ABSTRACT
The emotional safety model begins and ends with the issue of emotional safety. Couples who are caught in cycles of repetitive conflict and/or distancing lack emotional safety in their relationships. From the first session and throughout the entire course of the therapy, the therapist’s most basic intervention is to be attuned to the specific realms in which each partner feels unsafe. The therapy is not successfully completed until the couple has achieved emotional safety and has the ability to reachieve it in the wake of the occasional threats to safety that characterize intimate relationships.
