Emotionally Focused Therapy
We offer Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help you understand your emotional patterns, deepen self-awareness, and create healthier, more compassionate ways of responding to yourself and others.
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)?
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based approach that helps individuals, couples, and families understand and reshape emotional patterns that influence their relationships. Rooted in attachment theory, EFT focuses on identifying core emotional needs, reducing distress, and creating secure, supportive connections. By exploring emotions in a safe and structured way, EFT helps clients build stronger, more resilient relationships with themselves and others.
EFT at Solasta in Calgary prioritizes emotional safety, helping you tune into the deeper experiences driving conflict, disconnection, or internal distress. Through guided conversation and supportive emotional processing, clients learn to shift old patterns and create new cycles of closeness, trust, and understanding.
How does EFT Work?
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is based on the understanding that our emotional patterns are shaped by early attachment experiences and reinforced through the ways we protect ourselves in relationships. By exploring these deeper emotional responses in a safe, supportive environment, EFT helps you identify unmet needs, shift unhelpful patterns, and create healthier, more secure ways of relating to yourself and others.
The first step in EFT is understanding the emotional and behavioural cycles that keep you stuck—whether in internal conflict or in a relationship.
“Why do I keep reacting this way?”
Your therapist helps you identify the emotions beneath your reactions and the protective patterns shaped by past experiences, allowing you to understand yourself more deeply.
Exploring Core Emotions Safely
Once your patterns are identified, EFT guides you toward accessing deeper, often unspoken emotional needs in a safe and structured way.
“What am I really feeling underneath all of this?”
By slowing down emotional moments, your therapist helps you tune into vulnerable emotions that often drive distress or disconnection, without becoming overwhelmed.
Reshaping Emotional Responses
EFT helps you change the emotional experience itself—not just your thoughts about it.
“How can I respond differently when I feel triggered?”
Through guided practice, you learn to express emotions more clearly, respond with compassion, and create new patterns of safety and connection.
Strengthening Secure Attachment
A key goal of EFT is building emotional safety—internally or between partners or family members.
“What does secure connection feel like?”
By practicing openness, trust, and emotional responsiveness, EFT helps you develop a stable foundation for long-term well-being and healthier relationships.
Applying EFT Beyond Sessions
One of the strengths of EFT is that the insights and emotional shifts often translate into everyday life quickly.
“How do I use this outside of therapy?”
You’ll learn skills for emotional regulation, communication, and self-understanding that can help you navigate stress, conflict, and intimacy with greater confidence.
Integrating Emotional Healing Into Daily Life
The final stage of EFT supports you in applying your emotional insights to real-world situations, helping you stay grounded and connected even when challenges arise.
“How do I maintain this progress?”
Your therapist will help you practice new emotional responses, recognize your patterns in the moment, and build habits that support long-term emotional balance. Over time, this integration allows you to feel more secure, more self-aware, and more confident navigating relationships and stressful moments.
What can Emotionally Focused Therapy Help With?
Emotionally Focused Therapy is effective for individuals, couples, and families facing a wide range of emotional and relational challenges. It can support you in working through:
Relationship Distress
EFT helps partners understand reactive cycles, reduce conflict, and rebuild emotional closeness.
“Can EFT help us reconnect?”
Yes. EFT is one of the most effective couple therapies for rebuilding trust, communication, and intimacy.
Anxiety & Emotional Overwhelm
EFT helps you identify underlying emotional needs driving anxious responses and teaches you how to soothe your nervous system through connection and emotional clarity.
Depression & Disconnection
When emotions become muted or overwhelming, EFT supports you in reconnecting with yourself and understanding the emotional roots of hopelessness or withdrawal.
Attachment Wounds & Family-of-Origin Stress
EFT is particularly effective for addressing patterns developed in childhood—such as fear of abandonment, difficulty trusting others, or emotional avoidance.
Postpartum & Parenting Stress
EFT supports parents in navigating identity shifts, emotional overload, and relational strain during the transition to parenthood.
