What Is Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy?
Understanding the concept
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) draws on attachment science and experiential approaches to help individuals explore emotional patterns, protective responses, and their sense of self in relationships.
What this might look like
Someone might begin to recognize both a need for closeness and a protective urge to distance themselves.
A question to reflect on
Which emotional pattern would you most want to understand with compassion?
Research & further reading
- Beasley & Ager (2019). Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: A systematic review of its effectiveness.
- Friedlander et al. (2018). Meta-analysis of the alliance–outcome relation in couple and family therapy.
These sources offer background reading and do not necessarily substantiate every sentence in this article. This is educational information, not diagnosis or personalized advice. Content should be clinician-reviewed prior to public launch.