HCEFT

Houston Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy

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HCEFT values ongoing learning and supporting each other in our growth. Purchase a one year membership to be listed on the HCEFT therapist directory.

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Benefits of Membership

Community Support

Form new relationships with other therapists in the EFT community to help you grow, implement and hone your EFT techniques.

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Give couples who need your help a new way to find out about you, your private practice and your EFT training by being listed in our therapist directory.

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Stay up to date on the latest events, webinars and trainings, plus find and connect with EFT supervisors and trainers.

Of couples who use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), research studies find that 70-75% of couples move from distress to recovery and approximately 90% show significant improvements.

EFT or Emotionally Focused Therapy offers couples, families and individuals a relatively-short, structured path to solving their relationship problems. Dr. Sue Johnson and Dr. Les Greenberg launched EFT in the early 1980s as a way to help partners find their way back to love and happiness. Since then Dr. Johnson has continued to develop the model and added the study of attachment theory to the mix, helping therapists and couples themselves best understand what is happening in their relationships.

Today EFT is used in private practice, university training centers, hospital clinics and other therapeutic settings around the world. And, it works. Research shows that more than 70 percent of couples who try EFT move from distress to recovery, and about 90 percent show significant improvement. Problems distressed couples address in the sessions include depression, post-traumatic stress disorders and chronic illness. 

Strengths of Emotionally Focused Therapy

  • EFT is based on clear, explicit conceptualizations of marital distress and adult love. These conceptualizations are supported by empirical research on the nature of marital distress and adult attachment.
  • EFT is collaborative and respectful of clients. It is a combination of experiential Rogerian techniques with structural systemic interventions.
  • Change strategies and interventions are specified.
  • Key moves and moments in the change process have been mapped into nine steps and three change events.
  • EFT has been validated by over 20 years of empirical research. There is also research on the change processes and predictors of success.
  • EFT has been applied to many different kinds of problems and populations.

Goals of Emotionally Focused Therapy

  • To expand and re-organize key emotional responses – the music of the attachment dance.
  • To create a shift in partners' interactional positions and initiate new cycles of interaction.
  • To foster the creation of a secure bond between partners

Further reading:

  • EFT Resources and Links
  • EFT Research, updated 2015
  • EFT Status, 1999
  • The Power of Monogamy: 10 Surprising Claims Regarding Modern Love

Emotionally Focused Therapy

Dr. Sue Johnson provides a brief summary of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). This leading edge, empirically validated form of therapy which is taught all over the world. EFT is based on the last 50 years of scientific research on bonding: bonding between mother and child and romantic bonds between partners. EFT provides a map to what matters in intimate relationships: how they work, how they go wrong, and what is needed to put them right.

Forms for Your Practice

The Road to EFT Certification
EFT Self-Supervision Session Checklist
Cycle vs. Heart
Understanding Your Negative Cycle
Consent to Release Therapy Video Recordings
Understanding Your Negative Cycle Exercise
EFT Case Summary Consultation Form

ICEEFT

We are proud to be affiliated with the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT), founded by Dr. Sue Johnson in 1998.

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Externship 2018 Agreement

If you register on or before December 8, 2017, 30 days your registration will be final. After you have been registered for 30 days, you will not receive a refund.

On or after January 8, 2018, all registrations will be final there will be absolutely no refunds.

Disclaimer & Cancellation Policy:

In the event a seminar is cancelled HCEFT is only responsible for reimbursement of fees paid for the training. All costs incurred for travel arrangements are the sole responsibility of the individual or entity that made those arrangements. HCEFT reserves right to move venue location and assigned presenters originally advertised for an event with a 30 day notice to attendees. In the event a venue or presenter is changed, no reimbursements will be given. Venue changes are not to exceed 50 miles or 1 hour drive time from the original venue advertised. The individual or entity that made the arrangements to attend a HCEFT event agrees to hold harmless HCEFT, and its director, from any and all liability associated with those travel arrangements. By registering for any HCEFT sponsored or hosted event the individual or entity agrees to these terms.

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