Property FA is equivalent to your property for groups $H$ that do not decompose as a free product. Indeed, suppose that your property holds but $H$ acts non-trivially on a simplicial tree. Then $H$ decomposes as a non-trivial amalgamated product $A*_CB$ (it is either that or an HNN extension which your property rules out). That is $H$ is not conjugate to a subgroup of either $A$ or $B$. Consider the free product $F=A*B$ and an HNN extension $E$ of $F$ conjugating two copies of $C$ there (one in $A$ and one in $B$) with free letter $t$. Then $A*_CB$ is isomorphic to the subgroup of $E$ generated by $tAt^{-1}$ and $B$ (it is proved in Lyndon and Schupp). Hence $H$ is a subgroup of $E$. By your assumption, $H$ is a subgroup of $F$. Hence by Kurosh's theorem $H$ is a non-trivial free product.
For groups that are free products, the properties are most probably also equivalent. Here is an idea. Consider $H=A*B$. Take a factor-group $H'$ of $H$ containing $A, B$, where $A$ and $B$ do not commute but so that $H'$ does not contain a copy of $H$. I think that can be done by a result from Olshanskii's book "Geometry of defining relations in groups". Now consider the HNN extension $U$ of $H'$ where the free letter $t$ centralizes $B$: $tbt^{-1}=b, b\in B$. Then $H=A*B$ should be isomorphic to the subgroup of $U$ generated by $tAt^{-1}$ and $B$. This needs to be checked of course.