LGBTQ+ Centred EFT Core Skills

EFCT Core Skills

February and May 2026 - London

EFT Trainers Sandra Taylor and Helene Igwebuike

The EFT Core Skills course is the second level of formal EFT training for working with couples / partners and follows on from the EFCT Externship. It completes the training element of requirements towards becoming a certified EFT therapist. We run the extended 48 hour version of Core Skills over 8 days - 2 sets of 4 days. To fully complete the course you will need to attend and participate all 8 days.

This course is limited to 20 participants

This course will be organised by BEFT - the British EFT Centre.
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Dates:
Module 1: February 9th - 12th
Module 2: May 18th - 21st

Cost: From £1650 Early Bird for all 4 modules.
Venue: VAI - Voluntary Action Islington, Central London

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
next steps in your EFT development.

Participants:
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. Applications must be in by August 1st.

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.