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Fixing Negative Patterns in Your Relationship Using EFT

Susan Armitage

Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT or aka EFCT)

If you are struggling with a familiar pattern in your relationship, finding yourself caught up in a “here-we-go-again” moment, this therapy is for you. Maybe you find yourself where one partner tries to talk things through but the other shuts down quickly and resorts to silence. Is it the silent treatment? Or is it a fear of escalation? How do you fix this pattern, and fix it for the long term? 


A few of us here are trained in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and LOVE to help couples improve their relationships. It’s rewarding when we so frequently see GREAT outcomes with this therapy, where couples on the brink of separation stop seeing each other as the enemy and revert back to remembering why they got together in the first place and can rekindle the fire.

It’s worth the try!



Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy:

  • is a short-term approach (average 8 to 20 sessions)
  • is empirically reliable
  • expands & reorganizes emotional responses
  • creates new interactions and new relational patterns
  • fosters the creation of a secure bond between partners


As Marriage and Family Therapists, we primarily use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help you discover what is happening behind the stress and anger that both you and your partner experience when there is marital discord. We can help you recognize your familiar patterns and negative interactions that send you into a downward spiral and help you learn to respond to one another with less anger, and greater empathy and insight. 


With EFT, as a couple, you will be able to create a safe emotional connection so that when emotional stress hits, you will be able to turn toward each other for support.

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