Title of activity:

香港2026 EFT情緒取向治療國際認證訓練初階暨伴侶治療初階

(EFT Externship)

Name(s) of speaker(s) 

Dr. Ting Liu 

Ting Liu, Ph.D., serves as the clinical director of PCEFT and is a certified EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) trainer, supervisor and therapist.

She is licensed in Pennsylvania as a Marriage and Family Therapist and is an Approved Supervisor with the American Association of Marriage & Family
Therapy. She maintains a Private Practice in Wayne, PA.

Dr. Liu received her doctorate in Child Development and Family Studies with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy from Purdue University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Family Intervention Science at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Her publications include four books she has translated into Chinese in the fields of MFT and EFT. She has also published several journal articles on different applications of EFT and wrote a chapter on multi-cultural therapy in the EFT casebook. She is currently involved in several outcome studies examining the cultural applicability of EFT to diverse populations.

Dr. Liu offers EFT training, supervision, and case consultation to therapists in the Philadelphia area, as well as to therapists in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Shenzen, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo.

Brief content:

The four day EFT Externship is the first official step to learning EFT. Four day Externships in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (approximately 30 hours) includes the observation of live and video recorded couple and individual therapy sessions, presentations of theory and clinical techniques, skills training exercises, and discussion of specific cases, clinical material and issues.

Following this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Gain clear understanding of theoretical underpinnings, research and road map of EFT;
• See relational and emotional distress of couples, families and individuals through the lens of attachment theory;
• Explore, organize and distinguish negative interaction patterns that maintain relational distress;
• Access, assemble and deepen core attachment emotions that underlie negative interaction patterns;
• Apply systemic, experiential and humanistic interventions as EFT micro-interventions;
• Practice the 5 core moves of the EFT Tango macro- intervention;
• Shape key bonding events that build secure connection;
• Overcome therapeutic impasses and address existential dilemmas.
• Participants will obtain a clear understanding of the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an “Emotionally Focused” approach to therapy.
• Participants will be able to view clients in the web of their interpersonal attachments and conceptualize relationship distress and repair based on theories of attachment and emotion.
• Participants will develop skills in sharing and maintaining an engaged, open and collaborative alliance with clients.
• Participants will develop skills in the 5 moves of the basic macro-intervention – the EFT Tango – in order to change patterns of affect regulation, models of self and other, strategies for engaging others and interactional patterns.
• Participants will develop skills in EFT micro interventions taken from experiential and systemic models of intervention.

Attendees:

Clinical Psychologist

Educational Psychologist

Counselling Psychologist

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$7800 Original Price

Offer 1： completed the application and payment on or before 31/3/2026 --$7300

Offer 2： completed the application and payment on or before 15/5/2026 --$7500

Offer 3：Group of three, deduct $100 per person

Offer 4：Facebook like and share discount, deduct $100

Please refer to website for details: www.iriscts.com

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