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EFT and Addiction with Michael Barnett, LPCC, EFT Trainer

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Join Michael Barnett, LPCC, EFT Trainer, for a 2-Day Advanced Training.
Addiction reshapes attachment, trust, emotional safety, and the couple’s entire relational cycle.
Clinicians will learn how to:
  • Understand addiction through an attachment lens
  • Work with shame, denial, and emotional dysregulation
  • Address sexual compulsivity within the EFT framework
  • Fold addiction into the EFT cycle
  • Tailor Stage 1 & Stage 2 EFT interventions
  • Navigate common blocks and impasses
Raleigh, NC
October 23–24, 2026
$449 Full Fee
Early Bird through July 30: $399
CEs available for purchase

Who is Michael Barnett?

Michael Barnett, MA, Ed.S., LPC, LPCC, is a licensed psychotherapist in both California and Georgia with more than 30 years of clinical experience. He is an ICEEFT-certified supervisor and trainer in International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy‘s model of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). He founded the Atlanta Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy in 2008, leading it for over 15 years, and currently serves as co-director of the EFT Center of Los Angeles.

Barnett specializes in the integration of attachment science, Emotionally Focused Therapy, trauma, and addiction treatment. He conducted a three-year research project adapting EFT for inpatient addiction treatment and has developed training resources and clinical protocols that apply attachment-based principles to addiction recovery.

He is the author of the book The Emotionally Focused Therapy Workbook for Addiction (New Harbinger Publications, 2024), which presents an attachment- and EFT-based approach to healing addiction. The book includes a foreword by Sue Johnson.

In addition to maintaining a psychotherapy practice with couples and families, Barnett teaches EFT internationally, providing externships, Core Skills trainings, certification supervision, and presentations for therapists. His work emphasizes creating secure attachment bonds, fostering inclusion, and helping clients heal longstanding emotional wounds through relationship.

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