8th EFT INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2023 (via ZOOM)
‘Love and Attachment will Save the World’
Power of EFT in Healing and Growth in a Broken World.

EFT-Trained Cohort: 5th-8th July
[Block 1 on 5-6th Jul, 9am-4pm and Block 2 on 7-8th Jul, 1pm-8pm (LONDON time)]

Deepen your EFT knowledge and expand your therapeutic skills with world-known EFT Masters

(Go to EFT-Trained Registration Form)

(Days schedule is at the bottom of the page and on every page)

Speakers

 

(Speaker for EFT-Trained Cohort)

Ting Liu, PhD, EFT supervisor and trainer, USA

Ting Liu, Ph.D.,is a certified EFT trainer, supervisor and therapist. She is licensed in Pennsylvania as a Marriage and Family Therapist. She maintains a Private Practice in Wayne, PA.
Dr. Liu received her doctorate in Child Development and Family Studies with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy from Purdue University. She
completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Family Intervention Science at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Her publications include an EFT casebook in Chinese and six books she has translated into Chinese in the fields of MFT and EFT. She has also published
several journal articles on different applications of EFT. She is currently involved in several outcome studies examining the cultural applicability of EFT to
diverse populations.
Dr. Liu offers EFT training, supervision, and case consultation to therapists in the Philadelphia area, as well as to therapists in Beijing, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Chiang Mai, Seoul, Ukraine & Iranian Community.

 

(Speaker for EFT-Trained Cohort)

James Hawkins, PhD, EFT supervisor and trainer, USA

Dr. James Hawkins, ‘Doc Hawk’, is a Licensed Counsellor with 11 years of experience and an ICEEFT certified trainer, supervisor, and therapist. He obtained a Master’s in Marriage and Family Counselling and a Ph.D. in Psychology and Counseling. He currently serves as a Clinical Coordinator at a non-profit counselling practice in Northwest Arkansas. James is the founder of Healing Conversations, a training program developed to equip organizations and communities to have productive conversations about race. He is the co-host of two podcasts, The Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy, and The Leading Edge: Transforming Leadership Through Attachment Science. James is a part of the online training program, successinvulnerability.com develop to help EFT therapists and supervisors gain more focus in their clinical work. Doc Hawk brings a passion for helping individuals, couples, families, and communities in relational distress. James is married to his wife, Nicola and together they have five daughters.

 

(Speaker for EFT-Trained Cohort)

Robin Williams, PhD, EFT supervisor and trainer, USA

Robin Williams Blake, PhD, Certified EFT Trainer and Supervisor, Director of The Toronto Centre for EFT, Graduate Faculty, Wilfrid Laurier University, Host of Zooming in on EFT – Offering Online EFT Training Opportunities! Event Coordinator for EFT Canada Talks

Robin is a certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer, supervisor, and therapist.  Presently, Robin is a faulty member in the graduate program for Sir Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ont.), as well as a guest speaker in their continued education program.  This past January he designed and taught the first EFT Core Skills equivalency course to be offered at a Canadian University with his colleague, ICEEFT supervisor Debbie Wang at WLU.  In the last few years, Robin has taught EFT at York University in their social work program and was invited by Mount Sinai Hospital to speak at their level two trauma clinic in 2016.  He is a former adjunct faculty member at the Living Institute of Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy, where he taught EFT for 5 years.  Robin trains EFT for local centers and communities in Fredericton, Cambridge, Toronto, York Region and Edmonton and he co-trained at the Toronto Externship with Sue Johnson in October 2020-2021.  For the past 3 years, he has been a regular consultant for Hold Me Tight retreats organized by Toronto Beyond the Blue a not-for-profit organization providing therapeutic services for the Toronto police force and their families. Robin is a co-founder of the Toronto Centre for Emotionally Focused Therapy and has been a director for the Centre since 2005.  Robin is a registered psychotherapist and has been in private practice in Toronto for 20 years where he sees individuals, couples and families and provides supervision for therapist working towards certification in EFT.

 

(Speaker for EFT-Newcomers & EFT-Trained Cohort)

Gulya Diyarova, MSc Tavistock,  Cert. EFT therapist and supervisor, UKCP, Acc. COSRT, ICEEFT, UK.

Gulya Diyarova is an ICEEFT Certified Emotionally Focused therapist and supervisor, and a psychosexual and relationship therapist. Her first career in Moscow was as a medical doctor, paediatrician and clinical neurologist. She moved to the UK in 1993 and later retrained in Systemic therapy, Psychodynamic approach, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Early Attachment and Psychopathology, and as a Psychosexual therapist. Gulya was instrumental in bringing EFT to the UK and has been organising EFT training in London since 2009 in conjunction with ICEEFT. She is a founding member of the British EFT Community (BEFT Center). She supervises EFT therapists, leads EFT workshops, CPD groups and Advanced Externship training (Option 1 towards EFT Certification), and has a private practice in London. She is Director of the EFT International School and EFT Clinic in Central London.

 

(Speaker for EFT-Newcomers Cohort)

Dr. Laura Vowels, Cert. EFT therapist and supervisor-in-training, ICEEFT, Switzerland.

Laura is an ICEEFT certified emotionally-focused therapist and works in private practice with individuals, couples, and families. After finishing her PhD in Psychology in March 2021, she relocated from the UK to Switzerland. She currently works as a junior lecturer/postdoctoral researcher at University of Lausanne, Switzerland whilst seeing her clients privately online. She has been teaching emotionally focused therapy for a couple of years now with the EFT school and also works for a sex therapy app Blueheart as a researcher and advisor.

 

(Speaker for EFT-Newcomers Cohort)

Dr. Sandra Taylor, EFT supervisor and trainer, Acc. BACP, ICEEFT, UK.

Sandra Taylor, PhD, is an EFT Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist based in Lancashire, England. She works in private practice online and her client work is predominantly with LGBTQ+ people, see: www.potential-development.co.uk
Sandra is a co-founder of the British EFT Centre www.beftcentre.org  and Joint Centre Head.
She trains therapists in Emotionally Focused Therapy in Britain with co-trainer Helene Igwebuike. She is supporting the development of the Polish EFT Community as well as being co-trainer on the first LGBTQ+ focused EFT Externship, London 2022.
​Some of Sandra’s intersecting identities are that she is a lesbian cis-gender white female, disabled and Catholic.
Sandra is a member of ICEEFT – International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy and is an accredited member of BACP – 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 training 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, knowledgeable and engaged trainer with a passion for helping people learn EFT.

Times (London time): please, note different times for Block 1 & Block 2

(To check the time in your timezone click here)

Registration and the Schedule:

All days and Block 1 Registration – Wed 5th Jul at 8.30am

– Wednesday the 5th Jul9am till 4pm
Thursday 6th Jul – 9am till 4pm

Block 2 Registration – Friday 7th Jul 12.30pm

– Friday 7th Jul- 1pm till 8pm,
Saturday 8th Jul – 1pm till 8pm

Disclaimer

We normally take a decision as to whether we have sufficient numbers to run an event six weeks prior to the event.
If you are having to travel to London, we suggest that you bear this in mind when making your travel and accommodation arrangements as we cannot be held liable for any costs incurred if we have to cancel an event.
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EFT International School reserves the right to amend, change or cancel workshops or trainers at its own discretion due to circumstances beyond our control.