What is EFT - Emotionally Focused Therapy?
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a humanistic approach to psychotherapy based on the premise that emotions are key to identity and expand our understanding of individual issues as well as romantic relationships and platonic or familial bonds.
According to EFT, emotions are also a guide for individual choice and decision making. This type of therapy assumes that lacking emotional awareness or avoiding unpleasant emotions can cause actual harm. This modality views human beings as innately relational, social, and wired for intimate bonding with others. The EFT model prioritizes emotion and emotional regulation as the organizing agents in individual experience and the keys to relationship interactions.
Couples Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples is a treatment backed by many years of research with real people. It provides a structured approach to understanding maladaptive relational patterns and facilitating real change. It uses neuroscience and attachment theory (how we learn to interact with other people based on our earliest interactions with caretakers) to look underneath behavior and see why it’s happening in the first place. Our therapists will develop your treatment plan according to your unique life stories, explaining the approach every step of the way. The goal is to develop insight into existing patterns and learn how to rebuild a safe emotional bond. It’s through this safe bond that couples are able to better navigate the hurdles life throws at them.
Individual Therapy
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) focuses on helping people develop insight into their emotions, which power behavior. Through better understanding instinctive reactions to situations and people, it’s possible to invite choice into decision-making and relationships. Human beings gravitate towards routine and familiar patterns because it makes us feel safe. Heart to Heart therapists re-evaluate the routines and patterns present in your life to facilitate new ones that make you feel happier, more in control, and more engaged with your day-to-day experience.
This kind of therapy is most often utilized for the treatment of relational discontent, depression, and anxiety.