“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)
EFT is a short term (8 to 20 sessions) structured approach, originally developed for CUPles™ therapy and based on attachment science, formulated in the 1980’s. Interventions in EFCT integrate a humanistic, experiential approach to restructuring emotional experience, and a systemic structural approach to restructuring interactions.
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.
A substantial body of research now exists on the effectiveness of EFCT. This research shows large treatment effect sizes and stable results over time. EFCT is used successfully with many different kinds of CUPles™ in private practice, university training centers, and hospital clinics. Preliminary research exists for CUPles™ dealing with depression, with anxiety resulting from trauma, with medical illness, and with forgiveness dilemmas.
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
