Join the TCEFT group heading to the EFT World Summit 2027

Speakers

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  Robin Williams Blake ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Robin Williams Blake

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Robin 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 Campbell ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Leanne Campbell

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Dr. 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.

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  Gail Palmer ICEEFT Certified Trainer
  

  Gail Palmer

  ICEEFT Certified Trainer

  Gail Palmer, RMFT, MSW is one of the founding members of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute and Vice President of the International Centre of Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She holds a Masters degree in Social Work and is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in Canada. For over 30 years, Gail has worked closely with Dr. Sue Johnson, creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy, and is an experienced trainer and supervisor in EFT. She currently offers workshops, externships and core skills trainings to mental health professionals in a variety of different settings across the world.

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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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  Jef Slootmaeckers
  

  Jef Slootmaeckers

  Jef Slootmaeckers is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Belgium. He is a certified EFT therapist, EFT supervisor and EFT trainer (ICEEFT) and the director of EFT-Belgium.

  Jef is specialized in working with Intimate Partner Violence and EFT. He started to work in a shelter for women and children. Later, he worked as a couples therapist for more than a decade in a specialized centre with people suffering from violent escalations in their relationship. Now he has a private practice for EFT therapy and supervision. Passionate about working with trauma and aggression, Jef is always looking for ways how we can use all three modalities of EFT to help wounded people, couples and families to fight for a safer connection.

  Together with Lieven Migerode he wrote a book (Dutch) and articles on EFT and Intimate Partner Violence. Together they presented the EFT and Violence/Fighting for connection-training at different places in the world.