Emotion-Focused Therapy

Are You Feeling Stuck in Difficult Emotions?

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) offers a structured, evidence-based approach to help you view your emotions as sources of insight and transformation, rather than obstacles to avoid. Grounded in humanistic principles, EFT provides support for working through unresolved emotional patterns and painful past experiences. This approach encourages direct, experiential engagement with your feelings in a safe, supportive environment, helping you better understand what your emotions are communicating and how to respond to them in a healthier, more constructive way.

Core Goals of EFT: Emotional Awareness and Transformation

The EFT process is guided by two primary goals: increasing emotional awareness and transforming emotions into positive forces for change. This is achieved by distinguishing between primary emotions—your initial, often vulnerable responses to situations—and secondary emotions that may act as defensive shields, such as feeling anger when, in truth, you are feeling hurt. With the therapist’s support, you can access these core emotions to gain clarity on the needs behind them, learning to trust adaptive emotions like compassion, healthy anger, and grief while letting go of fear, shame, or abandonment that may no longer serve you.

Who Can Benefit from Emotion-Focused Therapy?

EFT has proven highly effective in addressing a variety of emotional and psychological challenges, including depression, anxiety, trauma, childhood abuse or neglect, addiction, eating disorders, and relationship difficulties. Many people cope by suppressing or avoiding their emotions, which often intensifies emotional pain over time. EFT breaks this cycle by teaching you to engage with emotions without judgement and to use them as valuable resources.

How EFT Differs from Other Therapies

EFT stands apart from other approaches, like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), by placing emotions at the heart of the therapeutic process. Rather than focusing solely on changing thought patterns, EFT centres on transforming emotions into agents of change, fostering self-compassion, resilience, and healthier relational connections.

The Empowering Impact of EFT

Through its experiential approach, EFT empowers you to move beyond entrenched patterns, adopt a more resilient, self-compassionate outlook, and embrace a more authentic way of being. By encouraging a healthier relationship with your emotions, EFT opens the door to meaningful, lasting transformation.