Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples: 4-Day Externship, Scottsdale, AZ

Price: $850.00
Scott Woolley, PhD and Lisa Palmer-Olsen, PhD

Mon-Thurs, April 5-8, 2010 ~ Scottsdale, AZ ~ 9am-5:30pm

30 CE credit hours

Scottsdale Marriott Suites Old Town
7325 East 3rd Ave
Scottsdale, AZ 85251

Discounts available for students, repeat attendees and groups of 6 or more participants.  Email emelendez@alliant.edu for details.

This externship is recommended to all professionals who counsel couples.

The four-day externship includes observation of live interviews, theory and clinical techniques, skill training exercises, and supervision in specific areas. Participants learn to see marital distress from an attachment perspective, help partners reprocess the emotional responses that maintain marital distress, shape new interactions and bonding events, and overcome therapeutic impasses.

Dr Scott Woolley has trained EFT Therapists throughout North America and in Asia, Central and South America, and Europe. He is a co-author of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook, and is the Systemwide Director of the MFT Graduate programs at Alliant International University.

He has a clinical specialization in couples therapy and MFT supervision and has trained mental health professionals in Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, and throughout the United States in couple therapy and/or supervision. In recent years, Dr. Woolley has worked closely with Dr. Susan Johnson, founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy, and with Jay Haley, a senior founder of the field of family therapy. Dr. Woolley is licensed in both Texas and California, and is an AAMFT Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor.



Palmer-Olsen Dr.Lisa Palmer-Olsen is a founder and co-director of the San Diego Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy, and a practicing family counselor for 12 years. Dr. Palmer-Olsen is Certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy as a Therapist, Supervision and Training. She received her training in EFT directly from Dr. Susan Johnson. Dr. Palmer-Olsen continues to work closely with Dr. Johnson researching and developing research effect methodologies for training therapists in EFT model. Dr. Palmer-Olsen and Dr. Scott Woolley have jointly developed the current structure of training and supervising therapists to become proficient in Emotionally Focused Therapy.




 
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