Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) is a clinically proven, highly effective process to help couples suffering from distress. EFT is based on a theory of adult love and attachment, as well as a process for healing distressed relationships. It recognizes that relationship distress results from a perceived threat to basic adult needs for safety, security, and closeness in intimate relationships. Created by Dr.Sue Johnson & Dr. Les Greenberg, EFT is a model of couple therapy showing that most couples (over 70%) turned their relationship around from distressed -no matter how distressed -to happy) in 16-20 sessions and over 90% significantly improved. See Dr.Sue Johnson's groundbreaking book "Hold Me Tight" for a thorough understanding of how EFT with a trained therapist can help you.
EFT Couple therapy can identify:
- Destructive hurtful patterns of behaviours formerly outside of your awareness in how you resolve issues, argue, relate to one another.
- What has broken down in your relationship and why.
- Restrictive, self perpetuating, vicious cycles of interaction.
- How past traumas may be affecting your relationship in the present.
In essence, couple therapy makes you aware of the invisible destructive patterns you have both been using, and helps you change these patterns in a positive way.
The process of EFT couple therapy enables you to:
- Feel more acceptance and compassion for your self and your partner.
- Expand your emotional responses.
- Foster and strengthen secure bonds and trust between you.
- Re-kindle feelings of love.
Our therapists help each partner in the relationship to experience the other as a source of security, protection and comfort.
