Featured Speakers & Presenters
We are honored to present a faculty of world-leading clinicians and scientists whose work continues to advance the theory and practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy. As full plenary descriptions, pre-Summit video interviews, workshop descriptions, and additional resources are finalized, we will add them here so you can explore each speaker’s insights in depth.
Plenaries
Gail Palmer MSW, RMFT
Gail is a master clinician whose influence on the development and dissemination of EFT for families is profound. A co-developer…
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Leanne Campbell PhD
Leanne is an internationally respected clinical psychologist, trainer, and co-author of A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy with Dr.…
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Jim Coan PhD
Jim brings rigorous affective neuroscience to the core of relational practice. His research on social baseline theory and the neural…
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Mark Solms PhD
Mark is a neuropsychologist whose work bridges foundational affective neuroscience and clinical practice. By exploring the brainstem’s role in consciousness…
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Gordon Neufeld PhD
A foremost developmental psychologist, Gordon has spent over 50 years building an attachment-based developmental framework that reshapes how clinicians, parents,…
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Workshops
Ali Barbosa LMFT
Ali is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer. He…
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Andrea Pagani PhD
Andrea is the founder of the EFT Italia Community. He is a Certified Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist. He is a…
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Dharini Maheswaran MBBS, FRCPC
Dharini is a child and adolescent psychiatrist practicing in public and non-profit agencies in Edmonton, Alberta. Her work emphasizes collaboration…
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George Faller LMFT
George Faller is a retired Lieutenant of the NYC Fire Department who served during 9/11, and a Licensed Marriage and…
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Giulia Altera PhD
Giulia is a Psychotherapist and Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, and a certified Trainer, Supervisor, and Therapist in Emotionally Focused Therapy…
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Hanna Pinomaa M Psych
Hanna Pinomaa is a pioneer of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy in Finland. Since 2003, she has focused on establishing and…
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Helene Igwebuike BACP Accredited Integrative Counsellor
Helene Igwebuike is an Integrative Counsellor and ICEEFT certified Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer, as well as one…
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James Hawkins LMFT, PhD
'Doc Hawk’, is a Licensed Counsellor with 11 years of experience and an ICEEFT certified trainer, supervisor, and therapist. He…
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Jeanne Peterson PsyD
Dr. Jeanne Peterson is an EFCT and EFIT Supervisor based in the Tampa Bay Area with over 30 years of…
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Jef Slootmaeckers LMFT
Jef Slootmaeckers is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Belgium, and a certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Therapist, Supervisor,…
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Jennifer MacWhirter MSc, R Psych
Jennifer is a Registered Psychologist in Alberta and an ICEEFT certified Individual, Couple and Family EFT Therapist. She has been…
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Jim Furrow PhD
James L Furrow, PhD, is an innovative leader in the development and practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with couples…
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Julia Belotserkovsky PhD
Julia Belotserkovsky, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and relationship expert specializing in the repair of couple relationships through Emotionally Focused…
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Karin Wagenaar LMFT
Karin Wagenaar is a Certified EFT Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer in the Netherlands. She is a fully licensed psychotherapist and…
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Kathryn de Bruin LMFT
Kathryn de Bruin is a Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified EFT Trainer and Supervisor. She has a full time private…
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Katie Humilde R Psych
Katie Humilde is an ICEEFT Certified EFT Therapist and a supervisor candidate for EFCT and EFFT. She practices as a…
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Lisa Blum PsyD
Lisa Blum, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and ICEEFT-Certified Supervisor. In private practice in Pasadena, CA, Dr. Blum works…
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Michael Barnett MA, EdS, LPC
Michael Barnett, MA, EdS, LPC is a licensed psychotherapist with over 30 years of clinical experience. Formerly based in Atlanta…
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Nicola Heurich Doctoral Resident
Nicola Heurich is a Doctoral Resident at the University of North Florida Counseling Center and a PsyD candidate in Clinical…
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Paul Greenman PhD, C Psych
Paul is an EFT therapist, supervisor and trainer. In addition to providing services to clients at the Ottawa Couple and…
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Robin Blake RP
Robin is a Registered Psychotherapist and a Certified EFT Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist. He is the director of the Toronto…
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Silvina Irwin PhD
Silvina Irwin, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, CA and co-founder of the EFT Resource Center, a…
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Zoya Simakhodskaya PhD
Zoya Simakhodskaya, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and certified EFT Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. She is a founding member and…
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In Tribute to Dr. Sue Johnson
We gather this community of clinicians and scientists standing on the foundation built by Dr. Sue Johnson, the pioneering clinical psychologist who developed Emotionally Focused Therapy and brought attachment science into the core of therapeutic practice. Her work reshaped how therapists understand and facilitate emotional connection in couples, individuals, and families. Through her research, writing, and global training she transformed the field and continues to inspire our work and this Summit’s conversations.
