Become a CFT Practitioner
Expand the impact of your work with the Gillespie Approach-CFT.
Gillespie Approach-CFT Training
The Gillespie Approach–CFT is taught exclusively by official instructors Kim Sherlock and Holly Steflik. Kim and Holly were personally trained and endorsed by Dr. Barry Gillespie and, together, bring more than 45 years of experience in the healing professions. Since 2015, they have taught CFT and led clinics around the world, including in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Nepal, The Maldives, Peru, and throughout the United States.
Kim and Holly developed the CFT Foundation and Infant Training programs working alongside Dr. Gillespie. They are committed to preserving the integrity of the Gillespie Approach while expanding access to CFT by educating professionals and parents and bringing this work to communities around the world.
Learn Gillespie Approach-CFT for professional and personal use.
CFT Training offers a unique, powerful, and highly valuable hands-on skill set for both professional and personal use. No prior medical or bodywork experience is required, and while the training does not provide formal certification, professionals can integrate these practical and transformative skills into their existing scope of practice, while parents and family members can use them as empowering tools to support the health and well-being of their own families.
CFT Trainings are highly hands-on and practical. Participants both give and receive extensive CFT treatment throughout the training, providing ample opportunity to develop their skills, experience the work firsthand, and gain confidence using CFT techniques.
Participants find the experience transformative, both personally and professionally.
Explore the two training tracks.
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Learn the essential foundations of the Gillespie Approach-CFT. Over three days, explore the craniosacral fascial system and learn gentle yet powerful techniques designed to facilitate fascial release. Completion of the Foundation Training is a prerequisite for the Infant Training.
Who does it benefit?
The Foundation Training prepares you to use CFT techniques with clients, patients, or family members children through adulthood. The techniques may be used to support individuals experiencing a wide range of physical, neurological, cognitive, and emotional concerns.Who can take this training?
The Foundation Training is appropriate for people from a wide variety of professional and personal backgrounds, including parents and family members, massage therapists, dental and airway professionals, occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech and language pathologists, myofunctional therapists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, midwives, IBCLCs, nurses, naturopathic doctors, and medical doctors.
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Train to work with our youngest humans.
We believe that supporting a healthy craniosacral fascial system early in life can help create a strong foundation for an infant’s structural development, nervous system regulation, and overall well-being.
Over three days, you’ll learn and practice specific CFT techniques while working hands-on with babies who receive CFT sessions throughout the training. This unique experience allows you to apply your skills in real time, observe each baby’s progress, educate the families about CFT and gain confidence working with infants, with a focus on supporting cognitive function, cranial development, and structural health.
Who does it benefit?
The Infant Training prepares you to work with newborns and pre-crawling babies, including those who may have experienced physical stress or trauma in utero or during the birth process, as well as babies presenting with concerns such as colic, reflux, constipation, nursing and latch difficulties, tethered oral tissues, stridor, sleep difficulties, torticollis, head-shape asymmetries, ear discomfort, strabismus, and nervous system dysregulation.Supporting a baby’s comfort and well-being can also have a profound effect on the entire family, helping create a calmer, less stressful, and more enjoyable family environment.
Who can take this training?
This training is available only to those who have completed the CFT Foundation Training:Professionals who work with infants, including airway and dental providers, OT’s, PT’s, massage therapists, SLP’s, chiropractors, midwives, IBCLCs, myofunctional therapists,nurses and doctors.
Parents who wish to learn CFT techniques to use with their own babies
CFT Training is in high demand. Sign up quickly to secure your spot.
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“Tomorrow, all my patients are getting The Gillespie Approach”
— Karindy Ong, SLP and Myo-functional Therapist