Emotionally Focused Therapy

I use EFT to help guide couples and individuals through the process of identifying emotional patterns and fostering secure, lasting connections. Clients benefit from my experience, formal training in EFT, and regular consultations with other EFT clinicians, which help me stay at the forefront of best practices.

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.

Primary 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.

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.

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

I have specialized training in Emotion-Focused therapy (EFT) which may be defined as the practice of therapy informed by an understanding of the role of emotion in psychotherapeutic change.

In my work with couples, I draw on Emotionally Focused Therapy, in conjunction with the Gottman Method Couples Therapy, having received advanced training in both.

Do you find you and your partner(s) are getting stuck in the same argument over and over? You know you both care for each other but neither of you feel heard and seen. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy, I can help you get in touch with your deeper emotions, address your relational conflict cycle, and build safe & emotionally connected relationships.

Throughout 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.

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.

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.

Utilizing 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.

I specialize in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), helping couples and individuals identify, explore, and process emotions to build deeper connections. EFT fosters understanding by focusing on emotional responses and patterns that influence relationships. Through this approach, I guide clients in expressing vulnerable feelings, improving empathy, and creating emotional safety. Whether navigating conflict or seeking greater intimacy, EFT helps clients form stronger, more emotionally connected bonds.

“Although many of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think:” Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroanatomist. Emotionally Focused Therapy recognizes that our emotional lives are the source of our desires, values, sense of meaning and purpose, and attachment to self, others, and the world. Its goal is to help clients effectively acknowledge, cope with, and regulate their emotions in order to enrich and transform their lives.

helps the client identify and change negative emotional patterns

I have completed advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy for the treatment of couples. I am currently taking the steps towards certification in this therapeutic modality.