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 a Certified International Emotionally Focused Therapy Trainer and AAMFT‑approved Supervisor.
Her primary clinical and research interests center on family systems and high‑conflict couple work, particularly with clients affected by trauma and attachment-related injuries.
As a founder and Co‑Director of Renova San Diego Inc, a non‑profit 501(c)(3) based in San Diego, she is committed to making high‑quality therapy services accessible to all. Dr. Palmer‑Olsen is passionate about providing top‑tier EFT trainings to clinicians worldwide.
For 15 years, she directed the Alliant Couple and Family Clinic and co-founded the San Diego Center for EFT in 2007.
Dr. Palmer‑Olsen 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. Out of this work, she co-created the evidence‑based EFT Supervision model published in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy: Supervising Emotionally Focused Therapists: A Systematic Research‑Based Model (Palmer‑Olsen, Gold & Woolley, 2011, J MFT, 37(4), 411–426; doi:10.1111/j.1752‑0606.2011.00253.x)
She is also an author of the primary Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) text, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience (Furrow, Palmer, Johnson, Faller & Palmer‑Olsen, 2019, Routledge)
