Person Centered Approach: Emotionally Focused Therapy
Emotion focused therapy is a rooted person center philosophy that integrates aspects from Gestalt therapy and existential therapy. Emotion focused therapy revolves around emotions being the primary focus and its real role in psychotherapeutic change. In couples Emotionally focused therapy is a method based on the scientific study of the adult love and bonding processing. It is designed to address and repair emotional distress in the intimate relationships of adults. Those seeking this form of therapy are usually also looking to strengthen and improve their relationships and may have found this method to be a beneficial approach for each other. There are three crucial steps of EFT; First …show more content…
Since EFT is a form of the person centered approach empathy plays a vital role in facilitating constructive change in the client. The method of therapeutic empathy has consistently showed that therapist’s empathy is the most successful predictor in the client’s successful progress in therapy. EFT also emphasizes the importance of awareness, acceptance, and understanding of one’s emotions and the triggers as to why they feel what emotion. This allows them to be able to identify, experience, explore, mold and manage their emotions in a healthy way. In fact, this form of therapy isn’t just for couples. Even though it is advertised for couples it can also be very useful for students in school. Students usually have the correct thinking patters so cognitive based therapy isn’t often needed. However, in the Person-center approach they could feel that they are in tune with their emotions an often feel stress, angry or sad. EFT could help them identify when and what could cause whey they are feeling. The main premise of EFT is that we can change only when we are able to accept ourselves as we are. This method of therapy is very effective in teaching us about the roles of emotions and how our emotions can affect our motivated reasoning and …show more content…
A limitation of EFT may be that it is not suitable for clients who experience more profound problems such as sexual violence, harassment, eating disorders and certain cognitive or dissociative disorders. It was also found that a potential limitation of EFT is that some students-in-training or not as experienced practitioners will be too empathetic or too supportive without the sense of a challenge. This will delay the change of the client’s behavior, actions or emotions and possibly have a change of making the situation at hand worse. This is because EFT focuses on emotions and neglects other behaviors that may contribute to the problem. As the author Gerald Corey in Theory and Practice of counselling and psychotherapy
Emotion focused therapy is a rooted person center philosophy that integrates aspects from Gestalt therapy and existential therapy. Emotion focused therapy revolves around emotions being the primary focus and its real role in psychotherapeutic change. In couples Emotionally focused therapy is a method based on the scientific study of the adult love and bonding processing. It is designed to address and repair emotional distress in the intimate relationships of adults. Those seeking this form of therapy are usually also looking to strengthen and improve their relationships and may have found this method to be a beneficial approach for each other. There are three crucial steps of EFT; First …show more content…
Since EFT is a form of the person centered approach empathy plays a vital role in facilitating constructive change in the client. The method of therapeutic empathy has consistently showed that therapist’s empathy is the most successful predictor in the client’s successful progress in therapy. EFT also emphasizes the importance of awareness, acceptance, and understanding of one’s emotions and the triggers as to why they feel what emotion. This allows them to be able to identify, experience, explore, mold and manage their emotions in a healthy way. In fact, this form of therapy isn’t just for couples. Even though it is advertised for couples it can also be very useful for students in school. Students usually have the correct thinking patters so cognitive based therapy isn’t often needed. However, in the Person-center approach they could feel that they are in tune with their emotions an often feel stress, angry or sad. EFT could help them identify when and what could cause whey they are feeling. The main premise of EFT is that we can change only when we are able to accept ourselves as we are. This method of therapy is very effective in teaching us about the roles of emotions and how our emotions can affect our motivated reasoning and …show more content…
A limitation of EFT may be that it is not suitable for clients who experience more profound problems such as sexual violence, harassment, eating disorders and certain cognitive or dissociative disorders. It was also found that a potential limitation of EFT is that some students-in-training or not as experienced practitioners will be too empathetic or too supportive without the sense of a challenge. This will delay the change of the client’s behavior, actions or emotions and possibly have a change of making the situation at hand worse. This is because EFT focuses on emotions and neglects other behaviors that may contribute to the problem. As the author Gerald Corey in Theory and Practice of counselling and psychotherapy