Emotionally Focused Therapy

Emotions are the cornerstone of life's experiences; they guide our thoughts, behaviors, and views about ourselves and others. I help my clients learn to navigate difficult emotions when they arise and show the importance of feeling these emotions. Within EFT work, I also explore with my clients how the relationships around us and the experiences we had growing up play an important role in how we interact with the world and cope with challenges that arise.

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.

Emotionally Focused Therapy is an evidence-based treatment for couples, focusing on the patterns of communication that happen in the relationship. I help couples learn to identify your cycle of conflict, so you can predict (and avoid!) patterns that lead to arguing, feeling on edge, and being stuck in the pain of disconnection. In EFT, couples learn how to stop the cycle of conflict, as well as how to find new levels of safety and connection with one another to strengthen your bond.

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.

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

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

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.

When working with couples I utilize Emotion Focused Therapy, which is a blend of attachment theory and experiential therapy. This theory helps you identify your emotions, fears, and unmet needs so you can effectively voice them to your partner.

As a licensed couples and family therapist, I have specialized training in numerous best practice modalities, including Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT). An EFT approach avoids playing whack a mole with the symptom by addressing the root issues and helping to increase secure attachments. Staying stuck in a relationship is not the only option. Experiencing a relationship where you feel safe, connected, desired, passionate, and confident in yourself and relationship, and happy is real.

As an Emotionally Focused Therapist, I support couples in understanding and overcoming negative cycles in their relationship using the A.R.E. model. Accessibilty (Can I reach you?) Responsiveness ( Do you see that my emotions matter?) Engagement (Will you show up for me?) What is the negative cycle in your relationship? This often shows up in the arguments we have "on repeat" and never really resolve. Even the happiest of couples get stuck! All relationships deserve the hard work!

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.

Completed Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Externship - evidence-based treatment approach utilized in couples therapy

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.

Life is hard, and we are socialized to suppress our feelings. When we suppress them, they will seep out, such as through our actions. Thus, working with emotions will be a part of our work together. 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 and become more emotionally accessible, responsive, and engaged with each other.