Emotionally Focused Therapy

I use a highly experiential approach to therapy. This means I believe that simply thinking or talking about a problem is not enough to create real change. In order for change to occur, we need to go deeper, beyond the thinking mind. Research shows that having a felt experience opens up pathways to new ways of thinking and being. This means we will be working toward having new, felt sense experiences to help you move beyond stuck patterns and ineffective coping strategies and toward real change.

Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is a type of psychotherapy that helps people identify and change negative patterns that cause distress. It's based on attachment theory and the science of emotions. With EFT I will help improve awareness of attachments and bonding in all relationships. I will use experiential approaches to create a new felt sense of emotional connection to help you move beyond stuck patterns and ineffective coping strategies and toward real change.

I am trained in EFT Tapping and use this regularly in treatment for OCD, eating disorders, and anxiety

Using EFT, it is possible to understand what is happening when you and your partner are plagued by the same unproductive, dysfunctional patterns over and over again. Let me show you how to understand what is really happening and how you can solve it once and for all.

My primary couple's therapy modality is EFT. EFT is an attachment theory informed modality that focuses on helping couples look under the surface of their recurrent conflict cycles. Couples who find themselves wondering why they are seemingly having the same argument over and over without resolution would be a great fit for EFT.

I have advanced training in Emotion Focused Family Therapy which is designed to help loved ones work with those in their lives that are struggling with mental illness (eating disorders and self-harm in particular), and other behavioral concerns. I frequently use this approach to augment direct work with my clients so they have the greatest amount of support possible, especially when they aren't in my office.

Our emotions often tells us what is important to us, what decisions are aligning with our beliefs, and where there is a mismatch between our actions and our goals. I help clients understand their emotions in order to better understand themselves.

I have received advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and am currently working towards the designation of a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist.

Graduate training in EFT through university, as well as additional CEU certificates and workshops in EFT and treating couples.

Couples and intimate partners all have patterns in the way that they relate based on their early attachment histories. EFT uses present-moment experience to become more aware of these usually unconscious ways of relating and help partners find more connection by communicating more vulnerably and directly to each other.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (2024)

EFT is an approach to therapy treatment based on the premise that our emotions are critical to our identity and guide decision-making. When we lack awareness of our feelings or avoid unpleasant emotions, we cannot use the information provided by these emotions. Unlike other therapeutic approaches, EFT assumes that emotion can be a source of healing and works with specific emotions to increase adaptation.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) pays special attention to building skills to understand our emotional experience better. Instead of suppressing or avoiding our emotions (which usually makes them more intense and persistent!), we can learn to listen to the messages they are trying to give us about our needs and how to get them met. EFT can also help change negative relationship patterns. I have been trained and supervised in EFT and am currently in the process of getting advanced training.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) has a 90% success rate in helping clients break negative cycles of interaction and grow in their emotional intimacy and connection. Couples often find themselves caught in patterns that may involve getting louder or shutting down. EFT helps you break out of these patterns and communicate in a more authentic and vulnerable way so that you feel safe and secure in your relationship and develop a bond that can withstand life challenges and enhance your life.

It is a systemic and compassionate approach to working with couples by deepening understanding of yourself and one another. The work acknowledges the existing strengths in your relationship and identifies negative communication patterns. Skills couples learn are knowing how to de-escalate conflict in their relationship and how to move forward from past relationship wounds. To enrich your emotional and physical intimacy.

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a therapeutic approach formulated on the theory that emotions are key to identity, decision making, and relationships. As an EFT therapist, I believe that in order to understand the important information emotions provide, we need our focus to be more on an awareness and acceptance of our emotions rather than attempting to suppress and control our emotions. Using this approach can help uncover the complexities of a relationship in couples counseling.