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Emotionally Focused Therapy

At Florida Atlantic Coast Treatment Solutions, we understand how deeply emotions influence your relationships, your self-worth, and your overall mental health. That’s why we specialize in emotionally focused therapy, an evidence-based approach designed to help you reconnect, heal, and grow.

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What is Emotionally Focused Therapy?

EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) is an empirical treatment that assists individuals, couples, and families to establish safe relationships by learning and changing emotional patterns that are founded on attachment theory. Therapists facilitate the exploration, processing, and expression of intense emotions (such as fear, hurt, longing) that initiate negative loops, going beyond the superficial response and developing more genuine, healthier forms of connection and conflict resolution, and in a short-term, structured fashion.

Why Choose Emotionally Focused Therapy?

  • It is research-based: Studies show that emotionally focused therapy delivers significant improvements in relationship satisfaction, emotional regulation, and self-awareness.
  • It appeals to fundamental emotional needs: It does not just treat the symptoms, but it investigates the inner anxieties of being abandoned, attachment trauma, and the necessity of safe attachment.

It suits couples, families, and individuals: No matter whether you are trying to overcome a loss of connection with your partner, a dispute with children, or internal emotional pain, emotionally focused therapy can be adjusted to come where you are.

How Emotionally Focused Therapy Works

Our approach at Florida Atlantic Coast Treatment Solutions is guided by the key stages of emotionally focused therapy:

  1. De-escalation of destructive cycles
    We assist you and the people you love to recognize familiar cycles of withdrawal, blame, and emotional shutdown, and change the emphasis on underlying emotions such as fear, loneliness or longing.
  2. Restructuring emotional responses and interactions
    We teach you to communicate vulnerable, real feelings of sadness, the need to be close to someone, or being scared, and to experience the reactions of others towards you with sympathy and receptiveness, once these patterns are known.
  3. Consolidation and growth
    The fourth step is the application of new patterns to everyday life and entrenching healthier responses and otherwise enhancing the emotional connection or self-relationship, such that the change can be permanent.
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What to Expect at Florida Atlantic Coast Treatment Solutions

  • We begin with a detailed intake: exploring your relationship dynamics, emotional history and goals.
  • We work over a typical course of 8-20 sessions, though the exact length depends on your situation.
  • Our therapists are trained in emotionally focused therapy and specialize in attachment-based, emotionally attuned work.
  • You’ll be guided into a safe, compassionate environment where your emotions are respected as meaningful and not simply symptoms to be fixed.

You’ll leave therapy not only with improved connection and emotional awareness, but with tools to handle future stressors, conflicts and relational shifts.

Who Can Benefit?

  • Couples that can no longer communicate with each other in the same way they used to, and need to re-establish a sense of intimacy and trust.
  • Family relationship fractures or conflicts with adolescents.
  • People who experience anxiety, depression, trauma, or enduring emotional habits and patterns, and desire to understand themselves better and to be more relationshipally healthy. 

Take the First Step Today

If you’re ready to experience meaningful change, healing and connection, contact Florida Atlantic Coast Treatment Solutions. Our experienced team is ready to guide you through emotionally focused therapy with compassion and expertise.

Call us now at (844) 643-2287 to schedule your free consultation and start your journey toward better relationships and emotional health.

Let’s work together to transform disconnection into connection, one meaningful interaction at a time.

FAQs: Emotionally Focused Therapy

Q1: How long does emotionally focused therapy take?

Most clients see meaningful progress in about 8-20 sessions, though individual circumstances vary. 

Q2: Is emotionally focused therapy only for couples?

No — while it’s widely known for couples work, emotionally focused therapy is effectively used with individuals and families as well. 

Q3: How is emotionally focused therapy different from other therapies?

Unlike some approaches that focus on changing thoughts or behaviors alone, emotionally focused therapy emphasizes emotional experience and attachment bonds as the foundation for deep change. 

Q4: Will I have to dig into my past trauma or childhood?

It depends on your goals, but the focus is less on uncovering every past detail and more on how your emotional experiences are influencing your current relationships and emotional responses.

Q5: How do I know if emotionally focused therapy is right for me?

If you feel stuck in relational patterns, disconnected from your partner, family or self, or you carry emotional burdens that keep recurring, emotionally focused therapy may be a strong fit. We can help you evaluate this.

 

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