ABSTRACT
EFIT is an approach to growing and expanding the self and its capacities. It is grounded in attachment science and the power of transforming core emotional experience. Core chaotic, foreign, or denied emotional experience is evoked, ordered, and regulated to shape transformational moments of change. The ten principles of attachment theory and their implications for practice are outlined in this chapter. The goals and specific strengths of EFIT are described together with the basic tenets of experiential models of intervention. For example, growth is seen as a baseline tendency so the therapist focuses on blocks to growth and connection with others. In EFIT, clients move from chaos to order, reactivity to balance, from self-abnegation to self-acceptance, from helplessness to agency. With the map offered by research on attachment and on change in psychotherapy, the therapist can move into on-target, focused interventions that lead the client home.
