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

Upcoming Events

2025 ISEFT Conference

Growing Through Emotions Healing Through Feeling Bucharest, Romania, 2nd and 3rd July 2025

https://www.iseftconference.com/

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