Transforming Shattered Bonds with EFT’s Attachment Injury Resolution Model (AIRM)
EFT Edmonton, Alberta Presents AIRM Training with ICEEFT Certified Trainer and author, Lorrie Brubacher!
Pre-requisite:
EFT Externship
Dates and Times:
April 24-25, 2026 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Registration at 8:30AM
Cost:
$562 (EFTEC Members)
$625 (Non-Members)
Transforming Shattered Bonds with EFT’s Attachment Injury Resolution Model (AIRM)
Have you ever wondered how to work with clients who enter therapy in the midst of discovering a betrayal? Or what to do with clients who refuse to discuss an old injury because it is too painful and could destroy the last threads of hope? In EFT, such events are described as attachment injuries or relationship traumas. An attachment injury is defined in EFT, as a singular event that shattered the trust between partners, whether recently or many years ago. The particular event continues to define the lack of safety between partners and causes an impasse in relationship repair. Broken trust is one of the most common reasons clients seek relationship counselling. It can also present many challenges for therapists working with clients on the healing process.
Within the Emotionally Focused Therapy model, there is an empirically validated model for repairing shattered trust between partners. Known as EFT’s attachment Injury Resolution Model, it can be used to guide therapists during escalation in Stage 1 as well as for rebuilding trust in Stage 2.
We hope you will join us for this indispensable EFT training that will increase your confidence and competence in facilitating healing conversations with your clients.
Pre-requisite: EFT Externship
Following the training, participants will be able to:
Cleary define an “Attachment Injury” and recognize markers of a relationship/attachment injury, blocking a couple from safe connection.
Explicitly track and validate an Attachment Injury in the negative cycle in Stage 1.
Prepare a couple for the Stage 2 Attachment Injury Resolution Process
Apply the EFT tango and EFT interventions for each step in the Attachment Injury Resolution Model.
To benefit from this training, you will need to have completed the EFT Externship.
Meet Your Presenter: Lorrie Brubacher, M Ed.
Lorrie Brubacher, M. Ed., LMFT, RMFT is certified with the International Centre for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT) as a therapist, supervisor, and trainer. She founded the Carolina Center for EFT in 2009 and directed it until 2024. She is author of Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change (2018), now available in ten languages; and Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change, (2 nd ed., 2025); and Workouts for Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy: Exercises to Strengthen Your Practice (2025). She has worked in private practice in individual, couple, and family therapy since 1989 and continues to have online private practices in North Carolina and Manitoba, Canada, where she now resides. Lorrie holds an adjunct appointment at UNC Greensboro and has previously been an instructor at 3 Canadian universities. She publishes and presents internationally on the topic of EFT. Lorrie has co-authored six chapters on EFCT with Dr. Sue Johnson, the originator of EFT and has several EFT publications in the Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. She is published in the Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy, in Person Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies on EFIT, in the Journal of Family Psychotherapy on EFT process research and has a chapter with Dr. Ting Liu on online EFT. She is on the editorial board for the ICEEFT EFT Community News.
She has been teaching Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) since 2009, across the US, in Canada, Egypt, Ukraine, Greece, Iran, Romania, Norway, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. She also provides consultation in EF and EFIT internationally. With Dr. Lillian Buchanan, she co-created, in 2014, the first EFT interactive video training program on EFT’s Attachment injury Resolution Program, accessible at https://attachmentinjuryrepair.com Numerous EFCT and EFIT training videos of hers are available at https://steppingintoeft.com/ Since September 2024 she co-hosts a bi-weekly EFIT webinar series, EFT and Me. See: https://eftandme.com and https://www.lbrubacher.com