ANNOUNCEMENTS
2023 Atlanta In-Person! Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy
May 18-21, 2023
Join Silvina Irwin and Michael Barnett, LPC for this powerful training to learn how to work effectively with even the most challenging couples. Register before March 1, 2023 to receive Early Bird Pricing!
2022 Atlanta Advanced Core Skills Training
Begins June 24, 2022
Our significant others hold an invisible key that can activate deep pain, fears, longings, and chaos that do not seem to manifest anywhere else in our lives. These very same partners also happen to hold the golden” key” to both genuine personal healing, as well as bona fide lasting love. Decades of empirically validated scientific research and well documented clinical experience have identified exactly what that”key” actually is: deep meaningful attachment bonds. Through Emotionally Focused Therapy, I join couples in identifying, and ultimately breaking free from long-standing patterns that maintain couple distress, and erode attachment bonds, so that they may find rewarding new ways to effectively connect with one another that promote closeness for long lasting love.
EFT Couple Therapy
I have an abiding passion for marriage and couples therapy. It is the main focus and specialization and of my practice. EFT is an elegant blend of both empirically validated scientific research and respectful, effective humanistic therapy.
If only they could listen with their hearts & not their minds, maybe then they would understand that often times it's the emotions not spoken that are longing to be heard."
~ Christine Upton
EFT Training
I am one of approximately two-dozen psychotherapists in the country to have become an ICEEFT certified trainer in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT). In addition to my clinical practice working with couples, and supervising other couple’s therapists here at Pine River Psychotherapy Associates, I devote my professional life to training psychotherapists both nationally, and internationally to become certified in the EFT model.
"And the day came that the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk to blossom."
― Anais Nin
Advanced Skills & Processes Specialty Trainings & Workshops
Michael uses life experience, humor, over 30 years of clinical experience to bring the EFT model to life for his audiences. He is known for his ability to offer a uniquely approachable combination of clarity and clinical competence to even the most complex psychotherapeutic topics and trainings.
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