couples counseling

Investing in Your Relationship with EFT

Investing in your relationship with Carol Corcoran, LCMFT, LMFT, a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist, is an enduring commitment that will yield benefits for years to come. Throughout this shared journey, you will gain a profound understanding of yourself, your partner, and your relationship—more than any other form of therapy can offer. EFT has a 70-90% […]

The Key to EFT

Safety, yes safety, is the Key to EFT Establishing a secure environment for exploring and processing your connection is a crucial element of EFT. This involves creating a warm, supportive, and compassionate space to ensure that you and your partner feel secure and comfortable. The absence of safety during the session can hinder the effectiveness […]

Divorce vs. EFT Therapy

EFT Can be a Valuable Investment A complete therapy process can be expensive, but divorce is far more costly, both emotionally, financially and in other ways. Divorce could cost you ten times as much as therapy–maybe more–and could uproot you, your spouse, and your children. If there’s even a small chance your relationship could survive […]

Demon Dialogues

When it comes to arguing couples tend to fall into certain patterns called the ‘Demon Dialogues‘ (click on the link to learn even more). EFT helps us identify where couples become stuck called ‘cycles’ or ‘patterns’. Once identified, it is helpful to understand how we get caught and then slow it down.

EFT Telehealth Can Save Your Marriage at CHC

During these more than uncertain times, when couples have the massive added stress of COVID-19, educating children from home, challenges with work while raising kids, it is more important than ever to have help with your relationship. The divorce rate soared after the Wuhan COVID crisis slowed down as noted in this Bloomberg article here. […]

Addiction and Attachment

What we thought we knew about addiction is not quite right as evidenced by the research indicated in this amazing video by Johann Hari, as he shares how imperative attachment is for recovery. Here is another informative, yet brief video entitled ‘Rat Park’ to help you better understand the power of connection when it comes […]

How long does EFT Couples Therapy last?

While there is no exact answer to this question, the research shows that Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) has been demonstrated to help couples without histories of trauma, affairs, addictions, and aggression in as little as 15-22 sessions. This means that if you or your partner have a history of trauma, affairs, addictions, aggression (but not […]

An Emotionally Focused Workbook for Couples: The Two of Us by Veronica Kallos-Lilly and Jennifer Fitzgerald

As an Emotionally Focused Therapist who works with couples in distress, I have been recommending this book as an adjunct to the couples work since it’s arrival. I do this in order to reinforce the processes that occur during our emotionally focused therapy sessions.  Couples who do utilize this book during our work together, consistently […]

Couples Counseling for Affairs

After helping many couples where there has been infidelity, one of the sure fire ways facilitate the early process of reconnection, is for the partner who had the affair to no longer be involved in anyway with the person they cheated with. I realize that sounds logical, but sadly, after many hours of therapy, time, […]

Powerful Vulnerability Interview for Couples

James Thomas, MFT and EFT Practitioner, shares his wisdom and insights on the radio show ‘Love Pong’, a Conscious Caring segment about how very different Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples is  compared to other couple therapies.  James does such a beautiful job enlightening the interviewer and helping him understand the importance of vulnerability, that he […]