Trauma & Relationship Impact
While EFT is not a trauma-processing method like EMDR or ART, it is highly effective at addressing how trauma affects emotional safety, trust, and connection.
Emotional Reactivity & Shutdown
EFT helps you understand the emotional patterns that lead to quick reactions, withdrawal, or going numb during stressful moments.
“Why do I shut down or get overwhelmed so fast?”
By exploring the deeper feelings underneath these responses, EFT supports you in developing emotional clarity, staying grounded, and responding in ways that feel more authentic and manageable.
Why Choose Solasta for EFT Therapy in Calgary?
Our therapists work collaboratively with clients to create personalized EFT treatment plans that reflect your emotional patterns, attachment history, and current goals. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, depression, identity shifts, relationship stress, or long-standing emotional patterns, Emotionally Focused Therapy can help you understand your reactions, strengthen emotional clarity, and build healthier, more secure ways of relating to yourself and others.
How Do I Know if EFT is Right for Me?
Emotionally Focused Therapy is a gentle, evidence-based approach grounded in attachment science. If you’re looking to understand why you react the way you do, explore deeper emotional needs, or break out of old patterns that keep you stuck, EFT may be an excellent fit. This approach helps you access core emotions safely, develop compassion for your internal responses, and build emotional security from the inside out.
Our therapists are warm, highly trained, and deeply committed to supporting you through meaningful, sustainable change.
At Solasta Counselling, we provide a safe, supportive, and non-judgemental space where you can explore your emotions, strengthen your inner resilience, and develop the tools you need to feel more grounded, connected, and secure in your everyday life.
Take the First Step Toward Positive Change
At Solasta Counselling, we are dedicated to helping you overcome challenges and achieve your mental health goals with Emotionally Focused Therapy in Calgary.
Calgary Counselling and Psychology Services
Our Calgary psychologists have a wide range of experience and expertise in understanding the unique needs of our clients and helping you reach your therapy goals.
CAP
All of our psychologists are registered with the College of Alberta Psychologist.
PAA
Many of our psychologists are members of the Psychology Association of Alberta.
CCPA
Many of our psychologists are members of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association.
Therapists Specializing in EFT Therapy in Calgary
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FAQs
What types of therapy do you offer at Solasta Counselling?
At Solasta Counselling, we offer a wide range of evidence-based therapies tailored to your individual needs.
These include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), EMDR for trauma, Narrative Therapy, and Gottman Method Couples Therapy.
Each approach is designed to help address specific challenges, whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, grief, trauma, or other concerns.
How do I know if therapy is right for me?
Therapy can be helpful if you’re experiencing emotional or psychological challenges that affect your daily life, relationships, or well-being.
Common signs include persistent feelings of sadness or anxiety, difficulty coping with stress, or a desire for personal growth and self-discovery.
If you’re unsure, an initial consultation can help you explore your concerns and determine if therapy is a good fit for you.
What can I expect during my first session?
Your first session at Solasta Counselling will focus on understanding your unique situation and goals.
You’ll discuss your current challenges, personal history, and what you hope to achieve in therapy.
This session allows your therapist to tailor a treatment plan that suits your needs, while also giving you an opportunity to ask questions and build a comfortable, trusting relationship.
Do you offer virtual or in-person counselling sessions?
Yes, Solasta Counselling offers both virtual and in-person sessions to accommodate your preferences and needs.
Virtual therapy allows you to access support from the comfort of your home, while in-person sessions provide a private, welcoming environment at our Calgary location and throughout Alberta.
Both options ensure the same level of care and confidentiality.
How long does therapy usually take?
The length of therapy varies depending on your goals and the complexity of your concerns.
Some clients see improvement in just a few sessions, while others benefit from longer-term support.
Your therapist will work with you to set realistic expectations and adjust your treatment plan as you progress.
Is therapy confidential?
Yes, all sessions at Solasta Counselling are confidential.
We follow strict professional and legal guidelines to protect your privacy.
The only exceptions involve safety concerns, such as risks of harm to yourself or others, which your therapist will explain during your initial session.