In this 12-hour advanced Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) training, participants will learn how to effectively work with shame as a complex, secondary emotional process within attachment-based couple dynamics.

This workshop is designed to help clinicians integrate shame processing into the EFT Tango with greater precision and confidence. Participants will develop the ability to track shame in real time-recognizing its markers in the body, interactional patterns, and therapist experience-and differentiate it from the underlying primary emotions of sadness, fear and longing. Learning how to work effectively with high-conflict and trauma-impacted couples by understanding how neuroception of danger activates protective strategies using a polyvagal-informed framework, participants will expand their capacity to read and respond to clients’ nervous system states and use co-regulation to restore safety and engagement.

Participants will build a stronger somatic and co-regulation toolkit, learning how to transform moments of shame shutdown or agitated shame into opportunities for safety,…