PTC

I have focused increasingly on integrating Emotionally Focused Therapy (or, 'EFT'), in my work with couples and with families. I have done training with Sue Johnson, one of the progenitors of EFT, and am engaged in on-going supervision and training in this therapeutic model.

I have studied EFT in my training programs and use this approach in conjunction with others when working with couples. EFT's tools of engagement and attunement help us to first identify and deescalate negative patterns that have kept the couple isolated from one another, and then restructure and rebuild the trust, strengthening the emotional bond and renewing connection.

EFT is an attachment based theoretical approach developed from Gestalt therapy.

When we suppress or numb our emotions we don't get to pick and choose the ones we want to feel, they all get suppressed. Emotions are information and they are often trying to tell us important things. Recognizing and sitting with our emotions is a practice that we can get better at; allowing us to move deeper into our understanding of ourselves and others.

I have done extensive training in emotionally-focused therapy for both individuals and couples. I believe EFT work gets to the heart of people's pain by examining how maladaptive emotions get in the way of our health and happiness. EFT allows us to work on shifting less helpful feelings and responses to allow room for more adaptive emotions.

I believe that all emotions serve a purpose or function. I work to help clients identify, regulate, and express their emotions in more effective ways.

EFT focuses on individual emotional states (or lack thereof) as the “barometer” for the one\'s most important and unresolved issues. According to this form of therapy, emotions are adaptive but can become problematic. EFT works to identify core emotions and beliefs, and transform them to resolve conflict.

As humans our natural state is for companionship, intimacy, and support as we journey through challenges and joys in life. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) works to understand needs of attachment and builds emotional bonds between couples and families.

Emotionally Focused Therapy is based in attachment theory and focuses on recognizing how we experience our emotions, what we do with them, and how we can connect more effectively and fully with our partners.

Emotion Focused Therapy suggests that our emotional inner life can be our most valuable guide rather than felt as mere states of being. As we allow ourselves to more deeply experience our emotional climate, we can become more intentional, aware and discerning with our life choices.

I am an EFT-informed couples therapist. This means that I prioritize your emotional way of relating to one another. This helps us get to deeper issues beyond what is on the surface level. We will unlock stalemates, break negative communication cycles and improve bonding, communication and intimacy.

Trained in Emotion Focused Couples Therapy

EFT helps individuals ad couples recognize and understand the negative cycle that interferes with their communication efficacy. Using an integrated EFT approach, I help couples and individuals identify their primary emotions, work through maladaptive responses, and develop empathy and compassion for themselves and others.

What feelings underlie your behaviors and your ways of relating to others? This approach helps you identify your core emotional needs and learn ways to express those to others. EFT works wonderfully with individuals, couples, and families alike to deepen connection and fine-tune communication skills. I excel at helping folks uncover the feelings that are often difficult to name.

I trained in Emotion Focused Therapy for Individuals with Edwards Psychotherapy.

Emotionally Focused Therapy helps people understand themselves better so they can make big changes.

Emotions hold an incredible power over our lives and relationships and this can be destructive or productive. I utilize Emotionally Focused therapeutic approaches in order to help individuals and couples experience emotions as positive and motivating. Therapy is an important place to better understand and manage our emotions.

Relational Therapy – Our therapeutic relationship is the most important predictor of success in therapy. My main focus is creating an environment where you feel heard, validated, and have a safe space to express your thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Together we can move towards having more connection, vulnerability and authenticity in your relationships.

Emotionally Focused Therapy has been my primary modality in working with couples since 2015. I find it a most beneficial therapeutic modality because it enables me to help couples get right down to the root of what's happening in problematic interactions. Using EFT helps me help couples much more quickly because we work with the shared human experience of emotions rather than staying in the story.

Emotionally focused therapy proposes that emotions themselves have an innately adaptive potential that, if activated, can help clients change problematic emotional states or unwanted self-experiences. Emotions themselves do not inhibit the therapeutic process, however learning better coping strategies enables clients to move through old behaviors and patterns into a state of increased well being.

