From best-selling author, Susan M. Johnson, with over 1 million books sold worldwide!
This essential text from the leading authority on Emotionally Focused Therapy, Susan M. Johnson, and colleague, T. Leanne Campbell, applies the key interventions of EFT to work with individuals, providing an overview and clinical guide to treating clients with depression, anxiety, and traumatic stress.
Designed for therapists at all levels of expertise, Johnson and Campbell focus on introducing clinicians to EFIT interventions, techniques, and change processes in a highly accessible and practical format. The book begins by summarizing attachment theory and science β the theoretical basis of this model β together with the experiential approach to change in psychotherapy. Chapters describe the three stages of EFIT, macro-interventions, such as the EFIT Tango, and various micro-interventions through clinical exercises, case studies, and transcripts to demonstrate this model in practice with individuals, highlighting the unique benefits of EFT as a cross-modality approach for treating emotional disorders. With exercises interwoven throughout the text, this book is built to accompany in-person and online training, helping the practicing clinician offer targeted and empirically tested interventions that not only alleviate symptoms of distress but expand the clientβs emotional balance, agency, and sense of self.
As the next major extension of the EFT approach, this book will appeal to therapists already working with couples and families as well as those just beginning their professional journey. Psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, social workers, and mental health workers will also find this book invaluable.
My degree is in psychology and I wholly and fully support the precepts of this book!!!!!
Being able to get such a detailed, up close and personal perspective of the EFIT journey with these two amazing therapists and their amazing clients was a privilege and a pleasure. I canβt recommend this book highly enough.
I enjoyed Sue Johnson’s other works on EFT, but Sue’s primer on EFIT was a game-changer for me. Recently I have been going through some personal difficulties. As a result, I was unwilling to process certain emotions without numbing or exaggerating them. These avoidant strategies kept me out of touch with myself to a large extent, and I could not consistently apply what I had learned in books to get me out of my distress. Reading ‘A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy’ felt in part like I was in a therapy session myself and helped me regain touch with my emotions. Second of all, as someone who studies EFT as a hobby, I found it very useful to have the typical rabbit holes that EFT therapists fall into, for example, being overly intellectual while walking others through emotional experience. Reading this book felt like a mirror that validated my insecurities and offered relevant advice for using EFT to help others – highly recommended!
This book is a great book for therapists wanting to grow in EFIT! It feels slightly hard to stay interested but still good material.