EFT for Trauma: Healing Attachment Wounds with EFIT – Dr. Leanne Campbell

Working with clients who carry the heavy burden of trauma often raises a key clinical concern: how do we guide them toward healing without risking retraumatization?

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for trauma offers an attachment-based, experiential, and systemic framework that provides both a map and a method for meaningful transformation.

Why EFT for Trauma Matters

Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) gives therapists a non-pathologizing lens through which to understand distress. Instead of focusing on deficits, EFIT views trauma responses as survival strategies born of disrupted attachment. With this compassionate framework, clinicians can help clients regulate emotions, access vulnerability, and move toward secure connection and resilience.

A Proven Model with Practical Tools

Dr. Leanne Campbell is an internationally recognized EFT trainer, bringing decades of clinical expertise to this training. She is the co-author with the late Dr. Sue Johnson of A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) (2022) and the forthcoming EFT for Trauma volume. Through didactic teaching, real client video sessions, and case commentary, Leanne demonstrates how the EFIT Tango—a five-move intervention sequence—creates corrective emotional experiences that foster growth session by session.

Therapists will learn how to:

• Frame trauma within an attachment perspective
• Pace interventions safely and effectively
• Apply the EFIT Tango to create change moments
• Shape new patterns of emotional regulation and interpersonal engagement

What You’ll Gain

Whether you are new to using EFT for trauma or an experienced clinician, this training provides:

• A clear roadmap through the three stages of EFIT, from stabilization to transformation
• Tools for balancing deep emotional processing with client safety
• Strategies to strengthen therapeutic alliances and foster post-traumatic growth

With Dr. Campbell’s guidance, you will leave with practical interventions you can immediately integrate into your clinical work. These new tools will allow you to help clients move out of the grip of trauma and into lasting resilience. This is more than a skills workshop. It’s an opportunity to deepen your therapeutic presence, expand your clinical toolkit, and join a community of practitioners committed to transforming trauma through the power of attachment and emotion.

1. Describe the key elements of the attachment perspective and its significance for understanding personality, the impact of trauma, and clinical intervention.
2. Summarize and demonstrate how to conduct an attachment-based experiential assessment.
3. Describe the C.A.R.E. framework and its four dimensions—context, attachment, relationship (i.e., therapeutic alliance), and emotion—which is a guide to assessment, pacing, and intervention utilized at the outset of and throughout the therapy process.
4. Explain and begin to use the power of emotion in transforming trauma.
5. Define how to work with the body as the gateway to emotion—the target and agent of change in EFIT.
6. Provide examples of how to implement the five moves of the EFIT Tango to shape corrective emotional experience.
7. Apply the EFIT Tango, a proven set of interventions for creating key change events.
8. Apply the EFIT model to sensitively pace the therapy process and move clients into transformative moments where vulnerabilities are encountered in the presence of another to foster trauma resolution and a stronger sense of balance, coherence, and competence.
9. Describe the three stages of therapy that clients move through as barriers to growth are removed and the seeds of secure attachment are sown.

This training offers 6 hours of direct contact (not counting breaks or lunch). It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards/regulatory body to verify CE requirements for their license to practice.

Attendees of the original live broadcast receive instructions on how to obtain their Certificate of Participation at the end of the course and in the “recording ready” email, which is sent 1-2 days after the live course has ended.

Attendees watching the previously recorded/on-demand version must complete a Post-Webinar Quiz with a passing grade of at least 80% to verify their attendance and receive their Certificate of Participation.

Note: The course recording is available only after the live broadcast has ended.

The Certificate of Participation includes:

• Name of participant.
• Title of training.
• Name of presenter plus their credentials.
• Number of hours of training.
• Date of training.
• Confirmation of 100% attendance at the original live broadcast OR a passing grade of at least 80% on the recorded on-demand version post-course quiz.

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Please check with your regulatory body/organization to ensure that this certificate is sufficient proof for you to claim CE credits.