Emotion Focused Therapy for Youth (3 days in-person training)

  • Facilitated by Dr Mirisse Foroughe

  • Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, Ireland

  • Wednesday 10th June - Friday 12th June, 10am-5pm

  • Fee: €750/€650 early bird (fees paid by 31st March 2026)

  • For all enquiries and bookings please contact: admin@ieft.ie


Join Dr. Mirisse Foroughe, Clinical Psychologist based in Toronto, Canada, for this new approach to youth and family therapy: Emotion Focused Therapy for Youth (EFT-Y).

This training is for therapists relatively new to EFT as well as those with EFT experience with adults or couples, looking to gain experience in working with youth, parent-child dyads, co-parent dyads, and families within an emotion focused modality.

EFT-Y directs youth to their emotions while recognizing how impactful primary caregivers are in a child’s emotional development and mental health. Many youth become more comfortable with expressing their emotions directly to their caregivers and allowing parents and caregivers to become involved in the therapeutic process. EFT-Y prioritizes a multi-perspective formulation, going beyond the individual to consider and possibly access key systems and identities within the client’s life: family, school, community, culture, religion, and more.

Who can attend?

EFT-Y integrates EFT’s emotion transformation process while also focusing more explicitly on nonverbal communication between therapist and client, due to potential challenges with expressive language that can result from developmental or intrafamilial trauma, impaired or developing cognitive functioning, and neurodivergence in younger clients. You will practice identifying key moments in therapy, facilitating emotion transformation through evocative and empathic responses, and working with dyads, triads, and families from a systems perspective.

Dr. Mirisse Foroughe

Dr. Mirisse Foroughe, C. Psych. obtained her PhD from York University. She has received numerous awards and accolades for her work, including the CPA PFC Innovative Service Award and the OPA Harvey T. Brooker Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching. Dr. Foroughe directs the Emotion Transformation Institute in Toronto and is the Clinical Director at Family Psychology Centre. She has authored numerous research articles and two books on emotion focused approaches for youth and caregivers.

Introduction to Emotion Focused Therapy workshops

While no prior experience of EFT is required to register for the training, registrants with no prior exposure to EFT are strongly encouraged to attend one of the following online Introduction to EFT workshops provided by the Institute of Emotion-Focused Therapy Ireland. These one day workshops will give a brief overview of EFT theory and practice and help those less familiar with the model get up to speed.


• Wednesday 25th March: Introduction to Emotion Focused Therapy - full day workshop (online, 10am-5pm)
• Friday 1st May: Introduction to Emotion Focused Therapy - full day workshop (online, 10am-5pm


For those registered to attend the EFT-Y training, there will be no additional fee to attend the 1 day introduction to EFT workshop.

Podcast episode: https://www.emotionfocused.com/episodes/tag/mirisse+foroughe 

Book: https://www.routledge.com/Emotion-Focused-Therapy-for-Youth-The-Clinical-Manual/Foroughe/p/book/9781032112299?srsltid=AfmBOorUXiYLCk_cSoqEVSGMzFkE-wGNSSl_twu5NDgqEgO6vuaEtJpK 

For all enquiries and bookings please contact: admin@ieft.ie