Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist Quotes

“research suggests that rather than help couples resolve content issues, therapy should help couples develop soothing interactions and maintain emotional engagement during disagreements.”
― Susan M. Johnson, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook

“EFT can be thought of as a postmodern therapy in that EFT therapists help clients deconstruct problems and responses by bringing marginalized aspects of reality into focus, probing for the not-yet spoken, and integrating elements of a couple’s reality that have gone un-storied.”
― Susan M. Johnson, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook

“EFT has evolved in the last decade from a marginalized and little recognized approach into a mainstream model that is accepted by the American Psychological Association as empirically validated.”
― Susan M. Johnson, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook

“Emotionally focused couple therapy (EFT) is a short-term, systematic, and tested intervention to reduce distress in adult love relationships and create more secure attachment bonds.”
― Susan M. Johnson, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook