Therapeutic Approach
EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY (EFT)
About Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a therapeutic approach that helps individuals understand, process, and express their emotions in healthy ways.
EFT focuses on creating emotional awareness and fostering a deeper connection to one’s feelings, which leads to personal growth and emotional healing. -
Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) helps clients identify and explore emotional experiences to understand how their feelings influence thoughts and behaviours.
The therapy works by encouraging emotional expression and processing, helping individuals release emotional blocks and resolve past hurts.
EFT fosters greater emotional awareness, enabling individuals to create healthier emotional patterns and improve their relationships with themselves and others. -
Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is beneficial for anyone struggling with emotional regulation, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, or trauma.
It is particularly effective for those who feel disconnected from their emotions or are unsure how to process complex feelings.
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Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) can help you develop emotional awareness and self-compassion, leading to healthier emotional expression and improved relationships.
EFT may also help you heal from trauma and emotional distress, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, and expedite personal growth by addressing the root causes of emotional struggles.
Core Components of EFT
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Emotional Awareness
Emotional awareness is the foundations of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).
Many individuals struggle to recognize their emotions, or often suppress or ignore them, due to a variety of factors, including: past trauma, societal and gender norms, or fear of vulnerability.
EFT helps you gain emotional awareness by creating a safe space where you can learn to identify and name your internal experience and feel safe exploring emotions, without fear of criticism or rejection.
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Emotional Regulation
Emotional regulation helps you manage your emotions in a healthy way, to prevent overwhelm and having your emotions negatively impact your relationship with yourself, or others.
EFT supports emotional regulation by teaching you valuable tools such as grounding techniques, helping you learn to reframe emotional responses, helping you become more comfortable with positive emotions, and supporting you in finding balance between openness and self-regulation.
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Emotional Expression
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps you process difficult emotions and learn to express emotions in a healthy and constructive way.
Supressed or unexpressed emotions can lead to a variety of issues, such as physical issues, emotional numbness, or destructive behaviour.
EFT helps promote healthy emotional expression by validating and deepening emotional experiences, using experiential techniques to practice expressing emotions, and helping you build your emotional vocabulary.
How Does EFT Work?
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy approach that is rooted in the science of emotions and draws primarily from attachment theory.
EFT centers on the critical role of emotions in shaping personal experiences and relationships, recognizing that they often guide our actions.
EFT strengthens emotional connections and promotes healthier, more secure relationships, By helping individuals and couples understand, process, and express emotions in a safe way,
This therapeutic method is particularly effective for addressing challenges like emotional disconnection, communication struggles, and unresolved issues within relationships. Through a structured process, EFT enables clients to identify negative emotional patterns and the underlying attachment needs that influence their interactions, allowing them to heal emotional wounds and rebuild trust.
EFT focuses on creating a safe emotional space where individuals can express themselves authentically and develop deeper emotional intimacy. It offers valuable tools for those seeking to improve communication and foster resilience in their relationships, promoting lasting emotional understanding and stronger bonds between partners.
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Our Emotionally Focused (EFT) Therapists
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Registered Psychotherapist
EFT for Individuals
EFT + EMDR for IndividualsEFT for Couples
EFT + Gottman Method for Couples
FAQs
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EFT therapy can be particularly effective in relationship & couples therapy & is considered one of the gold-standard treatments in couples therapy.
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Yes! EFT can be effective as a modality on it’s own & in conjunction with other therapies, such as Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Gottman Method for couples.
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EFT can be particularly effective in treating individuals dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, attachment and developmental trauma, grief and complicated grief, relationship conflict & distress, and interpersonal / relationship problems.
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Emotional Expression (EFT curates a safe space for emotions to be expressed)
Attachment-Theory (our early relationships shape our emotional needs & how we interact with others as adults)
Negative Interaction Cycles (Focuses on identifying and interrupting negative interaction patterns with others)
Assessing Primary Emotions (understanding the underlying emotions that drive behaviour)
Restructuring Interactions (helping others, especially couples, learn to develop new & healthier ways of interacting based on empathy and emotional connection)
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