EFT 4-Day Externship & Core Skills:
The Beginning Training
2023 Externship
Join us for an IN-PERSON 4-Day Externship: August 15-18, 2023 in Phoenix.
Externship will be taught by ICEEFT Certified Trainers Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen and Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT
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Dates: August 15-August 18, 2023 | Time: 9am-5pm Arizona time (MST)
Location: Sonoran University of Health Sciences, Tempe, AZ
Cost: $895 Early Bird (until June 15) | $1,095 Regular Registration | $500 Student Registration
Continuing Education Units: 28 hours
Externship includes an overview of the entire model of Emotionally Focused Therapy including steps and stages, interventions, adult attachment theory, and application of EFT with couples and individuals. Learning will include lectures, live video demonstration, and, at times, breaking into smaller groups for discussion or role play led by experienced EFT therapists. The externship is recommended for all types of mental health clinicians who want to counsel or want to cancel couples. This training is the prerequisite for all other EFT trainings.
Learning Objectives:
Lisa Palmer-Olsen, Psy.D. is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Diego California. She is a Certified EFT Therapist, 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.
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. Dr. Palmer-Olsen is also co-founder and clinic director for the Alliant Couple and Family Clinic (ACFC), San Diego-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit therapy clinic. The ACFC specializes in family and couple therapy offering individual and group counseling sessions for military and all clients in distressed relationships.
Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Diego, California. She is registered Play Therapist Supervisor and a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapy Therapist and Supervisor. She is passionate about supervising and consulting other professionals who work with children, families and couples. This includes weekly individual and group supervision to trainees and interns of the non-profit Alliant Couple and Family Clinic. Kathryn is born and raised I South Africa and completed her bachelors in Social Work, where she facilitated programs in schools for child therapy.
To learn more about the general objectives of the externship and to register, click the button below!
Location: Sonoran University of Health Sciences, Tempe, AZ
Cost: $895 Early Bird (until June 15) | $1,095 Regular Registration | $500 Student Registration
Continuing Education Units: 28 hours
Externship includes an overview of the entire model of Emotionally Focused Therapy including steps and stages, interventions, adult attachment theory, and application of EFT with couples and individuals. Learning will include lectures, live video demonstration, and, at times, breaking into smaller groups for discussion or role play led by experienced EFT therapists. The externship is recommended for all types of mental health clinicians who want to counsel or want to cancel couples. This training is the prerequisite for all other EFT trainings.
Learning Objectives:
- See couples distress from an attachment perspective.
- Help partners reprocess the emotional responses that maintain couple distress.
- Shape key new interactional and bonding events.
- Overcome therapeutic impasses.
Lisa Palmer-Olsen, Psy.D. is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Diego California. She is a Certified EFT Therapist, 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.
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. Dr. Palmer-Olsen is also co-founder and clinic director for the Alliant Couple and Family Clinic (ACFC), San Diego-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit therapy clinic. The ACFC specializes in family and couple therapy offering individual and group counseling sessions for military and all clients in distressed relationships.
Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Diego, California. She is registered Play Therapist Supervisor and a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapy Therapist and Supervisor. She is passionate about supervising and consulting other professionals who work with children, families and couples. This includes weekly individual and group supervision to trainees and interns of the non-profit Alliant Couple and Family Clinic. Kathryn is born and raised I South Africa and completed her bachelors in Social Work, where she facilitated programs in schools for child therapy.
To learn more about the general objectives of the externship and to register, click the button below!
2023-2024 Core Skills—Registration Coming Soon!
Join us for a VIRTUAL Arizona Core Skills in 2023-2024. Core Skills will take place on the following dates:
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- Module One: December 13 and December 14, 2023
- Module Two: February 8 and February 9, 2024
- Module Three: March 21 and March 22, 2024
- Module Four: May 9 and May 10, 2023
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About Externship & Core Skills
The 4-Day Externship is designed to give you a clear understanding of the basic experiential and systemic concepts of an "Emotionally Focused" approach to couples therapy. You will learn how to conceptualize couple distress and relationship repair based on theories of attachment and emotion, and develop skills in helping partners reprocess the emotional responses that maintain relational distress. An Externship includes observation of live therapy sessions, presentations of theory and clinical techniques, skills training exercises, and discussion of specific cases, clinical material and issues. Externship can be completed as a stand-alone training in EFT, however if you want to pursue certification you will also need to complete Core Skills.
Once your complete the 4-day Externship, you are invited to attend Core Skills. Core Skills is designed to give you a "deeper dive" into each stage, step, and intervention that make up an "Emotionally Focused" approach. In Core Skills, you will be expected to show clips of your EFT therapy in action with couples.
Who should attend Externship & Core Skills?
Externship & Core Skills are recommended to all professionals who counsel couples, including psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, counsellors, pastors and clergy, and students training in these professions. Registrants will be required to declare their professional designation.
Participants are strongly encouraged to read Sue Johnson's book, Creating Connections, before coming to the Externship.
Once your complete the 4-day Externship, you are invited to attend Core Skills. Core Skills is designed to give you a "deeper dive" into each stage, step, and intervention that make up an "Emotionally Focused" approach. In Core Skills, you will be expected to show clips of your EFT therapy in action with couples.
Who should attend Externship & Core Skills?
Externship & Core Skills are recommended to all professionals who counsel couples, including psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, counsellors, pastors and clergy, and students training in these professions. Registrants will be required to declare their professional designation.
Participants are strongly encouraged to read Sue Johnson's book, Creating Connections, before coming to the Externship.