Boulder 2025-2026 Core Skills
Our Core Skills Additional Training in EFT offers therapists supportive opportunities for direct, hands-on learning of the EFT approach.
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CEUs have been approved for all disciplines. If you purchase CEU's, your CEU certificate will be mailed to you approximately 6-8 weeks after the completion of the training series. CEU's are purchased directly here.
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Module 3-4
EFT Core Skills:
2025-2026 Core Skills (Boulder) with Lisa J. Palmer-Olsen & Dr. James Hawkins
Dates:
Module 1-2 - October 8-10, 2025
Module 3-4 - January 7-9, 2026
Time: 9am-6pm Mountain
Location: Courtyard by Marriott - Boulder/Broomfield: 948 W. Dillon Rd, Louisville, CO 80504
If you have completed the EFT Externship, are legally allowed to practice psychotherapy in your State and are interested in deepening your understanding of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) while strengthening your confidence in practicing EFT, please join us!
Our Core Skills Additional Training in EFT offers therapists supportive opportunities for direct, hands-on learning of the EFT approach. In a safe, positive, and fun environment, you will learn how to focus your attention on the emotions of your clients and to access, explore, deepen, and expand emotions.
We will practice how to facilitate new couples therapy conversations that increase the feelings of secure attachment, closeness, and connection. In a small group, you will study the EFT model and the heart of the steps, stages, and interventions through experiential exercises, role-plays, and watching videotaped examples (optional). Together, we will also observe your own work and your peers’ work via video recordings and offer you feedback and guidance. Throughout this process, you will receive personal attention from experienced EFT Therapists and Supervisors.
In this Core Skills Training, we get to the underlying essential strengths of EFT and Attachment Theory so you can learn to access them more instinctively and in a way that resonates with who you naturally are as a therapist and in ways that support your existing clinical strengths. We will provide an encouraging, positive, safe learning environment.
By viewing our relationships through the attachment lens, we can become more empathic and attuned to our clients. Attunement is a two-way street. Not only will you understand your couple’s emotions better, but they will also experience your attunement in emotional ways that are characteristic of helpful EFT couples therapy.
Emotion is the main show in town when it comes to EFT, so we need to learn how to work with emotions and how to access and deepen them. In the process of safe, positive experiential exercises, we will get in touch with emotions. One of our goals as EFT Therapists is to learn how to attune and drop down into our clients’ experience with curiosity, wonder, and compassion. Once we have that down, we can more easily track emotions and attachment-related themes and understand how the couple’s negative patterns are co-created and maintained. It can be quite helpful and important to understand what happens moment by moment within them and within you.
Emotions are the music of the relational dance. Our couples need our help changing the music of their distressed relationship so that they can begin to change the steps in their dance towards increased safety, connection, closeness, and intimacy. In our Core Skills Training, we will spend some time together learning how to tune our ears to the music of the relational dances.
At the end of our Core Skills Series, we believe that you will feel a greater sense of confidence in your ability to help couples in distress and a renewed sense of enthusiasm and passion about your clinical work.
Our Core Skills Additional Training in EFT offers therapists supportive opportunities for direct, hands-on learning of the EFT approach. In a safe, positive, and fun environment, you will learn how to focus your attention on the emotions of your clients and to access, explore, deepen, and expand emotions.
We will practice how to facilitate new couples therapy conversations that increase the feelings of secure attachment, closeness, and connection. In a small group, you will study the EFT model and the heart of the steps, stages, and interventions through experiential exercises, role-plays, and watching videotaped examples (optional). Together, we will also observe your own work and your peers’ work via video recordings and offer you feedback and guidance. Throughout this process, you will receive personal attention from experienced EFT Therapists and Supervisors.
In this Core Skills Training, we get to the underlying essential strengths of EFT and Attachment Theory so you can learn to access them more instinctively and in a way that resonates with who you naturally are as a therapist and in ways that support your existing clinical strengths. We will provide an encouraging, positive, safe learning environment.
