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We are excited to be offering this Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Externship centred on LGBTQ+ relationships and endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT).
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.
In this training, we will be discussing, showing, demonstrating, and generally exploring EFT centred on LGBTQ+ relationships.
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. Our LGBTQ+ centred Externship and Core Skills are approved as official Externships and Core Skills and together provide the required formal EFT training towards certification as an EFT therapist. The timing is so that people across a range of time zones can join us and we welcome participants from across the world.
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.
In this training, we will be discussing, showing, demonstrating, and generally exploring EFT centred on LGBTQ+ relationships.
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. Our LGBTQ+ centred Externship and Core Skills are approved as official Externships and Core Skills and together provide the required formal EFT training towards certification as an EFT therapist. The timing is so that people across a range of time zones can join us and we welcome participants from across the world.
Dates: Monday 15th & Tuesday 16th June 2026
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Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23rd June 2026
Times: the timing is the same each day and works well for many time zones and
we invite people to join us from all over the world
BST (time in England) 2 - 9.15 pm
MST (time in Denver, Colorado) 7 am - 2.15 pm
optional Home Group one hour before the start of days 2-4.
Venue: online
Cost:
Super Early Bird - £725 - until 28th February 2026
Early Bird - £800 - until 20th April 2026
Standard - £875 - from 21st April
Some Widening Participation reduced fee places of 25% and 50% of the standard fee are available -
click to go to further information
Students on substantial counselling/psychotherapy courses can have a £100 fee reduction
(not in addition to widening participation)
Those repeating an Externship have a fee of £437.50, 50% reduction of the standard fee.
and
Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23rd June 2026
Times: the timing is the same each day and works well for many time zones and
we invite people to join us from all over the world
BST (time in England) 2 - 9.15 pm
MST (time in Denver, Colorado) 7 am - 2.15 pm
optional Home Group one hour before the start of days 2-4.
Venue: online
Cost:
Super Early Bird - £725 - until 28th February 2026
Early Bird - £800 - until 20th April 2026
Standard - £875 - from 21st April
Some Widening Participation reduced fee places of 25% and 50% of the standard fee are available -
click to go to further information
Students on substantial counselling/psychotherapy courses can have a £100 fee reduction
(not in addition to widening participation)
Those repeating an Externship have a fee of £437.50, 50% reduction of the standard fee.
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Our training will integrate:
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Participants:
You are eligible to apply if
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 are affirmative of people who are LGBTTQQIAP+
- You want to develop your understanding of Emotionally Focused Therapy, particularly in relation to working with couples.
Thank you for the LGBTQ+-Focused Externship experience. I appreciate the knowledge gained, which I am already incorporating into sessions. Also, the LGBTQ+ focus felt absolutely wonderful to me as a LGBTQ+ -identified clinician, in addition to it bringing a helpful perspective to learning EFCT. I am sending my sincere thanks as well for the Widening Participation Fee Reduction, without which I would not have been able to attend." Nathaniel, Externship 2025 participant
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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. |
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The trainers:
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Sandra Taylor, PhD
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
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. |