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Practicing Emotionally Focused Therapy online: Calling all relationships
Author(s) -
Allan Robert,
Wiebe Stephanie A.,
Johnson Susan M.,
Piaseckyj Olena,
Campbell T. Leanne
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/jmft.12507
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , psychology , intervention (counseling) , process (computing) , pandemic , psychotherapist , covid-19 , family therapy , unit (ring theory) , social psychology , computer science , medicine , artificial intelligence , mathematics education , disease , pathology , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , operating system
Abstract In the midst of a global pandemic, couples are dealing a range of impacts that call for a cohesive unit while the virus frays at the edges of our most important relationships. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an evidence‐based approach to working with relationships rooted in attachment theory. As a process‐oriented psychotherapy, EFT is an ideal approach to working with relationships during this pandemic helping to solidify an “in it together” approach required to survive both as a couple and the pandemic. In this paper, we briefly review the adaptations for moving a couple therapy practice online through an EFT lens, drawing on an EFT macro‐intervention called the “Tango” as a focus in this process. We conclude the paper with a case example providing the reader with an illustration of the process and ideas for what to pay attention to when working online with a couple from an EFT perspective.