EFT Supervision Online-Guide

From Externship/Core Skills to more confidence in the therapy room — whether you want to deepen your EFT work, feel less stuck, or work toward certification

You have completed your EFT Externship or even Core Skills. You know the model is for you, you have met the Tango, and perhaps everything even made beautifully good sense during training.

And then you sit down with an actual couple.

They escalate.
Someone shuts down.
Someone else suddenly has seventeen things they urgently need their partner to understand.

And somewhere in the middle of it all, you may find yourself thinking:

Where exactly am I in the Tango right now?
Do I deepen this — or slow things down?
Is this a block, protection, primary emotion… or all three?
And what on earth do I say next?

Welcome to real-life EFT.

This is where EFT supervision can make such a difference.

Together, we slow the session down, understand what was happening underneath the interaction, and find a clear next step — so EFT gradually becomes less like something you are trying to remember and more like something you can actually feel and use in the room.

I offer online EFT supervision for therapists after the Externship, during or after Core Skills, and for clinicians working toward EFT certification.

You may want to feel more confident. You may be in Core Skills and trying to bring the training into your actual sessions. You may want help with difficult cases, or you may already be thinking about EFT certification.

All of those are good reasons to come to supervision.

Prerequisite: completion of an EFT Externship

Online EFT supervision in English or German

ICEEFT Supervisor-in-Training (EFCT, EFIT)  | Certified in EFCT, EFIT & EFFT

When EFT Looks Much Neater on the Training Slide Than in the Therapy Room

This happens to almost everyone learning EFT.

You understand the negative cycle — until the couple starts running it at full speed in front of you.

You know you want to access primary emotion — but your client gives you three words and a shrug.

You are trying to create an enactment — and somehow end up explaining attachment theory instead.

Or perhaps you can see exactly what is happening between the partners, but you are not quite sure how to get from understanding the cycle to actually creating a new emotional experience in the room.

Learning EFT is not simply about knowing the stages, steps, Tango moves, and interventions.

It is about learning to recognize the process while it is happening.

When to slow down.

When to stay.

When to deepen.

When not to deepen.

When the block itself needs your attention.

And sometimes, when to stop trying quite so hard.

That takes practice.

And it is much easier when you do not have to figure it all out alone.

Supportive, Practical and Experiential EFT Supervision

EFT itself is built around connection, emotional safety, responsiveness, and the idea that people grow best in secure relationships.

I think supervision should feel the same way.

You should be able to bring the session that went beautifully.

But you should also be able to bring the one where you lost the process, missed the emotion, talked too much, pushed too quickly, or finished thinking:

“Well… that was not quite what Sue Johnson had in mind.”

My supervision style is warm, practical, direct, experiential, and non-shaming.

That does not mean we avoid clear feedback.

Quite the opposite.

We can look very closely at what worked, what did not, and what you may want to strengthen next.

But I am much more interested in curiosity than in grading you.

So rather than:

“You did this wrong.”

we might ask:

“What was happening here?”

“What did you notice?”

“What pulled you in that direction?”

“What else might have been possible?”

and then:

“Let’s try it.”

Ideally, you leave supervision thinking:

“Ah. Now I understand what happened.”

“I know what I want to try next.”

and, little by little:

“Yes. I can do this.”

What Can We Work On in EFT Supervision?

We start with what is actually happening in your work right now.

The case that keeps circling in your head.

The moment where you lost the process.

The intervention that sounded much better in your head than when it came out of your mouth.

Or the skill you simply want to get more comfortable with.

We may work with:

• the EFT Tango and moment-to-moment process
• tracking and de-escalating the negative cycle
• accessing and deepening primary emotion
• using and practicing RISSSC in session
• pursuer/withdrawer dynamics
• blocks and protective strategies
• working with defenses while maintaining connection
• enactments
• attachment language
• challenging or highly reactive couples
• case conceptualization
• video review
• Self of the Therapist
• applying what you are learning in Core Skills
• preparation for ICEEFT certification

Sometimes you will arrive with a very specific question:

“How do I get underneath this anger?”

Sometimes it will be broader:

“I know they are stuck, but I cannot figure out where I am supposed to go.”

And sometimes you may simply bring five minutes of video and say:

“Can we look at this together? Something is happening here and I cannot quite see it.”

That is more than enough to begin.

Practical EFT Skills: Tango, RISSSC, Enactments & More

We do more than talk about EFT. We practice it.

One of the things I value most in supervision is moving from talking about an intervention to actually trying it.

We may:

• pause a clinical video and try the intervention again
• role-play a difficult moment
• practice accessing or deepening emotion
• practice RISSSC in real clinical moments
• experiment with pace, tone, repetition, imagery, evocative language, and staying close to the client’s experience
• rehearse an enactment
• experiment with attachment language
• try several different ways of responding to the same client
• slow down a moment that happened very quickly in the actual session
• practice staying with emotion rather than moving on too soon

You may know perfectly well that you are supposed to deepen emotion.

