Reconnect. Understand. Thrive Together.
DBT and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy helps couples break negative cycles and build stronger bonds.
What is EFT Couples Therapy?
Rebuilding Connection Through Awareness
When two people love each other, they create an emotional bond — an attachment that helps us feel secure, supported, and understood. In healthy relationships, that attachment allows partners to comfort each other even in moments of disagreement or stress.
Insecure attachment, however, can make connection feel harder to reach. Miscommunication, distrust, and emotional distance can take over — creating a negative cycle that feels impossible to break.
With EFT Couples Therapy…
Helps identify the negative cycle that keeps partners feeling disconnected. Beneath frustration, fear, or anger, there’s usually a shared longing — to feel loved, safe, and supported.
Through guided sessions, couples learn to express needs honestly, understand each other’s emotional responses, and rebuild a foundation of trust, connection, and intimacy.
Focused on understanding and recognizing emotional patterns.
Guided by your therapist to identify and reshape disconnection cycles- helping both partners feel seen, heard, and emotionally secure.
What is EFT?
EFT is usually a short term (8-20 sessions), structured approach to couples therapy formulated in the 1980's and has developed alongside the science on adult attachment and bonding to expand our understanding about what is happening in couple relationships and to guide therapists.
In the last fifteen years, Dr. Johnson and her colleagues have further developed and refined the model and completed numerous studies. EFT is also used with families and individuals. A substantial body of research outlining the effectiveness of EFT now exists.
Research studies find that 70-75% of couples move from distress to recovery and approximately 90% show significant improvements.
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Recognize the Cycle
Every relationship develops patterns — moments when partners feel stuck, unheard, or disconnected.
EFT helps you identify this repeating cycle so you can stop seeing each other as the enemy and start seeing the pattern as the problem.
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Explore the Emotions
Underneath frustration or distance often lies fear, sadness, or longing for closeness.
By creating safety and vulnerability in the room, couples begin to truly understand each other—not just the words, but the feelings beneath them—transforming conflict into understanding.
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Reconnect + Repair
As partners begin to communicate with openness and compassion, emotional safety grows and new trust emerges.
Rebuild a secure emotional bond that feels steady, connected, and lasting. Develop a deeper sense of closeness and confidence in your relationship.
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Strengthen the Bond
The final stage of EFT focuses on deepening your secure attachment.
You’ll strengthen the emotional bond that supports lasting love — creating a relationship that feels grounded, supportive, and resilient through life’s ups and downs.