Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST) for Parents Presented by Dr. Joanne Dolhanty

November 20 – 22, 2023
Institut für Emotionsfokussierte Therapie (IEFT), Munich Germany

Online Open Training

This training will teach and train clinicians in the principles and techniques of delivering EFST for parents as a workshop or in the counselling or therapy office. The training places strong emphasis on experiential learning and will be highly focused on practice change at all levels of experience. It is therefore suitable for practitioners with advanced levels of training and experience in the emotion focused therapies.

This is an emotion-processing, skills-based approach that gives parents simple, practical tools that they can implement immediately in their family. These skills include how to navigate the confusing world of their child’s feelings, how to work with challenges in their child’s motivation, and how to restore their ability to set appropriate boundaries while also restoring positive, productive relationships with their children of any age.

Note that a background in working with families, parents or children is not required. Clinicians who have not worked with families report finding in EFST a new perspective, framework and skill set that also enhances their work with individual clients of any age as well as with couples. The structure of EFST that will be taught has applications to a variety of settings and populations including parents and caregivers, schools, eating disorders, addictions and more.

Access for one year to the EFST-P online course will be included in the registration fee.

For more information on signing up for this training, please contact Martina Schindler at anmeldung@ieft.de


Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST) for Parents Presented by Dr. Joanne Dolhanty

November 7 – 10, 2023
York University Psychological Clinic, Toronto, Canada
Online Open Training

Emotion-Focused Skills Training (EFST) for Parents is an evidence-based, innovative, ultra-simple, and quickly effective parent and family support program that facilitates a transformational partnership between families and professionals. EFST supports parents by empowering them as active, primary agents in guiding loved ones of any age through the behavioral, emotional, and relational challenges of everyday living and relating, as well as through the challenges their loved ones face when struggling with a mental health issue, a physical health issue, or any other special circumstances including social and educational challenges.

This training will teach and train clinicians in the principles and techniques of delivering EFST for Parents as a workshop, webinar, or on an individual family basis.

The training places strong emphasis on experiential learning and will be highly focused on practice change at all levels of experience. It is therefore suitable for practitioners new to emotion focused training as well as for those with basic or advanced levels of training and experience in the emotion focused therapies.

Note that a background in working with families, parents, or children is not required. The structure of EFST that will be taught also has applications to a variety of settings and populations including parents and caregivers, schools, and addictions. Click here for the registration form.


Emotion Focused Skill Training (EFST) for Parents and Families Presented by Dr. Joanne Dolhanty

October 19 – 22, 2023
Helm Stierlin Institut, Heidelberg, Germany
Online Open Training

EFST is an innovative and highly effective support program for families. EFST teaches parents strategies for dealing with their children’s challenging behavior, strengthens their self-efficacy and enables them to set boundaries while remaining positively connected. In this four-day seminar, the participants are taught the principles of EFST and enabled to pass them on in their respective fields of application (therapy, counseling center, school, youth welfare, outreach family work). All interventions are tested on one’s own body and reflected on from a professional and personal perspective. The seminar will be held in English. Dr. Dolhanty speaks very clearly. Questions or individual seminar sections can be translated upon request.

Access for one year to the EFST-P online course will be included in the registration fee.

For more information on signing up for this training, please contact Dr. Julika Zwack at Julika_Zwack@yahoo.de


Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST) for Parents Presented by Dr. Joanne Dolhanty

Date to Be Determined – Please Check Back!
Southern California Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy

Online Open Training

Details and registration information to be announced.


View the Facebook Live Event From The Book launch For Emotion Focused Skills Training for Parents – A Guide for Clinicians

October 24, 2022

Michael E Bricker, PhD, interviews the four authors; Joanne Dolhanty, Vanja Hjelmseth, Bente Austbø and Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen.