June 11/12 & 25/26 2024 Online 8am-3:30pm MST/3pm-10:30pm BST

LGBTQ+ Centered Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship

Led by EFT Trainers Robert Allan and Sandra Taylor

We are excited to be offering this Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Externship focused on LGBTQ+ relationships and endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). Continuing from the first LGBTQ+ Centered Externship in London in June, 2022 and the first online LGBTQ+ Centered Externship in 2023, we are delighted to be offering another one online. Please note the time zone is MST or the time in Denver, CO.

The EFT Externship is an introductory 24-hour training in Emotionally Focused Therapy. The main focus is working with relationships, primarily in couples, whilst we also recognize that relationships come in many forms. Taking place over 4 days, this training includes the observation of live and video recorded couple/relationship therapy sessions, presentations of theory and clinical techniques, skill training exercises, and discussions of cases, clinical material, and related issues.

In this training, we will be discussing, showing, demonstrating, and generally exploring EFT with a focus on LGBTQ+ relationships.

Dates: June 11/12 & June 25/26, 2024

Cost:

• $1095 Regular Fee

• $795 Student Rate (2023/2024 full-time students, proof required)

• $547. 50 (half the full fee) Repeating the Externship - You must provide us with a scan of your certificate and we will invoice you directly

• Some reduced fee places available, please see below for more information.

Register:

Begin by paying via the link below then we will send a google form to complete the registration

If it is easier for you to pay in British pounds (GBP) please email Sandra AcRE.EFTtraining@gmail.com to organise to pay by PayPal or bank transfer (national or international).

Location: Online/Zoom

Times: 8am-3:30pmMST (Colorado time zone) / 3pm-10:30pmBST (Britain time zone)

The LGBTQ+ Centered Externship was the first time I have felt truly represented in a professional setting--an invaluable experience. Sandra and Robert did a beautiful job exemplifying EFT though live videos and teaching the concepts in an understandable way. Additionally, they have seamlessly woven in common issues that many of my queer and trans clients face as they navigate an often unwelcoming society. After this training I feel 10x more equipped to serve my clients in a competent, sensitive, and relational way. Simon Everest, MS, LAMFT (they/them/he/him), The Family Development Center

Our training will integrate:

• our own lived experiences as lesbian and gay trainers,

• how to conceptualize and work with the impact of minority stress, 

• further considerations and elaborations for working in an attachment framework with your LGBTQ+ clients,

• clinical examples with LGBTQ+ clients.

Our stance:

• We believe that lesbian, gay, and bi identities are inclusive of trans persons.

• We recognize the words that we use to describe ourselves and others is constantly evolving, becoming ever more complex and precise as well as fluid rather than fixed.

• We recognize the heterogeneity of LGBTQ+ people and will not be able to address every group and theme that could be included on this course.

• We know that there are many intersecting identities that are important to tend to in our teaching as well.

• We recognize that relationships come in many different forms and value their variety whilst not being able to cover them all on this course.​

Participants:
You are eligible to apply if

• You are a member of a recognized professional mental health organization or a student on a substantial mental health course and

• You are affirmative of people who are LGBTTQQIAP+

• You want to develop your understanding of Emotionally Focused Therapy, particularly in relation to working with couples/relationships.

The trainers:

Sandra Taylor, PhD, is an EFT Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist based in Lancashire, England. She works in private practice as an EFT therapist and Supervisor as well as providing EFT training AcRE Training. Sandra primarily trains therapists in Emotionally Focused Therapy in Britain with fellow trainer Helene Igwebuike, she is also a trainer for the Polish EFT Community (PSEFT) and is developing LGBTQ+ centred EFT trainings with fellow trainer Robert Allan. Sandra is a founding member of the British EFT Community and is a Joint Head of the British EFT Centre. Some of Sandra’s identities are that she is a lesbian cis-gender white female, disabled and Catholic. She co-edited with her partner ‘And GOD saw it all was very good: Catholic LGBT People in Europe Telling Their Stories’ (Esuberanza, 2015).
Sandra is an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She previously worked as Director of Relationship Counselling in a national charity, and was a Senior Lecturer providing counsellor trainer at the University of Cumbria after more than 10 years as an Occupational Therapist in a range of mental health settings.
Sandra is a warm, knowledgeable and engaged trainer with a passion for helping people learn EFT.

​Robert Allan, PhD, is an EFT Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist Canadian based in Denver, Colorado. He is an Associate Professor in the couple and family track of the graduate MFT and counseling programs at the University of Colorado Denver. Robert has helped train and supervise therapists and students in Emotionally Focused Therapy across Canada, the US, and Europe. Among other identities, Robert is a gay, cis-gender male, and worked for 20 years in community based HIV, queer, and harm reduction work from the mid-1980s.
Robert’s interest in EFT extends to his research work where he has explored cultural adaptations of EFT. He is currently the co-Principal Investigator and supervising the Denver site for the first clinical trial of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). He is also part of a research project exploring the impact of minority stress on students, faculty, and staff across five university campuses. Robert completed his PhD at Dalhousie University, he is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Colorado, and an Approved Supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. Robert is a warm, knowledgeable, and engaged trainer with a passion for helping people learn EFT.