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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
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Search found nothing about this, but I suck at using search on here.
Anyone know anything about emotion focussed therapy? Aka emotionally focussed therapy or process experiential therapy?
A potential No. 3 lists it as her main thing, and of course anything that combines the terms "emotion" and "therapy" makes me suspicious. 
I read the Wikipedia page. It seems to be mainly for couples. And involve attachment stuff. Anyone have personal experience of it? |
My former therapist is trained in emotionally focused therapy for couples. Eighty-five percent of her practice is couples, she has had good results, and swears by it. She incorporated a lot of the tenants of EFT (Sue Johnson), in my individual therapy. Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg developed EFT together, but split I believe, because Johnson wanted to adhere to John Bowlby's theories regarding attachment. His is now emotion-focused therapy. Johnson has worked to adapt EFT to individual therapy.
Sue Johnson is also on record stating that if a therapist can not touch a client then EFT is not the method for them.
*The MRI was part of a research project to gather empirical data, which I might add seems lacking in the field of psychology.