Palm Coast Treatment Solutions focuses on highly specialized care through emotionally oriented therapy. In the busy life of today, there are numerous people, married couples, and families who get lost in the disconnection processes, or even the conflict process, or the coldness of the heart. We have identified that our main emotional attachment and response to the same is the source of well-being and health in relationships.
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a long-standing couple, family, individual, and group therapy designed to help individuals conceptualize and reshape emotional elements, and create a more solid and safe relationship through reaching deeper emotions (like fear and sadness), instead of being influenced by outward conduct (like anger). EFT is goal-focused, relationship distress transformation, which utilizes a step-by-step construct of relationship distress therapy (De-escalation, Restructuring, Consolidation) in which the partners express their needs, create new positive cycles, and receive emotional safety, and in which underlying attachment needs are comprehended as a means of explicitly transferring relationship distress into secure holding.
It is within a climate of security and sanity that our sympathetic professionals can provide you a medium in which you may experiment with things of subconscious emotions, leave reactive rhythm, and other healthier schemes of relationships.
When is it used?
EFT is particularly vital when couples get to the counseling session in distress or alienated to the extent that they might feel that the relationship is beyond repair. This could be them with serious anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or increased feelings of betrayal in the relationship. These negatively charged emotions are believed to be protests and desperation on the part of the connection being lost and the consequent feelings of physical and emotional desertion. They are even thought to cover the child’s fears of being helpless and unlovable when relationships are torn apart.
It can also be applied to couples and those people who are not able to express their feelings or are under the impression that they are weak. On the other extreme, EFT can be beneficial when the person is irregular in using emotions; his or her hyperreactivity is considered to be due to an emotional alarm that fears of abandonment cause. During individual therapy, the therapist establishes a haven with the patient that becomes a safe place where the patient can explore and express himself or herself.
Why Choose Emotionally Focused Therapy
- Evidence-based: The literature has revealed that emotionally focused therapy is effective with positive outcomes for couples, individuals, and families.
- Connection/emotion-oriented: This model is unlike therapy, as it does not concentrate on thoughts/actions but also seeks to identify and address the underlying emotional needs and patterns.
- Being specifically tailored to you: It might be relationship dysfunction or emotional isolation, anxiety, trauma, or loss: this treatment will be tailor-crafted to your specific case.
- Significant and meaningful change over a short period: A range of clients can acquire impactful change that is meaningful within time frames of 8-20 sessions.
- Professional facilitation: Our consultants are trained in emotive-oriented styles and they strive to make you feel heard, supported, and empowered.
What to Expect: The Process of Emotionally Focused Therapy
Assessment & De-escalation
In the first sessions, your therapist assists in clarifying negative cycles of interaction and emotional responsiveness, which might be contributing to pain and/or distance.
Determining the & Investigating Central Emotions
It will be taken to the foundation of anger, withdrawal, or criticism to get to the underlying feelings/need, i.e., the fear of being deserted, the need to be connected, or the need to be vulnerable.
Restructuring The Patterns and Making New Responses
With rising emotional consciousness, we do practice with you the various ways of relating that are responsive, sensitive, and connected as opposed to the reactive distancing or antagonistic.
Consolidation & Integration
Then, during the further sessions, you bring the new patterns of interaction to everyday life and guarantee your further progress in such a manner that the gains can be sustained.
Who Can Benefit
- Dissatisfied couples have regular conflict and distance/mistrust.
- The already trapped persons with emotions would not relate anxiety or depression to their problems in relationships.
- Relationships (s) between families or children are challenged with the need for disconnection, a break in communication, or unresolved trauma.
- Whoever feels like being rather than reacting so that he/she is fit to build more genuine, emotionally secure relationships.
What to Find in an Emotionally Focused Therapist
An EFT therapist is a licensed mental health practitioner with some extra training and experience in the field of EFT. ICEEFT is an international service that conducts certification of groups across the world.
Similar to other therapists, EFT therapists are taught to listen with compassion to issues of patients, viewing the situation in a relationship where all parties may appear, and identifying the hidden areas of conflict and conflict sources. They can also reframe issues in such a way that everyone can be convinced of the good intention of the most debilitating actions. Reframing plays an important role in assisting the couple to seek improved methods of comprehending each other and identifying with one another.
Experience: One should seek a therapist who has not only undergone considerable training but also has experience in the application of EFT to address patients whose concerns may be shared with yours.
Like in all therapies, one should seek an EFT therapist with whom they can comfortably engage. Seek a person with whom you will be able to achieve clarity of communication and share a good fit.
Such questions one may ask a potential therapist include:
- How many times have you worked on problems like mine?
- What makes you know whether my case qualifies as a good candidate for EFT?
How does EFT work?
What is the common course of treatment plan and duration of a normal course of treatment?
How do you measure progress?
Ready to begin?
Get over emotional trauma; visit Palm Coast Treatment Solutions when you are willing to break the gender that has become habitual.
Do not wait any longer, call us at (386) 284-4151 and have an appointment with us concerning a consultation and to discover how emotionally focused therapy will transform your relationships and your life.
We would journey with you in the process of attaining emotional well-being, relationship energy, and well-being.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) FAQs
What are the 5 basic moves of EFT?
The five basic moves, often called the EFT Tango (used in Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples), are Reflect (the present process), Explore (primary emotions), Enact (a new emotional interaction), Process (the enactment), and Integrate (new understanding/change).
How effective is EFT for anxiety?
EFT (Tapping) is considered moderately to largely effective for anxiety. Studies show it can significantly reduce anxiety symptoms, often by lowering the stress hormone cortisol and calming the brain’s stress response center (the amygdala). It can be used as a standalone or complementary treatment.
What is the difference between EFT and CBT?
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is a structured approach that focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) focuses on processing and transforming emotions and attachment bonds, particularly in relationships, to create a deeper emotional connection and regulation.
Why is EFT tapping so powerful?
EFT tapping is powerful because it combines a cognitive focus (verbalizing the problem/self-acceptance) with physical stimulation (tapping on acupressure points). This stimulation sends a calming signal to the amygdala, essentially reducing the physical and neurological stress response while the client confronts the distressing thought or feeling.
How long does EFT usually last?
For EFT (tapping), relief can sometimes be felt in minutes, and a course of treatment for a specific issue may only require a few sessions. For EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), especially for couples, it is considered a short-term model, typically ranging from 8 to 20 sessions, depending on the complexity of the issues.
What should I expect in my first EFT session?
The first session focuses on assessment and safety. You will explore the history of your issue (or relationship pattern, if couples therapy), discuss your goals, and identify the specific emotions and core needs driving the distress. The therapist will be active and empathetic and help you feel safe enough to begin exploring your emotional world.
