Sue johnson is a clinical psychologist, researcher, professor, author, popular presenter and speaker and one of the leading innovators in the field of couple therapy. She presents and writes on attachment and bonding, the science of love, interventions to repair relationships, trauma couples and forgiveness. Sue holds professorships at the university of ottawa in canada and at alliant university in san diego, california. She is one of the originators and the main proponent of emotionally focused couple therapy ( eft), a powerful, tested intervention to help couples repair rifts and build strong loving bonds. She is also the director of the ottawa couple and family institute and the international centre for excellence in emotionally focused therapy (iceeft) which has numerous affiliated centres and communities in north america and europe.
Eft is a short term (8 to 20 sessions) structured approach, originally developed for couple therapy and based on attachment science, formulated in the 1980’s. Interventions in efct integrate a humanistic, experiential approach to restructuring emotional experience and a systemic structural approach to restructuring interactions. A substantial body of research now exists on the effectiveness of efct. This research shows large treatment effect sizes and stable results over time. Efct is used successfully with many different kinds of couples in private practice, university training centers and hospital clinics. Preliminary research exists for couples dealing with depression, with anxiety resulting from trauma, with medical illness and with forgiveness dilemmas. https://storage.googleapis.com/62f/parterapeut-frederiksberg/index.html