This approach is a highly researched, evidence-based, and effective approach that works through a series of stages and steps to create feelings of safety and trust between relationship partners. Couples develop the skills needed to de-escalate the negative patterns and wounds that keep them from feeling disconnected. They learn to realise the underlying emotions that feed negative patterns and begin to understand each other better. From the safer ground that provides, they begin to create new experiences in which they communicate openly and ask for their needs to be met in healthy ways.

EFIT is a relational, attachment-based therapy that helps clients connect with themselves in a secure, gentle and guided way through healing past emotional pain. In emotion focused individual therapy, the therapist guides clients through key emotional experiences that define their sense of self and of others towards a new sense of connection and competence.

Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy helps individuals recognize the dominant emotions and patterns in their lives to uncover underlying needs and can help clients build inner resilience and strength towards more fulfilling relationships and enriched lives.

Person-centered therapy, also known as client-based therapy, is a warm, supportive, non-authoritative therapeutic approach. This approach assumes people are their own best experts, and able to discover their own solutions with minimal guidance if they are provided with an emotionally safe, authentic and supportive counselling environment.

Person-centered therapy originated in the work of American psychologist Carl Rogers, who believed that every person is unique and that everyone’s view of his or her own world, and their ability to manage it, should be trusted.