EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED COUPLES THERAPY (EFCT)
Offer until the end of June 2025:
Being currently in the last part of my advanced training, I am offering couples counselling at a reduced price (90 EUR/ 90-100min) until the end of June 2025.
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Eva Navarro, rue saint merri
What is Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy?
Emotionally Focussed Couples Therapy (EFCT) is a method that helps you to regain access to your own deeper feelings and needs, to reconnect with yourself and ultimately with others. The approach, which, as the name suggests, focuses on emotions, was invented by the psychologist Dr.Sue Johnson in the 1980s and has been proven to be one of the most effective couples therapy approaches.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy helps you to understand yourself and your partner in a new way
In Emotionally Focussed Couples Therapy, partners learn that there are often deeper needs, longings and concerns behind their reactions. If partners react to each other in an annoyed or subliminally aggressive, defensive or rejecting way, this behaviour is often, subconsciously, intended to protect wounded inner parts. Without external help, however, couples can hardly access these underlying feelings. They find themselves in a cycle that escalates again and again without being able to solve important life problems in the long term. This leads to anger, despair or resignation and withdrawal.​
Where does the hurt come from? - To address and care for unlying emotions
The therapist creates a space where the hurt parts of both partners and their associated emotions are recognised: Fears, anger and despair are finally given the appreciation and recognition they deserve. What concerns and needs are linked to these emotions? And what is needed in the here and now to fulfil them? And what would it have taken back then? (if the injuries can be traced back to previous attachment traumas, for example).
Leaving the distructive cycle and create a new connection
By addressing the emotions and underlying needs of each partner, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy interrupts the unhelpful dynamics of the couple and initiates a transformative process. Both partners are invited to participate actively in this challenging journey.
The inner work may be challenging. But it is worthwhile: For yourself, your couple, relationships and your kids (if you have those), relatives and everyone around you.
When emotions can be understood and assigned, when the deep concerns are finally recognised, a new type and quality of bond can emerge - with oneself and with others.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy with knowledge about Ego States
As a certified ‘Ego State Coach & Counsellor’, I integrate my knowledge of inner parts (ego states) and trauma into my work with Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Both methods work in the client's limbic system (the so-called ‘emotional brain’), as they are convinced that many of our reactions come from our unconscious. Since some years, the term ‘inner part’ is used across psychological methods to point out that it is not just about certain emotions, but about complex neural networks that often have a longer history in the client's life. Therefore, both methods fit together organically and deepen each other.
CONTACT ME
You will find me in the Schillerkiez neighbourhood in Neukölln, not far from Tempelhofer Feld. The next stop is the U Boddinstraße or U Leinestraße.
If you have questions we can have a phone before our first meeting. Please contact me by email or phone at:
0176 34 25 19 71
