After 20+ years of providing couples therapy in Salt Lake City, I’ve seen firsthand how Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) can heal relationships that seemed beyond repair. As a certified EFT therapist and supervisor at Peterson Family Therapy, I want to share how this approach creates lasting change for couples in our community.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, is a highly effective couples therapy modality that focuses on helping clients learn to communicate the softer primary emotions (think vulnerability, or the need for acceptance) that always lie underneath the more surface emotions (think anger, contempt, and defensiveness) that put us in a negative cycle of hurt and disconnection.
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When I have been the most depressed, one constant was a brutally critical interior conversation. This inner critic was loud and menacing, usually communicating to me that I was worthless and weak, not worthy of love, and that getting out of the depression was unlikely. Over many years of cognitive and spiritual work I have […]
/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/pft-logo-final-final.png00Ed Peterson/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/pft-logo-final-final.pngEd Peterson2017-01-31 17:55:002026-03-12 14:19:49Depression and the Inner Critic
Recently a patient showed me how and when to take a calculated risk during an individual therapy session (of course never ever do anything unethical or inappropriate or potentially damaging — “first, do no harm”). In this moment she led me out of my comfort zone and into new and important emotional territory for her. […]
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How Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Transforms Relationships in Salt Lake City
/by Ed PetersonAfter 20+ years of providing couples therapy in Salt Lake City, I’ve seen firsthand how Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) can heal relationships that seemed beyond repair. As a certified EFT therapist and supervisor at Peterson Family Therapy, I want to share how this approach creates lasting change for couples in our community.
Vulnerability In Therapy Pays Big Dividends
/by Ed PetersonEmotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, is a highly effective couples therapy modality that focuses on helping clients learn to communicate the softer primary emotions (think vulnerability, or the need for acceptance) that always lie underneath the more surface emotions (think anger, contempt, and defensiveness) that put us in a negative cycle of hurt and disconnection.
Depression and the Inner Critic
/by Ed PetersonWhen I have been the most depressed, one constant was a brutally critical interior conversation. This inner critic was loud and menacing, usually communicating to me that I was worthless and weak, not worthy of love, and that getting out of the depression was unlikely. Over many years of cognitive and spiritual work I have […]
Taking Calculated Risks in Therapy
/by Ed PetersonRecently a patient showed me how and when to take a calculated risk during an individual therapy session (of course never ever do anything unethical or inappropriate or potentially damaging — “first, do no harm”). In this moment she led me out of my comfort zone and into new and important emotional territory for her. […]