Hawai'i Island
Externship in
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
February 10-13, 2026
In Person
Earn 24 CEs
ICEEFT Certified Trainer:
Cindy Goodness Zane, PsyD,JD
Community Lead Assistant: Emily Malate, LCSW, Hilo, Hawai'i
Certified EFCT Therapist & Supervisor-in-Training
Supported by:
Hawai'i Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy (HICEFT)
This official 4-Day Externship is endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a short-term, structured and evidence-based approach to reduce couple distress and create more secure attachment bonds.
Through a multifaceted learning experience from lecture, videos, experiential exercises and live demonstration, participants will learn to see relationship distress from an attachment lens, recognize attachment and affect regulation strategies that maintain couple distress, facilitate reprocessing of underlying emotional responses and shape new bonding events.
Take the first step of your journey, with this beginning level course, towards becoming an ICEEFT Certified EFT therapist. For more info on all of the requirements on how to become an ICEEFT Certified EFT therapist, click this link:
Meet Your Trainer:
Cindy Goodness Zane, PsyD, JD
ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Supervisor, Therapist
Born and raised in Hawaiʻi, Dr. Zane is a local girl of multiethnic backgrounds who strongly identifies with her Hawaiian and Japanese ancestries. She started her professional life as an attorney, but discovered that she was drawn to helping people to improve their lives.
As a Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Zane enjoys working with clients of diverse backgrounds, identities and varied life experiences to overcome life challenges and strengthen their relationships. After all, life is less scary and most meaningful when we have close others to share it with.
Now an ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer and Supervisor, Dr. Zane is passionate about training more EFT clinicians throughout Hawaiʻi and around the world, including Iran, Japan, Malaysia, the Caribbean, and North American. She especially enjoys supporting the development of EFT'ers of diverse backgrounds and identities, as well as those who work with diverse populations.
4 Days:
Tuesday - Friday, February 10-13, 2026
Times:
9:00 am - 4:30 pm (Hawaiʻi Time)
Location:
Mana Christian Ohana Church
67-11 Lindsey Road, Island of Hawai'i
Kamuela, Hawai'i 96743
Target Audience:
Psychologists, psychotherapists, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, social workers
Reference Materials for Study:
*Pricing:
Early Bird: $895 ends 12/31/25
Regular Price: $1095
Intern/Military: $695
Full-time Graduate Student: $595
*Group rate available, contact organizer
**CEs not included in registration & can be purchased separately
Payment can be made online, due at the time of registration. Completion of registration and payment reserves one's space for the Externship.
Refunds/Cancellations:
Cancellation requests received more than 30 days before the event will be refunded in full. Cancellation requests received 30 days or less before the event will will be refunded of the registration amount minus a $100 administration fee.
The organizer reserves the right to cancel or reschedule the event for reasons of safety, act of God, minimum number of participants have not registered or any circumstance that reasonably detracts from the educative purpose &/or learning objective of this training. If the event is cancelled by the organizer, registrants will be issued a full refund.
Requests to cancel, questions or concerns can be emailed to drcindygoodnesszane@gmail.com
General Externship Objectives:
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Gain clear understanding of theoretical underpinnings, research and road map of EFT;
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See relational and emotional distress of adult romantic relationships through the lens of attachment theory;
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Explore, organize and distinguish negative interaction patterns that maintain relational distress;
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Access, assemble and deepen core attachment emotions that underly negative interaction patterns;
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Apply systemic, experiential and humanistic interventions as EFT micro-interventions;
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Practice the 5 core moves of the EFT Tango macro-intervention;
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Shape key bonding events that build secure connection;
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Overcome therapeutic impasses and address existential dilemmas.
Purchase Continuing Education Credits:
24 Hours of CE Credits are available for separate purchase by clicking the link below. CE Credits are provided through TRI EFT Alliant and Alliant International University, and must be purchased prior to the end of the Externship. To receive credits, one must attend the entirety of all four (4) days. No partial credit will be given.
Disclosure Statement:
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
Daily Schedule
9:00 am to 4:30 pm Hawaiʻi Time
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12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch Break
Daily Schedule
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Day 1: What makes EFT work: Theoretical underpinnings, research and the EFT road map from insecure to secure attachment
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Day 2: EFT Interventions and Stage 1, EFT Tango, Live Demonstration of EFT in Action
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Day 3: Stage 2, Stage 3, Common Impasses
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Day 4: Introduction to EFIT, Becoming an EFT Therapist