Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) is based on assumption, that our emotions inform us about our needs and take so a key role in our everyday life as well as by our important life decisions.
EFT is evidence based therapy and is the scientific answer to what exactly helps clients in therapy.
EFT therapy is suitable for you, when you are experiencing states of irritability, anxiety, hopelessness, helplessness, depression, suffer of insomnia, worry a lot, suffer panic attacks or have other uncomfortable bodily sensations. EFT is experiential work, in which EFT therapist will be encouraging you to open yourself to heavy and hurtful feelings, name and express them. To come in contact with emotional pain is necessary, so these emotions could consequently transform through advancing assertivity and compassion to yourself. During our work we will focus more on your feelings about the issue that you come with, than on what you think about it.
EFT is not solution focused therapy. Its aim is not to help you to solve you specific issue. As EFT therapist I won't give you advice, what you should do regarding your issue. I will be focusing on transformation of your hurtful feelings related to this issue.
Transformation of your hurtful feelings can help you increase your flexibility a sensibleness of your emotional life, increase your emotional perceptivity and contribute to a bigger sense of your agency and maturity. Aim of EFT is so increase overall quality of your emotional life.