ABSTRACT
This book is a primer designed to acquaint you with the basic EFIT model. As we stated in the introduction, the goal is to help you begin your EFIT journey to full confidence and a sense of competence that grounds you in every session, no matter what kind of client you encounter. This text has hopefully enabled the reader to begin to integrate the wisdom of three different bodies of knowledge: attachment science; humanistic experiential therapy, with its focus on the primacy of emotion and attuned collaboration with clients; and practice and research in the general EFT model as applied to distressed couples over the last 30 years. The latter has shown us how to swiftly and accurately translate attachment science and experiential interventions into key moments of change that do much more than modify individual symptoms and relational distress; they reliably transform both models of self and other and significantly shift relationship structures. These change events transform both dancer and dance. They change the key organizing variables of individual identity and interactional patterns. Attachment science and the wise use of the power of emotional experience is the way forward for the field of psychotherapy.
