Welcome to the third season of “Leaning into EFT” where participants will get a front row seat observing live therapy sessions unfold with couples, individuals and families. Each episode will feature the work of a different supervisor or trainer, where the therapist will walk us through their session and note key choice points, interventions and share their process and reflections of the session.
All sessions will take place from 10:00AM-12:00pm PST via Zoom.
We aim to create a safe, welcoming, low-cost space to gather, engage, learn and bask in the richness of our gifted EFT community. We hope you can join us!
Attendees may purchase a pass to the entire season (all seven episodes), or may purchase a single episode at a time. If selecting a single episode, please indicate when completing the registration form which episode you intend to attend.
S3E1 | “Shaping Secure Bonds with Families and EFFT” with Gail Palmer
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 06 2024, 10:00AM-12:00PM PST
Gail says: “In this session you will observe me working with a single father, Ari and his adult son, Andrew. This father came to therapy following the loss of one of his sons to suicide. I worked with various members of this family and this session is with the son who was closest to his brother that he lost. The focus is on the relationship between father and son and moving towards reconnection following estrangement. The challenge in this dynamic was father’s reactivity, including defensiveness, story telling and humour and Andrew’s tendency to avoid contact through caretaking and intellectualization. I felt privileged to be welcomed into this family and to be with them through the trauma of their loss.”
Gail Palmer, RMFT, MSW is one of the Founding Members of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute and Co-Director of the International Center of Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She holds a Masters degree in Social Work and is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in Canada. Over the past 30 years, Gail has worked closely with Dr Sue Johnson, creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy, and is an experienced supervisor and trainer in EFT. She currently offers workshops, externships and core skills trainings to mental health professionals in a variety of different settings across the world. She chairs the ICEEFT Education Committee and is responsible for mentoring and training EFT trainers internationally. Gail is an adjunct faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada and a sessional lecturer at Oxford University, Oxford, England.
Gail has a particular interest in applying the model with work with families. For the past decade, Gail has been one of the lead EFT trainers who have developed and expanded on Sue Johnson’s EFFT method and is co-author on the seminal 2019 text, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience. Her work has included EFFT trainings across North America, Europe and Australia/New Zealand, presentations at EFT summits, workshops at the Networker and AAMFT, publications in the EFFT workbook and casebook, articles in professional journals and the ICEEFT newsletter. Professionally, Gail’s primary passion is to help therapists who are both new to EFT and trained in EFT, to bring the powerful interventions and skills of this model to the family therapy room.