Our Services
If you are struggling with emotional distress, professional counseling can help. We can help you identify underlying causes and assist you in finding the best ways to cope, show you healthy ways to change behaviors that may be contributing to your struggle, and help you identify constructive ways to deal with a situation that is beyond your personal control.
Our counselors offer help in addressing many situations that cause emotional stress and more.
Our Approach
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy is an attachment-based model of therapy that draws on the power of emotion and attachment to build secure bonds between people who are important to each other. All humans need connection to develop and thrive. Becoming disconnected from others can be a painful experience that no one should experience alone. EFT helps to build security in attachment bonds to enhance individual and group well-being.
EFT can be used with individuals, couples, relationships and families. EFT is aimed to help people to express, explore, and understand their reactions, behaviors and thoughts, all with a view to helping them to connect with their deepest needs and with the people who are significant to them. This then allows them to live more full, satisfying, and connected lives.
EFT is best known for use in couple and relationship intervention, but has always been used in clinical practice with individuals and families. Specifically utilized with those dealing with depression, anxiety, and post traumatic stress disorder. The skills taught in EFT sessions for couples/relationships are considered pivotal in combining the individual and pair work in the most effective way possible.
Outcome studies show that 90% of couples who do Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) experience meaningful improvement and roughly 73% achieve full recovery.¹
EFT draws on humanistic and systemic principles to help create a more secure attachment bond in a relationship. This model integrates the intrapsychic perspective afforded by experiential approaches with an interpersonal systemic perspective to help distressed partners shape emotional accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement—the key elements of attachment security.2
¹Johnson, S., Hunsley, J., Greenberg, L. & Schindler, D. (1999). “Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Status & challenges (A meta-analysis).” Journal of Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 6, 67-79.
Greenberg, L. S., Search for more papers by this author, & Address correspondence to Leslie S. Greenberg. (2010, January 1). Emotion-focused therapy: A clinical synthesis. FOCUS. https://focus.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/foc.8.1.foc32