EFT Atlanta
Michael Barnett, LPC
Licensed EFT Couples Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer
 

by: Sue Johnson

This is a book for all couples who want to share a closer connection.

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Susan Susan Johnson, Ed.D.


Taught: Externship 2008, Externship 2006

Sue Johnson is one of the world's leading lecturers, theorists, researchers and clinicians in the field of couple therapy. Widely published, her best-known book is The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection. In 2000, she was awarded AAMFT's Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Marriage & Family Therapy Award. In 2005 she was awarded AFTA's Outstanding Contribution to Family Research Award. Dr. Johnson is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Ottawa University and Director of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy in Ottawa. Until recently she was also the Director of the Couple and Family Clinic at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. She received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1984. She is a registered psychologist in the province of Ontario, Canada, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy and the Journal of Family Psychology. For more about Sue go to: www.eft.ca

Listen to her podcast, Interview with Sue Johnson about "Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love"

 

BOOKS

  
book Hold Me Tight
by Sue Johnson

This book offers a revolutionary new way to see and shape love relationships. The stories, new ideas and exercises offered in Hold Me Tight are based on the new science of love and the wisdom of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. The outstanding success rate of this approach has been heralded in scientific journals, the New York Times and Time magazine. Dr. Sue Johnson shows the reader how to create a safe emotional bond that can last a lifetime.

 
workbook

The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection
by Susan Johnson

Since its original publication in 1996, this volume has been a helpful guide to therapists in the practice of emotionally focused therapy. This second edition will address the many changes in the field of couples therapy, including updated research results linked to clinical intervention and new information on using EFT to address depression and PTSD. A new section covers the growth of couples therapy as a field and its overall relevance to the mental health field, accompanied by coverage of how recent research into the nature of marital distress is consonant with EFT. Other new features are a section of EFT and feminism, as well as a section and cultural competence for the EFT therapist.

 
workbook2 Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook
by Susan Johnson and Douglas Tilley

An invaluable tool for clinicians and students, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook takes the reader on an adventure — the quest to become a competent, confident, and passionate couple and family therapist. In an accessible resource for training and supervision, seven expert therapists lead the reader through the nine essential steps of EFT with explicit intervention strategies. Suitable as a companion volume to The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, 2nd Ed. or as a stand-alone learning tool, the workbook provides an easy road-map to mastering the art of EFT with exercises, review sheets and practice models. Unprecedented in its novel and interactive approach, this is a must-have for all therapists searching for lasting and efficient results in couple therapy.

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DVDs

  

The following DVDs are available from the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) web site:

Training Tape #1: Healing Broken Bonds (1993, VHS and DVD)
Training Tape #2: Couples and Trauma (2002, VHS and DVD)
Training Tape #3: A Consulation in EFT:
Shaping Change Events (2003, VHS and DVD)
Training Tape #4: Interventions in EFT (2006)
Training Tape #5: EFT Summit (DVD 2006)

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