Welcome to Integrative couples work
If you have been in a relationship for any length of time, then you are likely familiar with how easily you can get out of sink with your partner. Even in the strongest of relationships, the focus can shift from caring for the internal experience of your partner to one of self-preservation. This sometimes happens abruptly as life stressors surmount, or it can happen gradually over time; leaving the couple isolated, lonely and feeling hopeless.
Regardless of how your situation developed, recognizing that your relationship is not operating in the ways you desire is the first step in reclaiming the connection you crave.
What Sets Us Apart
Each of our clinicians are trained to discern and interpret broken ways of interactions and the root attachment wounds motivating the disconnect. We work collaboratively with the couple to provide individual therapy when needed to support through any barriers to lasting connection. Specialty training in attachment focused modalities set our group apart in caring for the whole couple as they heal from past wounds and create secure, lasting connection in the present.
EFT
· EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY (EFT)
· EFT is a structured approach, originally developed for couple therapy and based on attachment science. The number of sessions and needs vary for each client, but will generally be effective in 8 to 20 sessions. Goals of treatment are to 1) expand and re-organize key emotional responses and, in the process, the organization of self, 2) create a positive shift in partners interactional positions and patterns and 3) foster the creation of a secure bond between partners.
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EFT is a well-known humanistic approach to psychotherapy formulated in the 1980’s and developed in tandem with the science of adult attachment, a profound developmental theory of personality and intimate relationships. This science has expanded our understanding of individual dysfunction and health as well as the nature of love relationships and family bonds. Attachment views human beings as innately relational, social and wired for intimate bonding with others. The EFT model prioritizes emotion and emotional regulation as the key organizing agents in individual experience and key relationship interactions.
EFT is best known as a cutting edge, tested and proven couple intervention, but it is also used to address individual depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress (EFIT – Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy) and to repair family bonds (EFFT – Emotionally Focused Family Therapy). This model operationalizes the principles of attachment science using non-pathologizing experiential (paralleling Carl Rogers) and relational systems techniques (paralleling Salvador Minuchin) to focus on and change core organizing factors in both the self and key relationships. Most EFT research to date has focused on outcome and process of change studies with couples, and EFT for couples is the gold standard for empirically validated intervention in this field.
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