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• Happy Hour for Couples Therapists

  • When
    Thursday, October 29, 2026
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    The Doyle (Dupont Circle), 1500 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036

  Calling all DMV area couples and relationship therapists! Join us for a happy hour to mix and mingle. Therapists of all modalities and license types are warmly welcome, including graduate students. Your RSVP is requested so we know how many people to expect, but it is not required.

  This event is organized by the Center for Intimacy and Relationships in partnership with MetroMFT.

  Click here to register.

  Please contact Camille Espinoza on camille@centerforintimacy.com with any questions. See you there!

  
  

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• MetroMFT Free Webinar: Becoming a Collaborative Partner in Supervision

  • When
    Friday, November 06, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual - Zoom Link Sent After Registration
  • Registered
    14 registrants

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  Supervision is one of the most powerful growth tools in an MFT's career, yet many supervisees arrive waiting to be told what to work on. Drawing on research from her AAMFT Certificate of Leadership program project, Diana Smith offers a practical roadmap for taking a more active role. 

  Learn how to come to supervision with a clear agenda, use reflective and deliberate practice to target specific skills, bring client outcome data into the conversation, and name the power dynamics that quietly shape what gets said. You'll leave this one-hour session with concrete strategies for building self-awareness, clinical skill, and professional autonomy.

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• The Ideal Practice Collective: A Yearlong Book Club & Support Group - November Meeting

  • When
    Monday, November 09, 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    Zoom link provided upon registration

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  Turn uncertainty into momentum — one month at a time.
  

  Building a successful private practice takes more than clinical skill. Many therapists find themselves:

  • Struggling to launch and unsure where to start.
  • Working to build and maintain strong referral sources.
  • Avoiding or fearing the business side—marketing, planning, or finances—that feels overwhelming.

  You’re not alone.

  Join MetroMFT for a yearlong journey through Lynn Grodski’s Building Your Ideal Private Practice and the accompanying Twelve Months to Your Ideal Private Practice Workbook. Expect monthly discussions, accountability, and peer support—designed to help you build a thriving, sustainable practice with confidence.

  Build community. Build confidence. Build your ideal practice.

  Focus for November's Meeting

  Optimization: Upgrading Your Practice

  "Optimize and upgrade your practice. This month, focus on strategies that enhance your practice management, broaden you network, and diversify your services so that you can run a problem-free operation that can handle continued growth. Also, get comfortable with a normal and important entrepreneurial emotion: ambition."

  To best prepare for this month's meeting we suggest you:

  ✅ Complete Your Monthly Prep Form

  ✅ Workbook: Optimization: Upgrading Your Practice

  ✅ Book: Building a Practice to Sell

  See the 2026 Reading Schedule for the Ideal Private Practice Collective. 

  For any questions about the Ideal Practice Collective please email Liann Seiter Brown at liann@alignedfamilytherapy.com. 

  Please note: Ideal Practice Collective Meetings are collaborative, member-led discussions. Ideas, perspectives, and recommendations shared during these sessions represent the opinions of participating therapists, not of MetroMFT as an organization.

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• MetroMFT Fall Conference: Getting Beneath the Armor through Emotionally Focused Therapy

  • When
    Friday, November 13, 2026
  •  
    9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Silver Spring Civic Center, 719 Ellsworth Dr, Silver Spring, MD 20910
  • Registered
    29 registrants

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  Join us for Our 2026 Annual Conference

  This 6-hour experiential intensive is built for clinicians with foundational training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) who are ready to turn what they know into what they can do in the room.

  After a brief review of EFT's attachment-based framework, most of the day is hands-on practice. You'll work on accessing and deepening primary emotion in session, using self-of-the-therapist and working with your own reactivity, and navigating the bowtie, all while holding both partners with empathy and keeping a felt sense of safety in the room.

  Through recorded live sessions and structured role-plays with real-time feedback, you'll sharpen your moment-to-moment tracking, emotional deepening interventions, and de-escalation skills for those high-affect moments when sessions heat up.

  Less lecture, more practice. Open to licensed mental health clinicians looking to strengthen their applied EFT skills.

  

  Speaker

  

  We are excited to have Debi Scimeca-Diaz. LMFT present. She is one of a small group of International Center for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT) Certified Trainers worldwide. With over 25 years of experience working with couples, she brings a wealth of knowledge and real-life application. 

  
  

  

  Continuing Education Units

  6 hours of continuing education through the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists pending approval. 

