EFA members directory

Cádiar

Rob Matthews 

Focusing has brought clarity, kindness, and deep presence into my life. I’m especially interested in its connection with non-dual inquiry and love sharing its transformative potential with others.

Bertem

Ingrid De Witte 

Rotselaar

Saren Swinnen 

I love focusing and especially wholebody focusing. For me as a mom of tree kids it's a way of being and doing. Besides focusing Kundalini Yoga is my other passion. Both ways help me to live a fulfilling live!

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.

Jerusalem

Ruth Hirsch 

Over 30 years ago, when I asked myself what I was here for an answer came right away: to look deeply within and help others to do the same. Several years after I discovered Focusing. Since 1994 I've been happily offering one-one sessions, teaching Focusing, and living a life guided by Focusing.

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).

Landshut

Susana Tichauer 

International Focusing Trainer born in La Paz - Bolivia. Kinesiologist and Physiotherapist specialist in newborns, babies and children. Currently working at the children's hospital in Landshut - Germany.

Shrewsbury

Bethany Rivers 

Currently doing my practitioner training. Been focusing about 5 years.

Utrecht

Adam de Jong 

Focusing Utrecht offers a place for people to reconnect with their life forward movement and the way they are made. Embodiment and listening to self and others are the means for this.

Carin de Ridder 

Niels Bagge 

I am a Danish psychologist trained in Inner Relationship Focusing and focusing integrated in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). I meet regularly with my 2 focusing partner. I amfocusing trainer offering focusing workshops and sessions.

Andy Philpott 

I am a BFA Certified Focusing Practitioner and an IFI Certified Focusing Trainer. I support people exploring their personal relationships and Financial Freedom. I practice Nonviolent Communication (NVC) which I integrate with Focusing to work with groups for social change and in conflict mediation.

Vantaa

Sari Pekki 

I am a Focusing professional working fluently in both Finnish and English. I am also versed in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and enjoy integrating the essence of these two remarkable practices. A member of the EFA Steering Group since 2019.

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.

Leuven

Tine Swyngedouw 

I learned Focusing in 1990 and have incorporated Focusing in my life and work. I became a Focusing trainer in Chicago in 1995 and Focusing coordinator for Belgium in 2012. I'm a clinical psychologist and experiential psychotherapist in my private practice in Louvain, Belgium.

Augsburg

Monika Catarina Lindner 

I love to accompany people with Focusing and Thinking At the Edge (TAE) to find their own language for what they want to become aware and express from the heart. When intuitive and logical thinking are brought into exchange, amazing new concepts emerge that make a tangible difference .. . mirabilis

Greg Madison 

I learned Focusing as an undergraduate psychology student in Canada in the early 1980s. It has been the foundation of all I have learned and lived since then. Currently I am a psychologist and psychotherapist offering online experiential-existential therapy and training events worldwide.

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.

Servion

Stephanie Ruder Schoof 

Self-Leadership Coach & Facilitator The Challenge and Art of Personal Sustainability Focusing Trainer Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (as of September 2023)

The Hague

Anastassia Bote 

I discovered Focusing in 2017. It started with Gendlin's book Focusing. It was love at first sight. Since then I followed multiple training programs, read different books. Now, not a week passes without one or two focusing sessions.