Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) in Los Angeles
I have been trained in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) by its founder, Dr. Leslie Greenberg. EFT is an evidence-based, humanistic–experiential approach that views emotion as central to human functioning and therapeutic change. It blends a warm, empathic therapeutic relationship with guided experiential methods to help clients understand, regulate, and transform their emotional experience.
EFT proposes that emotions themselves have an innately adaptive potential that if activated can help clients change problematic emotional states or unwanted self-experiences.
Clients learn that change requires fully contacting and reclaiming feelings that may have been dismissed, feared, or pushed away. Through empathic attunement and experiential work, clients develop healthier engagement with their feelings, memories, thoughts, and physical sensations.
By accessing adaptive emotions such as healthy grief, empowering anger, and self-compassion, people can transform maladaptive emotions like fear, shame, and the sadness of abandonment.
EFT has been effective in treatment of the following disorders and or difficulties:
- Depression
- Anxiety Disorders (Panic, Agoraphobia, & Social Anxiety)
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Eating Disorders
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Low Self-Esteem