Emotionally focused individual terapy
Experience the Power of Attachment-Based Individual Therapy – For the First Time in Norway!
Are you ready to develop your individual therapy practice? For the first time on Norwegian soil, you can now learn the highly acclaimed, attachment-oriented model of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), developed by Dr. Sue Johnson.
EFIT brings the healing power of emotional connection into the individual therapy room. It helps you shape corrective emotional experiences that foster inner security and stronger, healthier relationships — the very foundation of mental well-being.
Join us for a 4-day in-person training in Oslo, led by world-renowned EFT Trainer Lorrie Brubacher and Norway’s own Internationally approved EFT Trainer Dimitrij Samoilow. Together, they will guide you through the theory and practice of EFIT, giving you tools to help clients struggling with anxiety, depression, and relational wounds.
🌱 Why Train in Emotion-Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)?
For therapists who want to work relationally, deeply, and with integration—also in individual therapy.
🔄 An individual therapy with a systemic lens
EFIT is grounded in the well-researched couple therapy model (EFT), giving it a more relational and systemic foundation than many other individual approaches.🤝 The relationship is always present
EFIT is profoundly relational: it explores both how clients relate to themselves and how they reach out to others. Attachment and emotional connection are central.🧩 Seamless integration between individual and couple therapy
If you're already trained in EFT for couples, EFIT offers a natural and flexible extension. You can move between modalities without changing frameworks. For example, you can take one partner into individual sessions to work through blocks—without having to leave the model behind.🌿 A humanistic model with emotional depth
EFIT draws from Rogerian therapy, Gestalt, modern emotion theory, and attachment science—forming a warm, integrative, and process-oriented approach.🧠 Especially effective for trauma and relational wounds
Originally developed as a trauma model, EFIT aligns well with modern trauma-informed approaches. It helps clients restore safety, connection, and self-compassion.💬 Applicable to a wide range of issues
EFIT is well-suited for common challenges such as anxiety, depression, low self-worth, and relational difficulties—especially when emotional experience and attachment dynamics are key.
You will learn to:
Adopt an attachment humanistic perspective on clients, problems, andinterventions.
Discover and distill core emotional experiences and promote emotional balance.
Outline protective, self-defining and interactional iatrogenic patterns.
Implement the 5 moves of the EFT Tango to shape corrective emotional experiences.
Choreograph dramas that expand the self and open enegagement with others.
Integrate corrective emotional experiences into models of self and other.
Validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session.
You will be earning directly from international experts.
It's a highly practical, experiential training – not just lectures. You will learn applicable skills you can use immediately in therapy. You will connect with a growing community of engaged EFT therapists.
Approved by the Norwegian Psychological Association (NPF)
This training is for psychologists who:
Seek new inspiration and concrete skills for their clinical work
Want to understand how attachment theory can guide individual therapy
That enjoys working with emotionally focused couples therapy, and would like to learn best practices individually as well
Long for deeper, more relational ways of working
Feel stuck or ineffective with individual clients who struggle with anxiety, depression, and emotional isolation
Value being part of an international movement grounded in solid research
Don’t miss this chance to level up your therapeutic practice and be part of something truly meaningful. Spaces are limited – secure your spot today!
About the trainers
Lorrie Brubacher is the Founding Director of the Carolina Center for EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy). A certified trainer with the International Centre for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT), she has been an individual, couple and family therapist since 1989. She is an adjunct faculty at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She trains internationally and publishes frequently on the topic of EFT, often with its originator, Dr. Sue Johnson.She co-developed EFT’s first interactive video training program, has several training videos, available at https://steppingintoeft.com and published Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change (2018). This book has also been tranlated to Norwegian («Emosjonsfokusert Parterapi: Kjærlighet i et tilknytningsperspektiv», 2019, Gyldendal Akademisk).
Dimitrij Samoilow is a Certified EFT Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. He lives in Oslo, Norway, where he trains, supervises and provides Emotionally Focused Therapy in Norwegian, English and German. His clinical practice is at www.psykologvirke.no. Dimitrij is also known for authoring the popular Norwegian book, Kunsten å elske: Ni nøkler til et bedre samliv. He has also authored a book on working with violence in couple relationships.
He is registered as a psychologist with specialized training in adult clinical psychology and family psychology, is EMDR certified and has experience with drug and alcohol treatment. Dimitrij is actively involved in supporting and promoting EFT in Norway and throughout Scandinavia as well as in Switzerland and Germany. He serves on the board of EFT Norway
More details about the training:
For the first time on Norwegian soil you can learn about Dr. Susan Johnsons deeply attachment oriented flavor of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). Extending Johnson’s model of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy to work with individuals EFIT helps you to create corrective emotional experiences in individual therapy to shape safety and security with others and within self. We are very happy to be able to host EFT-trainer Lorrie Brubacher who will present this four day training together with our Norwegian EFT trainer Dimitrij Samoilow.
Johnson argues that psychotherapy is most effective when it focuses on the healing power of emotional connection. Attachment theory provides proven techniques for treating the two common presenting problems in individual therapy: anxiety and depression. It provides a practical map for shaping love or secure attachment that positively impacts emotion regulation, social adjustment and mental health.
“But love is not only an end for therapy; it is also the means by which every end is reached” (Lewis, Amini, & Lannon, 2002 - A general theory of love).
In EFIT, the therapeutic alliance is the heart from which emotion regulation and secure bonds with others and within self are shaped. Core attachment emotions are reprocessed to fuel corrective emotional experiences of love, between and within. Clients are helped to discover and validate inner emotional experience that can then be used as a guide for living. Confidence flows from secure connection with others, creating a safe haven and a secure base in the dynamic flow between interpersonal and internal worlds.
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