EFT or Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples

Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples and Individuals in Winnetka, IL

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy is an approach to help couples improve their relationship.

Also known as EFT, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy was developed 30 years ago, and has been well researched and shown to be a highly effective approach for couples in distress.

“Rigorous studies during the past fifteen years have shown up to 70 percent of couples who go through EFT treatment report significant improvement, and are happier in their relationships. The results appear lasting, even with couples at high risk for divorce.”

-Sue Johnson (Hold Me Tight)

“EFT is one of the best documented, most substantive and well researched approaches to couple therapy.”

-John M. Gottman, Ph.D

EFT is “one of the few approaches to marital therapy that has been proven to be effective.”

-Alan S. Gurman, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Family Therapy, University of Wisconsin Medical School

What is Emotionally Focused Therapy?

The premise behind Emotionally Focused Therapy is that humans are naturally wired for love. People innately have a longing to connect with partners, parents, family and friends throughout life.

Being closely connected in a marriage is what makes the relationship a safe haven and a secure base for each partner. The distress partners feel often relates to negative interactions and experiences that pull a couple apart, causing negative emotions to build up or lead to periods of distance and isolation.

How Does EFT Couples Therapy Work?

EFT helps couples sort through and end their negative and repetitive patterns of relating to each other and then begin to build transformative and positive connections with each other, leading to meaningful and long lasting change.  Janet Voss is a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist who works collaboratively to overcome the things pulling couples apart and strengthen their bond between them.

Janet Voss is a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist and member of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (ICEEFT).

For a more in-depth description of EFT, please visit the ICEEFT ‘What is EFT?‘ web page.

Janet is also a Certified Member of the Chicago Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy (CCEFT).

For more information or to schedule a free initial consultation, please contact Janet Voss →