Vermont Psychological Association

"Emotionally Focused Therapy"
Gail Palmer, MSW

Teaches: Externship in EFT

Gail is one of the Founding Members of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute, has her Masters in Social Work and is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in Canada. Over the past 20 years, Gail has worked closely with Sue Johnson, co-creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy both at the Ottawa Hospital and in private practice and has become an experienced trainer in EFT; currently offering core skills training to a number of therapists across Canada and the US. Gail’s particular interest is in EFT with families and she delivered the plenary address at the 2006 EFT Summit on families.
Gail wrote the chapter entitled "Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)" in Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook, by Johnson, Tilley, Palmer, Bradley, Furrow, Lee, and Woolley. She also is coauthoring a chapter on EFFT with Don Efron in Innovations in Clinical Practice (in press) and wrote Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist (2002) with Sue Johnson for the Journal of Couple and Family Relationships.
She is an Approved Supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and is a family therapy professor at the School of Social Work at Carleton University in Ottawa.