Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) Core Skills – London
Led by ICEEFT certified EFT trainers Sandra Taylor and Helene Igwebuike
22–25 February & 7–10 June 2027
VAI, Central London
22–25 February & 7–10 June 2027
VAI, Central London
Join us in London for Core Skills
If you have completed an EFCT Externship and started taking that learning into your clinical work, Core Skills is the next stage of your EFCT training. You understand the attachment foundations of the model, have begun to recognise and track cycles, and have been introduced to the EFT Tango — and then you go back to your clients and work on putting it into practice. We know that can be challenging.
Core Skills gives us eight days together in a smaller group, with more time to deepen your understanding, practise skills, reflect on your clinical work and develop your own way of working within the model.
This course is organised by the British EFT Centre (BEFT). [Click for full course information, fees and registration.]
If you have completed an EFCT Externship and started taking that learning into your clinical work, Core Skills is the next stage of your EFCT training. You understand the attachment foundations of the model, have begun to recognise and track cycles, and have been introduced to the EFT Tango — and then you go back to your clients and work on putting it into practice. We know that can be challenging.
Core Skills gives us eight days together in a smaller group, with more time to deepen your understanding, practise skills, reflect on your clinical work and develop your own way of working within the model.
This course is organised by the British EFT Centre (BEFT). [Click for full course information, fees and registration.]
Taking your Externship learning into practice
As you begin using EFCT with your clients, new questions emerge. How do I keep working with their cycle to shape the therapy? How do I learn the moves of the Tango and not lose the shape of the session? How do I step into and stay with emotion, including with clients who feel numb or say they ‘don’t know’? And how do I work out what is core EFCT and what is the individual style of the therapists I have watched?
These are the kinds of questions Core Skills gives us time to explore more deeply, as you develop greater confidence and flexibility in using the model.
As you begin using EFCT with your clients, new questions emerge. How do I keep working with their cycle to shape the therapy? How do I learn the moves of the Tango and not lose the shape of the session? How do I step into and stay with emotion, including with clients who feel numb or say they ‘don’t know’? And how do I work out what is core EFCT and what is the individual style of the therapists I have watched?
These are the kinds of questions Core Skills gives us time to explore more deeply, as you develop greater confidence and flexibility in using the model.
Learning, practising and coming back for more
Our Core Skills takes place in two four-day blocks, in February and June, with the learning across both blocks continuing to build your understanding of cycles, the EFT Tango, emotion and the stages and steps of EFCT.
Importantly, the space between the two blocks gives you time to take what you are learning back to your clients. When we meet again in June, you bring with you the experiences, discoveries and questions that have emerged from trying things out in your own practice, giving us plenty to build on together.
Helene and I bring different personalities, identities, life experiences and ways of working with EFCT. We sometimes approach the same clinical moment differently while holding onto the same EFT map, helping you explore what is core to the model and what belongs to an individual therapist’s style. We share a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, weaving attention to partners’ intersecting identities, histories, cultures and wider contexts throughout our teaching.
Our Core Skills takes place in two four-day blocks, in February and June, with the learning across both blocks continuing to build your understanding of cycles, the EFT Tango, emotion and the stages and steps of EFCT.
Importantly, the space between the two blocks gives you time to take what you are learning back to your clients. When we meet again in June, you bring with you the experiences, discoveries and questions that have emerged from trying things out in your own practice, giving us plenty to build on together.
Helene and I bring different personalities, identities, life experiences and ways of working with EFCT. We sometimes approach the same clinical moment differently while holding onto the same EFT map, helping you explore what is core to the model and what belongs to an individual therapist’s style. We share a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, weaving attention to partners’ intersecting identities, histories, cultures and wider contexts throughout our teaching.
Together in London
Learning in person gives us eight days to work, practise and think together. With a maximum of 24 participants, there is plenty of space for questions, discussion, skills practice and reflection on your own clinical work within a warm and thoughtful learning environment.
Our venue is VAI in central London, easily accessible by public transport and close to Kings Cross, giving you plenty of possibilities for spending time together or enjoying London at the end of the training day.
Learning in person gives us eight days to work, practise and think together. With a maximum of 24 participants, there is plenty of space for questions, discussion, skills practice and reflection on your own clinical work within a warm and thoughtful learning environment.
Our venue is VAI in central London, easily accessible by public transport and close to Kings Cross, giving you plenty of possibilities for spending time together or enjoying London at the end of the training day.
Practical information
Dates: 22–25 February & 7–10 June 2027
Venue: VAI, Central London
Trainers: Sandra Taylor & Helene Igwebuike
Group size: Maximum 24 participants
Core Skills is the second level of formal EFCT training and participants need to have completed an EFCT Externship.
For full information about eligibility, fees and registration, please visit the British EFT Centre (BEFT) Core Skills webpage.
Dates: 22–25 February & 7–10 June 2027
Venue: VAI, Central London
Trainers: Sandra Taylor & Helene Igwebuike
Group size: Maximum 24 participants
Core Skills is the second level of formal EFCT training and participants need to have completed an EFCT Externship.
For full information about eligibility, fees and registration, please visit the British EFT Centre (BEFT) Core Skills webpage.
Widening Participation
We warmly welcome therapists in all their diversity to our trainings. We also offer Widening Participation reduced-fee places for people who meet the criteria, with reductions of 25% or 50%. [Find out more about eligibility and how to apply.]
We warmly welcome therapists in all their diversity to our trainings. We also offer Widening Participation reduced-fee places for people who meet the criteria, with reductions of 25% or 50%. [Find out more about eligibility and how to apply.]
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. |
Helene Igwebuike, MA is an ICEEFT Certified Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer who offers a warm, non-judgemental space for couples and individuals to explore emotions, strengthen connection and build secure, compassionate relationships. Drawing on her mixed African and European heritage and international background, Helene brings a rich, empathetic perspective to her work. Originally trained in Chemical Engineering before moving into journalism and later counselling, she has been in private practice since 2003 and is one of the first UK therapists certified by ICEEFT. As a BACP Accredited Integrative Counsellor specialising in Emotionally Focused Therapy, she is dedicated to ethical practice, ongoing professional development, and regular supervision. Helene also runs Hold Me Tight workshops for couples, provides EFT training, and offers clinical and EFT supervision for therapists.
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