Big changes are afoot in the Carolinas!
Because Director Lorrie Brubacher is now living primarily in Canada, according to ICEEFT policy, the current Carolina Center for EFT which has served you from 2009 to the end of 2024 is closing and local EFT leaders are in the process of reorganizing and paving a path foreword.
Check www.iceeft.com and www.lbrubacher.com for EFT resources and training options for the immediate future.
Please connect with your local colleagues and leaders, found on the find a therapist page, for community updates as you work together to nurture the heart of EFT in the Carolinas.
The Carolina Find a Therapist tab is your source for Certified Supervisors and Therapists and it will remain active into February, 2025.
For more detail, please read this letter from Trainer Lorrie Brubacher.
January, 2025
Warm New Year’s Greetings from my snowy home in Winnipeg, Canada!
Having commuted for the past 15 years from Winnipeg to Greensboro, NC, family needs are now compelling me to spend more time in Canada than the US. As a result, according to ICEEFT policies, I can no longer be the director of the Carolina Center.
It has been a privilege to be the founder and director of the Carolina Center for Emotionally Focused for the past 15 years, offering many trainings, online, live consultations, which we called EFT in Action, and developing a website with resources for which many people have expressed appreciation. I am proud of our enthusiasm for supporting diversity and equity rates in our trainings. The Center, which began as the Greensboro Charlotte Center for EFT, has been known for most of this time as the Carolina Center for EFT, serving North and South Carolinas. I have had the honor of collaborating with stellar EFT therapists, supervisors, and innovative leaders across the Carolinas and of hosting a range of other trainers to provide trainings in the Carolinas. I have also had the privilege in the past five years of working with leaders in the Carolinas to expand diversity in our trainings and to support many equity-rate training participants.
As I step down as Director of the Center, it is with confidence and hopes that according to ICEEFT’s wishes, either a new Center may develop and/or many different EFT communities across the Carolinas will pick up the torch. Many, many possibilities can emerge for diversity in communities across North and South Carolina! I have confidence that, building from the many vibrant peer supervision groups, active study groups, and EFT-based counseling groups and practices, that Carolina EFT communities will continue to flourish, and collaboratively enrich EFT in the Carolinas.
I had been hoping to be support a black woman trainer to take over the leadership, before I left the Center. I fondly recall Sue Johnson’s enthusiasm for this new leadership, when I spoke with her about it. Racial diversity and inclusion has been a core theme in the Carolinas for the last number of years and as the Carolina communities move forward I hope it will be in collaboration with leadership of people of color. Dr. Mary Hinson, EFT Supervisor and Tanisha James, were key organizers of Carolina Center EFT trainings and diversity initiatives, along with me and EFT supervisor Jenna McGown for the past number of years. They are creative, strong EFT leaders. EFT therapists in the Carolinas represent a wide expanse of racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.
I am filled with hope for the possibilities I saw at our most recent EFT Externship, in Charleston, SC, where participants left with enthusiasm to continue to stay connected to their peer group, practicing, and consulting with one another as they strive to embody EFT.
Despite the many online trainings now offered by ICEEFT, I am confident that the Carolina EFT Communities will continue to offer many peer-consultation and support groups, in-person trainings, and online trainings as permitted by ICEEFT. I am hopeful that diversity in the leadership will continue to expand. This will all enrich the growth of racially, culturally sensitive EFCT, EFIT and EFFT! I continue to cheer on the Carolina EFT communities in new directions and ventures, as I remain an ICEEFT certified Trainer and an adjunct at UNC Greensboro. I hope to see you in a future training or at the EFT and Me webinar series, resuming this month.
Warmest wishes and gratitude for each one of you!
Lorrie Brubacher
The International spread of EFT:
- There are 90 EFT communities, centers, and other ICEEFT-affiliated EFT organizations around the world–closing in on the big 100!
- Translations of EFT materials exist in a whopping 34 languages and counting
- ICEEFT has grown to around 7000 members from nearly 80 countries
Thanks to Sue Johnson for bringing EFT into the world, and to all of you for your hard work!
What is this new science of love?
Dr. Sue Johnson’s upcoming book shows how EFT is the new approach to psychotherapy – with individuals, couples and families. Listen to her introduce the book.
Do you wonder how to help your clients to build trust? Particularly after a betrayal or an attachment injury. How to deal with overt lies? How to validate the pattern of fearing to tell the truth?
There are times a therapist needs to differentiate between a negative cycle which has slowly eroded the bond of trust between partners and a specific injurious event which shattered the bond of trust in one momentous blow. All of EFT therapy is a process of building trust – and we take our time throughout the model, step by step, first of all tracking how an automatic self-protective pattern is blocking partners from trusting, and when it is safe enough to share the underlying fears and needs, to reshape a bond of trust. Annabelle Bugatti from Las Vegas interviews Lorrie Brubacher on Building Trust in EFT.
Referrals to EFT Therapists
Our Center provides a referral base of therapists in North and South Carolina who are trained in EFT.