I have trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy for individuals. This is the foundation from which I work with all clients in my therapy practice.

This is an experiential therapy. We stay present to your inner experience, exploring your thoughts, behaviors, and feelings, as they surface in the room. As your emotional awareness increases, we are able to identify your unmet needs and old patterns that have kept you stuck. Our work focuses on transforming those patterns, which frees you to make choices to lead you to a fulfilling life.

I use Emotionally Focused, experiential, mindfulness-based methods in couple counseling

EFT emphasizes creating and strengthening emotional bonds between family members or partners. I have successfully helped individuals identify adaptive and maladaptive relational patterns and develop more open, attuned, responsive, and loving relationships. I like this approach because it helps in addressing the underlying relational disturbance between people suffering from dysregulation.

Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based treatment, and together with the Gottman Method, is the therapeutic model I most commonly use with couples. Its power comes from its ability to tap into people's primal need for a close attachment bond to others. It helps people express their softer, more vulnerable emotions with the aim of increasing connection and closeness to others.

For me, this means that our emotions have a purpose and that they can be informative if we can determine the 'logic' that informs them. I find that understanding and better utilizing emotions can really help people move through life in ways that are more satisfying.

Emotions can illuminate our genuine needs and guide us in fulfilling them. But when our feelings aren't recognized and valued, we learn to respond to life with patterns of emotion that undermine our well being and even mask what we authentically feel. I will support your experiencing and working through of your own emotional patterns to gain clarity about your authentic feelings and needs.

This approach seeks to go beyond the challenging emotional cycles of anger, blame, and criticism that often painfully arise in relationships, especially around difficult issues. This approach can help you and your partner to feel and express the underlying and unacknowledged emotions of fear, hurt, loss, and sadness. This deep sharing can reestablish trust and cultivate a sustaining intimacy.

As I have grown into a professional license counselor I have come to realize the benefits of deep work to heal trauma and various other human concerns. It helps individuals accept, regulate, express, and bring awareness of the complexity of human emotions. Understanding emotions help guides us to our needs or wants.

I have additional training specifically in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and attachment theory. I believe engaging in the emotional climate of a couple is where change happens.

I studied and practiced emotionally focused therapy at Portland State University. In my experience I find this approach to be an effective way for a client to change and grow through an authentic relationship with their therapist.

We live in a culture that values intellectual understanding, so it makes sense that when we are struggling, we try to "figure it out." While approaching psychological distress with this "diagnose it and fix it" strategy can be effective, we also need to value the intuitive wisdom of our emotions as they arise. By exploring emotions, we can listen to the messages and solutions from within.

Emotion must be evoked, experienced, validated, respected and accepted in order to move forward. People get stuck when their emotions have been denied, repressed, depressed, dismissed or invalidated. EFT works with clients difficult and sometimes painful emotions to allow the necessary healing and integration to occur.

Emotions are often assigned a negative reputation, but they hold innate power to help us change and grow. I work with individuals and couples to help them identify and better regulate their emotions. With couples, this work includes identifying the patterns which serve as barriers to connection.

I completed training in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) for individuals. I also completed training in EFT for couples.

I have formal training in Emotionally-Focused Therapy, applied specifically to the work I do with couples. This modality has enhanced my ability to help clients see the foundational causes of the emotion that comes to the surface; the root cause is able to be addressed and remedied. I have been able to apply this theory to all of the clinical work I do.

My approach to counseling is grounded primarily in Emotion-Focused therapy, which encourages exploring and experiencing your emotions in the therapy room in order to help you connect with, and better articulate, your deeper needs. I love supporting my clients in this challenging and meaningful work.

I have completed EFT Externship with Sue Johnson, the creator of the EFT approach for couples therapy.

Emotion-Focused therapy, or EFT, can help you identify, utilize, and process emotions. Suffering comes when we encounter distressing emotions but try to resist or avoid them rather than accept and feel them fully. With EFT, I help patients learn to recognize their emotions and feel them in a safe and validating way.

