EP 109: How to Use EFT/EFIT Emotionally Focused Therapy on Yourself! - Featuring EFT Trainer Ali Barbosa

About this episode

In this episode, Dr. Belle and EFT Trainer Ali Barbosa discuss how therapists can apply Emotionally Focused Therapy techniques to their own emotional experiences.

Welcome back to We Heart Therapy — your go-to channel for deep, experiential learning in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Dr. Belle, PhD, LMFT — ICEEFT Certified EFT/EFIT/EFFT Supervisor & Therapist and EFT Community Leader for Southern NV EFT — sits down with Ali Barbosa, ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer from the Mexico Center for EFT, to explore an essential question for every therapist: 👉 How do we apply EFT and EFIT to ourselves? As therapists, we’re trained to guide others through emotional pain and attachment injuries — but what about our own? In this conversation, you’ll learn: ✨ How to walk in the EFT model in your own life ✨ Applying EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy) strategies to your personal emotional experiences ✨ How to work with your own attachment system, triggers, and emotional pain ✨ Tools for self-reflection, emotional processing, and self-compassion ✨ How your personal work deepens your clinical effectiveness ✨ Why embodying EFT transforms not just your work — but your relationships This episode is especially meaningful for EFT therapists who want to move beyond technique and into embodied practice —…

People in this episode

Host: Belle

Guest: Ali Barbosa

Topics covered

• Emotionally Focused Therapy
• EFT
• EFIT
• self-reflection
• emotional processing
• attachment system
• self-compassion

Keywords

• therapist
• emotional pain
• attachment injuries
• clinical effectiveness
• embodied practice

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