The more useful question is often:

What might that actually sound like coming out of your mouth?

We can work on that.

And if the first attempt sounds a little like a therapist reading an EFT manual aloud, that is okay.

That is what practice is for.

ACES & HEARTS: An EFT Supervision Framework

My supervision is informed by the ACES and HEARTS model of EFT supervision.

These frameworks help us keep supervision experiential, attachment-based, collaborative, and closely connected to the work you are actually doing with clients.

They invite us to look not only at what intervention you used, but at the wider clinical and relational process.

That may include:

• the quality of the therapeutic alliance
• emotional attunement and responsiveness
• how you conceptualize the attachment process
• how closely you are tracking moment-to-moment experience
• your use of EFT interventions
• blocks in the therapy process
• your own internal responses
• strengths that are already developing
• areas that need further practice

The point is not to turn HEARTS and ACES into yet another checklist.

You already have enough lists.

Think of them more as a map that helps us understand both the EFT process and the therapist doing the EFT.

Self of the Therapist in EFT Supervision

Sometimes we get stuck because we need another intervention.

Sometimes we get stuck because something happens inside us.

A very critical client may make us want to prove that we know what we are doing.

A quiet withdrawer may tempt us to fill every second of silence.

A distressed pursuer may pull us into urgency.

A couple who keeps repeating the same fight may leave us working harder and harder while they become increasingly comfortable letting us do all the work.

We may rescue.

Push.

Retreat.

Explain.

Over-function.

Or suddenly lose access to every useful sentence we have ever learned.

That does not mean you are doing therapy badly.

It means you are human and part of the emotional system in the room.

And EFT asks quite a lot from therapists.

We are tracking emotion, attachment, the cycle, the Tango, both partners, ourselves, and occasionally the clock — all while sitting close to fear, anger, grief, shame, loneliness, protest, and withdrawal.

That is quite a lot for one nervous system.

In supervision, we can slow those moments down too.

We can notice what gets stirred up in you, what your own protective strategies look like, and how you can stay emotionally present without being pulled away from the process.

You do not need to become less human to become a better EFT therapist.

Usually the opposite helps.

What Does an EFT Supervision Session Look Like?

There is no rigid formula.

We start with what would actually be useful that day.

A typical session might look something like this:

1. We find the focus

What case or question matters most today?

Where are you feeling stuck?

What would make this session worth your time?

2. We slow down the clinical process

You might describe the case or show a short video segment.

We look at what is happening in the cycle, in the attachment process, and in the moment-to-moment interaction.

3. We find the learning edge

Maybe you are missing primary emotion.

Maybe the block needs more attention.

Maybe the client is ready for an enactment, but you keep moving away from it.

Maybe your intervention is technically right but moving faster than your client can follow.

Maybe the content is right, but your RISSSC needs more room — a slower pace, more repetition, more evocative language, or more staying with the felt experience.

4. We practice

We may role-play, rehearse language, try an intervention differently, practice RISSSC, or work through the Tango together.

5. We decide what to carry into the next session

Ideally, you leave with one or two things you actually want to try.

Not fourteen pages of homework.

Usually one good next step is more useful than twelve excellent intentions.

EFT Video Review

Clinical video can be incredibly useful in EFT supervision.

Not because we are looking for everything you did wrong.

Quite the opposite.

Video lets us see the things that are almost impossible to remember clearly once a session is over.

A pause.

A change in tone.

A moment when a partner softens.

The emotion that appeared for two seconds before disappearing again.

A moment where you had more impact than you realized.

Or the exact second where the process changed direction.

We can slow those moments down and look at them together.

That often makes learning much more concrete than trying to reconstruct the whole session from memory.

EFT Supervision During and After Core Skills

You do not need to wait until you have completed every stage of EFT training before beginning supervision.

In fact, supervision can be especially useful during Core Skills.

That is often the point where the model starts becoming richer and more detailed — and where the gap between understanding EFT conceptually and actually using it in the room becomes very noticeable.

Supervision alongside Core Skills can help you:

• apply new concepts directly to your current cases
• practice interventions between training modules
• make sense of difficult sessions while the material is still fresh
• notice your learning edge more clearly
• prepare questions to bring back into training
• turn theory into something you can actually use

Supervision can be equally valuable after Core Skills, when you are consolidating the model, refining your clinical work, or beginning to think more seriously about certification.

You do not need to wait until you feel “advanced enough.”

Bring the cases you actually have.

That is where the learning happens.

Wherever You Are in Your EFT Journey

You may be relatively new to EFT and still thinking hard about every Tango move.

You may be in Core Skills and trying to bring the training into real clinical work.

