A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client

From best-selling author, Susan M. Johnson, with over 1 million books sold worldwide!

This essential text from the leading authority on Emotionally Focused Therapy, Susan M. Johnson, and colleague, T. Leanne Campbell, applies the key interventions of EFT to work with individuals, providing an overview and clinical guide to treating clients with depression, anxiety, and traumatic stress.

Designed for therapists at all levels of expertise, Johnson and Campbell focus on introducing clinicians to EFIT interventions, techniques, and change processes in a highly accessible and practical format. The book begins by summarizing attachment theory and science - the theoretical basis of this model - together with the experiential approach to change in psychotherapy. Chapters describe the three stages of EFIT, macro-interventions, such as the EFIT Tango, and various micro-interventions through clinical exercises, case studies, and transcripts to demonstrate this model in practice with individuals, highlighting the unique benefits of EFT as a cross-modality approach for treating emotional disorders. With exercises interwoven throughout the text, this book is built to accompany in-person and online training, helping the practicing clinician offer targeted and empirically tested interventions that not only alleviate symptoms of distress but expand the client's emotional balance, agency, and sense of self.

As the next major extension of the EFT approach, this book will appeal to therapists already working with couples and families as well as those just beginning their professional journey. Psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, social workers, and mental health workers will also find this book invaluable.

Susan M. Johnson, Ed.D., is the leading developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for individuals, couples, and families. She is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University, San Diego, and Director of the International Center for Excellence in EFT (www.iceeft.com). She has received many awards for her seminal work in couple therapy and attachment and is the proud recipient of the Order of Canada. Her books have sold over 1 million copies worldwide.

T. Leanne Campbell, Ph.D., is co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group (a multi-site psychology practice) and is an Honorary Research Associate of Vancouver Island University. Initially trained by Dr. Susan M. Johnson, she has been working in the EFT model for the past three decades and is a co-developer of various educational materials and programs.