EFCT Externship
with George Faller and Ryan Rana
When: July 29 - August 1, 2025
Where: Fayetteville, AR
CEs: 26 Available
Cost: $975 Professionals / $675 Students
About the Training:
A 4-day externship includes presentations of theory, clinical techniques and skills, training exercises, video recordings, observation of live interviews and discussion of specific cases and clinical issues. Along with didactic presentation, this training will incorporate participant role plays in small group settings to practice this experiential model, as well as opportunity to observe trainers working with a couple live. The externship is a pre-requisite for Master classes and advanced Core Skills training in EFT.
Learning objectives:
Participants will obtain a clear understanding of the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an “Emotionally Focused” approach to therapy.
Participants will be able to view clients in the web of their interpersonal attachments and conceptualize relationship distress and repair based on theories of attachment and emotion.
EFT is a relational therapy. The Externship will focus on the general model of EFT as laid out in the 2019 book, Attachment Theory in Practice, and teach the model as implemented in couple and individual therapy sessions.
Participants will develop skills in sharing and maintaining an engaged, open and collaborative alliance with clients.
Participants will develop skills in the 5 moves of the basic macro-intervention – the EFT Tango – in order to change patterns of affect regulation, models of self and other, strategies for engaging others and interactional patterns.
Participants will develop skills in EFT micro interventions taken from experiential and systemic models of intervention.
Participants will develop skills in overcoming common blocks and impasses in all three therapy modalities and so shaping core corrective emotional experiences that lead to constructive dependency and what Rogers termed ‘existential living.’
Email us with any questions: arkansaseft@gmail.com
About Our Trainers:
George Faller
George Faller, LMFT is a certified Supervisor Trainer/Therapist in EFT and founder of the New York Center for EFT. As an EFT Trainer, George teaches several classes at the Ackerman Institute for the Family (the oldest family institute in the United States) in NYC, is a board member of the Porter Cason Institute for the Family at Tulane University in New Orleans and is the director of training at the Center for Hope and Renewal in Greenwich, Ct. Specializing in trauma, Family EFT, and self-of-the-therapist issues, George is committed to bringing EFT to underprivileged populations and pushing the leading edge of effective therapy. George is the co-author of three books: True Connection: Using the NAME IT Model to Heal Relationships (Living With Hope), Sacred Stress: A Radically Different Approach to Using Life’s Challenges for Positive Change and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience.
He has an online training series called Success In Vulnerability.
Prior to a career in mental health, he served as a firefighter and police officer for 20 years in New York City.
Dr. Ryan Rana
Ryan Rana, PhD, LMFT, LPC is a certified EFT Supervisor Trainer/Therapist. He is the current president and founder of the Arkansas EFT Center. He and his wife, Anne, founded The Joshua Center in Arkansas, where he currently practices and acts as the Executive Director. His specializations include work with couples, sexuality, depression, and traumatic stress. He studies military training processes and practice and performance psychology. Ryan currently co-hosts The Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy podcast, and is part of the Success in Vulnerability training team. Before become a therapist, he was a baseball pitching coach at the collegiate level.
Learn more at ryanranatraining.com
Email us with any questions: arkansaseft@gmail.com
