Events

Robin Williams Blake

ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer, Supervisor, Consultant, Speaker and Host

As a certified EFT trainer, my goal is to empower mental health practitioners by sharing the powerful tools, skills, and interventions that Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) offers. Join me on this journey to master EFT techniques that can make a profound difference in your practice and in the lives of your clients.

Many have shared how their practices and lives transformed after meeting Sue Johnson, and I am no exception. My journey with EFT began in 2001 when I heard Sue, creator and lead developer of EFT, speak at Leading Edge Seminars in Toronto. Her words spoke to me, and learning EFT became my primary focus. Becoming more skilled working with couples was exhilarating.

After years of learning to apply the EFT skills and interventions, I became a certified EFT therapist in 2007. Driven by a desire to help other therapists to understand and master the steps, stages of EFT, I achieved certification as an EFT supervisor three years later.

Since 2010, I have supervised in both individual and group settings helping clinicians move through their own certification process. 7 years ago, I was invited by Sue Johnson to join the EFT Trainer team and today as an EFT trainer, it is a privilege to offer core trainings in the 3 certification tracks, as well as EFT master classes and workshops.

Please have a look at the list of EFT trainings below and reach out to me if you have a question. Together, we can grow your EFT skills which in turn will grow your confidence and your clinical practice.

Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Certificate Course!

With ICEEFT Trainers Robin Williams Blake, Dr. James Hawkins and Kathryn de Bruin

Training Host: PESI and The Psychotherapy Networker

Self purchase with link below

Basic EFCT Core Skills for York Region EFT Community

Basic EFCT Core Skills for York Region EFT Community

With ICEEFT Trainer Robin Williams Blake and EFT Supervisor Elana Goldin-Lerman

Training Schedule:

Module One: Stage One of EFCT – Cycle De-escalation | Relationship Stabilization
Dates: Monday/Tuesday January 13/14, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:45 PM (EST)

Module Two: Implementing the EFT Tango to Restructure the Bond
Dates: Monday/Tuesday January 27/28, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:45 PM (EST)

Location: IN PERSON

31 Disera Dr Suite 220 - 31 Disera Dr, Thornhill, ON L4J 0A7

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy Essentials  - In Toronto

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy Essentials
(Space is Limited)

Dates: January 30/21 and April 2/4, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM (EST)
Location: Grosvenor Room, Central YMCA

Presenters: ICEEFT Certified Trainers Gail Palmer and Robin Williams Blake

Email your questions: info@tceft.ca
Registration open:

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy, restoring connection and promoting resilience

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) Supervision Group

Dates: Nov. 13, Dec. 11, 2024

Jan. 15, Feb. 5, Mar. 5, Apr. 9, May 7, Jun. 4, 2025
Time: 9 AM to 11 AM (EST)
Location: Online

Presenter: ICEEFT Trainer Gail Palmer

Host(s): ICEEFT Trainer Robin Williams Blake

Summary: Are you a professional interested in deepening your skills in Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)? Our dedicated EFFT group has been meeting for three years, and we are always welcoming new members who are eager to learn and grow their skills working with families using Sue Johnson's EFFT model. Each session features two presentations, sometimes with video, sometimes without, offering diverse learning experiences. We share insights, discuss cases, and learn from each other in a supportive environment. Gail Palmer, an exceptional EFT trainer, provides brings her expertise working with families and  enhances our learning experience. Come join us and be part of a community that fosters growth and excellence in the practice of EFFT!

Contact for information: admin@robinwilliamblake.com

Zooming in Thru Trainers Eyes: Season Two - EFIT, March - December 2024

Zooming in Thru Trainers Eyes: Season Two - EFIT

Date: March - December 2024
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM (EST)
Location: Online

ICEEFT Trainer(s): Sue Johnson, Jeff Slootmackers, Dr. James Hawkins, Dr. Cindy Zane, Dr. Zoya Simakhodskaya, Christine Weiß, Veronica Kallos Lily and Robin Williams Blake

Host(s): Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen and Robin Williams Blake

Summary: Receive 8 episodes with EIGHT different EFT Trainers. See trainers in the therapist chair, learn their decision making process, hear their self-of-therapist struggles and discover different styles you can model. This virtual series is available to join live and/or study on your own at any time, so you can stay fresh, engaged and learning. As part the course you will receive a transcript of each session and the case overview.This online course provides you with convenient way to learn and is easily accessible. You can review each episode as often as you’d like until the next season is over with the Season Pass, or for 30 days with individual episodes.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)
Externship - 24-hours

Date: April 1-2 & 8-9, 2025 (Tuesdays & Wednesdays)
Time: 10:00 - 5:00 PM (Eastern)
Location: Online

ICEEFT Trainer(s): Robin Williams Blake and Yolanda von Hockauf

Host(s): ICEEFT Course

Summary: This four-day training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy is the first step in the certification EFCT certification track. If you aspire to become a certified EFCT therapist, this training is essential. Begin your journey towards certification and master the fundamentals of EFCT. Gain the skills to effectively support clients dealing with depression, anxiety, and PTSD. EFCT teaches you how to tune into, order, and use the power of potent emotion to literally ‘move’ clients into a new sense of self.  Transform your practice – and your clients – with EFCT through this live-online course.

