October 2026 | EFIT Essentials
EFIT is an attachment science-based approach to individual therapy that, like the other EFT interventions, offers an integration of humanistic experiential interventions focused on reshaping intrapsychic experience and systemic interventions focused on reshaping patterns of engagement with significant others. Emotion is given precedence because of its powerful role in structuring inner experience, motivation, and key interactional patterns in relationships. Emotion links and organizes core experience and interaction.
Emotion moves people. Understanding the intuition of emotion and how to use it to create potent and sustainable change moves both the client and therapist. Sessions become more focused and effective. Corrective emotional experiences transform, shift perspectives, shift thoughts about self, about trust, confidence and competence. It is an organic process: when emotions are tapped into and used effectively, a shift in thoughts naturally follows.
Emotion is a reliable guide post, and the destination is clear: secure attachment. The lens of attachment helps us to see and understand individuals in context. EFT provides us with the tools, a roadmap, to help each individual achieve a secure connection with themselves and their most important relationships.
Goals:
- To offer corrective experiences that positively impact models of self and other and shape stable, lasting change.
- To offer transformative moments where vulnerability is encountered with balance.
- To enable clients to move into the accessibility/openness, responsiveness and full engagement that characterizes secure attachment with others.
- To enable clients to shape a coherent sense of a competent self that can deal with existential life issues and become a fully alive human being.
- To help clients overcome stuckness and unlock their natural growth potential.
Transform your practice – and your clients – with EFIT through this in person course.
4 Day Event
- October 5, 2026, 9:00am – 4:30pm
- October 6, 2026, 9:00am – 4:30pm
- October 7, 2026, 9:00am – 4:30pm
- October 8, 2026, 9:00am – 4:30pm
Total Time
24 hours
Leanne and Robin first teamed up as a training duo in 2019, and since then, they’ve dedicated their focus to the growth and development of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT).
Leanne Campbell is the co-author of the Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Trauma, written alongside Dr. Sue Johnson. As one of the world’s leading voices on using EFIT with trauma survivors, Leanne travels globally to train therapists in this powerful model.
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. Together, Leanne and Robin bring both heart and expertise to their trainings—making this an event you don’t want to miss.
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.
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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Leanne CampbellICEEFT Certified TrainerDr. Leanne Campbell is co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group and is an Honorary Research Associate of Vancouver Island University. Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson in the early 1990s, she has continued to work in the EFT model since that time, and has provided psychotherapy services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past three decades.
Known for her expertise in trauma, Dr. Campbell has provided hundreds of psychological assessment reports for forensic/legal and personal injury matters being considered before various levels of Court. She also is regularly called upon to provide expert opinion, as well as psychological evaluations for various insurance companies and bodies involved in adjudicating personal injury and other trauma-based claims. In addition to maintaining a full-time private practice, with a primary focus in the areas of relationship strain, trauma, grief, and loss, Dr. Campbell currently co-manages a multi-site practice comprised of twenty-five clinicians and is a site co-ordinator for an Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) outcome study.
Dr. Campbell is an active ICCEFT Certified Trainer, offering trainings in the areas of EFIT and EFCT and trauma in particular, and has been involved in the development of various educational materials and programs (see also www.iceeft.com and www.vancouverisland.com). Most recently, she co-authored the first basic EFIT text with Dr. Sue Johnson, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client, now available for pre-order.
