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Emotionally Focused Family Therapy Training
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Date: September 15-16, 2017
​Trainers: Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olson, Psy.D, LMFT
Location: The UNC William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education (Chapel Hill, NC)
Sponsored by the Carolina Center for EFT
Fee: Students - $375, Standard - $425
Available CE: 14 hours NBCC-approved

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) offers new clinical insights and practical strategies for restoring relationships and strengthening the security of family bonds. Based upon the empirically supported, attachment-based Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy model (EFT), EFFT combines both systemic and experiential interventions to mend broken bonds and heal fractured family ties.

EFFT therapists focus on the emotional experience within a family unit and their individual members, and the problematic interactive patterns that prevent family members from experiencing emotional safety and security. A primary goal of EFFT is to reduce problematic behavior by creating new patterns of emotional accessibility and responsiveness that offer a secure base for children to develop, parents to feel effective, and families to thrive.

EFFT provides a practical approach to engaging families quickly and deeply. As family members work through relational distress and past injuries, new interactive patterns emerge, creating opportunities for deeper connection and greater security. Helping family members access, connect, and process with each other through the power of emotional experience fosters healing and cultivates organic problem solving.  This two-day training will be led by certified EFT/EFFT trainers Lisa Palmer-Olson, Psy.D, LMFT and will provide 14 hours of NBCC-approved CE credit. 

EFFT Learning Objectives:
Following the workshop, participants will be able to:
  1. Learn how to use the techniques and theoretical underpinning of EFFT to understand a family’s emotional dynamics, access emotions and attachment needs, and create new patterns of emotional healing; 
  2. Recognize how protective coping patterns keep individuals from opening themselves to their vulnerability which blocks family members' natural ability to repair and heal; and​
  3. Become familiar with the three-stage EFFT treatment process for achieving deeper connection, including how to create alliances with different family members, manage change events that access underlying vulnerabilities, and model positive new interaction patterns.

This Training is a Rare Opportunity and has Limited Seating.  
​Register by the deadline on 9/10/2017!

Carolina Center for EFT, sponsor of this training, has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6488. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Carolina Center for EFT is solely responsible for all aspects of the training programs.​​
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Lisa Palmer-Olsen, Psy.D. is a licensed marriage and family therapist in San Diego, California. She is a Certified EFT Trainer and Supervisor and is a Founder and one of the Directors of the Emotionally Focused Couples Training and Research Institute at Alliant International University. Lisa completed her dissertation research on how to train and teach Emotionally Focused Couples therapy to professionals. Dr. Sue Johnson, the founder of EFT and Dr. Scott Woolley were part of her dissertation committee. Dr. Palmer-Olsen’s primary clinical and research interests are in the areas of couple and family therapy; specifically with those couples and families dealing with trauma and attachment related struggles. She is an AAMFT clinical member and approved AAMFT supervisor.
You can learn more about Lisa at 
http://www.drlisapalmerolsen.com/
Please direct all questions about this event to James McCracken at james@jamesmccrackenpsychotherapy.com
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This training is being co-organized by James McCracken, LCSW and Dr. Lucille Keenan, Psy.D with Carolina Center for EFT's permission to further expand Emotionally Focused Therapy practices into Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill.
James McCracken, LCSW Durham Couples Therapy
James McCracken is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker,  Certified Emotionally Focused Therapy Practitioner and Supervisor, and Certified Discernment Counselor dedicated to improving the mental health and emotional well being of North Carolina residents.  He provides couple therapy, marriage counseling, premarital counseling, sex therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Discernment Counseling, divorce counseling, Conscious Uncoupling, co-parenting counseling, family therapy, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), individual psychotherapy, grief & loss counseling, LCSW Supervision, and EFT supervision services through North Carolina Therapy Professionals, PLLC (Managing Member and Clinical Director), in his Durham, NC office and online.  His office is conveniently located to Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Hillsborough, Morrisville, Apex, and Cary for in-office visits, and is available online for all residents of and visitors to North Carolina. ​If you would like to learn more about this practice directly, receive a free brief consult, or set up an appointment, please call
919-267-1661 or visit https://www.nctherapists.com/

Racial Equality
We welcome and celebrate diversity in this practice and stand against oppression and social injustice including discrimination based on any aspect of identity including: national origin, religion, racism and white supremacy, patriarchy & sexism, ageism, gender conformism & transphobia, and heteronormativity & homophobia.  We work with adolescent and adult clients from diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic and religious backgrounds, and are allied and affirmative providers to LGBQ-TGNC+ persons, and are sex-positive, body-positive, and kink-friendly providers.
James A McCracken is listed at AllTherapist.com
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  • Home
  • Services
    • Couples Therapy | Marriage Counseling
    • Individual Psychotherapy
    • Supervision/Consultation >
      • EFT Supervision
      • Level Up Group for EFT Supervisors
      • EFT Supervision of Supervision
      • Clinical Social Work Supervision
    • Online Therapy
  • Areas of Practice
    • Couple and Marital Distress
    • Emotionally Focused Therapy
    • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
    • LGBQ-TGNC+ Affirming Therapy Services
    • Sex-Positive Services
    • Discernment Counseling
    • Affair Recovery
    • Premarital Assessment & Counseling
    • Divorce Recovery
  • About
    • About James
    • Therapy Approach
    • Philosophy of Supervision
  • Contact
  • Client Resources
    • Client Portal
    • Additional Helpful Resources