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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  Elana Katz ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Elana Katz

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Elana Katz, LCSW, LMFT, is a senior faculty member at the Ackerman Institute for the Family and a founding board member of the New York Center for EFT. One of the first therapists in New York to become certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy, she is now an EFT Trainer and the co-coordinator of the ICEEFT Diversity Committee. In addition to enjoying her role as therapist and trainer, Elana has applied her knowledge of attachment and relationships to help mediation and collaborative law clients, and their professional teams, intercept the recurring patterns that shape high conflict divorce. Elana has published a number of articles and book chapters, and she’s been quoted by the New York Times, the Associated Press, and other media outlets. She presents nationally and internationally, most often in the Midwest and Israel, and her private practice is in Manhattan.