About EFT
To learn more about Emotionally Focused Therapy please visit www.eft.ca

About Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples

“Marital distress is the single most common reason for seeking therapy. It undermines family functioning and is strongly associated with depression, anxiety disorders, and alcoholism. Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples offers a comprehensive theory of adult love and attachment, as well as a process for healing distressed relationships. EFT recognizes that relationships distress results from a perceived threat to basic adult needs for safety, security, and closeness in intimate relationships. This experiential/systemic therapy focuses on helping partners restructure the emotional responses that maintain their negative patterns of interaction. Through a series of nine steps, the therapist leads the couple away from conflict deadlock into new bonding patterns. Over the past 15 years, Sue Johnson and her colleagues have developed and rigorously researched this short-term approach (8 – 20 sessions) in couples therapy. It is now one of the best delineated and empirically validated approaches in the field of couples therapy” (quoted from brochure produced by the Center for EFT/Ottawa Couple & Family Institute).

EFT is based on a humanistic (Carl Rogers), attachment theory (John Bowlby) approach and also works very well with families and individuals.

Learning EFT

For mental health professionals who are interested in learning EFT or becoming a certified EFT therapist, Kathryn offers consultation and supervision in EFT on an individual and group basis. For more information on EFT supervision, please contact Kathryn either by cell phone or email.

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