Emotion-Focused Therapy is a therapeutic approach that helps individuals become aware of, regulate, and transform distressing emotional states. It emphasizes the importance of emotional processes in shaping one’s sense of self and interpersonal relationships.
Key Points:
- Foundations: Humanistic and person-centered principles, with an added focus on the adaptive potential of emotions.
- Techniques: “Empty chair” dialogues, focusing on internal experience, and identifying core emotional patterns.
- Applications: Particularly effective for couples therapy, but also used for depression, trauma, and anxiety.
- Goal: Enhancing emotional intelligence, authenticity, and deeper relational connections.
