Megan Jones has a passion for helping individuals and marriages and encouraging other therapists along their EFT journey.  She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist for 10 years and is also a Certified EFCT Supervisor.  Megan currently serves as the AREFT Community President and assists in facilitating EFT trainings throughout Arkansas.

Dr. Julia Conroy is passionate about the securing relational bonds to improve emotional regulation strategies. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a certified EFT therapist and supervisor-in-training. She serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Arkansas, leads a research team at the Arkansas EFT Center to understand the physiological impacts of the EFT counseling process, and is the administrator for Arkansas EFT community.

Phd, MA, LMFT, LCMHC, EFT Certified Therapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist & Supervisor (in Training)

Laurie has been a licensed couple’s counselor for over two decades and is certified in EFT and sex therapy. In clinical therapy, she has helped thousands of couples recover sexual passion and make love again in joyful, intimate, creative and exciting ways, sometimes even after years of sexless marriage. Due to her many years of counseling experience, Laurie remains incredibly hopeful that committed love and monogamous sex can fulfill a couple, heal deep wounds from childhood, restore each spouse to a sense of hope, and offer stability from which to face the world together.

She is the author of Wanting Sex Again – How to Rediscover Desire and Heal a Sexless Marriage, a blogger for WebMD and Psychology Today with over 15 M reads and the owner/ director for Awakenings Counseling & Counseling Near Me throughout North Carolina.

MS, LMFT, EFT Certified Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer

George Faller, LMFT is a certified Supervisor Trainer/Therapist in EFT and founder of the New York Center for EFT. As an EFT Trainer, George teaches several classes at the Ackerman Institute for the Family (the oldest family institute in the United States) in NYC, is a board member of the Porter Cason Institute for the Family at Tulane University in New Orleans and is the director of training at the Center for Hope and Renewal in Greenwich, Ct. Specializing in trauma, Family EFT, and self-of-the-therapist issues, George is committed to bringing EFT to underprivileged populations and pushing the leading edge of effective therapy.  George is the co-author of three books: True Connection: Using the NAME IT Model to Heal Relationships (Living With Hope), Sacred Stress: A Radically Different Approach to Using Life’s Challenges for Positive Change and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience.

He has an online training series called Success In Vulnerability.

Prior to a career in mental health, he served as a firefighter and police officer for 20 years in New York City.

Ryan Rana, PhD, LMFT, LPC is a certified EFT Supervisor Trainer/Therapist. He is the current president and founder of the Arkansas EFT Center. He and his wife, Anne, founded The Joshua Center in Arkansas, where he currently practices and acts as the Executive Director. His specializations include work with couples, sexuality, depression, and traumatic stress. He studies military training processes and practice and performance psychology. Ryan currently co-hosts The Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy podcast, and is part of the Success in Vulnerability training team. Before become a therapist, he was a baseball pitching coach at the collegiate level.

Learn more at ryanranatraining.com

Dr. James Hawkins (aka “Doc Hawk”) has a passion to help people flourish in relationships ranging from marriage & family to organizational health, and community race relationships. A Licensed Professional Counselor with a Masters in Marriage and Family Counseling, and Ph.D. in Psychology and Counseling, James is a Certified Emotionally Focused Supervisor and Trainer. Doc Hawk currently serves as a clinical coordinator for a counseling center in Northwest Arkansas, co-hosts The Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy podcast, and is part of the Success in Vulnerability training team. Learn more at dochawklpc.com