BEFT continuing professional development (CPD) events are for those who are new to EFT and those who have been practicing EFT for years. CPD events will spotlight the wide variety of talent we have across our BEFT communities with our EFT trainers, supervisors, and therapists all providing an in-depth opportunity to explore a clinical area of our EFT practice. Participants will learn more about their EFT work across individuals, couples/relationships, and families that will contribute to improving outcomes with clients. You will get a front row seat that will include presentations, observing therapy sessions, and practicing skills that you can take into your practice.
The CPD sessions will be an opportunity to grow your professional network along with your comfort with EFT across modalities. CPD workshops are designed to offer the latest in clinical knowledge with a focus on practical application that you can take into your own work. Join your EFT colleagues as we explore different aspects and different clinical areas of our EFT practices.
Come and join the Britain based EFT trainers in February and May and increase your skills and knowledge working with clients with neurodiversity and trauma-trauma, as well as deepening working with emotion and seeding attachment. Each of the four trainers will be presenting a half day workshop and you can book for one or two days. You need to have at least completed an Externship to attend.
For booking information, please contact Randall Horton at randallhorton@beftcentre.org.
9 – noon
Working with Neurodiversity in EFT for couples
with Sarah McConnell, EFT Trainer
1.30 – 4.30
EFT with Trauma-Trauma Partners
with Sandra Taylor, EFT Trainer
9 – noon
Working with Emotion in EFT: Practicalities
with Robert Allan, EFT Trainer
1 – 4
Seeding Secure Attachment with Couples: Bridging the Gap between Stage 1 and Stage 2
with Helene Igwebuike, EFT Trainer
Further details below
£80 Early bird – booking and payment up to 31 January for 28 February workshops, 25 April for May 23 workshops
£100 standard fee – from 1 February for 28 February workshops, from 26 April for May 23 workshops
£150 Early bird – booking and payment up to 31 January
£180 standard fee – for booking and payment from 1 February
Widening Participation reduced fee places are available, click here for more information.
Venue: VAI – Voluntary Action Islington
There will be a 15 minute break in each workshop and light refreshments will be provided.
Friday 28 February 2025
Many couple therapists come into contact with couples where one or both partners have a diagnosed condition such as autism or ADHD, or where one or both are presenting with some of the characteristics of a neurodivergent brain but do not have a diagnosis. Without some background knowledge of neurodiversity, therapists can often feel stuck as these clients brains and behaviour do not necessarily conform to a neurotypical pattern. This workshop aims to:
When two partners have an unresolved trauma history sessions can be a challenge by both getting triggered suddenly and virtually simultaneously, especially in Stage one but also in Stage two. EFT offers a way forward – slowing down and slicing thin, seeing the richness in small moments and unpacking them; along with adjustments for working with these trauma-trauma partners : engaging very collaboratively with partners to get curious about their process, validating the desire to be present with each other and psychological education on what gets in the way when the trauma response takes over, working prepared for both clients to go over their window of tolerance and supporting them back.
I’ll share with you my work, including video clips, and you’ll have the opportunity to practise.
As preparation you may want to see my podcast on We Heart Therapy: Trauma-Trauma Couples Therapy using EFT-Featuring Sandra Taylor, PhD
Friday 23 May 2025
Do you find yourself comfortable with Stage 1, tracking and reframing the negative cycle, but not so secure in knowing when and how to move your couples fluidly from Stage 1 to deeper Stage 2 change events? Starting from Stage 1, all the way through Stage 2, Seeding Attachment is key to planting the seeds of attachment security and bringing attachment fears and longings alive, steadily steering couples safely through uncharted attachment territory towards a more secure bond. Join me for a sounder grasp and experiential practice of this powerful but often under-used EFT intervention, through presentations, videos and role plays. You will learn to see, hear and use attachment to transform couple relationships.
As preparation, you can watch my pocast on We Heart Therapy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs0wrBqTnAE&feature=youtu.be
While we know with a model titled “emotionally focused” there is an understanding that – as Sue said, emotion is the music that guides the dance – emotion is our engine of change. Tuning into that music and understanding how that developed for each of our clients is the start to working with emotion in a way that helps us understand how to facilitate change across our work with individuals, couples/relationships, and families. The repeated research in EFT and other approaches that demonstrates depth of emotional experience as contributing positively to client outcome calls us to understand how to work with emotion at different stages and depths of our work.
In this workshop, we will explore how to understand and work with clients at different levels of emotional experiencing, what depth of emotional experience means in each stage of EFT, and how to better understand and therapeutically align with clients across various experiences that have suppressed emotional experience across their lives. We will explore how emotion is an ally in our work and can help people move towards coherence – secure attachment – within, with key relationships, and across varied lived experiences that may have included dealing with stigma. This interactive workshop will include presentation, video examples, and an opportunity to practice skills that can immediately be used with clients.
Sarah McConnell is a certified EFT Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer who has a private practice in Derbyshire, UK. She trained in Gestalt psychotherapy prior to training in EFT in Houston, Texas. Sarah was one of the therapists involved in research at the University of Houston Clear Lake using EFT couples therapy with the parents of autistic children and is a member of the EFT and Neurodiversity Special Interest Group within British EFT Centre (BEFT). Sarah is a co-Director of BEFT and develops strategy for the organisation. Prior to becoming a therapist, Sarah was a global vice president of training for a corporate multi-national company. Sarah leads the UK training in EFFT and is part of the UK team developing EFIT in the UK. She is passionate and excited about extending EFT to therapists in Britain and around the world.
Sandra Taylor is an EFT Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist. Sandra is a co-founder of the British EFT Centre www.beftcentre.org and is a co-Director. She regularly works with co-trainers to run EFT courses in Britain, LGBTQ+ centred EFT trainings internationally (online) and she runs EFT trainings for PSEFT online – Poland). Some of Sandra’s intersecting identities are that she is a lesbian cis-gender white female, disabled, a widow, and Catholic. Sandra is a warm, knowledgeable and engaged trainer with a passion for helping people learn EFT.
Helene Igwebuike is an Integrative Counsellor and ICEEFT certified Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer, as well as one of the founding members of the British EFT Centre (BEFT). Helene is passionately committed to helping couples and individuals heal and transform the relationship with self and others by relating in open-hearted meaningful ways that build trust, emotional closeness, physical intimacy, personal and relational wellbeing. Helene is o f mixed Nigerian and Danish heritage and has a wonderfully diverse cosmopolitan practice based in London, England and offers mainly online therapy.
Robert Allan is an EFT Trainer, Supervisor, and Therapist based in London, UK. He is a Senior Lecturer and programme lead for the child, adolescent, and family MA Counselling program at University of Roehampton. Robert has helped train and supervise therapists and students in Emotionally Focused Therapy across Canada, USA, UK, and Europe. Robert’s interest in EFT extends to his research work where he has explored cultural adaptations of EFT and is the co-Principal Investigator for the first clinical trial of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). Robert is a warm, knowledgeable, and engaged trainer with a passion for helping people learn EFT.
BEFT Centre is an approved affiliate of ICEEFT (International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy).
