Emotionally Focused Couples + Individual Therapy

Emotionally Focused Couples and Individual Therapy (EFT) is an evidence based, effective treatment for couples.  EFT has been found to show significant improvement in 88% of couples treated with EFT.  It is also the only couples therapy approach that is based in a theory of love.  In EFT, it is believed that loving relationships are created when we have a secure attachment with our partner, feeling that our partner is responsive, and that we feel love, accepted, and respected.  When we feel the other is responsive, we feel as though we can turn to our partner to talk about our bad day, that thing they just said that upset us, the sex life, the finances, or anything else. Many couples that come to see me have been to couples therapy before without success, but find the EFT approach to both capture the issues that are occurring, as well as providing a way to change the patterns to develop a closer, more loving relationship.

I have always been interested in relationships –– what makes them work, what doesn’t, why in one instance they can feel so incredible, and in another, they can feel so devastating. Through my own personal and clinical work, I have seen how early family structures impact how we view ourselves and also permeate into our relationships. Attachment theory provides a framework to better understand these impacts, and also a better way to create healthy and meaningful relationships with ourselves and others.