You may have completed Core Skills and want to consolidate what you learned.

You may have been practicing EFT for years and want to refine your experiential work, become more precise with enactments, work more deeply with blocks, or explore Self of the Therapist.

Or you may simply have a case that feels stuck and want another EFT therapist to look at it with you.

There is always another layer.

That is part of what makes EFT both fascinating and occasionally mildly inconvenient.

EFT Certification Support

If EFT certification through ICEEFT is one of your goals, we can keep that path in view as your clinical skills develop.

We may work on:

• EFT competencies
• Tango interventions
• RISSSC and experiential engagement
• accessing and deepening emotion
• enactments
• identifying and working through blocks
• case conceptualization
• reviewing clinical video
• understanding certification feedback
• identifying your next developmental steps

Certification can sometimes feel like a slightly mysterious pile of criteria.

We can make it much more concrete.

Instead of only asking:

“Am I ready?”

we can ask:

“What is already strong?”

“What are we working on now?”

“What would we like to see more consistently?”

“What is the next realistic step?”

And if certification is not your goal, that is completely fine too.

You may simply want to say:

“I want to feel more confident doing EFT.”

That is a very good reason to come to supervision.

Professional Belonging Matters Too

Learning a complex therapy model can sometimes feel surprisingly lonely.

Especially if you are the only EFT therapist in your practice, live far from an EFT community, work internationally, or simply do not have colleagues nearby who understand why you are so excited about a particularly beautiful enactment.

Supervision can also be a place of professional connection.

A place where you can say:

I have questions.

I am still learning.

This session was hard.

This intervention worked beautifully.

I am growing.

And:

I do not have to do this entirely on my own.

Learning happens more easily in connection.

That is not only true for our clients.

It is true for therapists too.

Individual EFT Supervision Online

Individual supervision gives us room to focus closely on your cases, your clinical work, and your development as an EFT therapist.

You can choose between 60-minute and 90-minute online EFT supervision sessions.

For deeper case work, video review, and role play, I usually recommend 90 minutes.

It gives us enough room to understand the case, practice something meaningful, and still finish before either of us needs emergency chocolate.

Current Supervisor-in-Training Rate

60 minutes — CAD 140

90 minutes — CAD 195
★ Recommended for deeper case work, video review and practice

These reduced rates are available while I complete my ICEEFT supervisor certification.

Planned Standard Rate After Supervisor Certification

60 minutes — CAD 200

90 minutes — CAD 280

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Limited Certification Recording Rate

For a limited number of supervisees, I currently offer an additional reduced Certification Recording Rate.

This option is for therapists who are comfortable with our supervision sessions being recorded and potentially used as part of my ICEEFT supervisor certification process.

60 minutes — CAD 100

90 minutes — CAD 140
★ Recommended

The 90-minute format gives us more space for case exploration, clinical video, role play, feedback, RISSSC practice, and actual intervention rehearsal without rushing.

Not every recording will necessarily be submitted.

And importantly:

Recording is completely optional.

If you would rather not have supervision recorded, you are very welcome to work with me at the regular Supervisor-in-Training rate.

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How Does Recording Work?

Before anything is recorded, we talk through the process clearly.

You will know what is being recorded, why it is being made, how it may be used, who may potentially view it within the certification process, how it will be stored, and when it will be deleted.

You will provide separate informed consent for recording and potential certification use.

No surprises.

Supervision already contains enough surprises without discovering afterward that someone pressed Record.

EFT Group Supervision Online

Individual supervision allows us to stay very close to your own work.

Group supervision offers something different.

There is a lot to learn from watching another therapist work through a question you did not even realize you had.

In a small EFT supervision group, you can learn from:

• your own cases
• other therapists’ cases
• video review
• role plays
• different intervention styles
• shared questions
• different stages of EFT development

Often, someone else asks exactly the question you were quietly hoping someone would ask.

And sometimes seeing another therapist get stuck is wonderfully reassuring.

Not because we enjoy watching colleagues struggle.

But because it becomes very clear that none of us emerged from the Externship performing flawless Tango moves.

Current Group Supervision Format

120 minutes

3–6 therapists

Online via Zoom

English or German

CAD 10 per session

CAD 400 for a package of 4 sessions

Small groups allow enough variety to learn from one another while still leaving room for meaningful participation.

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International & Bilingual EFT Supervision

All supervision takes place online, so you can join from wherever you are without adding travel time to an already full clinical week.

I work in both Canada and Germany and offer supervision in:

English

or

German

For bilingual therapists, we can also move between the two when useful.

This can be especially helpful when you trained in EFT in English but work with German-speaking clients — or when you understand the intervention perfectly in one language and suddenly discover that translating experiential EFT language is an entirely different adventure.

International practice can also bring questions around culture, language, migration, identity, and different professional systems.

