From Distress to Connection: Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples

Course overview

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples is one of the most research-supported and effective therapeutic approaches for helping partners move from distress to emotional connection. This session for psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, and ministry leaders will explore EFT's 9-step transformational process and how it shifts couples out of reactive, repetitive conflict cycles and into patterns of emotional safety, responsiveness, and closeness. Participants will learn how to map these conflict cycles and the best ways to intervene when the negative cycle is occurring. Using case examples, video demonstrations, and guided discussion, participants will see how EFT's key change events unfold and learn how to use enactments to deepen emotional engagement between partners.