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With Les Greenberg, she developed emotionally focused (couples and family) therapy (EFT), a psychotherapeutic approach for couples based on attachment theory. [4] [5] She founded the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy, which offers training in EFT to mental health professionals. [6]
EFT began in the mid-1980s as an approach to helping couples. EFT was originally formulated and tested by Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg in 1985, [9] and the first manual for emotionally focused couples therapy was published in 1988.
Emotionally focused therapy for couples (EFT-C) is based on attachment theory and uses emotion as the target and agent of change. Emotions bring the past alive in rigid interaction patterns, which create and reflect absorbing emotional states. As one of its founders, Sue Johnson says,
Emotionally focused therapy, founded by Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg in 1985, treats depression by identifying and processing underlying emotions. The treatment manual, Facilitating emotional change, outlines treatment techniques. [30] This kind of therapy assumes that our emotions have a strong connection to our sense of identity.
Emotion-focused therapy: coaching clients to work through their feelings ... Greenberg, Leslie S.; Johnson, Susan M. (1988). Emotionally focused therapy for couples.
Sue Johnson (emotionally focused therapy, attachment theory) Walter Kempler (Gestalt psychology) Cloe Madanes (strategic therapy) Salvador Minuchin (structural family therapy) Braulio Montalvo (structural family therapy) [54] Virginia Satir (communications, experiential, conjoint and co-therapy) Mara Selvini Palazzoli (Milan family systems therapy)