VIDEO: Susan Johnson on Restoring the Spark
Finding Your "Secure Base"
How can therapists help couples stuck in cycles of shame, hurt, and anger get back to a healthy, loving relationship? Couples therapist Susan Johnson uses the example of her clients Frank and Sylvie to explain how, by establishing what she refers to as "secure base," they restored both an emotional and physical spark to their relationship.
Daily Blog
The Best Love Story Ever
Highlights from Symposium 2019
Clinical psychologist, researcher, and developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy, Sue Johnson—challenging the idea that commitment and exclusive relationships have become passé in a world skeptical of traditional values—made an impassioned case for the deeply healing power of intimate connection.
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Evidence-Based Techniques to Effectively Work With Challenging Couples
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VIDEO: Susan Johnson on the Power of Emotion in Couples Work
The Behavior Patterns That Kill Romance, and How to Beat Them
Susan Johnson, the developer of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and a presenter at the 2019 Networker Symposium, has devoted her career to demonstrating that it’s not an oxymoron to speak of the "science of love." Listen as she explains how attachment science can help couples discover a pathway to optimal lovemaking.
Daily Blog
Sue Johnson on Restoring Connection to Partnership
The Strength of a Relationship Depends on How Partners Respond to This One Question
By Susan Johnson - Marriages are primarily about the emotional responsiveness that we call love; about fundamental human attachment. The empirically supported model of therapy I've developed allows us to understand what happens at key moments of change and make these moments happen. This means that we can not only heal relationships: we can create relationships that heal.
Daily Blog
Embracing Emotion in Couples Therapy
Susan Johnson on Creating a Road Map Through Couples Conflict
By Susan Johnson - Neuroscientists have recently established emotion is the prime force shaping how we cope with life’s challenges. Psychotherapists are beginning to learn how to work with emotion, rather than trying to control it or creating change through purely cognitive or behavioral means.
Daily Blog
The Core of Couples Therapy
Susan Johnson Explains the Root of Most Couples Conflict
By Susan Johnson - In couples therapy, the heart of the matter rarely concerns the content of a couple's arguments, but almost always concerns the strength and responsiveness of the attachment relationship they have. The bottom-line test of that relationship is in the answer to a fundamental question each is asking the other: Are you really there for me?
Daily Blog
Mastering the Tango of Love
Sue Johnson on Discovering Hidden Moments of Connection
By Sue Johnson - If you’re going to help a couple get closer and learn to really dance together, whether in bed or anywhere else, the key is helping partners experience bonding moments that open them to becoming emotionally accessible to each other. If you can do that, their bodies will follow, and sex will almost always improve.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: My First Client, My Greatest Teacher
Sue Johnson Shares a Story of Personal and Professional Transformation
In the following video from her 2018 Networker Symposium storytelling piece, couples and family therapist Sue Johnson shares a therapeutic moment that stands out from all others, one that left her with a deepened sense of what it means at the core to be a therapist.
Daily Blog
Evidence-Based Techniques to Effectively Work With Challenging Couples
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SUSAN JOHNSON, ED.D.
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A Step-by-Step Approach to Harnessing the Power of Emotion
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3/23/2018
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How Infant Attachment Security Affects Adult Relationships
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LINDA CURRAN, BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD
BESSEL A VAN DER KOLK, M.D.
TERRENCE REAL, LICSW
DIANE POOLE HELLER, PHD
SUSAN JOHNSON, ED.D.
PETER A. LEVINE, PH.D.
GABOR MATÉ, MD
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LOUIS COZOLINO, PH.D.
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Using Attachment Science to Create Bonding, Satisfying Relationships with Sue Johnson, Ed.D.
