The Promise of EFIT in Unravelling and Treating the Impacts of Intergenerational Trauma

In this course, Dr. Leanne Campbell (international trainer and registered psychologist, co-developer of EFIT educational programs, and co-author with Susan Johnson of <i>A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy</i>) introduces an attachment-informed understanding of trauma and intergenerational impact, showing how clinicians can tune in to context, alliance, attachment security, and emotion to organise clients’ lived experience beyond labels. Using a detailed clinical example, she demonstrates how EFIT expands clients’ window of capacity, helps them access disavowed emotion safely, and supports a shift toward a felt sense of security with self and key others — so clients can share needs, fears, and longings coherently, and receive care without shame-based blocks. The course offers direct clinical takeaways for pacing trauma work, preventing re-traumatisation, and using structured moment-to-moment interventions to create corrective emotional experiences that translate into real-world relational change.