Live Online Courses
ABFT Introductory Workshop (Spring 2025)
This live online introductory training reviews the theory, research, and clinical strategies of ABFT. Attendance at the full workshop fulfills Level 1 training.
Part 1: March 27-28
Part 2: April 3-4 & 10-11
6.5-19.75 CE credits available.
ABFT Advanced Workshop (Spring 2025)
This Level 2 training will further develop the skills of therapists who have started using ABFT with their clients. Participants will learn emotion-focused skills and explore person of the therapist issues impacting one’s work.
Feb 20-21, 27-28 & March 6-7, 2025
19.75 CE credits available.
ABFT Supervision
ABFT International offers individual and group case consultation meetings for therapists looking to implement ABFT more effectively with clients. During supervision, therapists learn how to conceptualize from an ABFT framework so that they can utilize ABFT with a variety of different clients, presenting problems, and difficult situations. Level 2 training.
Family-Based Youth Suicide Prevention Workshop
This live online workshop provides an introduction to state of the art, empirically supported family-based suicide risk management practices to help therapists and clinical staff manage suicide concerns when they arise. 7 CE credits available. Dates To Be Announced for Fall 2025.
Self-Paced Online Courses
Fundamentals of ABFT
Learn directly from the ABFT treatment developers, Drs. Guy Diamond & Suzanne Levy, with on-demand videos. Course contains 6 pre-recorded lectures and 7 recorded excerpts from demonstrations of ABFT therapy sessions. It is equivalent to the Part 1 Intro Workshop. 8 CE credits available.
ABFT for Victims of Domestic Violence
Learn how to use ABFT to help caregivers support their children in the aftermath of domestic violence. 90-min webinar recorded on Oct 1, 2024 as part of ABFT Special Topics Series.
ABFT Demonstration Videos
See ABFT in action! Review excerpts from demonstrations of ABFT therapy sessions illustrating core components of each task, such as emotional deepening, using process-oriented interventions, enactments, intentionality, and rolling with resistance.
ABFT Curriculum for Universities
Teach a course in ABFT! We offer a fully supported university curriculum for a professor to teach a 9 to 11-hour module of ABFT as part of a university course or as an extracurricular program.