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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  Greg Cheney ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Greg Cheney

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Dr. Greg Cheney is licensed as a Marriage & Family Therapist and Clinical Mental Health Counselor with a PhD in Counseling and Counselor Education. He is the Director of the Watters Family Life Center for Counseling & Resiliency and the Family Life Chaplain Qualification Course where he is stationed at Fort Liberty, NC as a U.S. Army Chaplain (Lieutenant Colonel). Greg spent years deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan while assigned to airborne infantry and Special Forces units and a career caring for soldiers and their families upon their return. As an EFT Trainer, his combat experience informs how he approaches EFT for use with combat veterans and first responders and also informs how he trains those who care for the heroes in those communities.

  NB: The views expressed by the trainer are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Defense, or any of its components.