Dr. Leanne Campbell is co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group.  Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson in the early 1990s, she has continued to work in the EFT model since that time, and has provided psychotherapy services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past about three decades.  By request, Dr. Campbell also provides personalized results-driven ‘intensives’ (i.e., ‘boot camps’) for couples motivated to improve their relationship and/or address ‘attachment injuries’ related to infidelity, other significant life events and/or transitions (e.g., loss or trauma).

Known for her expertise in trauma, Dr. Campbell has provided hundreds of psychological assessment reports for forensic/legal and personal injury matters being considered before various levels of Court.   She also is regularly called upon to provide expert opinion, as well as psychological evaluations for various insurance companies and bodies involved in adjudicating personal injury and other trauma-based claims. In addition to maintaining a full-time private practice, with a primary focus in the areas of relationship strain, trauma, grief and loss, Dr. Campbell currently co-manages a three-site practice comprised of twenty-five clinicians and is a site co-ordinator for an Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) outcome study.

An active ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Leanne trains professionals around the globe and is involved in the development of various materials including DVDs, on-line educational/training programs, books, workbooks, and articles.  Most recently, she co-authored the first basic EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy) text with Dr. Sue Johnson, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client (Routledge, 2022), as well as a workbook for therapists training in EFT (see Furrow et al., Routledge, 2022).

Course Description

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT; S. Johnson) is best known as a potent couple intervention but has always, from its inception, been used in clinical practice with individuals.  This workshop focuses on Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) as it applies to working with individuals struggling with the echoes of trauma.  Attachment science and an Experiential Humanistic approach offer a map that simplifies how we view and frame clients’ problems, and how we intervene across the three-stage therapy process.  The ‘experiential assessment’ tunes the therapist into clients’ strengths and vulnerabilities to chart clients’ therapeutic journey toward a felt sense of security with self and others – the pathway to symptom resolution and the antidote to trauma.  You’ll discover:

• The key elements of the attachment perspective and its significance for understanding personality and the impacts of trauma
• A guide for framing the problem in EFIT and charting the course of therapy toward expanding the sense of self and removing the barriers to growth and connection
• An on-target map for the creation of transformative moments where vulnerabilities are encountered with balance and competence
• A path to shape corrective emotional experiences, regulating and organizing inner experience, transforming trauma, and promoting engagement with others
• The macro EFIT intervention sequence -the EFT Tango and experiential micro-interventions, such as tracking, reflection and validation – key skills to create change in every session

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe the key elements of the attachment perspective and its significance for understanding personality, the impact of trauma and clinical intervention
• Summarize and demonstrate how to conduct an experiential assessment and the associated C.A.R.E. model to chart the course for therapy
• Explain and begin to use the power of emotion in transforming trauma
• Define how to work with the body as the ‘gateway to emotion’ – the target and agent of change in EFIT
• Give examples of how to implement the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experience
• Apply the Tango – a proven sequence for creating key change events
• Apply the EFIT model and begin to implement some of the micro-interventions used by the EFIT therapist to gradually move clients into transformative moments where vulnerabilities are encountered in the presence of another, fostering trauma resolution and a stronger sense of balance, coherence, and competence
• Describe the three stages of therapy that clients move through as barriers to growth are removed and the seeds of secure attachment are sown

Dates/Times

In Australian Eastern Standard Time

Thursday 9 November & Friday 10 November 2023, 10am to 1 pm
Thursday 16 November & Friday 17 November 2023, 10am to 1pm

In USA – Pacific Time

Wednesday 8 November & Thursday 9 November 2023, 4 pm to 7 pm
Wednesday 15 November & Thursday 16 November 2023, 4 pm to 7 pm

Registration Fees

Prices for Australian residents (in AUD and include GST)

Early Bird from 7th April 2023 – 31st July 2023 – $380
Full Fee from 1st August 2023 – $430
Full Time Student – $330

Prices for International participants (in AUD excludes GST)

Early Bird from 7th April 2023 – 31st July 2023 – $345
Full Fee from 1st August 2023 – $395
Full Time Student – $300

Tickets can be purchased here.