Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples

If you and your partner find yourselves stuck in the same old emotional and sexual patterns, or if you feel distant and lonely in your relationship, Emotionally Focused Therapy For Couples may be just what you need.  Developed and researched by Dr. Sue Johnson, EFCT is highly experiential therapy that helps couples identify where and how they are caught in disconnection, or negative dance. Together, we create new, intimate relationship bonds and communication patterns, and use these new moves to solve problems and increase intimacy.

I typically meet with a couple (from Maryland or Delaware) at least one time to hear what’s happening in the relationship. I also meet one time with each person in the relationship or marriage, to get a sense of how life looked before you ever met each other. I’m looking for what we call “attachment history”, or how you learned to manage emotions and seek comfort.

From there, we meet all together for future sessions. We will look at where you get stuck, over and over again, in this relationship. We will look for ways to change the patterns, and we will look for new ways to seek and ask for comfort and connection.