Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a research-based approach used to deepen emotional connection and foster secure, lasting relationships.
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)?
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a research-supported approach to couples therapy that helps partners understand the deeper patterns driving their conflict, distance, or disconnection. Rather than focusing on surface-level disagreements, EFT guides you toward the emotional needs and attachment patterns that shape how you show up in your relationship.
Most couples don’t get stuck because they don’t care — they get stuck because they’re caught in a cycle that leaves both partners feeling unheard, misunderstood, or alone.
EFT helps you change that cycle.
Why Couples Choose EFT
It’s based on attachment - the science of how we bond.
EFT helps you identify the core emotions and unmet needs beneath the arguments. Instead of blaming each other or defending your position, you’ll learn to express what you truly feel and need in a way your partner can understand.
It gets to the root, not just the symptoms.
If you’re repeating the same fight or avoiding hard conversations, there is usually a deeper emotional pattern underneath. EFT helps you uncover that pattern and create healthier, more secure ways of relating.
It’s proven to be effective.
Decades of research show that EFT is one of the most successful couples therapy models available, with lasting results for couples in distress as well as those seeking to strengthen an already good relationship.
EFT can change the brain
This short video by Dr. Sue Johnson (Founder of EFT) explains powerful EFT research that showed brain changes after successful EFT couples therapy.