Currently Scheduled Scottish EFT Trainings
EFT Training – Levels 1 & 2
The Institute is currently reviewing the Level 1 and Level 2 training courses. Once this review is complete, course information including dates and fees will be made available here.
• If you wish to attend either of these trainings, please refer to this website for the latest information.
• If you wish to register an interest in the training, then please get in touch using the Institute email ( eftinstitutescotland@gmail.com ). We maintain a register of people who have indicated they are interested in the courses and we will contact these individuals when the information is available.
The Trainers
Robert Elliott, Ph.D. (preferred pronouns: they/them), is professor emeritus of counselling at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland). They received their PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978, and are also professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Toledo (Ohio). Their main interests are practice, supervision, training, and research on EFT and related therapies. They co-authored Facilitating emotional change (1993), Learning emotion-focused psychotherapy(2004/2025), Research methods in clinical psychology (1994/2002/2015), Essentials of Descriptive-Interpretive Qualitative Research (2021), and Emotion-Focused Counselling in Action (2021), as well as 200 journal articles and book chapters. Robert is past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and previously co-edited the journals Psychotherapy Research, and Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies. They are a fellow in the divisions of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association, and received the Distinguished Research Career Award of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the Carl Rogers Award from the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association. They now live in Northern California, in the ancestral lands of the indigenous Ohlone people, where they continue to enjoy developing, writing about and running EFT training, as well as walking, running, science fiction, poetry, and all kinds of music.
Lorna Dawson (Formerly Carrick) MSc, preferred pronouns she/her is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Strathclyde Where she teaches on the MSc’s in Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling and on the Counselling Unit’s Advanced Professional Training Programme. She has a private practice that includes EFT Therapy, Supervision and Training.
She has developed several mental health projects and is a founder Member of the Clydesdale Counselling and Human Development Project which received NHS and third sector funding for over17 years. Her main interests are practice supervision, training and research, development of theory particularly in: Trauma and Crisis, Social Anxiety, PCE Counselling for Depression and Pre-therapy for clients with psychological contact difficulties.
Lorna has an MA Honors Degree in Psychology from The University of Glasgow and worked as a Clinical Psychologist for Tayside NHS prior to becoming Director of the Strathclyde Children in Care Scheme for the Strathclyde Social Work Department. She has a MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy from The University of Strathclyde and has been a Mental health therapist for more than 35 years.
Ligia Manastireanu trained as an EFT supervisor and trainer with Prof Robert Elliott, and they have been collaborating in various ways since 2017. Ligia delivers EFT training as a guest lecturer at Strathclyde University, as well as internationally. She is a co-founding member of the Scottish Institute for Emotion Focused Therapy (SI-EFT), and through the institute she has been delivering EFT Level 3 training for the last six years.
Ligia is bringing her extensive clinical experience of working with clients with complex presentations and her passion for supporting therapists in their professional development, through the different roles she has had as a manager, supervisor, and trainer. Alongside her SI-EFT colleagues, she is dedicating her time to supporting the development of the EFT community in Scotland, seeing EFT supervisees, offering EFT training, as well as networking and further CPD opportunities.
Ligia has a BSc Honours degree in Psychology from the University of Bucharest, a PG Diploma in Counselling from the University of Strathclyde and has recently submitted her MPhil Thesis in EFT Collaborative Case Formulation.
- EFT level 3, Hosted by SI-EFT [Zoom]: Ligia Manastireanu & Joan Shearer
- 8 X Monday afternoons; group supervision
- One series currently running
- Recruiting for new 2025 series to start September 2025
The course can count as CPD (20 hrs) and forms part of the IS-EFT Accreditation process (See Training Standards at http://www.iseft.org/ )
Format: The course format is group supervision, using an EFT approach to supervision.
In EFT Supervision there are four main ways of working:
- Using client recordings
- Case Formulation
- Personal work on stuck areas of practice
- Embodied supervision (Th. embodies client).
Delivery: online using zoom.
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