The Institute of Emotion-Focused Therapy Ireland offers training in EFT and related therapies.
Trainings run by the institute are intended for practitioners who are already qualified, practising psychotherapy, and accredited with their governing body. Within Ireland, trainings are typically open to Counselling and Clinical Psychologists and to registered/accredited psychotherapists and counsellors.
All EFT training is facilitated by trainers accredited by isEFT, the International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy. All trainings are carried out to iEFT training standards such that participants can work towards accreditation as EFT therapists. Please see the isEFT website for details of training standards and accreditation criteria.
Training and Events
Upcoming Trainings
Emotion-Focused Therapy - Level 2 (10th - 13th December 2024)
Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST) for Parents and Caregivers (1st - 4th September 2025) ** revised dates
Emotion-Focused Therapy- 2 Day in-person refresher (7th-8th May 2025)
Emotion-Focused Therapy for Anxiety and Depression (2 day in-person workshop) (9th - 10th June 2025)
Emotion-Focused Therapy- 2 day online refresher (September 2025 - dates TBC)
Emotion-Focused Therapy for Anxiety and Depression (2 day online workshop) (25th-26th September 2025)
Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (4 day training) (17th - 20th September 2025)
Emotion-Focused Therapy - Level 2 (9th - 12th December 2025)
Emotion-Focused Therapy-Level 3 (January/February 2026; online; dates tbc)
Upcoming Events
2025 ISEFT Conference
Growing Through Emotions Healing Through Feeling Bucharest, Romania, 2nd and 3rd July 2025
UPCOMING TRAININGS
UPCOMING TRAININGS
Emotion-Focused Therapy - Level 2
A Four Day Training Workshop in Emotion Focused Therapy for individuals
Presented by Ladislav Timulak, PhD
Co-facilitated by Sonja Schmmit (D.Couns.Psych.)
Fee: €875 (€800 early bird bookings made before 30/09/2024)
For all enquiries and bookings please contact: ieftireland@gmail.com
10am - 5pm
Marino Institute of Education (map)
10th -13th December 2024
Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST) for Parents and Caregivers
A Four Day clinician training in Emotion Focused Skills Training (for parents and caregivers)
Presented by Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen and Vanja Hjelmseth Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen and Vanja Hjelmseth (Norwegian Institute for Emotion-Focused Therapy)
€875 (€800 early bird fees paid in full by 31st May 2025).
For all enquiries and bookings please contact: ieftireland@gmail.com
10 am - 5pm
Marino Institute of Education (map)
1st - 4th September 2025
Emotion Focused Therapy Level 1
A Four Day Training Workshop in Emotion Focused Therapy for individuals
Presented by Ladislav Timulak, PhD
Co-facilitated by Daragh Keogh, D.Couns.Psych & Sonja Schmitt, D.Couns.Psych
Training is open to qualified clinical/counselling psychologists and accredited counsellors/ psychotherapists and is the first step in becoming a certified EFT therapist with the International Society for Emotion-Focused Therapy (ISEFT).
Fee: €875 (€800 early bird bookings made before 28/02/2025)
For all enquiries and bookings please contact: ieftireland@gmail.com
20th - 23rd May 2025
10am - 5pm
Marino Institute of Education (map)
TBC
Emotion-Focused Therapy - 2 day in-person refresher
A two day in-person refresher workshop in EFT for individuals
For clinicians who have attended at least EFT Level 1
7th - 8th May 2025
€475 (€425 early bird fees paid in full by 31st January 2025 [in person workshop]
Facilitated by Daragh Keogh (D.Couns.Psych.)
