[atisketatasket]

(If this isn't the right place for this, please move.)

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?

[stopdog]

Never heard of it - but they often rename things so it could be something common like a sort of psychodynamic with a catchy name or an attachment/feeling sort of thing with a wily name. Can you contact them and just ask?

[BonnieJean]

I believe that Sue Johnson was the designer or at least a strong proponent of Emotionally Focused Therapy. I think it is used in couples therapy. This is her website. Dr. Sue Johnson | Creating Connections
I don't have any experience or exposure to it - apologies, just reading your original post and that's what you were asking for.

[stopdog]

Gah - that website would turn me off.

[Out There]

Searching core process may bring more results up.

[magno11789]

I'm with stopdog. That website would turn me off. I would just contact the potential T and ask the T what it is.

[Polibeth]

Wow. Going in a MRI and getting shocked.....no thank you.

[godog]

Forgive me if I sound a bit delusional but shouldn't all therapy be focused on emotions?

[unaluna]

Originally Posted by godog

Forgive me if I sound a bit delusional but shouldn't all therapy be focused on emotions?

May i introduce godog, aka the anti-stopdog...

[godog]

Originally Posted by unaluna

May i introduce godog, aka the anti-stopdog...

Hm? thank you but does not compute. I train dogs for executive protection as well as competition such as flyball and relay. Beginning to do some livestock guardian work as well. If people treated humans the way I treat my dogs, we probably wouldn't need therapy. It's always lots of cookies and "go go go!"

[atisketatasket]

Originally Posted by godog

Hm? thank you but does not compute. I train dogs for executive protection as well as competition such as flyball and relay. Beginning to do some livestock guardian work as well. If people treated humans the way I treat my dogs, we probably wouldn't need therapy. It's always lots of cookies and "go go go!"

I was wondering if you WERE stopdog but then you used an emoji.

Search for stopdog's posts and you'll see what unaluna means.

All in good fun, don't take us too seriously. And welcome to the party.

[stopdog]

Originally Posted by godog

Forgive me if I sound a bit delusional but shouldn't all therapy be focused on emotions?

I don't go to focus on emotion.
But I do use only positive pet interaction with my dogs. And take them herding. We tried flyball once, but my dogs just sat and looked at the balls. A friend of mine does it with her labs.

That website is sticking with me and may give me nightmares.

And never a blinky picture. Ever.

[unaluna]

Originally Posted by atisketatasket

I was wondering if you WERE stopdog but then you used an emoji.

Search for stopdog's posts and you'll see what unaluna means.

All in good fun, don't take us too seriously. And welcome to the party.

I'll get the heart attack paddles ready. Who calculated the odds on two of us having the same t? Time to recalculate the odds on there being a go- and a stop- dog.

Thanks @@. I do need a translator.

[atisketatasket]

I called the EFT woman today I asked her. She gave me a lot of vague stuff and referred me to the website. And then she said, "I don't usually do EFT with individuals, because then they tend to get attached to me."

She may have potential.

[Permacultural]

I know Les Greenberg in Canada was one of the founders of EFT. He also wrote a book available to the general public on the subject. My therapist uses parts of EFT because I tend to hide my emotions in favor of intellectualizing. Then I get flooded in situations because I'm not used to emotional expression. But I don't think I've ever felt dependent on my therapist when he uses this technique.

I know nike therapy is very good.

Originally Posted by atisketatasket

(If this isn't the right place for this, please move.)

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.

[atisketatasket]

Originally Posted by Walkedthatroad

Sue Johnson is also on record stating that if a therapist can not touch a client then EFT is not the method for them.

Thanks; that was helpful. Just as a follow-up: so EFT involves touch? And if either the therapist or the client has objection to touch EFT should not be used?

The one I spoke to - whom I actually did make an appointment with - said that she tried to get couples to heal their attachment to each other. She seemed opposed to individual therapy with attachment.

Your title is emotion-focused therapy, and that is of the Les Greenberg school of thought. Emotionally focused therapy is of the Sue Johnson school of thought. They both were developed for couples, and rely on the therapist having them attach to each other. Basically, "I'll be there for you no matter what."

EFT of the Sue Johnson school does not require touch, but she has made the statement that touch was a tool that those trained in her method need to have in their toolbox. Touch may be just touching the back of a hand or knee, if the therapist with clients permission believes it would be helpful to a client. Sue Johnson is all about changing our negative attachment styles we have used for survival to a more safe and secure attachment style.

My therapist does not use touch with couples, even if their partner refuses to participate. The extensive touch she used with me was because I did not have a partner. She only takes one or two individual clients like me (negative attachment style), at a time. I know I was exhausting. Yet, she had the ability to hang in there with me. She has done EFT (S. Johnson) with a brother and sister, and a mother (in her 80's), and daughter. Touch is not mandatory in this therapy, but the end result should be the ability to feel that your are heard, and you matter to someone no matter what.

If someone clearly has an objection to touch in EFT or any therapy it should not be used. Yes, EFT by Sue Johnson can be done without touch.

[atisketatasket]

Who knew that the -ally was so important?

Thanks again!

To add to the craziness, there is emotional freedom technique that uses the initials EFT. It has nothing to do with the Sue Johnson or Les Greenberg modalities.

Also, many therapist, at least in one local, are putting on their profiles (Psychology Today), and their websites that they are emotionally focused or emotional-focused therapist. I've called 8 of them in one city, and none had been certified or at least taken the training required to be certified in Sue Johnson's EFT which is what they alluded to or outright said in my conversation with them.

Therapist do need to be questioned thoroughly if one is going after a specific technique. Most all CBT therapist choose not to be certified, yet I've heard of a few good ones without said piece of paper. For many, it is the expense of getting the certificate, usually costing hundreds of dollars, and they don't have it after having doing all the training.

Originally Posted by Walkedthatroad

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Therapist do need to be questioned thoroughly if one is going after a specific technique. Most all CBT therapist choose not to be certified, yet I've heard of a few good ones without sayed piece of paper. For many, it is the expense of getting the certificate, usually costing hundreds of dollars, and they don't have it after having done all the training.

This is a really important recommendation, WTR. Therapists will list technique after technique in their Psychology Today and website bios, stating they offer a variety of different therapy approaches. Many techniques/therapies have very specific certifications requirements (ex. DBT, EFT, EMDR, Transference Focused Therapy, Mentalization Therapy etc.). Some therapists will go to one or two "general" CE workshops on a technique, which is actually just a day or two lecture on how the technique works or the basic tenets of how it addresses a certain mental health issue, and then the therapist lists themselves as "using" that therapy method in their own practice. Not kosher in my opinion, and one of the reasons a client needs to really check a therapist out. This practice is one of the reasons I say that there is a lack of "oversight" in psychotherapy.

[atisketatasket]

Originally Posted by Jaybird57

This is a really important recommendation, WTR. Therapists will list technique after technique in their Psychology Today and website bios, stating they offer a variety of different therapy approaches. Many techniques/therapies have very specific certifications requirements (ex. DBT, EFT, EMDR, Transference Focused Therapy, Mentalization Therapy etc.). Some therapists will go to one or two "general" CE workshops on a technique, which is actually just a day or two lecture on how the technique works or the basic tenets of how it addresses a certain mental health issue, and then the therapist lists themselves as "using" that therapy method in their own practice. Not kosher in my opinion, and one of the reasons a client needs to really check a therapist out. This practice is one of the reasons I say that there is a lack of "oversight" in psychotherapy.

In response to your post, I did check out this therapist in the EFT (Johnson) list and she is officially certified. Not that it sounded like she was into EFT with individuals anyway, but at least she puts her money where her mouth is.