Transforming Addiction Through Attachment and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 @ 12:00-1:30pm ET (11CT/10MT/9PT)

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Description

This webinar demonstrates how to use in-vivo systemic and attachment-based interventions in session to not only heal the deep wounds that drive addictive processes but simultaneously create a substitute-replacement for self-medicating with substances: secure attachment. Through using the clinical skills and interventions of attachment theory from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), participants will learn how to access systemic doorways into the neural networks that hold traumatic distress beneath addictive processes and utilize relationships as a curative factor. Participants will learn didactic information as well as explore this approach to addiction treatment by viewing an actual therapy session demonstrating working with addiction using EFT. The webinar will demonstrate clear, basic EFT interventions that can be immediately applied to a clinician’s practices that elicit therapeutic opportunities for healing emotional distress within the context of their client’s relationships.

Presenter

Michael Barnett, MA, EdS, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapy Trainer, is a licensed clinical psychotherapist in both California and Georgia with over 30 years of clinical experience, as well as a certified supervisor and trainer in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT). Barnett founded the Atlanta Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy in 2008 and directed it for over 15 years before moving to Southern California in 2020. He currently co-directs the EFT Center of Los Angeles. Barnett is the author of the Emotionally Focused Therapy Workbook for Addiction: Healing the Shame and Loneliness that Triggers Addiction.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to define addiction through the lease of attachment theory.
• Participants will be able to describe the systemic-relational processes that maintain addictive processes.
• Participants will be able to describe EFT’s approach to working psychotherapeutically with addictive processes.

Content Level

Beginning and Intermediate.

• Beginning level courses introduce learners to a content area; include information about a condition, treatment method, or issue; and involve learning and comprehending content.
• Intermediate level courses provide information that builds on knowledge practitioners with some experience already have. These courses focus on skill-building or adding knowledge, possibly following a brief overview of basic information, and involve using information in concrete situations and understanding the underlying structure of the material.

Interactivity

Polls and Q&A.

Price

Education is FREE to all professionals.

Earn 1.5 Continuing Education Hours (CEs)

To earn a CE Certificate for viewing this webinar, you must view the webinar in its entirety, pass the CE quiz, and complete the online survey evaluation.

1. Upon completing the webinar, you will have access to the CE quiz within the course you are taking. Find the CE quiz and click “purchase.” NAADAC members will be prompted to register for the CE quiz for free, while non-members will be prompted to pay a $25 processing fee to access the quiz.
2. A score of 80% or higher is required to pass the CE quiz and access your CE certificate. You have 10 opportunities to pass the quiz. If you are unable to pass the quiz in the allocated number of tries, then you must retake the course.
3. Upon passing the CE quiz, you will be required to complete the survey evaluation for the course. Once that is completed, your CE certificate will be immediately available to print. All certificates will be stored in the NAADAC Education Center under your profile name. Click here for detailed step-by-step instructions for accessing your CE quiz and downloading your CE certificate.

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This webinar is eligible for ASWB ACE CE hours. Click here for NAADAC Social Worker certificate instructions.

This course meets the qualifications for one and a half (1.5) hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Who Should Attend

Addiction professionals, employee assistance professionals, social workers, mental health counselors, professional counselors, psychologists, and other helping professionals that are interested in learning about addiction-related matters.

Accessibility

Live closed captioning is available and the captioning capabilities are in compliance with the practices defined in Worldwide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. In addition, transcripts are available for on-demand webinars recorded on and after March 27, 2019.