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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 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 - 4 sets of 2 days. To fully complete the course you will need to attend and participate all 8 days.
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 - 4 sets of 2 days. To fully complete the course you will need to attend and participate all 8 days.
This course is limited to 20 participants
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Dates:
Module 1: October 121st & 22nd 2024 Module 2: December 2nd & 3rd Module 3: February 3rd & 4th 2025 Module 4: March 31st & April 1st |
Times:
this is Mountain Standard Time (the time in Colorado/Alberta) usually UK time is +7 hours 8 a.m. - 3.15 p.m. Monday & Tuesday Please double check what the time will be where you are. |
This course is being organised by Robert Allan - click here to go to his website.
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.
* To see me interviewed about the first LGBTQ+ Centred Externship held in London June 2022 click here.
And see here for our research article on participants experiences there.
And see here for our research article on participants experiences there.
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.
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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.
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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 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. |
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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. |