Emotionally Focused individual Therapy (Level 1) – Mar, 2023

Trainers

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  Robin Williams Blake ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Robin Williams Blake

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Robin is a certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer, supervisor and therapist. Presently, Robin is a faculty 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. 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 centres 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. He recently joined ICEEFT’s certification team and enjoys helping in the EFT certification process. 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 therapists working towards certification in EFT.

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  Ali Barbosa ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Ali Barbosa

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Ali Barbosa is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified EFT Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. He is the founder and director of EFT México, the first ICEEFT affiliated Center in Latin America. Ali has a full-time private practice in Mérida, México, and works with adult individuals and couples, sometimes in a bilingual setting. Additionally, Ali has been certified in CBT and Ericksonian psychotherapy. He has worked and trained with many different EFT trainers and appreciates the richness and integration that derives from collaboration. Ali is very passionate about training and has helped translate and bring the EFT model to Hispanic therapists all over Latin America and Spain.