Creating Secure Relationships: An Introduction To EFCT

Creating Secure Relationships: An Introduction To EFCT

Dates: June 05, 2025 to June 06, 2025
Time: 9:00AM to 4:00PM 

Presenter: ICEEFT Trainer, Robin Williams Blake

Couples therapy is most effective when it focuses on the healing power of emotional connection. Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) aligns perfectly with attachment theory, as it provides proven techniques for treating couple and family distress as well as anxiety, depression and other emotional difficulties in individuals.
In this Professional Development course, an overview of emotionally focused couple therapy will be presented. This two-day course will include didactic presentations accompanied by record client sessions and experiential exercises to demonstrate how the EFT approach explores both the intrapsychic and the interpersonal worlds of the couple in distress.

Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy Essentials

Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy Essentials

Dates: October 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th 2025  
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM (EST)

Presenter: ICEEFT Certified Trainers Dr. Leanne Campbell and Robin Williams Blake

This course introduces EFIT, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy, the individual therapy version of the well-established EFT couple model. This attachment-based, experiential model allows the therapist to confidently restructure the client’s habitual way of constructing moment-to-moment experiences and regulating their most difficult emotions. EFIT focuses on helping clients shape a coherent, resilient, secure sense of self, able to explore and resolve the deeper emotional pain underlying depression, anxiety, and the echoes of traumas.
As in EFT for couples, attachment science offers the EFIT therapist a map that clarifies the
nature of client problems and symptoms, specifying the steps in the journey towards
emotional balance and the corrective emotional epiphanies that are the essence of significant
 and lasting change in psychotherapy.

Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy Essentials - EFT Edmonton Community

Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy Essentials

Dates: October 24th to 27th, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM (MT)
Location: 18004 100 Avenue Northwest, Edmonton AB

Presenter: ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Robin Williams Blake

This course introduces EFIT, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy, the individual therapy version of the well-established EFT couple model. This attachment-based, experiential model allows the therapist to confidently restructure the client’s habitual way of constructing moment-to-moment experience and regulating their most difficult emotions. EFIT focuses on helping clients shape a coherent, resilient, secure sense of self, able to explore and resolve the deeper emotional pain underlying depression, anxiety, and the echoes of traumas. As in EFT for couples, attachment science offers the EFIT therapist a map that clarifies the nature of client problems and symptoms, specifying the steps in the journey towards emotional balance and the corrective emotional epiphanies that are the essence of significant and lasting change in psychotherapy.

Basic EFCT Core Skills for Waterloo Region, ON EFT Community

Basic EFCT Core Skills for Waterloo Region, ON EFT Community

With ICEEFT Trainers Gail Palmer and Robin Williams Blake
And EFT Supervisor Debbie Wang

Training Schedule:

Module One: Stage One of EFCT – Cycle De-escalation | Relationship Stabilization
Date: Thursday/Friday December 12/13, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:45 PM (EST)

Module Two: Implementing the EFT Tango to Restructure the Bond
Date: Thursday/Friday January16/17, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:45 PM (EST)

Location: Zoom Online

THIS TRAINING IS FULL!

Moving from Self-Criticism to Self-Acceptance with EFIT

Moving from Self-Criticism to Self-Acceptance with EFIT

Dates: 2025 - T.B.A
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (EST)
Location: Online

Presenter: ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Robin Williams Blake

This Professional Development course introduces EFIT, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy, the individual therapy version of the well-established EFT couple model. This attachment based, experiential model allows the therapist to confidently restructure the client’s habitual way of constructing moment-to-moment experience and regulating their most difficult emotions. EFIT focuses on helping clients shape a coherent, resilient, secure sense of self, able to explore and resolve the deeper emotional pain underlying depression, anxiety and the echoes of traumas. As in EFT for couples, attachment science offers the EFIT therapist a map that clarifies the nature of client problems and symptoms, specifying the steps in the journey towards emotional balance and the corrective emotional epiphanies that are the essence of significant and lasting change in psychotherapy.

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Building Emotional Balance:
Resourcing Clients in Stage 1 of EFIT

Dates: Sept. 24, 2024
Time: 15:00 - 17:30 (Kyiv) / 8 AM to 10:30 AM (EST)
Location: Online

Presenter: ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Robin Williams Blake

In Stage 1 of EFIT, resourcing clients is crucial. In this workshop, learn how to build a positive working alliance, search the client's life for key figures of support, and find the stronger, wiser part of self to help stabilize the client and build emotional balance. Resourcing clients creates A Safe Haven, empowering them to engage in deeper emotional work to transform their patterns in Stage 2.

Grow with Emotionally Focused Therapy.

Let's connect if you’re seeking to refine your therapy skills, find supervision, or explore therapy services. Reach out today to discover how EFT can help you realize the full potential of your therapy practice.