Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Externship - Edinburgh
Led by EFT trainers Sandra Taylor and Sarah McConnell
October 26-29 2026
The Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh
October 26-29 2026
The Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh
This course is organised by BEFT - the British EFT Centre.
Click here for more information and to register EFCT In-Person Edinburgh Oct 2026 – BEFT Centre
Click here for more information and to register EFCT In-Person Edinburgh Oct 2026 – BEFT Centre
This Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Externship will run for the first time in Edinburgh.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 want to develop your understanding of Emotionally Focused Therapy, particularly in relation to working with couples.
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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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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. |
Sarah McConnell, MA is an experienced couple and family therapist in independent practice in Derbyshire, North West England. She is UKCP registered and also licensed as an LMFT-S in Texas. Sarah trained in Gestalt Therapy at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, USA and then completed her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy in Houston, Texas after working in the oil and gas industry as an executive leadership trainer and professional coach for 27 years. Sarah worked in independent practice in Houston and was one of the therapists involved in research in Houston using EFT couples therapy with the parents of autistic children demonstrating EFCT’s effectiveness over time (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28419496/).
Sarah moved back to the UK in 2016, and is now a Co-Director of the British EFT Centre. She is passionate in continuing to explore how neurodivergent clients can be better understood in therapy, and in developing EFFT and EFIT in Great Britain. |