2025 San Diego Externship
with Sam Jinich & Lisa J. Palmer-Olsen

Dates:

9:00 - 6:00 PST

September 14, 2025

September 15, 2025

September 16, 2025

Location:

San Diego: Alliant University

Green Hall 10455 Pomerado Rd

San Diego, CA 92131

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CEUs have been approved for all disciplines. If you purchase CEUs, your CEU certificate will be mailed to you approximately 6-8 weeks after the completion of the training series. CEUs are purchased directly.

General Objectives of the EFT Externship

  • Understanding EFT Concepts:
    Gain a clear understanding of the systemic concepts and basic experiential moves of the Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) approach.

  • Attachment View for Client Conceptualization:
    Hold an attachment view when clients cope with their interpersonal dilemmas, enabling you to conceptualize relationship distress and repair based on theories of attachment and emotion.

  • Training Focus:
    This training focuses on the general model of EFT as presented in the 2019 book Attachment Theory in Practice and its application in both couple and individual therapy sessions.

  • Developing Collaborative Alliance:
    Opportunity to develop skills in sharing, maintaining, and engaging in an open and collaborative alliance with your clients.

  • Mastering the EFT Tango:
    Develop skillful use of the 5 moves in the basic macro-intervention model known as the "EFT tango" to improve clients' affect regulation and interactional patterns.

  • Utilizing EFT Micro-Interventions:
    Learn to utilize systemic and experiential models of interventions applied as EFT micro-interventions.

  • Overcoming Blocks in EFT Therapy:
    Participate in skills development to overcome common blocks and impasses across EFT therapy modalities, enabling you to shape core corrective emotional experiences that lead to constructive dependency and what we conceptualize as "secure attachment."

  • Comprehensive EFT Overview:
    This training includes an overview of the entire model of Emotionally Focused Therapy, including steps and stages, interventions, adult attachment theory, and the application of EFT with couples and individuals. The externship is recommended for all types of mental health clinicians who counsel or wish to counsel couples.

Cancellation Policy

  • Cancellation within 30 Days:
    You may cancel your registration up to 30 days prior to the start date. A non-refundable fee of $75 will be withheld from your refund for processing and administrative fees.

  • Cancellation within 30 Days of Event:
    Any cancellations without 30 days’ notice will incur a $150 non-refundable fee.

  • How to Cancel:
    To cancel and request a refund, please email us at [email protected].

2025 San Diego Externship

Sam Jinich & Lisa J. Palmer-Olsen

Sam Jinich, PhD

Sam Jinich, PhD is a Certified Trainer in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT). He has been a clinical psychologist in private practice since 1995, specializing in working with couples from diverse backgrounds. Dr. Jinich was born in Mexico City and received his PhD from the University of California/San Diego State University’s Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology where he focused on couples and family therapy. He did his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine’s Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. In 2013, he founded the San Francisco Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy where he is the Director. More recently, he co-founded (with Natalia Gilabert,EFT trainer for Argentina) EFT Academiain Argentina, providing EFCT Master Classes, workshops, webinars, and supervision to clinicians around the world. As a bilingual and bicultural trainer in EFT, Dr. Jinich has been responsible for establishing EFCT in Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Brazil, Chile and Spain through mentoring and supervising therapists in these countries toward becoming EFCT practitioners, supervisors, and trainers. He was involved in the planning and supervision of therapists in the first-ever multi-national randomized clinical-trial research study in Spanish on the effectiveness of couples therapy in general, and specifically of EFCT. Dr. Jinich is particularly known for his creative and passionate presentations on EFCT.

Dr. Lisa J 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.