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3M ago
Build intimacy and friendship with you partner: Learn the tools you need to become a good listener
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A Therapist’s Guide to Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: The Psychology of Withdrawers (Lesson 6)
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3M ago
In this 6th installment in a Therapist's Guide to EFT we explore the psychology of the withdrawer
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Better Couples Therapy Blog
3M ago
Working with Enactments In today's lesson we will looking at the concept of enactments, which are one of the main ways EFT therapists try to effect change in the way couples interact with each other. Lesson 4: What You will Learn in Today's EFT Lesson: Techniques Used in the EFT Method: EFT is not just a roadmap for where we
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Better Couples Therapy Blog
3M ago
Tracking Negative Cycles and Working with Emotions in EFT In today's lesson we will be looking at how the emotionally focused couples therapist helps couples through step 1-4 of the therapy process. This process involves identifying negative cycles and understanding how they are generated. Once this understanding has been accomplished couples are helped to expand their awareness of unacknowledged and
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Better Couples Therapy Blog
3M ago
Steps and Stages of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy In today's lesson we will be looking at the sequence couples have to go through to complete a full course of emotionally focused couples therapy. As we saw in part 1, EFT provides an attachment understanding of why couples end up having relationship problems. With this in mind, part 2 provides a
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Better Couples Therapy Blog
3M ago
Attachment Theory as the Foundation for Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy In my work as a couples therapist in both my private practice and at the University of Houston I have often been in a teaching role to newer therapists wanting to learn more about becoming a couples therapist. As a certified emotionally-focused couples therapist this has meant teaching newer therapists more
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Better Couples Therapy Blog
3M ago
Having good boundaries in a relationship is immensely important. Whenever boundaries are either too strict or too loose the relationship suffers... If boundaries are too loose they can become an existential threat to the relationship: A relationship can only exist when clear boundaries are drawn around a couple and the sanctity of the relationship is honored and respected. If boundaries
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Better Couples Therapy Blog
3M ago
A common source of conflict in couples is how to best raise children together. Parenting is a stressful endeavor and often brings out deep-rooted differences in how each person believes their children should be raised. One person might be more authoritarian and strict whereas the other is more egalitarian and permissive, or one person might have more conservative values that
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Better Couples Therapy Blog
3M ago
What to do when your partner continues to express dissatisfaction with your relationship? Learn how to address this issue without losing yourself in the process.
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Better Couples Therapy Blog
3M ago
Learn how to best communicate with your partner if you are feeling unfulfilled in your relationship.
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