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Milestones May 2025

 
Milestones

 

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

Yifat Peres, Israel 

Mentoring Coordinator: Ifat Eckstein

Yifat is a Certified Focusing Professional and Focusing Trainer, practicing Focusing-Oriented Therapy.  She resides in Israel.

 
Ciraco Uriarte

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 

Zhu Cheng, China
Coordinators: Xu Jun and Li Ming

VSB Ramachandra Raju Datla Raju, India
Coordinators: Nina Joy Lawrence and
Pat Omidian

Shakila Faqeeri, UK
Coordinators: Peter Gill and
Paula Gamble-Grant

Wenwen Huang, China
Coordinator: Lindsay Huei-Mei Chang

Aneta Kosińska, Poland Coordinators: Edgardo Riveros and Gabriela Riveros Aguilar

Nicola-Jane le Breton, Australia
Coordinator: Jo Kennedy 

Xinmei Lin, China
Coordinators: Xu Jun and Li Ming

Hui Liu, China
Coordinators: Xu Jun and Li Ming

Carlos Alberto Lopez Kirschner, Mexico
Coordinator: Salvador Moreno-Lopez

QingBin Meng, China
Coordinators: Xu Jun and Li Ming

Ciara O'Neill, UK
Coordinator: Annette Dubreuil 

María Cecilia Ortiz, Argentina
Coordinator: Carolina Ades

Mali Raveh, Israel
Coordinator: Liora Bar Natan

Deborah Salomon, US
Coordinator: Charlotte Howorth

Maria Elsa Salvidio, Argentina
Coordinator: Monica Perez Iturraspe

Marie-France Simon, Belgium
Coordinator: Michèle Jodoin

Darío Villarreal, Argentina
Coordinator: María Cristina Collia

Min Wang, China
Coordinator: Xu Jun and Li Ming

Siu Loong (Lillian) Yuan, Hong Kong, China
Coordinator: Charlotte Howorth

Ping Yue, China
Coordinators: Xu Jun and Li Ming



Proficiency in Focusing Partnership Awards (PFP)

April Jackson, US
Teacher: Leslie Ellis

Lakshminarayanan Krishnamoorthy, India
Teacher: Jan Winhall

Matilda Lee, US
Teacher: Ann Weiser Cornell

Jacob Parker Carver, US
Teacher: Jan Winhall

Valentina Petrucci, Italy
Teacher: Ann Weiser Cornell

Matteo Smania, Italy
Teacher: Laura Maria Talamoni

Michelle Whiteley, US
Teacher: Jan Winhall



Proficiency in TAE Award

Annette Dubreuil, Canada
Teacher: Monika Lindner