2025 June | EFIT Essentials

Trainers

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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.

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  Greg Cheney ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Greg Cheney

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Dr. Greg Cheney is a retired U.S. Army Chaplain, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor. He holds a PhD in Counseling and Counselor Education.

  In his final military assignment, he served as Director of the Watters Family Life Center for Counseling & Resiliency and led the Family Life Chaplain Qualification Course at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Today, he is the Owner and Clinical Director of Valiant Couples Therapy and Consulting in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.

  Greg’s military career spans years deployed with airborne infantry and Special Forces units in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has spent decades supporting soldiers and their families through the unique challenges of military life and reintegration.

  As an EFT Trainer, Greg brings a distinctive voice to the work. His combat and caregiving experience deeply inform how he applies Emotionally Focused Therapy with combat veterans and first responders—and how he trains clinicians who serve these resilient but often underserved communities.