Emotionally Focused Family Therapy Training
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:
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:
- 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;
- Recognize how protective coping patterns keep individuals from opening themselves to their vulnerability which blocks family members' natural ability to repair and heal; and
- 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!
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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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About Our Presenter
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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
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.
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.
