Emotion Focused Skills Training

Master Emotion. Create Change. Realize Potential.

A New Way Forward for Families, Clinicians, and Educators

Every person carries a deep longing: to feel connected, to be understood, to know we matter. Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST®) meets that longing with simple, powerful, and transformative tools.

Our goal is to help people feel better...

By helping people get better at feeling.

EFST® gives clinicians, parents, educators, and youth the tools to respond to emotions: both their own and those of the people they interact with and care for. Grounded in human connection, backed by decades of research and exceptional outcomes, EFST® helps people:

Understand and respond to emotions in healthy ways

Reconnect with children of all ages (little, teen, or adult) struggling with mental health

Build resilience and trust within families, classrooms, and between individuals

WHO WE SERVE

PARENTS

Learn skills to support your child’s healing, even when you feel lost, exhausted, or hopeless.

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Youth

Empower youth with the skills to be in the driver’s seat of their own challenges, motivation, and healing.

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Educators

Learn to use classroom and schoolyard emotions to protect well-being and enhance learning.

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Clinicians

Expand your practice with a proven model that empowers parents as partners in their child’s recovery.

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EFST® Outcomes

Grounded in Research. Transforming Lives.

Parents report feeling more capable and confident

Children and youth show reduced anxiety, depression, and emotional struggles

Educators can now harness emotion to enliven learning

Clinicians discover an enhanced capacity to help and heal

WHY EFST® WORKS

EFST® works because it addresses the heart of human struggle: emotion. Other approaches focus on fixing behaviors or solving problems, but EFST® goes deeper. It helps people recognize, validate, and process emotions in ways that unlock healing, growth, and connection. At its core, EFST® works because emotion is the gateway to change. When we learn to work with emotions instead of against them, transformation follows.

How EFST® works

EFST® gives people practical, learnable tools for navigating the emotions that shape every relationship. At its core, EFST® is not about fixing problems from the outside, it’s about equipping people with the skills to connect, repair, and guide from the inside out. These four core tools make emotions less overwhelming, strengthen relationships, and create lasting change.

Validation

Say "I get it." Make feelings real and understood.

Motivation

Find the "Why" behind the behaviour and unlock change.

Apology

Own the hurt, repair the bond and rebuild trust.

Boundaries

Stand firm with compassion - strength and respect together.

BEGIN YOUR EFST® JOURNEY

Online Courses
Parents
Youth
Educational Professionals
Clinician Training