VICEFT Courses

Dr. Leanne Campbell is co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group and is an Honorary Research Associate of Vancouver Island University. Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson in the early 1990s, she has continued to work in the EFT model since that time, and has provided psychotherapy services to hundreds of individuals, couples and families over the past about three decades. Known for her expertise in the area of trauma, Dr. Campbell has provided hundreds of psychological assessment reports for forensic/legal and personal injury matters being considered before various levels of Court. She also is regularly called upon to provide expert opinion surrounding Canadian Forces Base, Veterans Affairs Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police/RCMP (and other first responder) cases, as well as psychological evaluations for various insurance companies and bodies involved in adjudicating personal injury and other trauma-based claims. In addition to maintaining an active and full-time private practice, with a primary focus in the areas of trauma, grief and loss, Dr. Campbell currently co-manages a two-site practice comprised of over twenty clinicians and is a site co-ordinator for an Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) outcome study. An active ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Leanne has been providing trainings in EFT over the past over twenty years and has similarly been involved in the development of various training materials including DVDs, on-line educational/training programs, books, workbooks and articles.

Dr. David R. Fairweather is co-founder and director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT, and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group in Nanaimo, B.C. His passion for emotion in psychotherapy dates back to his doctoral years during which he published widely in the area of psychotherapy process research, with a particular focus on how exemplary, distinguished therapists promote and use strong feeling expression in psychotherapy sessions. From 1996 until 2006, in addition to maintaining a private practice, David worked as a psychologist and supervising psychologist within the federal correctional system. During his past 20 years in private practice in Nanaimo, he has focused extensively on the treatment of law enforcement personnel, other first responders, serving military and veterans, injured workers, as well as providing hundreds of psychological assessments in areas including trauma, personal injury, work injury, and for other forensic contexts. He has also served as an expert witness at various levels of court. Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson, co-originator of EFT, in the early through mid-1990s, he has maintained a dedicated interest in EFT therapy for almost three decades. Known for his empathic style and therapeutic use of laughter and humour, and with a particular expertise and interest in working with trauma and attachment injury, he helps couples move away from the rigid negative patterns that keep them stuck, and toward a place of more authentic emotional contact, thus opening up the space for partners to find new possibilities and awareness, and to create satisfying and fulfilling ways-of-being together. As an internationally certified EFT trainer, he has also collaborated in the development of teaching materials including DVDs, and has served extensively as an instructor, mentor, and supervisor of other mental health professionals in Canada and the U.S.