For all enquiries and bookings please contact: ieftireland@gmail.com
7th - 8th May 2025
10am - 5pm
Marino Institute of Education (map)
EFT for Anxiety and Depression (2 day in-person workshop)
A two day workshop on working with Anxiety and Depression in brief EFT
Facilitated by Ladislav Timulak
9th and 10th June 2025
€475 (€425 early bird fees paid in full by 31st March 2025
Attendees must have attended at least EFT Level 1
This two day workshop provides an overview of a brief model of EFT for anxiety and depression. The model adapts EFT for use in contexts (e.g., primary care) where brief interventions are delivered in the context of mild to moderate levels of symptomatic distress. The workshop will provide a summary of EFT and useful tips for working with depression and a variety of anxiety disorders, including generalised anxiety, social anxiety and panic attacks. Day One will focus on depression, looking specifically at how to work therapeutically with profound hopelessness, numbness/restriction, and withdrawal. Therapeutic strategies aimed at facilitating clients to access and work with emotional experience will be covered. Day Two will focus on working with physiological distress and worrying as manifesting in generalized anxiety, social anxiety and panic attacks. Therapeutic strategies aimed at countering emotional and behavioural avoidance, helping clients let go of control/avoidance and instead engage with experience and situations that they might find scary, as well as strategies for working with clients who want to increase control and avoidance, will be covered.
For all enquiries and bookings please contact: ieftireland@gmail.com
9th & 10th June 2025
Marino Institute of Education (map)
Emotion-Focused Therapy - 2 day on-line refresher (September 25)
A two day online refresher workshop in EFT for individuals
For clinicians who have attended at least EFT Level 1
€475 (€425 early bird fees paid in full by 31st March 2025)
Facilitated by Daragh Keogh (D.Couns.Psych.)
For all enquiries and bookings please contact: ieftireland@gmail.com
Dates tbc
Online via zoom
September 2025
EFT for Anxiety and Depression (2 day Online workshop)
A two day workshop on working with Anxiety and Depression in brief EFT
Facilitated by Ladislav Timulak/Daragh Keogh
25th and 26th September 2025
€475 (€425 early bird fees paid in full by 31st March 2025)
Attendees must have attended at least EFT Level 1
This two day workshop provides an overview of a brief model of EFT for anxiety and depression. The model adapts EFT for use in contexts (e.g., primary care) where brief interventions are delivered in the context of mild to moderate levels of symptomatic distress. The workshop will provide a summary of EFT and useful tips for working with depression and a variety of anxiety disorders, including generalised anxiety, social anxiety and panic attacks. Day One will focus on depression, looking specifically at how to work therapeutically with profound hopelessness, numbness/restriction, and withdrawal. Therapeutic strategies aimed at facilitating clients to access and work with emotional experience will be covered. Day Two will focus on working with physiological distress and worrying as manifesting in generalized anxiety, social anxiety and panic attacks. Therapeutic strategies aimed at countering emotional and behavioural avoidance, helping clients let go of control/avoidance and instead engage with experience and situations that they might find scary, as well as strategies for working with clients who want to increase control and avoidance, will be covered.
For all enquiries and bookings please contact: ieftireland@gmail.com
25th-26th September 2025
Via zoom
Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (in person training)
A Four Day Training Workshop in Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
Facilitated by Serine Warwar, PhD
17th - 20th September 2025
Fee: €875 (€800 early bird bookings made before 31/05/2025)
Training is open to qualified clinical/counselling psychologists and accredited counsellors/ psychotherapists and is the first step in becoming a certified EFT Couples therapist with the International Society for Emotion-Focused Therapy (ISEFT).
For all enquiries and bookings please contact: ieftireland@gmail.com
Marino Institute of Education (map)
17th - 20th Sept 2025
Emotion-Focused Therapy - Level 2
A Four Day Training Workshop in Emotion Focused Therapy for individuals
Presented by Ladislav Timulak, PhD
Co-facilitated by Daragh Keogh (D.Couns.Psych.)
9th- 12th December 2025
Fee: €875 (€800 early bird bookings made before 31/08/2025)
For all enquiries and bookings please contact: ieftireland@gmail.com
Marino Institute of Education (map)
9th-12th December 2025
Emotion-Focused Therapy - Level 3
A Three Day Training/Supervision Workshop in Emotion Focused Therapy for individuals
Facilitator tbc
The Institute of Emotion-Focused Therapy Ireland hosts an intensive three-day level 3 training workshop in Emotion-Focused Therapy. The training is open to participants who have already completed Level 1 and Level 2 trainings and wish to advance their practice of EFT through participation in an intensive supervision workshop. It is especially suited for advanced EFT practitioners seeking to enhance their clinical application of EFT.
For all enquiries and bookings please contact: ieftireland@gmail.com
January/ February 2026
Dates tbc
Online