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    Emotionally Focused Family Therapy for Families in Transition - VIRTUAL

    • February 21, 2025

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Emotionally Focused Family Therapy for Families in Transition - VIRTUAL

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Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an attachment-based approach blending systemic and experiential interventions to transform parent-child relationships, especially amidst family transitions like divorce, separation, and multiple homes.

Workshop Format:

6 hour training

Date: Friday, February 21, 2025

9 - 4:00 PST

40 minute lunch & 2 x 10 minute breaks

Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn to 

  • Conceptualize family distress for families in high conflict transitions using EFFT.
  • Assess the emotional patterns informing high conflict family environments and interactions.
  • Assess cultural factors and influences that impact systems level change. 
  • Apply EFT interventions to work through parental blocks to caregiving.
  • Apply EFT interventions to work through child blocks to care seeking.
  • Practice enactments used to restructure new patterns that promote new levels of safety and security in the family.
  • Identify therapist blocks to emotional attunement and therapist presence with families in transition.

Instructor(s)

Kathryn de Bruin, MFT, Lisa Palmer-Olsen, PsyD and James Furrow, Ph.D.

BA (SW); MA (MFT), LMFT, AAMFT, CAMF. Certified EFT Supervisor

Kathryn de Bruin

I am the owner of Kathryn de Bruin Therapy and Training, and a licensed San Diego based Marriage and Family Therapist and Therapist Trainer.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Certified EFT Supervisor and Trainer
AAMFT Supervisor
Registered Play Therapy Supervisor

Lisa Palmer-Olsen

Dr. Lisa J. Palmer-Olsen, Psy.D. is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in San Diego, California for over twenty years. She is also a Certified International Emotionally Focused Therapy Trainer and AAMFT approved Supervisor. Dr. Palmer-Olsen’s primary clinical and research interests are in the area of family systems and high conflict couple work, specifically with clients dealing with trauma and attachment related injuries. As a founder and Co-Director for Renova San Diego Inc, a non-profit 501(c)(3) based out of San Diego, she is committed to providing quality San Diego services accessible to all who seek it. Dr. Palmer-Olsen is passionate about providing affordable, high caliber training to mental health clinicians around the world. Dr. Palmer-Olsen completed her dissertation research on how to train and teach Emotionally Focused Therapy to professionals. Lisa was trained directly by the founder of the EFT model Dr. Susan Johnson.

Jim Furrow

James Furrow, Ph.D., is leader and contributor to the practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with couples and families. Together with EFT originator, Dr. Susan Johnson, Jim co-authored Emotionally Focused Family Therapy; Becoming an EFT Therapist: The Workbook and The EFT Casebook. He is also co-authored Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy for Dummies, a practical resource for couples and therapists seeking an everyday understanding of EFT principles and practices. Formerly Jim served as the Evelyn and Frank Freed Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, where he trained psychologists and marital and family and conducted research on adolescent risk and resilience. He is a clinical fellow and an approved supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a member of the National Council on Family Relations, and a Certified Family Life Educator. He co-founded the Los Angeles Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy, where he served as Executive Director before relocating to the Seattle area. Jim is an ICEEFT certified EFT therapist, supervisor, and trainer.