Those perspectives are welcome too.

Fair and Accessible EFT Supervision

Professional development is an investment.

And EFT training, Core Skills, supervision, conferences, certification fees, and clinical life in general have a remarkable ability to discover your credit card.

I want supervision to remain accessible where possible.

If the regular rate would genuinely prevent you from accessing supervision or continuing your EFT development, you are welcome to ask whether a more flexible arrangement is available.

I cannot promise that every request can be accommodated, but finances do not need to be something you feel embarrassed to mention.

Is EFT Supervision With Me Right for You?

This may be a good fit if you have completed your EFT Externship and:

• want to feel more confident actually using EFT
• are currently taking or have completed Core Skills
• sometimes lose track of the Tango in real sessions
• want more practice with experiential interventions
• want to become more comfortable using RISSSC
• would like help working with blocks
• feel stuck with highly reactive couples
• want to improve enactments
• want concrete EFT language you can use in session
• enjoy learning through role play and active practice
• want thoughtful feedback on clinical video
• are preparing for EFT certification
• want support with Self of the Therapist
• already use EFT and want ongoing professional development
• would value connection with another EFT clinician while you continue learning

You do not need to bring beautifully edited cases where everything went according to plan.

Actually, please bring the messy ones.

Bring the session where you felt stuck.

Bring the moment where you knew there was emotion underneath but could not quite reach it.

Bring the enactment that landed with approximately the elegance of a shopping cart with one broken wheel.

Those are often the moments from which we learn the most.

What I Hope You Take Away From EFT Supervision

Of course, I want you to understand EFT more clearly.

I want you to become more skillful with the Tango.

More confident working with blocks.

More able to deepen emotion.

More intentional with enactments.

More comfortable using RISSSC in a way that feels natural rather than scripted.

More grounded when the room becomes emotionally intense.

But underneath all of that, I want supervision to help you develop something broader:

trust in yourself as an EFT therapist.

Not confidence that says:

“I always know what I am doing.”

That therapist probably does not exist.

Rather:

“I can notice when I am lost.”

“I know how to slow down.”

“I can become curious again.”

“I can find my way back to the process.”

That kind of confidence is much more useful.

About Astrid Machalitza

I am Astrid Machalitza, a Registered Psychotherapist and certified EFT therapist offering online EFT supervision and consultation to therapists in Canada, Europe, and internationally.

I am certified in:

EFCT — Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
EFIT — Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy
EFFT — Emotionally Focused Family Therapy

and I am currently completing my training as an ICEEFT Supervisor.

My supervision is attachment-based, experiential, trauma-sensitive, and strongly grounded in the EFT model.

Having practiced in both Canada and Germany, I bring a bilingual and international perspective to my work.

I particularly enjoy the point in supervision where theory stops being something you are trying to remember and starts becoming something you can actually feel, recognize, and use.

My goal is not to turn you into a miniature version of your supervisor.

Your clients already have one Astrid available to them. They do not need another.

My goal is to help you understand EFT deeply enough that you can work confidently within the model while still sounding like you.

EFT Supervision Rates

Online via Zoom

English or German

Limited Certification Recording Rate

60 minutes — CAD 100
90 minutes — CAD 140

Current Supervisor-in-Training Rate

60 minutes — CAD 140
90 minutes — CAD 195

Planned Standard Rate

60 minutes — CAD 200
90 minutes — CAD 280

Group Supervision

120 minutes
3–6 participants

CAD 100 per session

Still Have Questions About EFT Supervision?

A supervisor has to be someone you can actually think out loud with.

Including the unfinished thoughts.

The awkward moments.

The “I have no idea what happened there” sessions.

And the parts of your work you would probably not put on a highlight reel.

An introductory call gives us a chance to meet, talk about where you are in your EFT journey, what you would like to develop, and whether my supervision style feels like a good fit.

You do not need to prepare a case.

You do not need to have your supervision goals perfectly worked out.

You can simply come with your questions.

Or with:

“I finished my Externship and now I need help actually doing this.”

That is a very good place to start.

Ready to grow your EFT skills with more confidence and support?

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Fair and Flexible Pricing – So You Can Keep Growing

Supervision should be a place of growth and belonging - not financial stress. If you’re in a season where the regular fee feels out of reach, flexible rates may be available for colleagues who might otherwise be unable to participate in supervision or move forward in their EFT certification journey. My mission is that learning, and professional development remain accessible.

Supervision - as a place of belonging

I want supervision to be a place where you can say:

• I’m allowed to ask questions.
• I’m learning.
• I’m growing.
• And I’m not alone.

Curious If This Is the Right Fit?

Choosing a supervisor is an important decision.
A free introductory call gives us space to get to know each other, talk about where you are in your EFT journey, and see whether my way of working feels supportive for you.

You don’t need to prepare anything.
Just come as you are.