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Why EFT?

Why Choose Emotionally Focused Therapy?

Emotionally focused therapy is a model of treatment proven effective to help couples. It is based on the scientific study of adult love and bonding processes in couples and designed to address distress in intimate relationships.

Emotionally focused therapy is also useful to help family members connect and improve emotional attachment as well as individuals who want to improve their relationships and personal functioning.

Couples can learn to stay in difficult converstions

90% of couples who get counseling to improve their relationships find this method a beneficial approach. In additional to relationship improvement people report they complete therapy with a better understanding of  both their own emotional responses and those of significant people in their lives.

Therapists who provide Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) often work with couples, individuals and families to help facilitate the creation of secure, lasting bonds between intimate partners, family members and other important relationships. A main goal of EFT is to strengthen loving connection which helps those in treatment increase security, closeness, and safety in their intimate relationships and improve emotional accessibility, responsiveness and engagement with self and others.

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