Attachment is one of the key drives all humans need. We learn attachment from our primary caregivers, which is translated to our intimate partners. When we feel emotionally secure and attached, we feel good and safe. When our emotional connections are not validated, we feel threatened. I work with couples understand each other on a primary level, and create strong, secure attachments.

Emotions are temporary physical sensations that allow our body to communicate with us. There is no such thing as a \'bad\' emotion, but there are plenty that are highly uncomfortable or difficult to manage. Emotions have the power to help us change, heal, and grow. I work with individuals to accurately identify their emotions and understand how to regulate them productively and meaningfully.

EFT helps couples recognize and understand the negative cycle that interferes with their communication. With this awareness, less time and energy is spent on regulating negative emotions and protecting individual vulnerabilities. Instead, the partners can turn to each other for comfort and support so as to be resilient and meet life’s challenges

Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) enhances a couples’ capacity for insight into motivations, expression of emotions and development of a close and secure attachment. It is one of several approaches to couples therapy that has been found highly effective in treatment outcome studies. I’ve received advanced EFT training from Les Greenberg, the founder of this approach.

Being in close relationships often brings us the most joyful and yet the most challenging/hurtful experiences we may ever have. Many of us have big expectations, yet little training--high hopes yet heavy baggage from the past. Good relationships require well-honed skills that can be learned. I use Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy to support clients to nurture and deepen their connectedness.

My Emotion-Focused Therapy (for individuals) training has roots in the beginning of graduate school and it is my primary approach to processing emotional problems and healing old wounds. It has a strong basis in the neuroscience of emotion. In addition to traditional trainings, I have completed the Level 1 Emotion-Focused Therapy training.

I integrate EFT to help individuals/couples gain insight into what drives styles of responding by focusing on your experience of emotions. By expanding emotional awareness, you may better understand yourself/your partner; you may form deeper and more secure connections in mind, body, relationships, and lifestyle. EFT is effective and is an evidenced-based approach to individual/couples therapy.

Supervised in this modality.

Using an integrated EFT approach I help couples and individuals identify their primary emotions, work through maladaptive responses, and develop empathy and compassion for themselves and others.

I've been to trainings with the founder of EFT, Susan Johnson, and a lot of my work with couples is informed by this model.

My approach is also connected with Dr. Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Integrated Behavioral Couple therapy (Neil Jacobson and Andrew Christensen). Emotionally Focused Therapy allows the therapeutic relationship to identify vital information that client emotions can provide as an attempt to develop strong, safe relationships.

Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based modality that emphasizes the development of skills for expressing one's emotional core. This has the effect of increasing the intimacy and understanding within their relationships (romantic or otherwise). Practicing these communications skills improves the functioning and satisfaction of your relationships.

I am trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples through Edwards Psychotherapy in Portland. In EFT I will teach you how to access your primary emotions (sadness, fear( that are underlying secondary defensive reactions (resentment, jealousy). Once a couple can communicate their primary emotion to their partner, it helps to increase connection and attachment.

I use Sue Johnson\'s Emotion Focused Therapy which is based off of decades of successful interventions with couples. I help couples to understand their thoughts, emotions and actions in relation to one another and communicate their deepest needs in a healthy and loving way. I often find this brings couples closer together and feeling more deeply heard and understood.

I view my therapy through an attachment lens. Attachment lays the groundwork for how we will interpret and process the world around us. Utilizing EFT I examine my clients attachment style, identify mismanaged emotions, and develop healthier strategies of coping with negative emotional experiences.

I am trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy and use this orientation to inform my work with individuals and couples. Emotions are central to the human experience. By being aware of and expressing our emotions we can more deeply understand ourselves. Deeper self-understanding gives way for more authentic self-expression.

I've trained in a variety of emotionally-focused modalities and see the exploration of feelings as a primary vehicle to unlocking stuckness.