The Denver EFT Community is excited to be hosting their first Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) Externship endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). Our two trainers bring a wealth of experience and a particular interest in working with multicultural realities and the impact of marginalization and understanding how it activates our attachment systems and the role of emotional coherence in co/regulating and maintaining health, well-being, and possibly thriving. Both trainers have lived, clinical, research, and publishing experience in these areas and are excited to weave it throughout the training while demonstrating the work via their own clinical work with African-American and LGBTQ+ couples/relationships.
Dr. Guillory is the author of the only text on EFCT with African American Couples while Dr. Allan’s research explores working with the the impact of minority stress on relationships and working with relational diversity.
4 Day Event
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025 9am-5pm
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025 9am-5pm
Friday, Sept. 5, 2025 9am-5pm
Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025 9am-4pm
Daily Schedule
8 hour training + 1 hour lunch + two 10min breaks
Event Time
Mountain Standard Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Event Location
$945 Super Early bird Fee (Paid in full before April 30th, 2025)
Military $845, Student $795 (2025/2026 full-time students, proof required)
Some reduced fee places available, please contact us more information (denvereft@gmail.com).
$1045 Early bird Fee (Paid in full before June 23rd, 2025)
Military $945, Student $895 (2025/2026 full-time students, proof required)
$1145 Regular Fee
Military $1045, Student $995 (2025/2026 full-time students, proof required)
$572.50 Repeating the Externship – You must provide us with a scan of your certificate
Immerse yourself in Emotionally Focused Therapy – a model backed by 30 years of empirical research – through our four-day “Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy®”.
Observe real couples undergoing therapy (live or recorded), practice your EFT skills with experiential exercises, discover which patterns keep clients stuck in distress, and learn how principles of attachment science translate into on-target interventions for individuals, couples and families.
Emerge empowered and ready for your clients to grow in every session.
Transform and deepen the way you work with clients to produce real change in every session The EFT Externship is our flagship introductory 24- or 28-hour training in Emotionally Focused Therapy
During this 4-day workshop you will learn how to view relationship distress through an attachment lens and to focus on addressing your clients’ attachment needs and longings. More than just a discussion of theory, an Externship in EFT will provide you with a roadmap to work with your clients’ underlying emotions and facilitate therapy conversations that increase feelings of secure attachment, closeness and connection.
About the Trainers
Dr. Paul Guillory is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Clinical Science Program, Psychology Department. He has taught courses on Emotionally Focused Therapies at U.C. Berkeley. He is certified supervisor and therapist of Emotionally Focused Therapy, and currently a trainer-in-training.
Dr. Guillory is the author of the book “Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples: Love Heals,” Routledge, August 2021. He is the former chairperson of the Northern California Community of Emotionally Focused Therapy. Dr. Guillory was the psychological consultant to the Oakland Raiders professional football team and the National Football League for 14 years.
Additionally, he has been a consultant to the Sacramento Kings professional basketball team, and is a selected provider for the National Basketball Players Association. He served as Director of the Center for Family Counseling in Oakland California for ten years. He has been in private practice in Oakland California for over 30 years.
Dr. Robert Allan is an experienced educator and trainer, specializing in counselor/therapist learning and development. He is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead at the University of Roehampton.
Robert is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist and Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado where he maintains an active couple therapy and supervision practice. Dr. Allan also researches the practical application of Emotionally Focused Therapy across diverse populations. Robert has published in peer reviewed journals and presents regularly at scientific conferences on the process and efficacy of EFT for couples.
He has been involved in trainings in Canada (where he is from), England (where he lives), Scotland, and the US; and has a strong interest in helping counselors and therapists integrate EFT into their practices.
