EFT Blog
You Don’t Suck: When the Therapist Feels Stuck – An EFT Perspective on Supervision
You don’t suck. But there are moments in EFT when it really feels like you might. If you are early in your EFT journey—or even years in—you may know this moment all too well. A session heats up fast. ...
The Session That Shook Me (And What it Taught Me About EFT)
The Session That Shook Me (and What It Taught Me About EFT) By Xavier Durrant, LPC, Couples Therapist at Optimum Joy Clinical Counseling (Chicago) Every therapist has a session that stays with them. N...
Painting a Portrait
Painting a Portrait By: Sheila Hynes, MA, LMFT Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Member of Chicago EFT Confidentiality Disclaimer: The couple described in this article is a composite based on ex...
Statement Against Hate Crimes
Dear Colleagues, We stand in solidarity today and every day with the Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander communities who have experienced a significant increase in hate crimes against them ove...
Next Steps Emerging from the Community Conversations
Dear ChicagoEFT Community, We want to thank all of you who joined us for our two community-wide conversations, “Centering Marginalized Voices & Creating Opportunities for Healing Connection,” held...
Reflection on the July 2020 Listening Session
As someone wrote in an evaluation, this event was not a passive listening gathering. It was an experience in which Cadmona and Rachel created a safe space for active listening and participation. After...
A Letter from the ChicagoEFT Past President
Dear EFT Community, We are living in extraordinary times and the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement are powerful demands for genuine, lasting and systemic change in how we as a society view a...
The Four Components of Emotion
By guest blogger, Josh Marder, LMFT Most couples have trouble expressing their softer primary emotions when they come in for couples therapy. We know that’s where we’ve got to go… but how do we get t...
Finding my “professional home”
by guest blogger, Ileana Ungureanu, MD, PhD, LMFT I first learned about the EFT model in my MFT Master program. As any graduate student, I was looking for a theory, a model to be my ‘professional home...