When Emotions Run High: Helping Couples Make Sense of Stuck Places With Emotionally Focused Therapy

When: Friday, March 9, 2018
Where: 40 Center Street, Northampton, MA 01060
Instructor: Nancy Knudsen, LMFT

This workshop taught the basic concepts of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an evidence-based approach that has been shown to be highly effective in helping distressed couples repair and create a secure bond. Based on an integration of structural systems theory and the theory of attachment and emotional bonding, EFT offers a roadmap to help couples stuck in a perpetual cycle of conflict to find their way back to loving connection. Weaving together the intra-psychic elements of emotional experience with the interactional component between two people, EFT offers clinicians a bridge between the individual and couple therapy paradigms.

Nancy Knudsen, LMFT has devoted her 30 year career to serving couples and families in distress, most recently using the model of Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is a Certified EFT Supervisor, a Past President of MAMFT, a Founding Member of the New England Center for EFT, and Co-Director of CFINE.