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'EFT and LGBTQ+ clients - stress, resilience and joy'An intermediate level 2 day workshop in Utrecht for The Netherlands EFT community in June 2025 with myself and Robert Allan as trainers.
A very moving and powerful experience with a great group of people. 
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'Starting with EFT and LGBTQ+ clients – stress, resilience and joy’
This is the workshop for you if you are fairly new to working with clients who identify as lesbian, gay, transgender, or queer, or any other related identity. You want to offer LGBTQ+ affirmative EFT and know there is a lot you don’t know. We invite people of all identities, cisheterosexual and LGBTQ+.
An 8 hour introductory workshop exploring LGBTQ+ affirmative EFT, it took place in January 2025 over 2 x 4 hour sessions and was run by EFT trainer Sandra Taylor
The trainers:
Our stance
- We recognise that the words that we use to describe ourselves and others is constantly evolving, becoming ever more complex and precise as well as fluid rather than fixed.
- We acknowledge the broad range of LGBTTQQIAP+ people, it is not one homogenous group.
- We believe that lesbian, gay, and bi identities are inclusive of trans persons.
- We recognise the impact of the intersectionality of LGBTQ+ and other minority group identities.
- Our lived experience, including as lesbian and gay trainers, impact and enrich our training.
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Sandra Taylor, PhD
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Robert Allan, PhD
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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. |
Robert Allan, PhD, is an EFT Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist Canadian based in London, UK. He is a Senior Lecturer and programme lead for the child, adolescent, and family MA programme at University of Roehampton in London. Robert has helped train and supervise therapists and students in Emotionally Focused Therapy across Canada, the US, and Europe. Among other identities, Robert is a gay, cis-gender male, and worked for 20 years in community based HIV, queer, and harm reduction work from the mid-1980s.
Robert’s interest in EFT extends to his research work where he has explored cultural adaptations of EFT. He is currently the co-Principal Investigator and supervised the Denver site for the first clinical trial of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). He is also part of a research project exploring the impact of minority stress on students, faculty, and staff across five university campuses. Robert completed his PhD at Dalhousie University, he is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Colorado, and an Approved Supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. He is also a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist and UKCP Full Clinical Member. Robert is a warm, knowledgeable, and engaged trainer with a passion for helping people learn EFT. |