Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): An Attachment-Based Approach to Understanding and Working with Trauma

“Over the lifespan, the need for connection with others shapes our neural architecture, our responses to stress, our everyday emotional lives, and the interpersonal dramas and dilemmas that are at the heart of those lives” (S. Johnson, Attachment Theory in Practice, 2019, p. 5).  For those who have endured trauma, either in the context of their childhood environments, and/or as they have undertaken to serve their countries and/or protect their communities, the emotional toll is often significant, leading to various difficulties associated with self coherence and functioning, as well as capacity to manage emotion and interpersonal relations. 

Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson in the early 1990s, Dr. Campbell has been working in the area of trauma and using EFT in her work with individuals, couples and families since that time.  In this one-day training, with a focus on trauma, Dr. Campbell will provide an overview of the attachment perspective on…