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Proven approaches for attachment issues, addiction, abuse & more
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Enhancing the Impact of Couples Therapy
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VIDEO: Susan Johnson on Restoring the Spark
Finding Your "Secure Base"
How can therapists help couples stuck in cycles of shame, hurt, and anger get back to a healthy, loving relationship? Couples therapist Susan Johnson uses the example of her clients Frank and Sylvie to explain how, by establishing what she refers to as "secure base," they restored both an emotional and physical spark to their relationship.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: Susan Johnson on the Power of Emotion in Couples Work
The Behavior Patterns That Kill Romance, and How to Beat Them
Susan Johnson, the developer of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and a presenter at the 2019 Networker Symposium, has devoted her career to demonstrating that it’s not an oxymoron to speak of the "science of love." Listen as she explains how attachment science can help couples discover a pathway to optimal lovemaking.
Daily Blog
Sue Johnson on Restoring Connection to Partnership
The Strength of a Relationship Depends on How Partners Respond to This One Question
By Susan Johnson - Marriages are primarily about the emotional responsiveness that we call love; about fundamental human attachment. The empirically supported model of therapy I've developed allows us to understand what happens at key moments of change and make these moments happen. This means that we can not only heal relationships: we can create relationships that heal.
Daily Blog
Embracing Emotion in Couples Therapy
Susan Johnson on Creating a Road Map Through Couples Conflict
By Susan Johnson - Neuroscientists have recently established emotion is the prime force shaping how we cope with life’s challenges. Psychotherapists are beginning to learn how to work with emotion, rather than trying to control it or creating change through purely cognitive or behavioral means.
Daily Blog
The Core of Couples Therapy
Susan Johnson Explains the Root of Most Couples Conflict
By Susan Johnson - In couples therapy, the heart of the matter rarely concerns the content of a couple's arguments, but almost always concerns the strength and responsiveness of the attachment relationship they have. The bottom-line test of that relationship is in the answer to a fundamental question each is asking the other: Are you really there for me?
Daily Blog
Mastering the Tango of Love
Sue Johnson on Discovering Hidden Moments of Connection
By Sue Johnson - If you’re going to help a couple get closer and learn to really dance together, whether in bed or anywhere else, the key is helping partners experience bonding moments that open them to becoming emotionally accessible to each other. If you can do that, their bodies will follow, and sex will almost always improve.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: My First Client, My Greatest Teacher
Sue Johnson Shares a Story of Personal and Professional Transformation
In the following video from her 2018 Networker Symposium storytelling piece, couples and family therapist Sue Johnson shares a therapeutic moment that stands out from all others, one that left her with a deepened sense of what it means at the core to be a therapist.
Daily Blog
Why Emotional Safety is the Defining Feature of Good Sex
Susan Johnson on Infusing Sex with Emotion and Attachment
By Susan Johnson - Passion is about so much more than responding to novel stimuli or ramped-up lust. In the dance of sex, passion can be constantly renewed, not simply by finding more exotic sexual positions, but by changing the level of our engagement in the moment and with our lover. If we really understand love, we can also understand how to shape lasting passion.
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VIDEO: Susan Johnson on the Link Between Sex and Safety
How a "Secure Base" Promotes Sexual Exploration
What does it take to restore physical intimacy to a failing relationship? In this video clip, Susan Johnson, the originator of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, uses bonding science to explain the one condition every relationship needs in order to repair emotional hurt and restore satisfying sex. Take a moment to watch this clip. You'll be glad you did.
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VIDEO: Susan Johnson on the Power of Emotion
The Secret Ingredient in Good Therapy
Emotion is the most important motivating force bringing clients to our offices in the first place. Nevertheless, therapists are often strangely queasy in the presence of strong emotion. In this clip from her 2013 Symposium keynote address, Susan Johnson offers a vivid picture of how we can take full therapeutic advantage of the emotional force field to propel the process of change.
Daily Blog
The Best Love Story Ever
Highlights from Symposium 2019
Clinical psychologist, researcher, and developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy, Sue Johnson—challenging the idea that commitment and exclusive relationships have become passé in a world skeptical of traditional values—made an impassioned case for the deeply healing power of intimate connection.
