PCEFT is about promoting healthy relationships and connection. We believe that true connection requires risk and vulnerability and that we all need support in finding these within ourselves. We provide therapy for couples, families and other key relationships, helping them to heal together. Our work is grounded in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a research-based model that provides a map for healing and closeness. EFT was developed by Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg as a way to address relational distress. We are indebted to Sue Johnson and ICEEFT for developing and growing this inspiring and effective way of healing relationships.
We provide training and support the growth of therapists in their work. EFT is an attachment model that acknowledges the idea that we are all built for connection, and that when we can’t get close to the people we need, we all struggle. Grounded in EFT, we offer training and supervision in a model that is based in three decades of research with proven outcomes and is full of heart. We provide a learning context that is supportive and caring, but also rigorous and powerful.
Free online training with Gail Palmer, EFFT Trainer, on Monday, November 3, 2025, from 9:00–10:00 AM PST via Zoom.
Topic: Introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy with Families
Key Learning Focus:
Discover how the EFFT therapist resources families to face life’s challenges and build resilience in children, fostering connection, emotional safety, and lasting change.
Each month, we’ll gather to reconnect with familiar faces, meet new friends and colleagues, network, and enjoy a brief EFT presentation from a fellow community member.
Presentation: Gina Gratza on Navigating the Rise of Psychedelics as a Clinician
Where: SteepleJack Restaurant (Fireside Room) 2400 NE Broadway, Portland, OR
2400 NE Broadway, Portland, Oregon 97232
When: November 21, 2025 from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Free online training with Dr. Leanne Campbell, PhD, EFIT Trainer on December 16, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PST
Topic: A Brief Introduction to Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Trauma
Key Learning Focus:
An Attachment Frame for Understanding the Potential Impacts of Trauma, The Dance of Attunement, the EFIT Tango, as Applied to Trauma, The Three-Stage Model of EFIT
We typically have our Externship in the fall. If you’d like to be notified of upcoming trainings, please add your name to our mailing list:
EFT For Couples
Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples is a way of working with the distress that we all can feel in our relationships. EFT is about looking at the dynamics and patterns we get pulled in to in our most important relationships and helping us change those patterns at the deepest levels. We help people connect with themselves and their partners in deep and satisfying ways. EFT has been well researched as a treatment modality and has been demonstrated to reduce couples’ distress in 70%-90% of cases.
9900 SW Greenburg Rd, Ste 200
Tigard OR 97223
971-266-4759
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Portland Community of Emotionally Focused Therapists (PCEFT) is a membership based community offering therapist training and supervision for the Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) model to mental health professionals, therapists, and counselors interested in learning EFT. We strive to build healthy relationships and marriages full of connection, attachment, and love for couples, individual, and families, through ongoing education and mutual support.
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