Clinical Psychologist & Family Therapy Innovator; Developer of Emotion-Focused Family Therapy; Author
Adele Lafrance Biography
Dr. Adele Lafrance is a clinical psychologist, research scientist, and author known for developing Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), an evidence-based model that transformed how families are engaged in mental health recovery - equipping caregivers and close others, not just clinicians, to play a central role in healing conditions such as eating disorders, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She has particular expertise in emotion science, advanced communication skills, and the practice of therapeutic apology as a tool for repairing ruptures across settings.
At the core of Lafrance's thinking is a bigger question reshaping the mental health field: what if psychological struggle isn't an individual pathology at all, but a response to the larger systems: historical, institutional, relational, that people are embedded in? Her work in liberation psychology explores this shift, moving audiences away from blame-based narratives and toward a more expansive, systems-level understanding of healing and growth.
Lafrance has also been at the frontier of one of the most talked-about developments in mental health: the resurgence of psychedelic-assisted therapy. She has worked across ayahuasca, MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine research and treatment, including as clinical investigator and strategy lead on a MAPS-sponsored study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and as a collaborator on Imperial College's psilocybin research. She is a founding member of The Love Project, and speaks widely on what this new frontier of medicine reveals about connection, family, and the future of healing.
Lafrance is the author of a clinical manual on Emotion-Focused Family Therapy published by the American Psychological Association and co-author of the parenting book "What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work." Her work has been featured in major media outlets including Oprah Magazine and Medical News Today. As a keynote speaker, she brings audiences fresh, research-backed perspectives on emotion, family systems, liberation psychology, and the psychedelic renaissance - ideas that are reshaping how organizations, clinicians, and leaders think about healing, connection, and human potential.
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Adele Lafrance Speaking Topics
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What to Say When Nothing Seems to Work: The Communication Blueprint Behind Every Strong Relationship
- Brain hacks to strengthen relationships across the lifespan
• at home, at work, and in care
- Advanced communication strategies for optimal functioning in families, teams, and care settings
- The apology advantage: how repair (not perfection) builds trust
- Enhancing motivation through emotion-focused communication
- Brain hacks to strengthen relationships across the lifespan
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Beyond the Individual: Why Struggle Is a Systems Problem, Not a Personal Failure
- The hidden cost of blame culture
• in families, workplaces, and institutions
- Shining a light on the oppression embedded in psychology
- Liberation psychology 101: moving from pathology to context
- Interrupting inherited patterns: how history shows up in today's relationships, teams, and systems of care
- The hidden cost of blame culture
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Adele Lafrance is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as What to Say When Nothing Seems to Work: The Communication Blueprint Behind Every Strong Relationship, Beyond the Individual: Why Struggle Is a Systems Problem, Not a Personal Failure, Inside the Psychedelic Renaissance: What Science Is Revealing About Mental Health and Healing, Emotional Intelligence as a Leadership Skill: What Neuroscience Teaches Us About Motivating People and Love as a Healing Technology: Lessons from the Frontier of Psychedelic Science. The estimated speaking fee range to book Adele Lafrance for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Adele Lafrance generally travels from Toronto, Canada and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Michael Ungar, Ph.D., Dr. 1Drea Pennington Wasio, Anthony Rao, Joshua Sparrow and Lisa Cypers Kamen. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Adele Lafrance for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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