and unfinished business. Instruction focuses on the markers of self-interruption, vulnerability, trauma, and alliance ruptures.
Trainers: Dr. Les Greenberg (Day 1 &2) and Dr. Serine Warwar (Day 3 & 4)
Fee: $1570.00
Once again the clinic is please to offer the Toronto Summer Emotion-Focused Institutes - Level 1 & 2. The formal will be virtual.
This intensive 4-day training Institute provides participants with a solid grounding in the skills required to work more directly with emotions in psychotherapy. The focus of the program will be experiential, learning how to provide a change in core emotional structures. Participants receive in-depth skill training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modeling, case discussions, and extensive supervised role-playing practice. Please note, participation for the full 4 days is required in order to receive the certificate.
EFT level one program description [PDF]
Trainers: Dr. Les Greenberg (Days 1 & 2) and Dr. Serine Warwar (Day 3 & 4)
Fee: $1230
This four-day Institute is designed to continue the development of emotion-focused skills for individual therapy. The enrollment is limited to 20 registrants so that participants get more opportunity to practice and experience advanced work with two-chair dialogue and unfinished business. Instruction focuses on the markers of self-interruption, vulnerability, trauma, and alliance ruptures. Please note, participation for the full 4 days is required in order to receive the certificate.
Trainers: Dr. Les Greenberg (Days 1 & 2) and Dr. Serine Warwar (Day 3 & 4)
Fee: $1570
This 3-day Institute involves supervision and discussion/consultation by Dr. Les Greenberg of cases that each registrant brings. The group will consist of 12 participants and each person will have the opportunity to present one or more video or audio recorded sessions or transcripts of sessions for supervision. In addition, issues of application and advanced skills will be discussed and practiced if desire. Please note, participation for the full 3 days is required in order to receive the certificate.
Prerequisite: EFT Institutes level one and two
Trainer: Dr. Les Greenberg
Fee: $1295.00
This 4-day skills-based training institute will cover the 5 and 14-step expanded model of EFT-C focusing on attachment and identity needs and self and other soothing. As an emotion-focused therapy, we focus on how to work with emotions such as anger, sadness, fear, and shame. Participants will be asked to identify key interactional cycles in their own primary relationships and work on undoing these by accessing their own primary underlying emotions in the training. Please note, participation for the full 4 days is required in order to receive the certificate.
EFT Couples Institute Description [PDF]
Fee: $1175.00
Trainer: Dr. Serine Warwar
This 4 day institute will provide more in-depth training in areas first introduced in the basic EFTT course and, additionally, will introduce yoga-based principles and practices that can augment standard EFTT interventions. Change in EFT is contingent on clients’ awareness of emotion, ability to regulate and reflect on emotional experience, and to access healthy self-protective resources to modify maladaptive emotion schemes - to change the “same old story”. This is the essence of emotional transformation regardless of the procedure. Yet anyone learning and practicing EFT with traumatized clients will come across individuals who struggle in these areas, who are “stuck”, and have difficulties engaging in standard EFT interventions. The most recent iteration of EFTT integrates principles and practices derived from yoga therapy that address client emotional processing difficulties that interfere with their ability to engage in EFTT interventions and benefit from therapy. Please note, participation for the full 4 days is required in order to receive the certificate.
Prerequisite: EFT Trauma Level 1
Trainer: Dr. Sandra Paivio & Katlin Robinson
Fee: $1445.00
Registration form for EFTT-Yoga Masterclass - Fall Institute 2023
Emotion-Focused Skills Training (EFST) for Parents is an evidence-based, innovative, ultra-simple, and quickly effective parent and family support program that facilitates a transformational partnership between families and professionals. EFST supports parents by empowering them as active, primary agents in guiding loved ones of any age through the behavioral, emotional, and relational challenges of everyday living and relating, as well as through the challenges their loved ones face when struggling with a mental health issue, a physical health issue, or any other special circumstances including social and educational challenges.
This Institute will teach and train clinicians in the principles and techniques of delivering EFST for parents as a webinar, a workshop, or on an individual basis. The training places a strong emphasis on experiential learning and will be highly focused on practice change at all levels of experience. It is, therefore, suitable for practitioners new to emotion-focused training as well as for those with basic or advanced levels of training and experience in emotion-focused therapies.
Note that a background in working with families, parents, or children is not required. The structure of EFST that will be taught also has applications to a variety of settings and populations including parents and caregivers, schools, as well as eating disorders, addictions, and more.
The registration fee for this Institute includes one-year access to a 10-hour, online course, allowing clinicians to review and master the core components of EFST for parents. Please note, participation for the full 4 days is required in order to receive the certificate.
Trainer: Dr. Amanda Stillar
Fee: $1170.00
This intensive 4-day training Institute provides participants with a solid grounding in the skills required to work more directly with emotions in psychotherapy. The focus of the program will be experiential, learning how to provide a change in core emotional structures. Participants receive in-depth skill training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modeling, case discussions, and extensive supervised role-playing practice. Please note, participation for the full 4 days is required in order to receive the certificate.
Trainer: Dr. Serine Warwar
Fee: $1230.00
When cancellations are made more than 14 days prior to the workshop date, you have a choice: receive a refund (less $50.00 administration charge) or a credit for the full amount (less $20.00) to any future York University Psychology Clinic (YUPC) workshop.
If cancellation is received fewer than 14 days prior to the workshop date you will receive a credit (less $50.00 administration charge) to any future YUPC workshop.
We regret that a refund/credit cannot be offered if your cancellation is not received at least one full business day prior to the day of the workshop. Alternatively, a colleague may attend in your place at no extra cost. Please notify us in advance of the name of the person attending.
The 3 & 4 day Institutes requires a $250.00 non-refundable deposit. These non-refundable deposits are not transferable unless we are able to fill the vacancy created by the change in plans. Please note, that if registration payment is transferred it is only transferable once.
When cancellations are made 28 days prior to the workshop date, you have a choice: receive a refund (less the $250.00 non-refundable deposit)or a credit towards a future Institute.
We regret that a refund/credit cannot be offered if your cancellation is received with fewer than a 28-day notice prior to the workshop date.