Virtual Workshop:
Therapist Panel –
How Do I Do an EFT Intensive?
This is a live event presented online. Sign up to participate!
When: Monday, June 2, 2025 – Noon – 2pm, ET
Panelists: Rebecca Clark, LMFT; Nancy Knudsen, LMFT; Mark Maxwell, PsyD, LMFT; Virginia Walls, LMHC
Moderator: Sarah Cook, LCSW
Format: Live Virtual Workshop
Note: No CEs are offered with this Workshop.
Fee: $50
Target Audience: Marriage & Family Therapists,Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Psychologists
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Some couples in distress are best served in an intensive format. Four EFT therapists who offer couple therapy intensives share their collective wisdom and personal experiences in this panel discussion. The proceeds of this event will support CONEXA East Africa for the upcoming EFT Externship in Zimbabwe this August. If you would just like to make a donation, click HERE.
Panelists:
Rebecca Clark, LMFT
Hello! I am deeply honored to be speaking on the EFT Intensives panel, as my passion lies in helping couples find lasting connection through Emotionally Focused Therapy Intensives. As an early adopter of EFT, I became Maine’s first ICEEFT-certified therapist and EFT supervisor, and for over 20 years, I have dedicated my practice to helping couples and individuals heal and strengthen their relationships.
One of the most meaningful aspects of my work is offering two- and three-day EFT Intensives for couples in the beautiful setting of mid-coast Maine. These immersive experiences provide a powerful opportunity for couples to break free from negative cycles and rediscover the closeness and clarity they long for. In addition to intensives, I have facilitated multiple Hold Me Tight® (HMT) and Created for Connection (C4C) workshops (including in East Africa on EFT Externship Immersion trips), led EFT webinars, and provided clinical supervision to EFT therapists in both individual and small group settings.
Like many of you, I’m committed to building and sustaining a strong EFT community. I co-founded and co-direct EFTMaine to support local therapists and respond to the growing need for effective couples therapy. Beyond my professional life, my roles as a wife, mother, and person of faith, as well as my diverse cross-cultural experiences, deeply shape my work, grounding it in authenticity, connection, and hope.
Nancy Knudsen, LMFT is a Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Northampton, MA with nearly four decades of experience. Nancy’s primary clinical modality is Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is both a certified EFT therapist and Supervisor, and served as a founding member of the New England EFT Community. Nancy has taught a number of workshops on EFT for professionals and facilitated Hold Me Tight© workshops for couples over the course of ten years.
In order to enhance the unit on couples and sexuality, Nancy co-created the Hold Me Tight©, Hold Me Just Right program with colleague Mike Moran. This program is soon to be available as a Facilitator Guide with accompanying videos on the ICEEFT website. Currently, Nancy’s clinical work is focused on offering couple therapy intensives to couples in crisis, and supervision.
Additionally, she is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and is a Co-Founder and Director of the Couple and Family Institute of New England.
Mark Maxwell, PsyD, LMFT is the founder and executive director of Conexa, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation based in California. Mark is also the director of Pacifica Group Counseling and Wellness in Sacramento and San Diego, a group practice for therapists using systemic models of therapy, as well as an adjunct faculty member for graduate programs at Alliant International University and San Diego State University. As a professional, Mark is devoted to the focus of innovative practices that overcome the disparities in the mental health care system, increasing culturally appropriate and adaptable systemic therapies to communities in need as well as using these systemic principles to foster belonging and community growth. Mark specializes in couple therapy with advanced training in EFT and trauma work using Brainspotting. Mark also specializes in the integration of spirituality and psychology with an emphasis on attachment and the concept of kinship covenant.
Virginia Walls, LMHC is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State of Florida as well as a Story-Informed Trauma Therapist, Emotionally and Emotion-Focused (Couples, Family, and Individual) Therapist, and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy. She is a Qualified Mental Health Counselor Supervisor and a Qualified Marriage and Family Therapy Supervisor. Additionally, she is also an Emotionally-Focused Therapy Supervisor. Virginia works with a wide range of clients, which includes People of the Global Majority, LGBTQ, very conservative Christians, and people with various religious and spiritual beliefs.
Moderator Sarah Cook, LCSW
Sarah Cook is an ICEEFT Certified EFCT & EFIT Supervisor & Therapist and AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist with a private practice in Alexandria, Virginia. She is passionate about the EFT model and especially interested in the integration of EFT and sex therapy and EFT and racial impacts on self and relationship. She completed the University of Michigan Sexual Health Certificate program to help her provide research based and medically accurate sex positive education and therapy to her clients.
She is a former Co-Director of the Washington Baltimore Community for EFT and for the last 2 years she has traveled with the non-profit Conexa Inc. to Uganda and Kenya with the mission to reduce relational violence and support the development of EFT within the East African context.
Her Masters-level research focused on ethnic identity development in transracial adoptees. This interest stemmed from her personal journey as a biracial person, Vietnamese and white, and navigating her ethnic identity while straddling two cultures and with a blend of skin color.
