Find a Focusing Professional - Bill Gayner

William (Bill) Gayner is a registered social worker in private practice in Toronto providing online individual and couple experiential and emotion-focused therapy and emotion-focused mindfulness therapy (EFMT) groups for people living in Ontario, Canada. Bill also trains and mentors therapists in EFMT.

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/). He is now exploring taking the Touching the Earth approach out to a larger public. Bill presents on EFMT and Touching the Earth internationally.