Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) is an approach that focuses on understanding and addressing emotions within a couple’s relationship. It emphasizes creating emotional safety, promoting empathy and understanding, and fostering secure attachment between partners.
EFCT can benefit couples by helping them improve communication, manage conflicts constructively, and deepen emotional intimacy. It can, for example, assist a couple struggling with trust issues by addressing underlying emotional fears and insecurities, promoting vulnerability, and building a stronger bond based on mutual support and connection.
At Tulua Therapy, we work with both partners to identify emotional patterns, explore underlying feelings and needs, and address specific relationship challenges. We’ll help you express your emotions, thoughts, and concerns in a supportive and non-judgmental environment, fostering empathy and validation between each of you. Techniques such as emotion coaching, role-playing, and experiential exercises may be used to facilitate emotional expression, understanding, and resolution. Throughout this process, we ensure that proper structure, guidance, and feedback are provided to help both partners navigate conflicts, deepen emotional intimacy, and create positive changes in their relationship.
“Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don’t feel that way because of the wounds and the scars we carry from the past or because of the uncertainty of the future. It is doubtful that we came to feel undeserving on our own… We were taught it in a thousand ways when we were little, and we learned our lessons well.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
