Master Class Facilitators

Rebecca Mailli

Rebecca Mailli is a Clinical Psychologist, specialising in the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents, adults and families.  Rebecca holds full registration with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA), and has membership with the Australian Psychological Society.  Rebecca is the founder and director of MindTime Psychology.

Rebecca has clinical experience in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders, adjustment disorders, childhood disorders (including ASD and ADHD), chronic pain, eating disorders, stress management, relationship difficulties, parenting support and peer relationship difficulties.  She has training and experience in a range of evidence-based treatment paradigms, including Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Mindfulness, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Behavioural Family Therapy (BFT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Rebecca is currently completing her PhD (Bond University), which is exploring parent-child relationships and the role love attitudes play in attachment, trust, and psychological adjustment in children during middle childhood.

Sally Thibault

Sally Thibault is a Professional Speaker, Counsellor, Author, Certified EFT Practitioner specialising in helping clients create success, wealth and abundance.

With a successful 37 year career in health, wellness, business and marketing, as a Fitness Instructor and Trainer, TV show host, Business owner, School marketer and International presenter, Sally brings a wealth of experience to the world of EFT. She facilitates the Reclaim You eight-week online program, helping participants create clarity and success, and mentors business owners in a six month intensive program, to reignite their passion, power and purpose to manifest wealth, joy and abundance in business and in life.

Sally is the author of two books, David’s Gift, Asperger’s Life and Love the emotional true story of her family’s journey following her son’s diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome, and Tapping to Reclaim You – How to Reignite your Passion, Power and Purpose in 30 days.

Together with Dr Peta Stapleton, she is the co-creator and co-facilitator of Tapping in the Classroom, combining her 10 year experience in school marketing with a passion to take the modality of EFT to schools worldwide.

Sally has been featured extensively in Australian national and local media and is the Health and Wellness Expert on 96.5 FM and Queensland Cancer Council’s Live Well, Be Well Radio show.

Brett Porter

Brett Porter was a national park ranger in Queensland for 25 years until resigning in 2005. He worked in protected area management from Cooloola to Cape York Peninsula, species research and management in Southeast Queensland and systems development for fire-fighting, critical incident management and remote area team supervision/communications.

In 1993 he began counseling training in Transactional Analysis, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, conflict resolution, Gottman Method couples therapy, Training and Assessment (TAE), NLP and EFT.

Since January 2005 Brett has continued to work with organisations, groups and individuals on adaptive/functional behaviour change and the development and delivery of body shape change programs.

He was the clinical group facilitator for all of Dr Peta Stapleton’s and Terri Sheldon’s EFT clinical trials:

•  2008 Food Craving; EFT vs Waitlist in overweight and obese adults (Griffith University).
• 2012/2013 Food Craving: EFT vs CBT in overweight and obese adults (Bond University).
• 2013 EFT as a Therapy for Depression in Adults (Bond University)
• 2014 Treatment of Unhealthy Food Choices and Consumption for Overweight Children aged 12-18 years EFT vs CBT (Bond university).
• 2014 Effectiveness of EFT in the treatment of Performance Anxiety in children aged 15 years – two separate schools (Bond University).

Lori Leyden

Lori Leyden, PhD, MBA is a trauma healing professional who is known internationally for using EFT/Tapping in her work with hundreds of orphan genocide survivors in Rwanda. Dr. Leyden founded the non-profit organisation Create Global Healing and established Project LIGHT: Rwanda – the world’s first international youth healing, heart-centered leadership, conflict transformation and economic sustainability program. Project LIGHT nurtures our next generation of young people to heal, work and lead us into a peaceful future. She is the Executive Producer of the documentary When I Was Young I Said I Would Be Happy which chronicles the transformation of 12 Project LIGHT Ambassadors.

While heading up Nick Ortner’s Tapping Solution Foundation, Dr. Leyden also established the first US community-based, trauma healing project based on Tapping supporting recovery for those affected by the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting tragedy. She is the author of The Grace Process Guidebook and The Stress Management Handbook: Strategies for Health and Inner Peace.