Douglas Tilley, LCSW-C  

Teaches: Externship in EFT, Core Skills Training, Group Supervision and Individual Supervision.  

Doug Tilley has 30 years of experience as a marriage and family therapist in private practice in Annapolis, MD. He is director of the Maryland Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy. He is a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical and is designated as a Clinical Member and an Approved Supervisor by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. Doug was trained by Sue Johnson, has practiced EFT for 12 years and is recognized by the Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy as an EFT trainer and Registered EFT Therapist. Sue and Doug, along with five other experienced EFT therapists, created the workbook used in thess programs entitled, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook. For more about Doug’s practice go to: www.douglastilley.com

Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor of the
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
 

Gail Palmer, MSW

Teaches: Externship in EFT, Core Skills Training

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.  She 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.
 

Susan Johnson, Ed.D.

Taught: Externship 2008, Externship 2006

Sue Johnson is one of the world’s leading lecturers, theorists, researchers and clinicians in the field of couple therapy. Widely published, her best-known book is The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection. In 2000, she was awarded AAMFT’s Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Marriage & Family Therapy Award. In 2005 she was awarded AFTA’s Outstanding Contribution to Family Research Award. Dr. Johnson is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Ottawa University and Director of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy in Ottawa. Until recently she was also the Director of the Couple and Family Clinic at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. She received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1984. She is a registered psychologist in the province of Ontario, Canada, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy and the Journal of Family Psychology. For more about Sue go to: www.eft.ca

Kathryn D. Rheem, LCMFT
The Couple & Family Therapy Center, LLC
5410 McKinley Street
Bethesda, MD 20817
703-283-7570 cell
krheem@hotmail.com  www.kathrynrheem.com 

As a certified EFT therapist and supervisor, my work helps couples and individuals develop skills to restore trust, communicate and express feelings effectively, understand and resolve differences, and enhance intimacy (www.eft.ca). It is my passion to help couples, families, and individuals repair their connections and create secure and lasting bonds with those who matter the most. 

I also work with military service members and their spouses in my private practice as well as in weekend retreat formats. The focus of this program, Strong Bonds, Strong Couples, LLC, is to support couple re-integration after deployment. The impacts of deployment and combat are addressed and contained in order to help the military couple and family feel better together.