  Learning Objectives

  • Identify a markers indicating readiness to deepen primary emotion in an EFT session.
  • Identify 3 interventions that can be used to access emotion
  • Identify 2 different ways an EFT therapist can use self as guide to help couples be in the present and get in touch with deeper feelings
  • Demonstrate at least one live role-play application of an EFT deepening and de-escalation intervention.
  • Describe strategies for maintaining Balanced Empathy when conflict is present in the room and Strategies for working with escalated couples

  Schedule for the Day

  • 8:30 am - Registration
  • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - Morning Session
  • 12:00 - 1:15 pm - Lunch / MetroMFT Membership Meeting 
  • 1:15 - 4:30 pm - Afternoon Session

  Location

  This year's conference will be held in the Fenton Room of the Silver Spring Civic Center (719 Ellsworth Dr, Silver Spring, MD 20910).

  In the heart of downtown Silver Spring, this location offers many lunch options nearby for non-MetroMFT members. 

  Annual MetroMFT Membership Meeting & Lunch

  Our Metro-MFT Members are invited to attend our annual membership meeting, which will be held during lunchtime. Complimentary lunch will be provided for members, please indicate any dietary restrictions upon registration. 

  Don't forget to register by October 15th for early bird pricing! 

  
  

  If you have need to cancel your registration please contact us at admin@metromft.org.

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• Post-Conference MetroMFT Happy Hour

  • When
    Friday, November 13, 2026
  •  
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Silver Branch Lagerhaus & Biergarten, 8401 Colesville Rd #150, Silver Spring, MD 20910
  • Registered
    9 registrants

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  You spent the day getting beneath the armor. Now let your own guard down a little. Join fellow clinicians, MetroMFT members, and friends for a relaxed happy hour right after the conference, just a short walk from the Civic Center.

  It's a chance to keep the conversation going, connect with colleagues across the region, and celebrate a day of deep work together. Conference attendance isn't required, so feel free to bring a colleague who couldn't make the training. Drinks and food are on your own.

  Please RSVP so we can reserve adequate space for everyone! Our colleague Alexandra Simione will be holding seats for our group, so please look for her when you arrive.

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• December's MetroMFT Peer-to-Peer Consultation Group - A Year in Review

  • When
    Friday, December 04, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Link will be sent upon registration
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  Join us for this month’s MetroMFT Peer Consultation Group, hosted by Alexandra Simione, LCMFT. 

  This monthly gathering provides a supportive space for therapists to discuss cases, share insights, and navigate the challenges of providing therapy. Whether you're exploring self-care strategies or tackling complex clinical issues, each meeting centers around topics chosen by the group to ensure relevance and connection.

  This month we will begin by celebrating the success stories and accomplishments of 2026! Then we will transition to case consultations and insights to wrap up this year long consultation group. Come ready to engage, celebrate, reflect, and learn with colleagues!

  
  

  Have you enjoyed our monthly peer consultation groups? We are looking for LCMFT volunteers to host our 2027 Peer Consultations! If you want to facilitate one monthly group please email Liann Seiter Brown at vicepresident@metromft.com. 
  

  Please note: Peer Consultation Groups are collaborative, member-led discussions. Ideas, perspectives, and recommendations shared during these sessions represent the opinions of participating therapists, not of MetroMFT as an organization.
  

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• The Ideal Practice Collective: A Yearlong Book Club & Support Group - December Meeting

  • When
    Monday, December 14, 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Takoma Park Beverage Company, 6917 Laurel Takoma Park, MD 20912
  • Registered
    5 registrants

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  Turn uncertainty into momentum — one month at a time.

  Building a successful private practice takes more than clinical skill. Many therapists find themselves:

  • Struggling to launch and unsure where to start.
  • Working to build and maintain strong referral sources.
  • Avoiding or fearing the business side—marketing, planning, or finances—that feels overwhelming.

  You’re not alone.

  Join MetroMFT for a yearlong journey through Lynn Grodski’s Building Your Ideal Private Practice and the accompanying Twelve Months to Your Ideal Private Practice Workbook. Expect monthly discussions, accountability, and peer support—designed to help you build a thriving, sustainable practice with confidence.

  Build community. Build confidence. Build your ideal practice.

  Focus for December's Meeting

  Expansion: Increasing Your Capacity for Growth

  "Expansion and growth are important goals for many small business owners. This month, expand your practice by learning how to select the best opportunities for growth and prioritize your use of time. Then add balance to your expansion plan to become a model of services your offer, as you create strong community connections."

  To best prepare for this month's meeting we suggest you:

  ✅ Complete Your Monthly Prep Form

  ✅ Workbook: Expansion: Increasing Your Capacity for Growth

  ✅ Book: Personal Growth and Coaching

  For any questions about the Ideal Practice Collective please email Liann Seiter Brown at liann@alignedfamilytherapy.com. 

  Please note: Ideal Practice Collective Meetings are collaborative, member-led discussions. Ideas, perspectives, and recommendations shared during these sessions represent the opinions of participating therapists, not of MetroMFT as an organization.

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