2nd Edition
Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy Key Ingredients of Change
This accessible, practical, and thoroughly updated second edition introduces and presents how emotionally focused therapy can be used effectively across all three modalities, couple, family, and individual therapy, with clients from a diversity of backgrounds.
Responding to critical updates in the field, this second edition once again follows Emily, an EFT therapist, to demonstrate how EFT can be used in practice. With updated references, research, and terminology throughout, this new edition reflects recent theoretical and practical updates by refocusing the model toward therapist interventions, such as the "EFT Tango," rather than the client change events, making it more accessible for readers to learn. It addresses the current need to integrate explicit socio-cultural sensitivity into EFT by including diverse case studies, explicit discussion of how the model can be applied with a diversity of clients, and how EFT therapists can integrate cultural sensitivity and attunement across multiple and diverse identities, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, neurotypicality, class, and religion. It can also be used alongside a practical new workbook, Workouts for Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy, providing therapists with all the tools needed to confidently integrate this approach into their practice.
This book is an essential read for all marriage and family therapists in practice and in training as well as counselors who are looking to use EFT with couples, families, and individuals.
INTRODUCTION Why an Introductory Book on Emotionally Focused Therapy?
PART I – Key Ingredients of Change on the EFT Roadmap
Chapter 1 Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Chapter 2 Key Ingredients of Change: Therapeutic Tasks and the EFT Macro-Intervention
Chapter 3 Experiential EFT Micro-Skills
Chapter 4 Systemic EFT Micro-Skills
Chapter 5 The Revolutionary Science of Love as an Attachment Bond
Chapter 6 Emotion as Target and Agent of Change
PART II Stabilizing in Stage 1
Introduction to Part II: Stabilizing in Stage 1
Chapter 7 Alliance Building and Assessment as an Attachment Experience
Chapter 8 Heeding Attachment Alarms to Shape Stabilization, the Stage 1 Change Event
PART III Restructuring Attachment in Stage 2
Introduction to Part III: Restructuring in Stage
Chapter 9 Working with Emotion to Shape the Engagement Change Event
Chapter 10 Working with Emotion to Shape the Softening Change Event
PART IV Consolidating
Chapter 11 Consolidating Secure Connection in Stage 3
Chapter 12 Recognizing and Following Markers of Emotion on the EFT Terrain
Chapter 13 Recognizing and Following Markers on the EFT Stage 1 Terrain
Chapter 14 Recognizing and Following Markers on the EFT Stage 2 Terrain
PART V Commonly Experienced Impasses in EFT Therapy
Introduction to Part V Commonly Experienced Impasses
Chapter 15 Addictive Processes as Substitute Sources of Connection and Emotion Regulation
Chapter 16 Forgiveness and Reconciliation with EFT’s Attachment Injury Resolution Model
PART VI The Next Steps
Chapter 17 Emotionally Focused Family therapy (EFFT) – Stepping into EFT with Families
by James Furrow and Gail Palmer
Chapter 18 Future Steps: You and EFT
Biography
Lorrie L. Brubacher, MEd, Director of the Carolina Center for EFT, adjunct at UNCG, Greensboro, NC, has authored many EFT training videos, articles, and chapters. She trains in EFT internationally.
“This second edition is a thorough and much needed work that engages therapists in compelling new ways to personally explore how to apply the amazing growth in the EFT model. The focus on clinical interventions in the moves of the EFT Tango is, like the first edition, presented in a concrete, readily-digestible manner. Brubacher breaks new ground with an informative journey of the three modalities of EFT, combining much needed integration of culture & racial trauma.”
Paul T. Guillory, PhD, Associate Professor UC Berkeley, EFT Trainer, and Author Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples: Love heals
“Lorrie Brubacher’s Stepping into Emotion Focused Therapy is the perfect introductory book for those who want to learn about and begin to practice EFT. Brilliantly organized around the experience of a beginning EFT therapist, Brubacher builds a clear understanding of all the essential aspects of this approach, including not only how to conceptualize and intervene, but also how to experience the powerful emotions involved. Updated and expanded to include all of the latest developments in EFT including its adaptation to individual and family treatment modalities, and filled with evocative clinical vignettes, this book is a great resource of anyone who wants to learn more about the practice of EFT today.”
Jay Lebow, Ph.D., ABPP, Family Institute at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201
“This second edition of Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy is an essential reading for all trainees and qualified practitioners who want to use the wisdom of emotionally focused therapy (EFT) ideas and techniques in their clinical work. The book has cleverly integrated all the latest advances in attachment theory and research and in the practice of emotionally focused therapy in an accessible and immediately useable format. It offers all the information newcomers need to integrate EFT within their clinical work, but also provides an up-to-date account of the cutting-edge expansion of EFT to individual and family therapies. The volume reads quickly and effortlessly because of the engaging author's clinical examples and insights. I enjoyed reading this informative and fascinating book. I consider it as a must-read for mental health practitioners who are looking for a compassionate and transformative approach, like EFT, to help their clients in unlocking the puzzle of their core wishes and unmet needs, healing old wounds, and moving them toward personal growth, satisfactory close relationships, and a meaningful life.”
Mario Mikulincer, Professor of Psychology, Founding Dean, Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University, Israel, co-author, Attachment Theory Applied (2023); Attachment Theory Expanded (2023); Attachment in Adulthood (2018).
“This second edition of Stepping into EFT is fantastic! Dr. Brubacher captures the many innovations in EFT over the last decade in simple, clear terms. For those who want to access the power of EFT with individuals, couples, and families, this is a great resource!”
Scott R. Woolley, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, Couple and Family Therapy, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Diego, California
