EFA members directory

Gabriel Pantiru 

I'm a psychologist and a father of a 7-year-old boy living and working in Bucharest, Romania. I practice meditation, focusing, dream work and different therapeutic techniques for improving and developing my life.

Aikaterini Tseklidou 

Giv'at Shmuel

Yehudit First 

As an Emotional Body Psychotherapist, meeting Focusing was a powerful and transformative experience for me. Since then it has become an integral part of my life and practice. The desire to bring Focusing into interpersonal communication in real life, led me to develop Social Oriented Focusing (SOF).

Jesenice

Helena Marusko 

Focusing has had a big impact on my whole approach to living. It has helped me to clarified and resolve several blockages and it keeps on fascinating me with its potential for moving life forward on a multidimensional level.

Danny Gehlen 

Danny Gehlen MSc is a psychologist, psychometric researcher and person-centered counsellor based in Cologne, Germany. He teaches and investigates how Focusing attitudes and mindfulness can be effectively applied to facilitate health and personal development.

Amersfoort

Jacqueline Plug 

In 2024, I am actively involved in Focusing, personally and professionally. I previously took courses and training programmes that included Focusing. This made me curious, and made me delving deeper into this rich form of therapy. I use Focusing for myself, in my work with clients and organisations.

Edinburgh

Ruth Friedman 

Dublin

Tom Larkin 

Susan Jordan 

I've been a Focusing practitioner and teacher in the UK since 2003 and trained with Barbara McGavin. I'm a retired Core Process (Buddhist-based) psychotherapist and supervisor and a poet and writer. I live in Devon, South West England, close to Dartmoor.

Berlin

angelika kopecny 

Ich heiße Angelika Kopečný und bin Focusing- Koordinatorin in Berlin.

Križe

Mateja Vrhunc Tomazin 

As a Relational Family Therapist, I've always missed 'a tool' for deeper relatedness… Meeting Focusing, I felt that finally, I had a legitimately open space for pausing and sensing… Focusing has enriched my professional and personal domains.

gesine grotrian 

Familientherapeutin und -beraterin, Somatic Experience und Focusing. Mit Hund, ein junger Australian Sheperd. Ehrenamtliche Begleitung von Jugendlichen in Krisen und Umbruchsituationen. Familien, Paare und Einzelpersonen.

Athina

Agathi Lakioti 

Focusing trainer, Focusing-oriented therapist and currently Coordinator-in-Training. Founder of the Hellenic Institute of Emotion-Focused Therapy, offering courses in Emotion-Focused Therapy and Inner Relationship Focusing.

Silvia Boorsma 

Naomi Silverly 

Following my own challenging journey with health, I offer supported focusing sessions and workshops for navigating ongoing physical symptoms like pain, tension and fatigue, and the narratives that come up around living with and showing up in the world with these challenges in daily life.

Celia Dawson 

I have been using Focusing for over twenty years. I am a Co-ordinator with the International Focusing Institute, a Director of the Complex Trauma Institute and a Director of the British Focusing Association.

Achim Grube 

I have been working with focusing for 30 years and I became 2016 a coordinator

Penryn

Hilary Thorn 

Focusing and has changed my life and I love to combine it with acupuncture and art! I use it alongside my treatments in my clinic and I also combine it with Sensorimotor art therapy, making Focusing visible on the page.

Annat Gal On 

A Focusing coordinator and a Family Constellation facilitator. Founder of HomeFocusing - Focusing-Oriented Relationship, that brings Focusing qualities to close relationships and everyday life.

Suzi Mackenzie 

I can't imagine life without Focusing and love to share it with others. I enjoy offering a calm and warm presence in which people can experience and explore what a Focusing approach might mean for them, from the nurture of the inner relationship to the fascination of the felt sense.