Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)  Externship - online

April 27th - 28th + May 7th - 8th 2026, online
 
April 27th - 28th - Led by EFT Trainers Sarah McConnell and Robert Allan
May 7th & 8th - Led by EFT trainers Sandra Taylor and Helene Igwebuike

This course will be organised by BEFT - the British EFT Centre.
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This Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Externship centred will run online and I will be a trainer on days 3 & 4. This course is an opportunity to work with all 4 of the Britain based EFT trainers over the 4 days of the course.
 
The EFCT Externship is an introductory 24-hour training in Emotionally Focused Therapy working with relationships. Taking place over 4 days, this training includes the observation of live and recorded relationship therapy sessions, presentations of theory and clinical techniques, skill training exercises, and discussions of cases, clinical material, and related issues. 
 
The Externship is endorsed by ICEEFT and therapists can attend any of these courses anywhere across the world (face to face and online) regardless of where they reside. 
Participants:
You are eligible to apply if
  • You are a member of a recognised counselling / professional mental health organisation or a student on a substantial counselling/mental health course and​
  • You want to develop your understanding of Emotionally Focused Therapy, particularly in relation to working with couples.
Diversity and Widening Participation
We actively welcome therapists in all their diversity and recognise that being a member of one or more minority groups and / or working for minority groups may result in the cost of the course being prohibitive. We offer several widening participation reduced fee places and invite you to click here to find out if you are eligible and how to apply.
Sandra Taylor, PhD, is an ICEEFT certified EFT Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist based in Lancashire, England. She has an Advanced Specialist Diploma in Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Psychotherapy from Pink Therapy. 
Sandra works in private practice and is a Co-Director of the British EFT Centre www.beftcentre.org She trains in Britain and internationally, face to face and online. Along with Robert Allan, Sandra runs LGBTQ+ Centred Externships, Core Skills and continuing professional development workshops. Her current interest is in developing dementia affirmative EFT, for LGBTQ+ people in particular. 
Some of Sandra’s identities are that she is a lesbian/queer cis-gender female, white, disabled, widowed and Catholic. She co-edited with her partner ‘And GOD saw it all was very good: Catholic LGBT People in Europe Telling Their Stories’ (Esuberanza, 2015).
Sandra is an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She previously worked as Director of Relationship Counselling in a national charity, and was a Senior Lecturer providing counsellor trainer at the University of Cumbria after more than 10 years as an Occupational Therapist in a range of mental health settings including a mental health unit for deaf people.
Sandra is a warm, engaging and knowledgeable trainer who is passionate about enabling therapists to learn EFT in its simplicity and subtle complexity, with its general principles and its adjustments to affirm clients in their intersectional identities. ​