Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Process-Experiential Approach to Change

by Rhonda N. Goldman PhD, Robert Kingwill Elliott Jr., Jeanne C. Watson

Updates a classic EFT reference with over 20 years of research and theory.

The key to helping clients transform their old, bad, stuck feelings is a process of emotional deepening. Clients must move from global distress to core pain, then to useful adaptive emotions. In emotion-focused therapy (EFT), therapists facilitate this process by first adopting a deeply empathic, caring presence and second offering therapeutic work ("tasks")...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143383832X
• ISBN13: 9781433838323
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Length: 580 Pages
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 10.0"