By viewing our relationships through the attachment lens, we can become more empathic and attuned to our clients. Attunement is a two-way street. Not only will you understand your couple’s emotions better, but they will also experience your attunement in emotional ways that are characteristic of helpful EFT couples therapy.
Emotion is the main show in town when it comes to EFT, so we need to learn how to work with emotions and how to access and deepen them. In the process of safe, positive experiential exercises, we will get in touch with emotions. One of our goals as EFT Therapists is to learn how to attune and drop down into our clients’ experience with curiosity, wonder, and compassion. Once we have that down, we can more easily track emotions and attachment-related themes and understand how the couple’s negative patterns are co-created and maintained. It can be quite helpful and important to understand what happens moment by moment within them and within you.
Emotions are the music of the relational dance. Our couples need our help changing the music of their distressed relationship so that they can begin to change the steps in their dance towards increased safety, connection, closeness, and intimacy. In our Core Skills Training, we will spend some time together learning how to tune our ears to the music of the relational dances.
At the end of our Core Skills Series, we believe that you will feel a greater sense of confidence in your ability to help couples in distress and a renewed sense of enthusiasm and passion about your clinical work.
Cancellation Policy:
You may cancel your registration 30 days prior to the start date, a nonrefundable fee of $75 will be withheld from your refund for processing and administrative fees. Any cancellations without 30 days notice will incur a $150 non refundable fee. Email [email protected] to cancel and request a refund.
You may cancel your registration 30 days prior to the start date, a nonrefundable fee of $75 will be withheld from your refund for processing and administrative fees. Any cancellations without 30 days notice will incur a $150 non refundable fee. Email [email protected] to cancel and request a refund.
Trainers
Lisa J. Palmer-Olsen & Dr. James Hawkins
Dr. Lisa J Palmer-Olsen
Dr. Lisa J. Palmer-Olsen, PsyD, LMFT, is an internationally recognized leader in attachment-based psychotherapy, supervision, and clinician training. She has been a Certified Trainer with the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) since 2003 and has trained thousands of therapists throughout North America and internationally. She is the Executive Director and Founder of Renova San Diego, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to life-saving family mental health treatment and therapist training.
An AAMFT Approved Supervisor and internationally certified EFT Supervisor, Dr. Palmer-Olsen specializes in couples, families, trauma, and betrayal recovery. She is a co-author of *Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience* and has contributed extensively to the development of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy.
Her scholarly work includes publications on EFT supervision and the training of experiential therapists, helping shape the field's understanding of effective clinical supervision. She is also the developer of the Four Chambers of the Heart of Supervision model, an attachment-based framework for cultivating therapist growth, reflective practice, and clinical excellence.
Throughout her career, Dr. Palmer-Olsen has been committed to integrating research, neuroscience, and experiential practice to strengthen relationships and promote healing. As a speaker, trainer, and consultant, she is known for her engaging teaching style and her ability to translate complex clinical concepts into practical interventions. She continues to advance the fields of Emotionally Focused Therapy, supervision, and trauma treatment through her clinical work, writing, leadership, and international training programs.
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Dr James Hawkins
Dr. James Hawkins, ‘Doc Hawk’, is a Licensed Counsellor with 11 years of experience and an ICEEFT certified trainer, supervisor, and therapist. He obtained a Master’s in Marriage and Family Counselling and a Ph.D. in Psychology and Counseling. He currently serves as a Clinical Coordinator at a non-profit counselling practice in Northwest Arkansas. James is the founder of Healing Conversations, a training program developed to equip organizations and communities to have productive conversations about race. He is the co-host of two podcasts, The Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy, and The Leading Edge: Transforming Leadership Through Attachment Science. James is a part of the online training program, successinvulnerability.com develop to help EFT therapists and supervisors gain more focus in their clinical work. Doc Hawk brings a passion for helping individuals, couples, families, and communities in relational distress. James is married to his wife, Nicola and together they have five daughters.