The Western Australian Institute of Emotion-Focused Therapy

Some sessions feel transformational. Others feel like you've had a really articulate conversation about a problem that hasn't moved.

The difference often comes down to whether you can work with emotion in the room — not just talk about it.

That's what Emotion-Focused Therapy training teaches.

We're running EFT Level 1 Individual Therapy in Perth in six weeks. Four days of the core experiential techniques: Chairwork, Systematic Evocative Unfolding, Focusing. Brief lectures, lots of video demonstrations, and a lot of supervised role-play practice.

For psychologists, counsellors, social workers, and psychotherapists who want to deepen their clinical work.

Dates: 11-12, 15-16 June 2026
Where: Perth, in person

Booking: via the website; waieft.com.au

Level 1 Couples (July) and Level 2 Couples (November) are also open for 2026.

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Now the third direct comparison of EFT and CBT is out. This shows both treatments as effective, and no substantive difference between them

Cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused therapy for depression in a routine care setting: A randomized controlled pilot trial This pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) aimed to preliminarily assess the efficacy and acceptability of Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) in short-term treat...

The second addition of Learning Emotion Focused Therapy is out!

Only 2.5 weeks until our Level 1 Individual Therapy Training!
Level 1 Couples Therapy Therapy following in July

Great study just published here! An outcome study found that emotion focused skills training - which is EFT for parenting, produced much better outcomes than a treatment as usual.

Effectiveness of emotion-focused skills training (EFST) for parents: A randomized controlled trial investigating remission of mental health diagnosis and symptom reduction in children Emotion-focused skills training for parents (EFST) is a parental guidance intervention aimed at strengthening emotional bonds between parent and child and improve children's mental health. In this ...

We're excited for our first training of 2025 this week! An online Level 2 Couples therapy training, with the legend Prof Rhonda Goldman!

Our level 1 Individual and couples will be in June and July

Emotion-Focused Therapy Trainings — waiEFT Our trainings provide participants with a solid grounding in the skills required to work more directly with emotions in psychotherapy. The focus of the trainings will be experiential, learning how to provide change in core emotional structures. Participants receive in depth skill training through a

ISEFT Conference 2025 The International Society for Emotion-Focused Therapy (ISEFT) is thrilled to announce the upcoming, in person, 2025 ISEFT conference and EFT Trainers Meeting to be held in Bucharest (Romania).

There is a new special issue on 'New Developments in EFT' in Person Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy; edited by Rhonda Goldman and myself.

The issue contains articles on applying EFT to Youth, Parenting, 2 x Groups, Supervision, as well as new research on individual and couples.

Iseft members can access it for free. But if you're not a member yet, there's several articles that are open access, and two of the articles - one on Youth (Forough et al.) and one on Supervision (Stremlj), are temporary free to access for anyone. So it's worth having a look now, while that access is available.

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You can see the new issue here:

Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Volume 23, Issue 3 of Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies

Just finished our Level 1 Couples therapy training, with these awesome people!

We're very proud of this new article by our own Western Australian EFT community. Outlining participant's experiences of change during an EFT group therapy.

It's open access too, so anyone can read!

Experiences of the change process during Emotion Focused Group Therapy Emotion Focused Group Therapy has demonstrated preliminary efficacy for multiple syndromes. The groups involve individual chair-work in the context of the group, followed by interpersonal processin...