Individuals: for clients who struggle with depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light”.
— B. Brown
Are you caught in a cloud of self doubt?
Do you feel anxious or depressed?
Do the echoes of trauma prevent you from feeling fully alive?
Does everything seem like a struggle?
Do you feel stuck, overwhelmed and stressed out?
Do you numb out or freak out ?
Do you struggle in your intimate relationships?
Have you lost someone close?
Those moments can leave us shattered and overwhelmed. I will provide a safe space for you to explore the stuck places and help you regain your balance, vitality and agency. My approach is based on the science of attachment. I use Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) to help you reconnect with yourself.
EFIT is based on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a tried-and-true methodology used with couples.
EFIT focuses on helping people grow into a sense of secure, positive connection with the self—a self that is fit and vibrantly alive.
EFIT is used primarily with clients who struggle with depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Many clients are caught in cycles of emotional suppression, avoidance, and reactive escalation. These tactics for regulating feelings in unsafe environments end up becoming prisons that maintain distress. Protection becomes a prison.
“I don’t want to feel—it’s too scary. But now I can’t live empty and numbed-out anymore. So I am stuck, desperate, and getting more depressed by the day.”
EFIT strives not only for symptom reduction, but for personality growth and greater connection with the self and others. This kind of approach enables clients to be more open and engaged with their inner experience and with other people—to be more alive.
Growth is our natural way of being. The client’s dysfunctional behavior is a distortion of a potentially healthy way of dealing with intolerable experiences. The therapist joins the client where they are, clarifies their predicament, and trusts in their innate health and ability to grow if given a safe environment. The therapist guides the client in confronting blocks to growth—such as the terror of rejection, which drives shutdown in relationships and keeps clients perpetually lonely as their terror increases.
In EFIT, clients can find their emotional balance, step out of these cycles, and can be guided into and through their most vulnerable moments.
Who is EFIT for?
The simple answer is that EFIT is for anyone who can begin to engage with their therapist using a short-term, focused method. That said, EFIT is most often used for depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic issues.
How does EFIT work?
EFIT has three stages:
Stabilization: In this first stage, the goals are to pinpoint the problem in process terms and help the client find enough emotional balance to tolerate shame, reactive anger, deep grief, sadness, and fear.
Restructuring: In stage two, the therapist leads the client deeper into their core negative emotions and identity dramas, then back out into a restructured emotional reality and identity.
Consolidation: Stage three integrates all the changes made in therapy and prepares the client for future challenges.
I promise that you will learn a great deal about yourself, your patterns and how you get in your own way. You will also learn how to deal with these patterns in a better way and how to live authentically and courageously.