EFIT Mastering Skills & Consultation | Toronto | January 2027
Advance your practice and improve your client outcomes by taking your EFIT skills to the next level! In this two-part course, you will learn from expert trainers as they show and talk about their therapy sessions – where they get stuck, how they get unstuck, and how the attachment map and EFT Tango provide a beacon in all cases! Next, you will join with your colleagues as they show their work, and watch as expert trainers help guide the therapy process through feedback, consultation, and role plays specifically aimed at framing clients’ problems through the lens of attachment, mapping the process, maintaining momentum, unblocking barriers to growth, and more!
Learning Objectives:
- How to model safety as a surrogate attachment figure to promote relationship security and harness the potency of emotion to transform trauma, quell anxiety, dim the darkness of depression, and more!
- Ways of creating, deepening, and maintaining a robust therapeutic alliance across a wide range of clients and presenting issues.
- Methods for tracking and identifying key inner and interpersonal patterns that block growth, connection, and progress in therapy.
- How the EFIT therapist uses key interventions to first validate and then gently dissolve the blocks that keep clients stuck.
- How to harness the power of attunement, an attachment map, and core EFIT interventions to keep clients at their leading edge of discovery and promote growth both within and between sessions.
- A more nuanced understanding of the core EFIT macro-intervention, the EFIT Tango, and how attunement is used to propel the therapy process forward, move by move.
- Key methods and interventions that lead clients into secure attachment — the platform for well-being and for ongoing growth and connection.
Transform your practice – and your clients – with EFIT through this in person course at Central YMCA.
Four hours
Participants will learn as they share and discuss their own work. Together, the group will explore what it takes to maintain a robust alliance and to find and keep focus in session, while identifying the key inner and interpersonal patterns that block progress. Trainer will demonstrate how to deepen engagement in the face of avoidance and intellectualization, how to work with blocks at the leading edge of experience, and how to assemble, befriend, and order emotion. Throughout, the emphasis is on maintaining focus, depth, and momentum with complex client presentations, and on shaping core identity dramas with elements of self and with others.
Up to six hours
Cases are presented by participants and trainer. Trainer provide feedback and consultation, and engage in role plays with each other and/or with ceonsultees, in order to demonstrate the EFIT model as it is specifically applied to the case discussed and to each presenting issue.
2 Day Event
- January 18, 2027, 10:00am – 4:30pm
- January 19, 2027, 10:00am – 4:30pm
Total Time
10 hours
Robin Williams Blake, Founder and Director of the Toronto Centre for EFT since 2007, is also known internationally for his work in helping therapists apply the EFT model to individual therapy in meaningful and transformative ways.
For those travelling from out of town, our team is happy to share hotel recommendations and a curated list of fun things to do in Toronto.
We can’t wait to welcome you!
Group rates are available for groups of four or more. For details, please contact us at info@tceft.ca
Refund and Cancellation: Cancellations made less than 30 days before training receive an 80% refund, with 20% retained for admin work.
Who is this training for?
All mental health professionals including psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, counsellors (including couples and family therapists), pastors and clergy, and students training in these professions. School counsellors are permitted to attend if they are licensed and belong to a professional body that has standards of practice for psychotherapy/counselling. Life coaches are not permitted to attend unless they also meet one of the mental health professional categories listed above.
PREREQUISITES: To attend this training, you must first complete the EFIT Essential. This is the next step in your certification journey.
Speaker
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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.
