2025 Dec | EFCT Externship

Trainers

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  Senem Zeytinoğlu Saydam ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Senem Zeytinoğlu Saydam

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Dr. Senem Zeytinoğlu Saydam worked as an assistant professor at Ozyeğin University’s Department of Psychology and the program director of the its couple and family therapy masters program in İstanbul, Turkey until recently. Currently living in Toronto, Senem is a licensed marriage and family therapist, an AAMFT and CAMFT clinical fellow and AAMFT and CAMFT approved supervisor. She is a certified EFT therapist, supervisor and trainer. She holds a private practice where she sees individuals, couples and families and provides supervision to clinicians.

  Senem received her Masters’ degree from Columbia University Teachers College in counseling psychology and her doctoral degree from Drexel University in couple and family therapy. Her dissertation was on experiences of parents raising a child with cleft lip and/or palate. She is the recipient of Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy Social Justice Award from Drexel University. Her research and clinical interests include person of the therapist, couples issues, medical family therapy and coping with illness and trauma.

  She is the co-founder and the president of Turkish Emotionally Focused Individual, Couple and Family Therapies Association. She is currently serving on the boards of Turkish Couple and Family Therapy Association and International Family Therapy Association.

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  Natalia Gilabert ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Natalia Gilabert

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Natalia Gilabert is a Clinical Psychologist with 25 years of experience as an individual and couples psychotherapist. She is a certified trainer by the International Centre of Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT), and has trained therapists in Latin America (Argentina, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador) and Spain. She is the Founder and Academic Director of the “EFT Argentina” center, aimed at providing official ICEEFT training in the Spanish-speaking world. She conducts and leads emotional “Hold me Tight” workshops for couples in Argentina and Chile. Co-Founder and Co-Director of the International Center “EFT Academy”, dedicated to providing Specialization Courses in Couples Therapy based on the EFT model (Infidelities, Highly Conflictual Couples, Erotic Intimacy). Co-founder, Co-Director, and Instructor at CEAP International Center for Adult Attachment Specialization, aimed at offering Diplomas and Postgraduate Training Courses in Adult Attachment. She provides supervision for therapists at an international level, and is part of the Supervisors Staff for Research in EFT Couples Therapy at the University of Navarra. She participates as a lecturer in postgraduate and Magister programs at Chilean Universities and is a prominent speaker at Latin American Congresses as a reference in Adult Attachment and Couples Therapy.