April 2025 | Standard Core Skills Training! | Online Event
About the Training:
This streamlined EFCT Core Skills training is tailored for clinicians seeking a condensed version of the core skills advanced training, prioritizing practical content over experiential elements. Designed for mental health practitioners who prefer a shorter approach, the program features lectures, dyadic presentations, tape demonstrations, and structured exercises. Dispensing with case presentations and role-plays, this refined course is ideal for those aiming for a methodical learning of the EFCT model. Purchase can advance more swiftly to individual supervision with a local certified EFT supervisor for further development of the EFCT skills, as the curriculum contains a singular focus on applying the EFCT model with working with couples. The ‘Basic Core Skills’ is also designed for those require a training with less group time commitment.
The overall goal of the Core Skills Training is to take the overview knowledge gained in reading EFT literature and in an EFT Externship and turned it into a procedural map for intervention for the therapist. Additionally, the Standard Core Skills Training provides EFCT immersion with 2 ICEEFT certified trainers.
This training features:
- Lectures and structured presentations
- Dyadic demonstrations
- Video tape reviews
- Structured exercises
What You Will Learn:
The goal of Core Skills Training is to transform the foundational knowledge gained in EFT literature and the EFCT Externship into a clear procedural map for intervention. The training focuses on:
- Instruction and review of the EFT model
- Demonstration of key skills through video recordings
- A deeper exploration of the EFT Tango in each stage
Participants will spend more time mastering the EFCT stages and interventions with two ICEEFT-certified trainers.
Training Modules:
This 24-hour training course is divided into two 2-day modules:
Module 1: Focuses on Stage 1 of EFT (De-escalation)
Module 2: Covers restructuring interactions and creating bonding moments to foster second-order change
Schedule
4 Day Event
- Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – 10:00 AM to 5:15 PM EST
- Wednesday, April 23, 2025 – 10:00 AM to 5:15 PM EST
- Tuesday, May 27, 2025 – 10:00 AM to 5:15 PM EST
- Wednesday, May 28, 2025 – 10:00 AM to 5:15 PM EST
Each training day runs from 10:00 AM to 5:15 PM EST, with a half-hour lunch break and two small 15-minute breaks.
Why Attend?
This course is a further step toward becoming a Certified EFT Therapist. Participants must commit to all 24 hours to foster a cohesive group environment for safe, secure, and enriching learning.
Registration
To reserve your spot, please fill out the registration form and pay the training fee.
Spots are limited, so secure yours today!
We look forward to learning and growing with you in this immersive EFCT Core Skills Training!
This training follows the learning guidelines set by the Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and offers a secure, supportive environment to learn, explore, and grow.
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Careful attention will be given to the selection of case examples to include minority cultures. The C.A.R.E framework of EFT assessment will be discussed, illustrating how understanding a client’s cultural context is important in understanding attachment and affect regulation strategies.
Speakers
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Robin Williams BlakeICEEFT Certified TrainerRobin is a certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer, supervisor and therapist. Presently, Robin is a faculty member in the graduate program for Sir Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ont.), as well as a guest speaker in their continued education program. This past January 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 the last 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 and Edmonton and he co-trained at the Toronto Externship with Sue Johnson in October 2020-2021. 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. He recently joined ICEEFT’s certification team and enjoys helping in the EFT certification process. Robin is a registered psychotherapist and has been in private practice in Toronto for 20 years where he sees individuals, couples and families and provides supervision for therapists working towards certification in EFT.
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Senem Zeytinoğlu SaydamICEEFT Certified TrainerDr. 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.
