Trainer Profile

About Trainer

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 is teaches the EFT Externship and Core Skills in the Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy program. 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 2023. 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. 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, Edmonton and Saint John, NB 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 and UK as well as for Iran and Ukraine and looks forward to teaching for the Caribbean EFT Community in April. 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. Robin is a registered psychotherapist and has been in private practice in Toronto for 24 years where he sees individuals, couples and families and provides supervision for therapist working towards certification in EFT.