Emotionally Focused Therapy
(EFT) for relationships in Denver
Rebuild trust and break negative patterns in relationships.
Is EFT right for you?
When you’re struggling in a relationship, basic advice, worksheets you find online, and communication tricks are unlikely to be how you repair your relationship. While it can be helpful to talk with friends or share what’s happening with family members, working with a professional therapist who is on your side as a couple and knows how to help you move forward can be incredibly important.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps individuals and couples improve their relationships and work together to deal with issues such as depression, post-traumatic stress, and chronic illness. It’s designed to help you uncover, understand, share, and control your emotions. EFT is also frequently used to help couples, including LGBTQ+ couples and married couples, who have struggled with infidelity and betrayal. About 75% of couples who go to couples therapy see an improvement in their relationship.
When using EFT in therapy, it primarily helps you break negative patterns and rebuild bonds of trust. As your relationship grows stronger, you can learn or relearn what it means to count on and support each other, during good and bad times. Relationships can be complicated, but your Denver EFT therapist can help your relationship feel safe. We use EFT to help both partners feel important and like they’re in a partnership working together.
EFT is often used in family therapy and other settings to help people connect and improve their level of emotional attachment and mutual understanding. In couples counseling, EFT is often used to help people better understand their own emotional responses to what’s happening in the relationship and the responses of their significant others. It helps couples restructure the way that they communicate and interact to avoid feelings of defensiveness or feeling like they’re “stuck.”
Using EFT, our emotionally focused therapists in Denver, Lone Tree, and Greenwood Village help our clients understand how their underlying needs for attachment and connection can influence how they experience themselves and others in relationships.
Benefits of EFT
- Understanding:
Gain understanding of what you and your partner need in a relationship. - Communication:
Improve the way that you speak and listen with your partner, using empathy instead of escalating conflict. - Learn about yourself:
Find out where you might have trust or attachment issues and how that affects your relationship. - Create successful a relationship:
From discovering the root cause of issues to learning how to emotionally connect with others, you can learn how to nurture your relationship in positive ways.
How Emotionally Focused Therapy works
EFT is one of the most evidence-based forms of therapy for relationships. It’s a short-term treatment approach that has the goal of re-establishing connections between people. It’s not only used for couples; it’s also used to strengthen and repair relationships between individuals and families of all types. It helps address the root causes of disconnection in relationships and identify the core issues that may potentially end a relationship.
Research on EFT has shown that couples can move from a state of distress to recovery in just 10-12 sessions for 70-75% of cases. It leads to improvements in 90% of the couples that come in for therapy. It has been proven to raise people’s emotional intelligence and provide skills to change negative patterns.
Through EFT, couples learn how to understand deeper emotions and use them as guidance to create more secure ways of relating to each other. We can help you get to the core of your relationship issues and regain feelings of belonging and connection that are vital to the success of your relationship.
EFT for couples counseling
Your relationship is likely one of the most important, if not the most important, parts of your life. When you’re working on saving your relationship, EFT has been proven to be one of the best ways to help rebuild or save a relationship or marriage.
Research has shown that couples that use EFT in counseling can have long-lasting positive effects on their relationship, even after they’re no longer in therapy. With EFT, we help you and your partner build new patterns of understanding that work long after your time with us has passed. We work with you to help improve communication, increase connection, and provide a sense of security and belonging in your relationship.
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Meet our therapists
As a therapist-owned practice, we care about helping you heal, grow, and thrive. All of our therapists take a client-focused approach to counseling and approach each session with a commitment to your progress and growth.
Availability
We’re always accepting new clients at our conveniently located offices in Denver, Greenwood Village, Lone Tree, and Arvada, and all of our therapists can meet with clients online.
We have a therapist for you
Because we have a large team of therapists with a wide range of specialties, we work with clients of all ages, backgrounds, and life experiences. You are welcome here. We can match you with a therapist who matches your goals, location, and schedule.
We can provide specific types of therapy
To support your mental health journey, our therapists are trained in some of the most effective forms of therapy available today, including EMDR, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, CBT, DBT, and IFS.
Insurance information
We’re out of network with insurance and Tricare and are unable to take Medicaid or Medicare. Unlike many therapy practices, we don’t charge separate intake or administration fees or charge more for specialized therapy methods like EMDR.
Get matched with a therapist
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