We are excited to be offering this ICEEFT endorsed LGBTQ+ Centred Emotionally Focused Therapy Core Skills course. Trainers, helpers and participants will identify as LGBTQ+ or as allies and the course content will be centred on LGBTQ+ people's experience.
The EFT Core Skills course is the second level of formal EFT training and follows on from the EFT Externship. It completes the training element of requirements towards becoming a certified EFT therapist.
The EFT Core Skills course is the second level of formal EFT training and follows on from the EFT Externship. It completes the training element of requirements towards becoming a certified EFT therapist.
This course is limited to 16 participants
- it is now full and we have a waiting list.
If you would like to go on our contact list for a future LGBTQ+ centred EFt Core Skills course please contact me.
- it is now full and we have a waiting list.
If you would like to go on our contact list for a future LGBTQ+ centred EFt Core Skills course please contact me.
We will be holding the course online over 9 days - 4 sets of 2 days and a further day when all participants will present a summary of one piece of their work with intimate partner clients, including a short clip of a session recording.
To fully complete the course you will need to attend all 9 days and do your presentation.
The 14 full fee paying places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
We offer 2 widening participation places and these will be allocated after receipt of several applications.
To fully complete the course you will need to attend all 9 days and do your presentation.
The 14 full fee paying places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
We offer 2 widening participation places and these will be allocated after receipt of several applications.
Dates:
Module 1: October 10th - 11th 2023 Module 2: November 7th - 8th 2023 Module 3: February 27th - 28th 2024 Module 4: April 9th - 10th 2024 Module 5: April 24th 2024 (Presentations) Times:
this is Mountain Standard Time (the time in Colorado/Alberta) usually UK time is +7 hours 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Wednesday Please double check what the time will be where you are. |
Cost:
You have the option of paying in full upfront or paying for each module at a time: Pay in full upfront - £1540 (approximate equivalence USD $1 900.00). Pay one at a time - £365 (approximate equivalence USD $450, CS 5 is one day so will be £180 (USD $225). Payments due minimum of one month in advance of each module. We also have 2 Widening Participation places available, the fee is £770 (approximate equivalence of USD $950) this can be paid in one or two payments, due minimum of one month in advance - click here to see if you are eligible to apply. |
Our LGBTQ+ Centred training will integrate:
- Our own lived experiences, including as lesbian and gay trainers.
- LGBTQ+ as an umbrella term and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people as separate, though not mutually exclusive, groups of people with unique experiences.
- The intersectionality of LGBTQ+ and other identities and the impact of these.
- Initial and ongoing assessment that integrates LGBTQ+ identity development, coming out/ coming in, etc.
- Further considerations and elaborations for working in an attachment framework with your LGBTQ+ clients.
- How to conceptualise and work with the impact of minority stress on LGBTQ+ people's relationship with themselves and others and working with this through the 3 Stages of EFT.
- Exploring and utilising resilience through the Stages.
- Working with issues specific to LGBTQ+ peoples experience while acknowledging that some issues are fundamentally the same across all clients.
- An expansive view of relationships that is includes open relationships in their different forms and monogamy, asexual and/or aromantic relationships, kink.
- Ongoing development for you as LGBTQ+ EFT therapists.
and as with all Core Skills trainings we will include:
- more depth and breadth in the EFT areas we cover,
- a smaller group experience (than the Externship) for more individualised learning and deeper group experience,
- active linking of your own client work with what you are learning,
- more exercises and role plays to help integrate learning from presentations, video clips, demos and discussions,
- the opportunity to present a piece of your work with the group (a requirement for completion of Core Skills, its content is not evaluated),
- next steps in your EFT development.
Our stance
- We recognise 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 LBBTTQQIAP+ people.
- We believe that lesbian, gay, and bi identities are inclusive of trans persons.
- We know that there are many intersecting identities that are important to tend to in our teaching as well.
Participants:
You are eligible to apply if you can say yes to all the following:
You are eligible to apply if you can say yes to all the following:
- You are affirmative of people who are LGBTQ+.
- You are a member of a recognised counselling / professional mental health organisation or a student on a substantial counselling/mental health course and follow their code of ethics.
- You have completed an EFT Externship.
- You have/will have an active caseload of intimate partner work from which to present a recording clip.
- You agree to keep confidential the personal identifying information of case material shared in the training.
- You agree to inform a member of the training team if you recognise any person on audio/video and understand that you will need to leave the room during the time that this person/persons are being discussed.
- You are willing to participate in role plays.
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 2 widening participation reduced fee places and invite you to click here to find out if you are eligible and how to apply. We welcome donations to support us offering these reduced fee places click here for more information and to donate. |
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The trainers:
Sandra Taylor, PhD
Sandra Taylor, PhD, is an ICEEFT certified EFT Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist based in Lancashire, England. She works in private practice and is a Joint Centre Head of the British EFT Centre www.beftcentre.org Sandra is based in Britain and trains in Britain face to face, and online internationally - including supporting PSEFT, Poland. Along with Robert Allan, Sandra runs LGBTQ+ Centred Externships, Core Skills and continuing professional development workshops internationally.
Some of Sandra’s identities are that she is a lesbian cis-gender female, white, disabled 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. 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 based in Denver, Colorado. He is an Associate Professor in the couple and family track of the graduate MFT and counseling programs at the University of Colorado Denver. 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 supervising 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. Robert is a warm, knowledgeable, and engaged trainer with a passion for helping people learn EFT. |