Led by EFT Trainers Robert Allan & Sarah McConnell | Online
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) Core Skills Training presents a set of four, two-day workshops and is designed to follow the EFCT Externship. Core Skills offers an in-depth opportunity to develop the skills essential to the practice of EFCT. Each segment includes instruction, role play, observation of video, and consultation.
About the Training
Module 1: February 4/5, 2027 - Tango in Stage 1: Steps 1-2 Assessment
Module 2: April 15/16, 2027 - Tango in Stage 1: Steps 3-4 De-Escalation
Module 3: June 3/4, 2027 - Tango in Stage 2: Steps 5-7 Withdrawer Re-Engagement
Module 4: September9/10, 2027 - Tango in Stage 2: Steps 5-7 Pursuer Softening, Stage 3: Steps 8-9
Timing each day: 1300-2000 London, UK time
Location: Online
Prerequisite: 28-hour or 24-hour EFCT Externship
Registration fees
Early Bird Rate £1650 (if registered and paid in full before 24/12/26)
Early Bird Instalments 2x £825
Full price £1800 (applicable after 24/12/26)
Full price Instalments 2x £900
Widening participation reduced rates available, more info here
THE TRAINERS
Sarah McConnell, MA
Sarah is an experienced couple and family therapist in independent practice in Derbyshire, North West England. She is UKCP registered and also licensed as an LMFT-S in Texas. Sarah trained in Gestalt Therapy at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, USA and then completed her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy in Houston, Texas after working in the oil and gas industry as an executive leadership trainer and professional coach for 27 years. Sarah worked in independent practice in Houston and was one of the therapists involved in research in Houston using EFT couples therapy with the parents of autistic children demonstrating EFCT’s effectiveness over time (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28419496/).
Sarah moved back to the UK in 2016, and is now a Co-Director of the British EFT Centre. She is passionate in continuing to explore how neurodivergent clients can be better understood in therapy, and in developing EFFT and EFIT in Great Britain.
Robert Allan, PhD
Robert Allan, PhD, is an EFT Trainer, Supervisor, and Therapist Canadian based in London, UK. He left the University of Colorado Denver as a tenured Associate Professor in 2024 to become a Senior Lecturer and program lead for the child, adolescent, and family MA Counselling program at University of Roehampton.
Robert’s interest in EFT extends to his research work where he has explored cultural adaptations of EFT and working with the impact of minority stress. He is currently the co-Principal Investigator and supervised the Denver site for the first clinical trial of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT).
Robert has helped train and supervise therapists and students in Emotionally Focused Therapy across Canada, the US, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and Great Britain. 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 completed his PhD at Dalhousie University, he is a Licensed MFT in Colorado, and an Approved Supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. He is also a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist and UKCP Full Clinical Member. Robert is a warm, knowledgeable, and engaged trainer with a passion for helping people learn EFT.