Emotionally Focused Family Therapy Essentials

We’re excited to be running this face-to-face EFFT (Emotionally Focused Family Therapy) Training in the UK from 2-5 March 2026.  Trainer Gail Palmer will lead the training.

Online participants will be able to take part via Zoom and follow the same material, ask questions and interact with Gail just like the face to face participants.  A dedicated Trainer will co-ordinate the online portion of the training. Face to face participants will meet at VAI, 200A Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, London 

Gail Palmer – MSW, RMFT:

Gail has trained and supervised therapists and students in Emotionally Focused Therapy and has conducted Externships, Core Skills Trainings and workshops on several EFT topics across Canada, the United States and Europe for over 30 years. Working with families is a particular interest to Gail and she has developed the application of the model to families with both presenting and writing on EFFT. She is co-author of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook.

Gail has her Master’s in Social Work, is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in Canada and an approved Supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. She is a couple and family therapy lecturer at the School of Social Work at Carleton University and St. Paul’s University in Ottawa.

More about Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) Essentials

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an attachment-based approach that combines both systemic and experiential interventions to mend broken bonds and heal fractured families.

Beginning in 2024, the Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) Essentials training consolidates the previous Level 1 and Level 2 trainings into a comprehensive 4-day (24hr) programme. This training provides a thorough understanding of the EFFT model within an attachment science framework. Through theoretical instruction and experiential exercises, participants are guided to apply the model to families, aiding their development into proficient EFFT therapists.

This training demonstrates the practical steps the EFT therapist follows in working through relational distress in families using the EFT process of change. Specific interventions are demonstrated to promote a clinician’s ability to work through parent and child relational blocks using attachment-based and emotionally focused techniques. Participants will learn a powerful transformative approach that is foundational in helping parents and children who are struggling with remaining securely attached.

Registration on the 1st day is at 8:30am and the day will finish at 5:00pm. The remaining 3 days will run from 9:00am – 5.00pm.

Click the Book button for more details and to register for the training

For any questions please contact Zehra Butt ([email protected])