Emotionally Focused Therapy Steps and Stages

Emotionally Focused Therapy Steps and Stages

THE 9 STEPS TO A STRONGER, MORE SECURE, AND HAPPIER MARRIAGE EFT couple therapy is divided into three stages. Steps 1 through 4 of Stage 1, constitute the “Assessment and Cycle De-escalation” stage. The second stage is “Changing the Interaction Patterns and Creating New Bonds” and consists of steps 5, 6, and 7. The final […]

Suppressed Emotional Struggles and EFT

In our culture, many males as well as females, are ‘taught’ to suppress their emotions at a very young age. One of the ways these emotions show up when they aren’t deeply felt is to be carried around as boulders of responsibility. Over time this responsibility becomes burdensome and overwhelming and can lead to efforts […]

Turtle and the Badger as it relates to EFT negative cycles

This is a new video on how partners become stuck in the negative, interactional cycle where pursuers are a bit like badgers and withdrawers become more like turtles. A great way to learn about the negative interactional cycles where one pushes for contact and the other avoids connection.

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.

How Our Past Family Generational Trauma Affects Us Today

As we learn more about trauma from our childhood, recent science studies shows us trauma is passed down through the generations. This is important because safe, loving connections helps reduce the effects of trauma on our psyche and can be healed with EFT Couples Therapy. This article by Scientific American helps us better understand the […]

The Roller Coaster of Emotion in Couples Therapy Book

The Roller Coaster of Emotion in Couples Therapy Are you considering couples therapy? Reading The Roller Coaster of Emotions in Couples Therapy will help you understand the benefits of couples therapy. This book allows you to enter the process of couples therapy. You will have an intimate view of couple and therapist as they work […]

Binge Eating Disorder Book

Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery and Beyond by Amy Pershing with Chevese Turner This amazingly informative and insightful book helps individuals and partners who struggle with the leading eating disorder in the country, binge eating disorder. This book will help you understand what drives this disorder and how and who we can turn […]

‘What Happened to You?’

Not ‘What is Wrong with You?’ but ‘What Happened to You?” In this powerful and highly informative book written by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah, who explore childhood trauma and how this trauma and PTSD, especially in the first 2 months of life, affects children and adults overtime. In this interview, they also share how […]

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. […]