Our courses
The curriculum of our 2-year training program is made up of 4 separate and complementary courses. If you take all 4, you are eligible for professional certification.
The IFT training program was created by Jan Winhall, Leslie Ellis, and Serge Prengel as the result of many discussions about Focusing, therapy, and teaching. While each of our approaches is grounded in Focusing, we each have other perspectives or areas of emphasis that color how we use Focusing in therapy.
See below for more info on the program and the people behind it.
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The curriculum of our 2-year training program is made up of 4 separate and complementary courses. If you take all 4, you are eligible for professional certification.
This program is for therapists. Courses are open to related professions, such as coaches or health professionals.
Focusing Weeklong 2019, Chile. Photo: Jose Salazar Jan Winhall M.S.W.R.S.W. F.O.T. is an author, teacher and psychotherapist in private practice. She is the Director of Focusing On Borden, a training centre for therapists and Focusing Practitioners. See Jan’s website. Jan is the author of Treating Trauma & Addiction with The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A … Read more
Dr. Leslie Ellis is a leading expert in the use of somatic approaches in psychotherapy, in particular for working with dreams, nightmares and the effects of trauma. She is the author of A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy (Routledge, 2019) and offers many training opportunities in embodied, experiential dreamwork based on her book. She has … Read more
International Focusing-Oriented Therapy conference, 2017. Photo: Katarzyna Fiorita Serge Prengel, LMHC, is in private practice in New York City. He has been exploring creative approaches to mindfulness in therapy and in everyday life: how to live with an embodied sense of meaning and purpose. He is a graduate of France’s Sorbonne University and HEC School. … Read more