How Emotionally Focused Therapy Helps Distressed Couples
So, How Do I Go About Helping You?
Hint: it's not magic, it's not just hopeful thinking nor does it happen by accident...
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps couples identify the negative cycle underneath repeated conflict and rebuild a safer, more responsive emotional bond.
If you’ve heard the often-quoted “70–75% recovery / ~90% improvement” statistics, those figures come from early research syntheses led by Dr. Sue Johnson and colleagues and are echoed in later reviews. More recent systematic reviews and randomized-trial meta-analyses also find that EFT reliably improves relationship outcomes.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30946225/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31411642/
For the full evidence behind these claims, read what the research actually shows about EFT, with every study linked.
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Citations
Johnson, S. M., Hunsley, J., Greenberg, L., & Schindler, D. (1999). Emotionally focused couples therapy: Status and challenges. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.
Wiebe, S. A., & Johnson, S. M. (2016). A review of the research in Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples. Family Process.
Johnson, S. M., Makinen, J., & Millikin, J. (2001). Attachment injuries in couple relationships. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.
Johnson, S. M., et al. (2013). Soothing the threatened brain: Leveraging contact comfort with Emotionally Focused Therapy. PLoS ONE.
Cloutier, P., Manion, I., Walker, J., & Johnson, S. (2002). Emotionally Focused Interventions for couples with depressed partners.