Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy

Lorrie L. Brubacher, MEd, LMFT, is the Founding Director of the Carolina Center for EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy). A certified trainer with the International Centre for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT), she is an individual, couple and family therapist since 1989. She is also an adjunct at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and has previously taught at several Canadian universities. She trains internationally and publishes frequently on the topic of EFT, often with its originator, Dr Sue Johnson. She co-developed EFT's first interactive video training program.

• Foreword , Introduction , Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Stepping into Love as an Attachment Process , Introduction to emotionally focused therapy (EFT) , Key ingredients of change on the EFT roadmap , The revolutionary new science of love as an attachment bond , Attachment Emotions and Alarm Bells Ringing: De-Escalating Negative Cycles in Stage 1 of EFT , Assessment and alliance: the attachment experience of Steps 1 and 2 , The tyranny of unheeded attachment fears: unpacking emotion in the de-escalation change event (Steps 3 and 4) , The Role of Emotion in Creating Lasting Change: Reshaping Attachment Bonds in Stage 2 of EFT , Working with emotion to shape the withdrawer re-engagement change event (Steps 5–7) , Working with emotion to shape the blamer softening change event (Steps 5–7) , Integration and Consolidation , Consolidating secure bonds in Stage 3 of EFT (Steps 8 and 9) , Integrating and consolidating the map of EFT , Commonly Experienced Impasses in EFT Therapy , Addictive processes as substitute sources of comfort , Repairing broken bonds: forgiveness and reconciliation with EFT's attachment injury resolution model , The Next Steps , Extending attachment-based EFT to individual therapy , Future steps: you and EFT