Emotionally Focused Therapy

A powerful approach to help rebuild your connection.

What is Emotionally Focused Therapy?

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) offers clinically proven strategies to help couples renew their trust and build a deeper level of intimacy and connection. Developed in the 1980s by Susan Johnson and Leslie Greenberg at the University of British Columbia, EFT is now one of the leading forms of couples therapy. Research shows that 70 percent of couples receiving EFT recover from relationship distress, and of those who recover, 90 percent experience significantly more satisfaction in their love relationship.

EFT's Benefits

Couples facing challenges in their relationship can overcome common obstacles that create distress, including:

• recovering from affairs

• intimacy and sexual disorders

• clashes about finances

• unproductive, hurtful arguments

• parenting issues

• in-law challenges

Emotion is key

In Latin, emotion means emovere, or "to move." In relationships, we are moved by our emotions. Emotionally Focused Therapy helps couples use their emotions to move them into new ways of reaching out and responding to each other, the most important two contributors to relationship satisfaction and longevity.

Travis Atkinson, LCSW

Travis Atkinson, LCSW, is a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist and Supervisor, practicing EFT since 2006/ Travis is also a Founding Member of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy (NYCEEFT), and served on the original Board of Directors.

Review options to meet with Travis via a secure Telehealth platform to see how Emotionally Focused Therapy can help your relationship thrive.