Emotion-Focused Therapy - 2 Day In Person Refresher

A two day in-person workshop on working with anxiety and depression in EFT

  • For clinicians who have attended at least an EFT Level 1 workshop

  • Marino Institute of Education, Marino, Dublin

  • 10am-5pm, 12th & 13th Nov 2026

  • Facilitated by Ladislav Timulak

  • Fee €475 (€400 early bird fee paid by 31st July 2026)

  • All enquiries: admin@ieft.ie

For clinicians who have attended at least an EFT Level 1 workshop.


The Workshop

This two day in-person 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.

Trainer

The training will be facilitated by Ladislav (Laco, pronounced Latso) Timulak, Ph.D. Laco is Professor in Counselling Psychology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he is Course Director of the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. Laco is involved in various psychotherapy trainings in Ireland and internationally. His main research interest is psychotherapy research, particularly the development of emotion-focused therapy (EFT). He currently is developing this form of therapy as a transdiagnostic treatment for depression, anxiety, and related disorders. He is also researching the use of mental health interventions delivered online. He has written or co-written ten books, more than 100 peer reviewed papers and chapters in both his native language, Slovak, and in English. His most recent EFT books include Transforming Emotional Pain in Psychotherapy: An Emotion-Focused Approach (2015), Transforming Generalized Anxiety: An Emotion-Focused Approach (with James McElvaney; 2018); and Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Therapy (with co-author Daragh Keogh) published by the American Psychological Association (2021). He serves on various editorial boards and, in the past, coedited Counselling Psychology Quarterly. He maintains a part-time private practice.

For all enquiries: admin@ieft.ie

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