Homeward Bound: A Journey to Safe Connection and Healing with EFFT/EFIT
A Journey to Safe Connection and Healing with EFFT and EFIT
Registration opens June 1, 2025
We are excited to introduce a brand-new training experience — Homeward Bound — bringing together the best of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT).
Whether you work primarily with families or individuals, this training will help you bridge these two modalities to deepen client change and relational repair.
You’ll learn how to:
- Augment family therapy with individual sessions, and
- Augment individual therapy with family sessions.
What to Expect:
Day 1: Watch Gail Palmer demonstrate how an individual session can deepen a family’s healing process.
Day 2: Watch Robin Williams Blake demonstrate how a family session can expand the impact of individual work.
Together, we’ll explore how these integrated moves help clients and families find their way home — home to themselves and home to each other.
We’ll also introduce the C.A.R.E. model of assessment, helping you attune to the client’s cultural, relational, and emotional world in both individual and family contexts.
Prerequisite: (one of the following) EFT Fundamentals, EFCT Externship, EFFT Essentials, or EFIT Essentials.
This is a training you won’t want to miss if you’re looking to expand your EFT practice across family, individual, and even couple work.
Not sure if ready to sign up? Secure your spot by making a deposit via the link below!
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/Q7FCY8Z7DHQNW
Refund and Cancellation: Cancellations made more than 30 days before training receive an 80% refund with 20% retained for admin work. No refund within 30 days.
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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Gail PalmerICEEFT Certified TrainerGail 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.
