Emotionally Focused Therapy

I have received training in EFT directly from the founder of the modality: Dr. Sue Johnson, as well as one of her most well-known trainers: Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen. I have completed two 4-day EFT externships, & am currently receiving advanced training & supervision in the modality (Core Skills).

While EFT is often used for couples, I specialize in it for individuals (EFIT). This therapy helps clients explore their deep attachment needs and emotional responses, leading to profound self-discovery. By identifying and understanding attachment patterns, clients are able to foster healthier relationships with themselves and others.

I have completed the EFT Externship and have used EFT in my practice for many years as well as taken other EFT training at conferences.

EFT level one trained. One of the top approaches for couples therapy. It goes beyond giving you a step by step guide to conflict resolution. It's all about giving you and your partner a new experience of closeness and helping you see one another with a new lens.

Sometimes you feel your emotions so strongly that it prevents you from thinking straight. I teach clients to regulate and cope with negative emotions as well as gain awareness of their emotions. Furthermore, I assist with developing a strategy to work effectively with a range of emotions.

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.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) has a 90% success rate for significantly improving couple relationships after treatment.

EFT has a 90% success rate in improving relationships. Before couples therapy, unmet attachment needs – such as the need for reassurance, support, closeness, appreciation, and to be understood and seen in a positive light – lead to emotional disconnection and conflict. In EFT, you will both learn how to express your needs and respond to them in a way that brings you closer together rather than further apart. Following EFT, you will feel a sense of safety and security in your relationship.

People are ran by emotions and emotions are hard. By gaining a greater understanding of emotions and how they are affecting you can lead to better control and more purposeful behaviors. I work with EFT so you can understand your motives, wants, and needs.

I apply Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) to help clients explore and transform their emotional experiences. By focusing on attachment patterns and emotional responses, EFIT aims to deepen emotional awareness, strengthen relationships (including the one with oneself), and promote secure emotional bonds. This approach integrates techniques from various therapies to support clients in navigating and resolving emotional challenges, fostering personal growth and enhanced well-being.

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 Couples Therapy helps partners strengthen their bond by uncovering and addressing underlying emotions that drive conflict and disconnection. In 2023, I completed an externship in EFT, gaining specialized training in using this approach with couples. I guide partners in fostering secure attachments, improving communication, and meeting each other’s emotional needs. With EFT, couples can deepen connection, rebuild trust, and navigate challenges with greater understanding.

Life is hard, and we are socialized to suppress our feelings. When we suppress them, they inevitably begin to seep out, such as through our actions. In our sessions, we will dive deeply into your feelings. In my work with couples, because I believe that issues in romantic relationships are primarily due to emotional disconnection, I will facilitate deeper emotional connection through helping you truly hear each other & become more emotionally accessible, responsive, & engaged with each other.

Unfortunately suffering is a part of life. It is unavoidable, although people employ various types of strategies to avoid suffering and the feelings associated with suffering. It is my belief that in order to withstand suffering, and to heal from it, we must submit to our experience and acknowledge our uncomfortable feelings. I assist my clients in acnowledging their various emotions, and encourage a curiosity about the emotion that initiates a process of healing.

EFT strengthens attachment bonds and builds trust, connection, and comfort in relationships. This therapy helps clients replace unwanted relational patterns with more adaptive, gratifying ways of relating. For couples as well as individuals.

I use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help couples identify the patterns that keep them feeling disconnected and stuck. EFT helps partners understand the emotional needs behind conflict and build new ways of relating rooted in trust and emotional safety. It’s a powerful, research-backed approach that supports deeper connection and long-term relational change.