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What is Emotionally Focused Therapy?

Kimberly Schildbach
Online Therapy in Massachusetts.
Happy Couple
EFT is your most powerful tool for personal growth and relationship transformation.

Emotionally Focused Therapy for Grief and Loss in Boston and all of Massachusetts

EFT recognizes that grief is a deeply emotional experience. It helps you accept and process the full range of your emotions, such as sadness, anger, guilt, and fear.

By focusing on understanding and processing emotions, EFT can help you navigate grief in a way that promotes healing and growth.  

EFT helps you cultivate self-compassion and acceptance, essential for navigating the intense emotions that arise during grief.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals in Boston and all of Massachusetts

Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is a powerful journey of self-discovery and healing.

Together, we'll delve deep into your emotional world to understand what makes you tick. This introspection can help you heal past wounds and develop healthier ways of relating to yourself and others. By noticing your emotional patterns, you'll learn to express yourself authentically, gaining the confidence and skills to create lasting change.

Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples in Boston and all of Massachusetts

Using my training in EFT I can help you both:

  • Understand the unique dance that takes over in times of conflict and stress. This dance can leave couples baffled, wondering what triggered the tension.

  • Once we understand this dynamic, we'll work together to help you identify and express your feelings. Even if you don't consider yourself emotionally expressive, I can help you tap into your emotions and communicate them effectively. 

  • Our work together will help you learn to share your feelings with your partner in a clear, honest, and respectful way, even during challenging times.

  • Understanding your feelings can help break negative patterns and create a new, positive cycle. While conflict can't be eliminated, it doesn't have to lead to disconnection and long arguments. By practicing new skills in our sessions, you'll grow as a couple and strengthen your relationship.

  • If your relationship has experienced attachment injuries, such as infidelity, my training in the Attachment Injury Repair Model can help you and your partner heal and rebuild trust.

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Emotionally Focused Therapy for Trauma in Boston and all of Massachusetts

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) offers a powerful approach to healing from trauma. By focusing on the emotional core of traumatic experiences, EFT helps individuals process and integrate their emotions, leading to greater understanding, acceptance, and resilience. Through our supportive therapeutic relationship, I can help guide you to develop healthier coping mechanisms, regulate your emotions, and build a stronger sense of self. This can lead to significant relief from symptoms of trauma, such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
 

Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals with Relationship Issues
in Boston and all of Massachusetts

Even if your partner isn't ready to engage in couples therapy EFT individual therapy can be a powerful tool for personal growth and relationship improvement. EFT can help you gain a deeper understanding of your role in your relationship. By focusing on your own emotions and inner landscape, you can create positive change in your relationship. By working on yourself, you can influence the dynamics of your relationship, creating a more fulfilling connection with your partner and boosting your self-confidence.
EFT is not just therapy; it's a transformative journey that helps you heal past wounds, strengthen your emotional bonds,
and experience deeper connections with yourself and others.

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Couples Counseling

Online in all of Massachusetts

Break free from the cycle of defensiveness and distrust. Reclaim your love. Rebuild a stronger, more fulfilling connection. Transform conflict into connection.

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Therapy for Grief and Loss

Online in all of Massachusetts

With an Emotionally Focused Therapy approach, I prioritize your unique grief experience and guide you towards healing and personal growth.

 

Also offering Intensive Therapy Sessions: finding strength and healing through focused support.

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Couples Therapy Intensives

Online in all of Massachusetts

Accelerate your healing journey. Intensive therapy options: choose from mini-intensives, one-day retreats, or two-day immersions. These concentrated sessions can be a standalone experience or a precursor to ongoing intensive therapy.

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