Emotionally Focused Therapy offers a powerful, research-based map for transforming emotional and relational distress. Yet many therapists struggle to confidently incorporate cultural identity, lived experience, and systemic context into the EFT process. This workshop provides a clear, attachment-grounded framework for cultural attunement that strengthens therapeutic presence, deepens emotional engagement, and enhances bonding events.

Participants will learn where culture appears on the EFT map—within reactive cycles, secondary emotion, primary emotion, attachment needs, and blocks to engagement—and how to integrate these elements into the EFT Tango. Through teaching, demonstrations, video analysis, and guided enactment practice, therapists will learn to name cultural dynamics, respond to cultural pain with sensitivity, and support culturally meaningful connections during Stage 1 and Stage 2 work.

The workshop also addresses the therapist's cultural self-awareness, power dynamics, cultural trauma, and strategies for repairing cultural misattunements. Therapists will leave with greater clarity, humility, and competence in helping clients feel deeply seen—not only as individuals, but as cultural beings whose stories shape their pursuit of connection. This workshop is ideal for EFT practitioners who seek to expand their cultural responsiveness while maintaining fidelity to the EFT model.