Jim Thomas focus on working with shame arose both from personal experience and early in his career as he observed how addiction worked as a barrier to establishing therapy alliances and against progress in family therapy. His work with addiction and accompanying concerns such at trauma and shame spans well over 3 decades, and Jim trained therapist in working with addiction from an attachment lens in four continents. Most recently facilitated workshops on effectively working with addiction for therapists near and far, including Turkey, Iran, South Africa, and France. As an EFT Trainer, Jim developed 8 unique Master Classes such as Healing Childhood Wounds in couples therapy, Gaining Traction, Get to Softenings, and the Core Skills Plus approach to core skills training. “Jim is one of the leading edge thinkers and clinicians in the marriage and family therapy field. I would go out of my way to hear what he is saying about relationship therapy today,” Dr. William Doherty and “When Jim talks about E.F.T., I always learn something new myself,” Dr. Sue Johnson.