Magazine Article
My First Client, My Best Teacher
From an Evening of Storytelling 2018
A challenging client, who won't speak or swallow, teaches a therapist just starting out how to find her own voice.
Magazine Article
The Dance of Sex
If you’re going to help a couple get closer and really learn to work harmoniously with one another, whether in bed or anywhere else, the key is helping partners experience bonding moments that open them to becoming emotionally accessible to each other. If you can do that, their bodies will follow, and sex will almost always improve.
Magazine Article
The Power of Emotion in Therapy
How to Harness this Great Motivator
Neuroscientists recently established emotion is the prime force shaping how we cope with life’s challenges. Psychotherapists are beginning to learn how to work with emotion, rather than trying to control it and create change through purely cognitive or behavioral means.
Magazine Article
Are You There for Me?
Understanding the Foundations of Couples Conflict
All couples fight, but the fights that really define the relationship are always the same thing: whether partners feel they have a safe, secure connection with each other.
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Are You There for Me?
Understanding the Foundations of Couples Conflict
All couples fight, but the fights that really define the relationship are always about the same thing: whether partners feel they have a safe, secure connection with each other.
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Susan Johnson, Ed.D., is an author, clinical psychologist, researcher, professor, popular presenter and speaker and a leading innovator in the field of couple therapy and adult attachment. Sue is the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Couples and Family Therapy (EFT), which has demonstrated its effectiveness in over 30 years of peer-reviewed clinical research.
Sue Johnson is founding director of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (www.iceeft.com) and distinguished research professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California, as well as professor emeritus, clinical psychology, at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Dr. Johnson has received a variety of awards acknowledging her development of EFT and her significant contribution to the field of couple and family therapy and adult attachment. Sue has been appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor recognizing outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to Canada. In 2016, she was named Psychologist of the Year by APA, and has been honored by AAMFT for her Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Couple and Family Therapy.
As author of the best-selling book: Hold Me Tight, Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Sue Johnson has created for the general public, a self-help version of her ground-breaking research about relationships – how to enhance them, how to repair them and how to keep them. This best seller has been adapted and developed into a relationship education and enhancement program.
Her most recent book, Love Sense, The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships outlines the new logical understanding of why and how we love – based on new scientific evidence and cutting-edge research. Explaining that romantic love is based on an attachment bond, Dr. Johnson shows how to develop our “love sense” – our ability to develop long-lasting relationships.
Dr. Johnson’s best-known professional books include, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (2004) and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors (2002).
Sue trains counselors in EFT worldwide and consults to the 50 international Institutes and affiliated centers who practice EFT. For more information about Sue and her mission, please visit her website at www.drsuejohnson.com.
Sue Johnson is founding director of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (www.iceeft.com) and distinguished research professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California, as well as professor emeritus, clinical psychology, at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Dr. Johnson has received a variety of awards acknowledging her development of EFT and her significant contribution to the field of couple and family therapy and adult attachment. Sue has been appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor recognizing outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to Canada. In 2016, she was named Psychologist of the Year by APA, and has been honored by AAMFT for her Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Couple and Family Therapy.
As author of the best-selling book: Hold Me Tight, Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Sue Johnson has created for the general public, a self-help version of her ground-breaking research about relationships – how to enhance them, how to repair them and how to keep them. This best seller has been adapted and developed into a relationship education and enhancement program.
Her most recent book, Love Sense, The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships outlines the new logical understanding of why and how we love – based on new scientific evidence and cutting-edge research. Explaining that romantic love is based on an attachment bond, Dr. Johnson shows how to develop our “love sense” – our ability to develop long-lasting relationships.
Dr. Johnson’s best-known professional books include, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (2004) and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors (2002).
Sue trains counselors in EFT worldwide and consults to the 50 international Institutes and affiliated centers who practice EFT. For more information about Sue and her mission, please visit her website at www.drsuejohnson.com.
