Meet the Visionaries Behind EFT Triage 2026
The Two Women Who Decided the Field Deserved Better — And Built It
Every great conference starts with a problem worth solving. For Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen, Psy.D., and Jennine Estes Powell, LMFT, that problem was deeply personal and professionally urgent: therapists working with the most complex attachment injuries and high-conflict couples were doing so without the advanced clinical roadmap they desperately needed.
So they built one. Together.
Every great conference starts with a problem worth solving. For Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen, Psy.D., and Jennine Estes Powell, LMFT, that problem was deeply personal and professionally urgent: therapists working with the most complex attachment injuries and high-conflict couples were doing so without the advanced clinical roadmap they desperately needed.
So they built one. Together.
Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen, Psy.D.
Certified EFT Trainer | Researcher | Author | Clinical Director
There are clinicians who practice a model. And then there are the rare few who help build it, shape it, teach it to the world, and still show up to do the deep clinical work, one couple, one family, one therapist at a time. Dr. Lisa Palmer-Olsen is unmistakably the latter.
Lisa's formation as a clinician began at the highest possible level. As a student of Alliant International University, she had the opportunity to train under family therapy founders Dr. Jay Haley and Dr. James Framo. She then completed her dissertation research on how to train and teach Emotionally Focused Therapy to professionals, directly supervised by Dr. Susan Johnson and Dr. Scott Woolley. She co-created the evidence-based EFT Supervision model, published in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy; a systematic, research-based model for supervising Emotionally Focused Therapists that is now foundational to how the field trains its next generation of clinicians. She is also an author of the primary Emotionally Focused Family Therapy, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience.
Dr. Lisa 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.
She is a Founder of the Emotionally Focused Couples Training and Research Institute at Alliant International University. As Co-Director of Renova San Diego, a non-profit organization, she is committed to providing quality services accessible to all who seek them, and is passionate about providing affordable, high-caliber training to mental health clinicians around the world.
For all her academic and institutional accomplishments, Dr. Palmer-Olsen has never left the therapy room. Her private practice is where theory meets reality — and where she continues to do the precise, demanding clinical work that keeps her training grounded in what actually happens when a couple sits across from you in crisis.
Her online training platform brings live and self-paced EFT certification and specialty trainings to therapists who may never have access to in-person training in their region. She has built consultation groups, supervision programs, and specialty trainings in betrayal recovery, family therapy, and complex attachment work.
Jennine Estes Powell, LMFT
Clinician | Author | Mentor
With over 20 years in the field, Jennine is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a certified EFT therapist, co-author, practice builder, and mentor.
She is the founder and CEO of Estes Therapy in San Diego, a respected couples therapy group practices, conducting over 900 counseling sessions monthly with a primary focus on relationship healing. What began as Jennine's solo vision became a thriving multi-therapist practice and a genuine hub for couples seeking expert, attachment-informed care in San Diego.
She then took that same energy and built again, founding Spokane Counseling Hub, a second private practice extending her reach and her mission to a new community. Two practices. Two cities. One unwavering commitment to making exceptional couples therapy accessible.
Jennine's clinical expertise found its way onto the page with the co-authorship of Help for High-Conflict Couples: Using Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Science of Attachment to Build Lasting Connections, a book that carries a foreword by none other than Dr. Sue Johnson, the pioneer of EFT herself.
Jennine's clinical expertise found its way onto the page with the co-authorship of Help for High-Conflict Couples: Using Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Science of Attachment to Build Lasting Connections, a book that carries a foreword by none other than Dr. Sue Johnson, the pioneer of EFT herself.
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