We are happy to congratulate 2 new Coordinators, 2 new Coordinators-in-Training (CiT's), 20 new Certified Focusing Professionals (including Trainers and Focusing-Oriented Therapists), 7 new Proficiency in Focusing Partnership (PFP) recipients and 1 new TAE Proficiency Award recipient. Those listed are as of April 30, 2025. Congratulations to each of them on their achievement. We wish them all the very best in their ongoing endeavors!
New Coordinators
Yifat Peres, Israel
Mentoring Coordinator: Ifat Eckstein
Yifat is a Certified Focusing Professional and Focusing Trainer, practicing Focusing-Oriented Therapy. She resides in Israel.
Ciriaco Uriarte Ayo, Spain Español & Euskera
Mentoring Coordinator: Carlos Aceituno
Supporting Coordinators: Florentina Sassoli and Mentxu Martin-Aragón
An engineer and psychologist, Ciriaco has also worked as a university professor and high school guidance counselor. He became certified as an integrative psychotherapist (IIPA) in 2009, and as a Focusing trainer and FOT in 2014.
For 13 years, he has facilitated a weekly international online Cambios group that emerged as a result of his training activities. Coordinated by Ciriaco, the group recently completed the new Spanish translation of Gene Gendlin's Focusing.
Currently, along with Carlos Aceituno and community members, he is committed to the practice of Focusing as a process that progressively awakens the deep nature of each human being, and to the creation of a training model in which spirituality plays a leading role.
New Coordinators-in-Training
Ann Lawrence, US
Mentoring Coordinator: Beth Mahler
Supporting Coordinators: Maria Skoufas and Beatrice Blake
Gemma Muñoz Mate, Spain
Mentoring Coordinator: Mentxu Martin-Aragón
Supporting Coordinators: Josep Santacreu, Florentina Sassoli and Marta Fabregat
New Certified Focusing Professionals
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Zhu Cheng, China VSB Ramachandra Raju Datla Raju, India Shakila Faqeeri, UK Wenwen Huang, China Aneta Kosińska, Poland Coordinators: Edgardo Riveros and Gabriela Riveros Aguilar Nicola-Jane le Breton, Australia Xinmei Lin, China Hui Liu, China Carlos Alberto Lopez Kirschner, Mexico QingBin Meng, China |
Ciara O'Neill, UK María Cecilia Ortiz, Argentina Mali Raveh, Israel Deborah Salomon, US Maria Elsa Salvidio, Argentina Marie-France Simon, Belgium Darío Villarreal, Argentina Min Wang, China Siu Loong (Lillian) Yuan, Hong Kong, China Ping Yue, China |
Proficiency in Focusing Partnership Awards (PFP)
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April Jackson, US Lakshminarayanan Krishnamoorthy, India Matilda Lee, US Jacob Parker Carver, US |
Valentina Petrucci, Italy Matteo Smania, Italy Michelle Whiteley, US |
Proficiency in TAE Award
Annette Dubreuil, Canada
Teacher: Monika Lindner