Emotionally Focused Therapy

EFT is all about helping you and your partner connect on a deeper level. I guide you through understanding the emotions that drive your interactions, so you can break old patterns and build a stronger, more secure bond.

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.

In my work I am always paying attention to the emotional processes and experiences that are occurring in the room, often under the surface, particularly when they arise in our closest relationships. We all have attachment patterns that can cause us to miss each other on an emotional level, and a big part of couples therapy is bringing those patterns into our conscious awareness and help us learn to meet each other's and our own needs more effectively, for a closer relationship.

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.

EFT is effectively used to treat trauma and attachment injuries. It also is very effective to assist couples and families to improve their bonds with each other.

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a powerful approach that helps individuals and couples identify, understand, and express their emotions. It's particularly effective in improving communication and emotional intimacy.

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a powerful approach that helps individuals and couples identify, understand, and express their emotions. It's particularly effective in improving communication and emotional intimacy.

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

I utilize Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to enhance the emotional connection between you and your partner, guiding you both toward a secure and fulfilling relationship. By mapping out your communication patterns, we can work together to identify areas where conflict arises and uncover the vulnerable feelings beneath the surface. This understanding not only deepens your connection but also empowers each of you to contribute to breaking negative cycles, allowing you to grow closer together.

I am currently being trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with anticipated completion in spring of 2021. EFT attunes to our own emotions and emotional regulation as well as how they interact with those of our partner(s). I primarily use EFT with relationships (monogamous couples as well as polyamorous/open relationships), though the benefits of my training can also be utilized with individuals.

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.

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.

I believe that connection and emotional safety are the keys to happiness in relationships. But unfortunately, we tend to become stuck in negative patterns that reinforce disconnection. What we bring to the relationship is formed through our experiences with past relationships and our histories. I help clients to become aware of these patterns and change them. Through this, we can have new healthy interactions and experience more vulnerable communication and connections.

(EFT) is a therapeutic approach that focuses on helping individuals understand and improve their emotional connections with themselves and others, primarily by recognizing and working through emotions as a central component of human experience and relationships. "It is difficult to fix an emotional problem in you head"

I am a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist.

I use EFT with couples to identify past experiences, positive and unresolved wounds, in order to gain an understanding of themselves and how they connect to each other. In processing and healing these wounds, couples can establish or restore emotional safety, change communication patterns, and benefit from both individual healing and healing within the couple.

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.