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Directions Counseling & Coaching
Clinical Social Work/Therapist
Verified Verified
Powell, OH 43065
Directions Counseling has a team of licensed professional therapists, professional coaches, and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who have developed expertise in very specific areas of treatment that they are passionate about. It has been our privilege to help couples, children, and individuals throughout Ohio overcome difficult and complex personal struggles for over 25 years. Regardless of who you choose for therapy, we recommend you select someone with extensive training and experience helping people with the area of concern you want to address. Visit us at www.directionscounseling.com to learn more about us.
Directions Counseling has a team of licensed professional therapists, professional coaches, and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who have developed expertise in very specific areas of treatment that they are passionate about. It has been our privilege to help couples, children, and individuals throughout Ohio overcome difficult and complex personal struggles for over 25 years. Regardless of who you choose for therapy, we recommend you select someone with extensive training and experience helping people with the area of concern you want to address. Visit us at www.directionscounseling.com to learn more about us.
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Emotionally Focused Therapists

Who is emotionally focused therapy for?

Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is for couples who are emotionally distressed, stuck in an unsatisfying relationship pattern or feeling deeply alienated. They may even believe the relationship is beyond repair. Very often, the partners display intense anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal in the relationship. In addition, EFT is helpful to couples and individuals who have difficulty expressing emotions and those who have trouble regulating emotions.

Why do people need emotionally focused therapy?

People need emotionally focused therapy because the need for others is built into the brain, but the pressures of daily life can erode feelings of love, and couples often do not have the skills to find their way back to the comfort of each other. Instead, they may be stuck in repetitive patterns of anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal. Emotionally focused therapy regards such strong negative feelings as expressions of protest over the loss of connection and turns them into pathways of reconnection.

What happens in emotionally focused therapy?

Over the course of eight to 20 weekly sessions, couples de-escalate their negative emotional reactivity to one another so that they can listen to each other and be responsive to each other’s needs. Then the deep emotional and physical bond is restored, giving partners a sense of comfort and security, which they can use to solve whatever problems come their way. The therapist plays an active role, helping partners understand how anger and withdrawal are actually misguided cries for connection.

What problems does emotionally focused therapy treat?

EFT is designed to help couples stuck in dysfunctional relationship patterns regain closeness and rebuild their relationship. Typically, such couples experience considerable distress, with partners feeling alienated and distrustful of one another, not certain their relationship can survive. EFT is also helpful to individuals experiencing attachment-related fears of loss; it helps them learn to use their fears as a way of eliciting the closeness they desire.