Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) – or emotionally focused couples therapy as it is sometimes known – is a short-term therapy technique focused on adult relationships. EFT seeks to help clients better understand both their own emotional responses and those of significant people in their lives. A therapist using EFT will look for patterns in the relationship and identify methods to create a more secure bond, increase trust, and help the relationship grow in a healthy direction. In a session, the therapist will observe the interactions between clients, tie this behavior into dynamics in the home, and help guide new interactions based on more open feelings. Sometimes, this includes clients discovering more emotions and feelings than they were aware they had. Think this approach might be right for you? Reach out to one of
I have received advanced training in EFT and use it with all of the couples I see. I use EFT to help couples better understand their unmet needs and effectively communicate them to their partners in a way that fosters deep emotional intimacy. I especially love to help prepare couples for a successful marriage in pre-marital counseling.
— Melissa Hannan, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Littleton, COEmotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps you understand and transform the emotions behind relationship conflict. If you're feeling disconnected or stuck, EFT helps you explore and express emotions, improving communication and strengthening your bond. I've completed the EFT externship, equipping me with the tools to guide you in rebuilding emotional security and creating a healthier, more supportive relationship.
— Krista Giffin, Associate Marriage & Family Therapist in San Marino, CAUtilizing Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), I'll focus on helping you slow down, name, process, and validate your own emotions. It’s like giving your feelings the time and space they deserve, without any judgment. This approach is helpful in dealing with all the ups and downs of emotions that can often feel overwhelming. We’ll explore how these emotions influence your decisions and actions, so that you can make choices that truly reflect who you are and what you want out of life.
— Brittany VelaBorja, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Mukilteo, WAEmotion-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.
— Alex Osias, Psychotherapist in Boulder, COPrimary focus of practice, hundreds of hours of experience, and years of effective work with wonderful clients! See rest of my profile for additional information or contact me for more info.
— Jacqueline Warner, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Boston, MAUsing Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps clients process and transform deep emotions for lasting healing. I guide individuals in understanding, expressing, and reshaping their emotional experiences, whether related to trauma, relationships, or self-worth. By fostering emotional awareness and resilience, I help clients break free from painful patterns, develop self-compassion, and create more authentic, fulfilling connections with themselves and others.
— Rebecca Stewart, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in ,EFT is a form of couples therapy that is all about attachment and how we get stuck in unhealthy patterns with the people who mean the most to us. Using EFT we work to understand the pain you both feel in your relationship and how that pain leads to behaviors that keep you disconnected. Together, we learn new ways to reach for each other to break the cycle you're trapped in and create more understanding, connection, and peace between you.
— Liz Chichester, Clinical Psychologist in Charleston, SCEFT 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.
— Jennifer Hamrock, Associate Marriage & Family Therapist in Hermosa Beach, CAThroughout the couples counseling process, it’s important that each of you feel supported and understood. Together, we will uncover the past wounds you each carry that are affecting your relationship. We will identify, explore and address triggers in ways that foster understanding, empathy, compassion and support. We’ll also identify the cycles and patterns that you and your partner have become caught up in, reconstructing those negative interactions to become more positive and healing.
— Jennifer French, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Myrtle Beach, SCI have advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy to help clients heal their relational injuries and strengthen their connection. In EFT sessions, we'll explore the negative cycles trapping your relationship, understand the emotions fueling these cycles, and learn to express needs in a way that fosters connection, not conflict. We'll create a safe environment for emotional expression, helping you and your partner understand each other on a deeper level.
— Rahel Hodge, Clinical Social Worker in Gilbert, AZEFT is a couples therapy modality focused on strengthening the connection between the partners. Underlying attachment anxieties are explored, and we look at repetitive patterns and cycles you keep getting stuck in. As we slow down and deepen this process, new experiences and options start to become available.
— Vera Fleischer, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in San Francisco, CAOur team specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy. We have all received advanced training in EFT. Some are Certified in EFT, and the others are working towards Certification. We regularly invest in advancing our skill as couples therapists using EFT, deepening knowledge in specialty topics such as helping couples reconnect sexually; work through a partner's trauma, depression or anxiety; working through relationship crises such as affairs or addictons; and helping couples restore relationships at risk of divorce and significant disconnection.
— Thrive Couple & Family Counseling Services, Counselor in Englewood, COEFT is a couples therapy modality focused on strengthening the connection between the partners. Underlying attachment anxieties are explored, and we look at repetitive patterns and cycles you keep getting stuck in. As we slow down this process, new experiences and options start to become available.
— Vera Fleischer, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in San Francisco, CAEmotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a humanistic and experiential model of therapy that engages the idiosyncratic nature of our emotions and their importance to our functioning. EFT provides a therapist with unique skills to both guide and follow an individual through their primary emotions and their unfinished business. I've received advanced training in EFT and am involved in ongoing supervision in the model.
— Brett Hammond, Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Louisville, KYUsing Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps clients process and transform deep emotions for lasting healing. I guide individuals in understanding, expressing, and reshaping their emotional experiences, whether related to trauma, relationships, or self-worth. By fostering emotional awareness and resilience, I help clients break free from painful patterns, develop self-compassion, and create more authentic, fulfilling connections with themselves and others.
— Rebecca Stewart, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in ,Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) can help individuals with anxiety or people-pleasing tendencies by guiding them to explore and understand their emotions more deeply. Through EFT, you'll learn to identify the underlying feelings driving your anxiety or need for approval, such as fear or shame. By processing and transforming these emotions, EFT helps you build emotional resilience, gain confidence, and develop healthier, more authentic ways of relating to others and yourself.
— Tracey Knows, Licensed Professional Counselor Associate in Tysons Corner, VAFind out more about how I can help you with Emotionally Focused Therapy via my speciality webpage for couples: https://www.timholtzmantherapy.com/couples-therapy
— Tim Holtzman, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Berkeley, CA