2026 Jan | EFFT Essentials

Trainers

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  Kathryn de Bruin ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Kathryn de Bruin

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Kathryn de Bruin is a Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified EFT Trainer and Supervisor. She is the Director of Renova in San Diego which is a non-profit serving children and families. Kathryn teaches Play Therapy at the University of California, San Diego, in the Play Therapy Program. She started EFT South Africa, she supports various EFT communities and is a Director for the San Diego Center for EFT. As an AAMFT supervisor, Kathryn enjoys providing supervision in person and online. Supervisees have described her as warm, perceptive and skilled. With her strong work ethic, it is important to Kathryn to be accessible and responsive to those who work with her. For more information on Kathryn, visit her online at www.kathryndebruin.com

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  James Furrow ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  James Furrow

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  James L Furrow, Ph.D., is a recognized leader and contributor to the practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with couples and families. He is contributing author and editor to five EFT texts including Emotionally Focus Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience and Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook. His research on couple therapy, positive youth development and spirituality are featured in leading professional journals. He is a clinical fellow and an approved supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a Certified Family Life Educator. Jim is an ICEEFT certified EFT therapist, supervisor, and trainer. He resides in Seattle Washington.

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  Rachel Thomas ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Rachel Thomas

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Rachel Thomas, LMFT is the owner of Therapy With Heart in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is an EFT Certified Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. Rachel is currently focusing her energy on training and supervision of therapists both within Therapy With Heart and in the Arizona Emotionally Focused Therapy Community. Recently, she has done trainings in EFT and Affairs, EFT Across Systems, Attachment Based Suicide Prevention, EFT Supervision Reboot, and Intro to EFT. She provides mentorship and supervision to her team of seventeen therapists and offers therapy to couples, individuals, and adult families, and conducts 2 day couples intensives.