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What Is Emotionally Focused Therapy?
8 November 2024
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a unique and highly effective form of therapy that helps people understand and improve their emotional connection with themselves and others.
This is a leading edge couple therapy based on many years of research on bonding and connection with yourself and with others. EFT provides map of relationship, map of what have gone wrong in your relationship and what is needed to make it right. All of this is based on substantial amount of empirical research
EFT for couples is experiential and its goal is to create a more secure emotional bond between them. We can also create satisfaction, intimacy, trust, that come from feeling more secure with your partner.
Dialectical behavior therapy is an approach that helps people learn to cope with difficult emotions. DBT helps people build five major skills: Regulate Our Emotions. When we are able to regulate our emotions, we are able to better regulate our bodies and their physiological state, as well. Tolerate Distressing Events/Thoughts/Feelings. It allows us to tolerate and cope with extreme emotions when we feel out of control. Effectively Communicate and Create Positive Relationships. Develop Mindfulness. Mindfulness teaches us to live in the present moment. The wise mind is a healthy balance of the two: emotional and reasonable. By looking at the world through a comprehensive and balanced lens, we are able to stray away from “all or nothing” thinking patterns and, instead, compromise and/or make healthier choices. Through the use of DBT and learning the skills that come along with it, you can truly see changes to how your mind works, how your body feels, and, ultimately, how to lead a more balanced life.
