Join us for Our 2026 Annual Conference
This 6-hour experiential intensive is built for clinicians with foundational training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) who are ready to turn what they know into what they can do in the room.
After a brief review of EFT's attachment-based framework, most of the day is hands-on practice. You'll work on accessing and deepening primary emotion in session, using self-of-the-therapist and working with your own reactivity, and navigating the bowtie, all while holding both partners with empathy and keeping a felt sense of safety in the room.
Through recorded live sessions and structured role-plays with real-time feedback, you'll sharpen your moment-to-moment tracking, emotional deepening interventions, and de-escalation skills for those high-affect moments when sessions heat up.
Less lecture, more practice. Open to licensed mental health clinicians looking to strengthen their applied EFT skills.
Speaker
We are excited to have Debi Scimeca-Diaz. LMFT present. She is one of a small group of International Center for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT) Certified Trainers worldwide. With over 25 years of experience working with couples, she brings a wealth of knowledge and real-life application.
Continuing Education Units
6 hours of continuing education through the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists pending approval.
Learning Objectives
- Identify a markers indicating readiness to deepen primary emotion in an EFT session.
- Identify 3 interventions that can be used to access emotion
- Identify 2 different ways an EFT therapist can use self as guide to help couples be in the present and get in touch with deeper feelings
- Demonstrate at least one live role-play application of an EFT deepening and de-escalation intervention.
- Describe strategies for maintaining Balanced Empathy when conflict is present in the room and Strategies for working with escalated couples
Schedule for the Day
- 8:30 am - Registration
- 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - Morning Session
- 12:00 - 1:15 pm - Lunch / MetroMFT Membership Meeting
- 1:15 - 4:30 pm - Afternoon Session
Location
This year's conference will be held in the Fenton Room of the Silver Spring Civic Center (719 Ellsworth Dr, Silver Spring, MD 20910).
In the heart of downtown Silver Spring, this location offers many lunch options nearby for non-MetroMFT members.
Annual MetroMFT Membership Meeting & Lunch
Our Metro-MFT Members are invited to attend our annual membership meeting, which will be held during lunchtime. Complimentary lunch will be provided for members, please indicate any dietary restrictions upon registration.
Don't forget to register by October 15th for early bird pricing!
If you have need to cancel your registration please contact us at admin@metromft.org.