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Hold Me Tight: Conversations for Connection is an 8 session educational program based on the theory and practice of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT). The first session focuses on the new science of love and what it teaches us. The next seven sessions focus on helping couples shape and use the seven conversations laid out in the book Hold Me Tight.
EFT is an empirically tested model of couple therapy that has shown excellent outcomes with many different kinds of couples. There is also follow-up research that demonstrates the lasting effects of
EFT interventions and research on precisely how change occurs in
this approach. The practice of EFT reflects the many studies of adult
attachment theory - an empirically based perspective that forms
the basis for the emerging science of love and loving. Over the last
two decades, EFT has developed as a systematic and powerfully
effective approach to reducing relationship distress and helping
couples to create trust and intimacy. The ultimate goal in EFT is
to enable partners to not only reduce conflict and distance but
to shape their relationship into a more loving secure bond. EFT is
the first couple therapy to be based on a well defined and tested
understanding of adult love. It has also shown positive results
with couples who are dealing with particularly difficult problems,
for example, where partners are trauma survivors, are caring for
a chronically ill child, or are struggling with depression as well as
relationship distress.
EFT views the central problem in a distressed relationship
as the loss of secure emotional connection and the pattern of
negative interactions that both reflects and perpetuates this loss.
Compelling emotional signals that are meant to pull a partner closer
or reduce conflict, become distorted and shaded with criticism,
anger or apparent indifference. Negative spirals of inreractton
then erode trust and continually exacerbate each partner's natural
vulnerabilities and sense of isolation. EFT helps partners to take
control of this negative dance and to clarify their emotional signals
about attachment needs and fears in a way that encourages their
partner to respond with love and compassion. A new emotional
experience of secure connection, a sense that the other person
can be Accessible, Responsive and Engaged (A.R.E.) transforms
love relationships. Partners can then shape A.R.E. conversations
that offer a positive answer to the key question, "Are you there for
me?" Partners who are able to openly reach for and connect with
each other can create the effective dependency that makes for
a safe haven bond. This kind of bond promotes the growth and
resilience of both individuals.
EFT is taught all over the world and has been adapted in
clinical practice to clients from many different cultural groups and
educationallevels.
Excerpted from Hold Me Tight: Conversations For Connection
EFT is an empirically tested model of couple therapy that has shown excellent outcomes with many different kinds of couples. There is also follow-up research that demonstrates the lasting effects of
EFT interventions and research on precisely how change occurs in
this approach. The practice of EFT reflects the many studies of adult
attachment theory - an empirically based perspective that forms
the basis for the emerging science of love and loving. Over the last
two decades, EFT has developed as a systematic and powerfully
effective approach to reducing relationship distress and helping
couples to create trust and intimacy. The ultimate goal in EFT is
to enable partners to not only reduce conflict and distance but
to shape their relationship into a more loving secure bond. EFT is
the first couple therapy to be based on a well defined and tested
understanding of adult love. It has also shown positive results
with couples who are dealing with particularly difficult problems,
for example, where partners are trauma survivors, are caring for
a chronically ill child, or are struggling with depression as well as
relationship distress.
EFT views the central problem in a distressed relationship
as the loss of secure emotional connection and the pattern of
negative interactions that both reflects and perpetuates this loss.
Compelling emotional signals that are meant to pull a partner closer
or reduce conflict, become distorted and shaded with criticism,
anger or apparent indifference. Negative spirals of inreractton
then erode trust and continually exacerbate each partner's natural
vulnerabilities and sense of isolation. EFT helps partners to take
control of this negative dance and to clarify their emotional signals
about attachment needs and fears in a way that encourages their
partner to respond with love and compassion. A new emotional
experience of secure connection, a sense that the other person
can be Accessible, Responsive and Engaged (A.R.E.) transforms
love relationships. Partners can then shape A.R.E. conversations
that offer a positive answer to the key question, "Are you there for
me?" Partners who are able to openly reach for and connect with
each other can create the effective dependency that makes for
a safe haven bond. This kind of bond promotes the growth and
resilience of both individuals.
EFT is taught all over the world and has been adapted in
clinical practice to clients from many different cultural groups and
educationallevels.
Excerpted from Hold Me Tight: Conversations For Connection
The Retreat at Sheppard Pratt Outpatient Services announces an innovative Couples Workshop
The Hold Me Tight Program is designed to help improve connection and decrease distance and arguing in your relationship.
Participants will learn about:
· Managing disagreements
· Better controlling negative interactions that cause pain and distance
· Developing a mutually supportive relationship
· Creating connection
· Shaping the positive moments that create a secure bond
· Better understanding the pivotal moves and moments that define a relationship
Based on the book
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
By: Dr. Sue Johnson
www.holdmetight.com
Time: 8 weekly sessions, Thursdays 5-6:30PM, October 3- November 21
Fee: $1400 per couple for the series
Location: 6501 N. Charles Street, Towson, MD 21204
Facilitated by: Mayer Solomon, LCSW-C and Marina Nikhinson, MD
For more details or to register, please contact:
Mayer Solomon, LCSW-C,
msolomon@sheppardpratt.org
410-938-4048
The Hold Me Tight Program is designed to help improve connection and decrease distance and arguing in your relationship.
Participants will learn about:
· Managing disagreements
· Better controlling negative interactions that cause pain and distance
· Developing a mutually supportive relationship
· Creating connection
· Shaping the positive moments that create a secure bond
· Better understanding the pivotal moves and moments that define a relationship
Based on the book
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
By: Dr. Sue Johnson
www.holdmetight.com
Time: 8 weekly sessions, Thursdays 5-6:30PM, October 3- November 21
Fee: $1400 per couple for the series
Location: 6501 N. Charles Street, Towson, MD 21204
Facilitated by: Mayer Solomon, LCSW-C and Marina Nikhinson, MD
For more details or to register, please contact:
Mayer Solomon, LCSW-C,
msolomon@sheppardpratt.org
410-938-4048