2025 Nov | EFCT Externship

Trainers

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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.

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  Robin Williams Blake ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Robin Williams Blake

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Robin Williams Blake, Registered Psychotherapist

  Robin is a certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer, supervisor, and therapist. Presently, Robin is a adjunct faculty member in the graduate program for Martin Luther University College (WLU), where he teaches the EFT Externship and Core Skills in the Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy program. Robin teaches Creating Secure Connections: an Intro to EFCT, and Moving from Self Criticism to Self Acceptance with EFIT in the continued education program for the School of Social Work Program for WLU (2020 to present). 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 (2021). In the past 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. Robin trains EFT for local centers and communities in Fredericton, Cambridge, Toronto, York Region, London, ON, Sain John, NB and Edmonton and he co-trained at the Toronto Externship with Sue Johnson in October 2020-2021. As an international EFT trainer, Robin has taught in the US, UK, Iran and for the Ukraine and Caribbean communities. For the past 4 years, he has been a regular consultant and facilitator of Hold Me Tight retreats organized by Canada Beyond the Blue a not-for-profit organization providing therapeutic services for Canadian Police Officers and their families. Robin is a 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 25 years where he sees individuals, couples and families and provides supervision for therapists working towards certification in EFT/EFIT/EFFT.