Emotionally Focused Therapy: Session 2

In this course, Dr. Shea Dunham, an expert in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), holds the second session with Jay and Danielle, an Afro-American couple who have come to session to work on trust in their marriage. Dr. Dunham's overall goal is to help repair attachment injuries, teach the couple to negotiate different attachment styles, and build security and trust. In this session, she examines how they handle conflict, their attachment history, and their interactional cycle. In discussion after the session with series host Dr. Shannon Dermer, Dunham emphasises the importance of using evocative language, earning the couple's trust, and getting them to begin speaking “from the heart”.