Emotionally Focused Therapy

Couple Together:

Both partners start therapy together to begin to learn about EFT and ask any questions you may have.
The therapist will help the couple define their goals for the relationship in therapy.

Partner 1

One partner will meet with the therapist individually.
The purpose of this session is to understand this partner’s background including the relationships, significant experiences, and ways that emotions were experienced from childhood into adulthood.
Anything brought up individually will be utilized in the couples sessions together.

Partner 2

The next partner will meet with the therapist individually.
The purpose of this session is to understand this partner’s background including the relationships, significant experiences, and ways that emotions were experienced from childhood into adulthood. Anything brought up individually will be utilized in the couples sessions together.

Couple Together

All remaining sessions will be done together with both partners and the therapist to address the relational patterns of the relationship, identify common strategies used, to increase understanding, and to find new supportive moves to take that increase safety, security, soothing, and connection.