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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
My 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, 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. |