Emotionally Focused Therapy
Dr. Sue Johnson came up with the cutting-edge relationship therapy known as EFT. It uses the science of attachment to help couples strengthen their connection and change their bond on a deep emotional level, perhaps in a way they’ve never experienced before. It is presently being demonstrated to be compelling for people and families also. EFT is experimentally approved and utilizes the study of connection and what we know from cerebrum research about holding and feeling.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a novel and exceptionally compelling type of treatment that assists individuals comprehend and work on their close to home association with themselves as well as other people. Created during the 1980s, EFT depends on the rule that our feelings are fundamental to our encounters and connections. It recommends that we are normally intended to have a safe feeling of what our identity is and a healthy self-awareness we can trust and depend on. This strong base areas of strength for considers, bonds with others, and when these bonds are secure, we will generally be more joyful and better.
An incredible aspect regarding EFT is its flexibility. While it’s broadly perceived for assisting couples with reinforcing their connections (which is known as Sincerely Engaged Couples Treatment or EFCT), it’s additionally very helpful for people and families. For people, EFT (known as EFIT) can be especially useful in managing sensations of discouragement, tension, or the profound repercussions of awful accidents. EFT (EFFT) is a great option for families looking to improve their dynamic because it is used to deepen connections and repair strained relationships.
What compels EFT stand apart is its emphasis on feelings and how we oversee and utilize them. Relationships that are healthier and more fulfilling are made possible by this strategy, which helps people comprehend both their own feelings and the feelings of those around them. It’s not just about tracking down convenient solutions; it’s tied in with focusing on the root issues and making enduring change.
EFT for Couples (EFCT)
EFT is a brief (8–20 sessions) structured strategy that was first created in the 1980s for couple therapy and is based on attachment theory. A humanistic, experiential approach to reshaping emotional experience and a systemic structural approach to reshaping relationships are integrated in EFCT interventions. There is currently a sizable corpus of research on EFCT’s efficacy. Large treatment effect sizes and long-term stability are demonstrated by this study. In hospital clinics, university training facilities, and private practice, EFCT is successfully applied with a wide variety of couples. There is research available for couples coping with medical illnesses, trauma-related anxiety, despair, and forgiveness issues.
EFT for Individuals (EFIT)
EFIT is a connection science-based way to deal with individual treatment that, similar to the next EFT mediations, EFCT for couples and EFFT for families, offers ways of reshaping and figure out internal experience and social intercessions zeroed in on reshaping examples of commitment with life partners and the person as a more youthful self. Feeling is given priority across treatment modalities given its strong job in organizing both inward experience and inspiration and key interactional examples in connections. The core experience and interactions are linked and organized by emotion.
EFT for Families (EFFT)
In EFFT, the EFT process of change focuses on stabilizing a family’s negative interaction pattern, reorganizing parent-child interactions, and consolidating the sense of security gained from these new connection patterns. The EFFT therapist helps the family navigate developmental change and life challenges by guiding them toward new patterns of parental availability, responsiveness, and coherent attachment communications. In EFFT, the attention is on tending to blocks in parental providing care reactions and understanding the youngster or juvenile’s conduct as far as connection needs or fears. Constrained, stuck responses to misalignment and family relationships’ injuries cause these blocks. The EFFT advisor tracks the generational impacts influencing these blocks and manages unbending examples that disturb connection correspondence between guardians, kin and among parent and youngster. The formation of a cohesive parenting team is the primary focus of work with parents. The course of EFFT frequently moves rapidly as relatives become more responsive, open, and drew in with already unacknowledged connection related feelings and necessities.
Dr. Sue Johnson
My work is primarily about creating a secure sense of connection with self and with others. Emotion has a deep logic to it, and we can learn to use it as a compass to guide our steps as we move with others through life.
Backed by years of research, my team and I want to help everyone learn about the revolutionary science of attachment and bonding. Growing emotionally and finding attachment at the heart of our humanity – what’s more thrilling than that?
EFT video library
EFT Books
The Hold Me Tight WORKBOOK
Over a million people have benefited from Dr. Sue Johnson’s seminal book Hold Me Tight by strengthening and mending their romantic relationships. Finally, a companion Workbook is available to assist couples in reconnecting, reestablishing safe emotional connections, and strengthening their relationship.
The Hold Me Tight Workbook, which draws from the most recent advancements in Dr. Johnson’s field of Emotionally Focused Therapy, is brimming with science-backed guidance and wise counsel, along with engaging conversation starters, exercises, activities, and resources to assist couples in resolving conflict and achieving higher levels of intimacy. The Hold Me Tight Workbook is a priceless resource for developing a closer bond and more satisfying relationship with the person you love most, whether you’re celebrating your 50th anniversary or your first.
Hold me tight
This book presents an entirely novel perspective on and approach to creating love connections. Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), a successful new model created by Dr. Johnson, and the new science of love are the foundations for the stories, novel concepts, and exercises included in Hold Me Tight.
EFT is an organized, brief method for treating married couples. Empirical studies have validated the efficacy of EFT, demonstrating that 70–75% of couples experience a shift from distress to recovery and that 90% of them have considerable improvements—the best outcomes of any pair therapy—and that these beneficial outcomes persist over time. EFT is currently being used in hospital clinics, private practices, and university training facilities with a varied range of couples from different cultural backgrounds.
Love sense
The groundbreaking new field of psychology known as emotional bonding is made possible by Love Sense. It gives you the confidence and tools to create pivotal moments in your relationships and weather them. Dr. Johnson frames the three fundamental procedures for taking care of your connection needs and fears, and offers new understanding into the connection among sex and profound holding. Figuring out how to upgrade or fix the bond with your accomplice no longer must involve mystery. Told in Dr. Johnson’s consoling voice, Love Sense presents pragmatic, open counsel on building more closeness, wellbeing, and trust; adapting to detachment misery, misfortune, and pardoning; and enhancing your relationship of safety to guarantee love for the rest of your life. It will have an impact on the manner in which you ponder love.
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