“I am enCOuraging you to be COurageous, look hard, and identify your usual response. It’s the one that pops out before you have taken a breath. This is the response that can trap you in a vicious cycle of disCOnnection with the person you love best.” ~Dr. Sue Johnson
“I am encouraging you to be courageous, look hard, and identify your usual response. It’s the one that pops out before you have taken a breath. This is the response that can trap you in a vicious cycle of disconnection with the person you love best.” ~Dr. Sue Johnson
CUPles™ therapy
COCOA CUPles Therapy Inc. ™
Creating Open-hearted Conversations with One Another
EFT for CUPles™ (EFCT)
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy EFCT is a short-term, structured approach designed to help CUPles™ improve their relationships, typically lasting between 8 to 20 sessions. Developed in the 1980s, it is rooted in the science of attachment, which looks at how people form and maintain emotional bonds. EFCT combines a focus on reshaping partners’ emotional experiences with a structured approach to changing how they interact with each other.
During sessions, CUPles™ explore their emotional responses, learn to communicate their needs more effectively, and work together to break negative patterns and cycles that create disCOnnect. The goal is to build stronger, more secure, and deeply COnnected relationships, fostering trust, closeness, and understanding.
Goals
- To expand and re-organize key emotional responses and, in the process, the organization of self.
- To create a positive shift in partners interactional positions and patterns.
- To foster the creation of a secure bond between partners.
Extensive research demonstrates the effectiveness of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy EFCT, showing significant positive changes in relationships that are both substantial and long-lasting. EFCT has been successfully applied with a diverse range of CUPles™ in settings such as private practices, university training centers, and hospital clinics. Emerging research also indicates its benefits for CUPles™ dealing with specific challenges, including depression, trauma-related anxiety, medical conditions, and issues surrounding forgiveness.
EFCT is used with varied cultural groups (including EFT with African Americans) and educational levels across North America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa, and Asia. It is used with traditional and non-traditional CUPles™, including same-sex CUPles™. Source: ICEEFT
