Emotionally Focused Therapy

Our team specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy. We have all received advanced training in EFT. Some are Certified in EFT, and the others are working towards Certification. We regularly invest in advancing our skill as couples therapists using EFT, deepening knowledge in specialty topics such as helping couples reconnect sexually; work through a partner's trauma, depression or anxiety; working through relationship crises such as affairs or addictons; and helping couples restore relationships at risk of divorce and significant disconnection.

Being that the focus of my work is looking at relationships, a key piece within those relationships is attachment. Based in attachment theory, I've studied and have experience using Emotionally Focused Therapy to help both individuals and couples explore their attachment type, gain insight and understanding, process and heal attachment injuries all in order to create a new system of healthy relational patterns.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy helps partners strengthen their bond by uncovering and addressing underlying emotions that drive conflict and disconnection. In 2023, I completed an externship in EFT, gaining specialized training in using this approach with couples. I guide partners in fostering secure attachments, improving communication, and meeting each other’s emotional needs. With EFT, couples can deepen connection, rebuild trust, and navigate challenges with greater understanding.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a humanistic, evidence-based approach to psychotherapy, drawing primarily from attachment theory to facilitate the creation of secure, vibrant connection with self and others. Rooted in the science of emotions and attachment, EFT helps clients identify and transform the negative processing and interaction patterns that create distress. It focuses on the development of emotional intelligence and awareness.

Our emotions often tells us what is important to us, what decisions are aligning with our beliefs, and where there is a mismatch between our actions and our goals. I help clients understand their emotions in order to better understand themselves.

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.

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.

I use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help clients gain deeper understanding of their emotions and how they impact relationships. This approach is rooted in empathy and non-judgment, creating a safe space to explore emotional patterns and connection needs. Through EFT, clients learn to identify and express feelings in healthier ways, strengthen emotional bonds, and build more secure, fulfilling relationships with themselves and others.

We are driven by our emotions. With EFT, I focus on empathy techniques, helping one accept painful emotions, not allowing them to define them, and working on processing them into positive experiences. The process and progress people make is incredible.

I utilize Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to enhance the emotional connection between you and your partner, guiding you both toward a secure and fulfilling relationship. By mapping out your communication patterns, we can work together to identify areas where conflict arises and uncover the vulnerable feelings beneath the surface. This understanding not only deepens your connection but also empowers each of you to contribute to breaking negative cycles, allowing you to grow closer together.

Using Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps clients process and transform deep emotions for lasting healing. I guide individuals in understanding, expressing, and reshaping their emotional experiences, whether related to trauma, relationships, or self-worth. By fostering emotional awareness and resilience, I help clients break free from painful patterns, develop self-compassion, and create more authentic, fulfilling connections with themselves and others.

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

Increasing our self-awareness of our emotions and what they are telling us allows us greater freedom to experience life and live comfortably in our bodies.

Love. Not many counseling textbooks talk about it, but Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) does. The goal is to strengthen your bonds of attachment. I guide you and your loved ones, moment by moment, through the kinds of interactions that have triggered feelings of abandonment. Moments when you or your loved ones felt incapable of being truly loved. We put those moments under a magnifying glass, and you and your loved ones pull out the splinter.

EFT is a couples therapy modality focused on strengthening the connection between the partners. Underlying attachment anxieties are explored, and we look at repetitive patterns and cycles you keep getting stuck in. As we slow down and deepen this process, new experiences and options start to become available.

EFT is all about helping you and your partner connect on a deeper level. I guide you through understanding the emotions that drive your interactions, so you can break old patterns and build a stronger, more secure bond.