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Introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples
Wednesdays, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/4, 3/11/2025 | 6:00-8:00pm EST
12 CE Contact hours
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Introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples
Participants will learn how the three stage model prioritizes emotion and how emotion and emotional regulation organizes interactions. Through interactional exercises, role plays, lecture and video presentations, students will learn to track the negative cycle, calm the cycle and create bonding conversations.
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Eileen Donohue, PhD
Eileen is a NYS licensed psychologist and certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor. She is a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Eileen also has training in BioSpiritual work to access emotions in the body. Eileen is in full time private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where she works with couples and individuals and supervises clinicians in training to learn EFT. In addition, Eileen is an Adjunct Clinical Supervisor at City University, of New York (CUNY) Doctoral Program in Psychology where she provides individual and group supervision of couples therapy cases from an EFT perspective. Annually, Eileen teaches an online introduction to EFT as Adjunct Faculty in the Postgraduate Program in Couple Therapy, Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY.
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2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24 & 3/3/2026 (Fridays) | 4-5:30pm EST
Albert J. Brok, PhD, CGP
7.5 Contact hours
Making Relevant Therapeutic Interventions with Couples: Issues, Considerations and Approaches
In this five week seminar, we address the. importance of understanding the idiosyncratic qualities of every couple that we see clinically. It will focus on case presentation by the participants and offer real world solutions. The seminar will provide a supportive atmosphere and will encourage personal development as well as self-care for the school based mental health professional.
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2/6, 2/13/2026 (Fridays) | 10:00-12:00pm EST
Carl Bagnini, LCSW, BCD
4 Contact hours
Planned and Unplanned Endings in Couple Therapy: Issues and Technical Choices
This two session seminar examines types of endings encountered in Couple Therapy. Unplanned endings receive special attention as well as optimal endings.
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2/27 & 3/6/2026 (Fridays) | 1:00 - 3:00pm EST
David Braucher, LCSW, PhD
4 Contact hours
Masculinity, Homophobia, and Gay Male Non-monogamy: Dynamics in Gay Male Relationships
This class will focus on the interplay between two of the most pervasive issues facing contemporary gay male couples: the impact of gender and sexuality as reactions to historical, societal attitudes toward male homosexuality on the couple’s capacity for developing emotional and sexual intimacy and the growing trend toward non-monogamous relationships. The discussion will begin from the premise that each member of a gay couple has been raised and, for the most part, continues to live in a homophobic society that impacts their relationship to their own and each other’s sexuality and gender expression. From this context, non-monogamous relations will be considered as potential sequelae to foundational traumas and agentic attempts at coping with them.
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4/3, 4/10, 4/17 & 4/24/2026 (Fridays) | 10:30 - 12:30pm EST
Christopher Scott, PhD
8 Contact hours
Neuroscience and Psychotherapy
There are many advances in neuroscience that can inform the process of psychotherapy. This course introduces some of them with a goal of improving clinical efficacy.
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4/10, 4/17, 4/24/2026 (Fridays) | 10:00am-12:00pm EST
Carl Bagnini, LCSW, BCD
6 Contact hours
The Seasons of A Couple Therapy: Beginnings, Middles, And Endings
This workshop describes the three phases of couple treatment. We conceptualize each phase and the clinical approach to beginnings, middles and endings.
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5/5 & 5/12/2026 (Tuesdays) | 5:00-7:00pm EST
Sharon Kozberg, PhD
4 Contact hours
Working with Divorcing and Divorced Couples
Working with couples in the throes of separation and divorce can be challenging.This course will provide a framework to guide the couple through this wrenching process while minimizing collateral damage to their children and each other.
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This continuing education seminar, seminar instructor/s, and the Postgraduate Programs as the seminar’s sponsor, receive no commercial support for the content of instruction (e.g., research grants funding research findings etc.), or benefit for endorsement of products (e.g., books, training, drugs, etc.) that are known to present a conflict of interest.
Adelphi University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Adelphi University maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Adelphi University, Derner School of Psychology, is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0024 and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0607 and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0185; for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0083; and for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0058.
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