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Find a Focusing Professional - Bill Gayner

Biography

Bill Gayner is a registered social worker in private practice in Toronto providing online individual and couple experiential, emotion-focused and emotion-focused mindfulness therapy (EFMT) for people living in Ontario, Canada. Bill trains and mentors therapists in EFMT. He is Vice President of the International Focusing Institute's board. 

Bill has integrated transformative approaches such as experiential focusing into meditation and how therapists explore clients' meditation experience in an approach he developed called emotion-focused mindfulness therapy (EFMT), as well as how practitioners in communities of practice can explore meditation experience together, an approach called Touching the Earth, inspired by focusing changes groups. During the pandemic, Bill cofounded a nonprofit for therapists and counsellors to cultivate these skills together in community together, Touching the Earth Mindfulness Ontario (https://ttemo.ca/). Bill presents on EFMT and Touching the Earth internationally. 

Given Name
Bill
Surname
Gayner
Business Name
Phone
City
Toronto
State/Province
ON
Country
Canada
Certification(s)
Certified Focusing Professional, Focusing Trainer
Coordinator (Can certify through the Institute)?
Coordinator-in-Training (CiT)
Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT)?
Services Offered
Couples Sessions, Group Sessions, Individual Sessions, Online Sessions, Presentations
Credential(s)
BSW, MSW, RSW
Language(s) Spoken
English
Areas of Interest
Adults, Couples, Mental Illness, Mindfulness, Spirituality/Meditation, Thinking At The Edge, Trauma
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