Sue Johnson EdD

Creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT); Founder and Director of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy

Week 5 – How to Help Patients Overcome Strong Emotions

Week 6 – How to Help Patients ‘Reframe the Story’

Week 12 – How Emotions Impact Aliveness

Week 13 – How Relationships Build Vitality

Week 14 – How to Reawaken Aliveness After Trauma

Week 20 – How to Overcome Limiting Beliefs with New Experiences

Week 25 – Factors That Create Resilience

Week 38 – The Origin of Shame and its Underlying Value

Week 42 – How to Work with Adult Shame when it Developed in Childhood

Week 44 – Exploring the Roots of Anger

Week 47 – When Anger is Directed toward You – the Therapist

Week 53 – Skills and Resources for Navigating Uncertainty

Week 59 – Practical Skills for Working through a Client’s Resistance

Week 67 – Ways to Foster Connections to Overcome Feelings of Unworthiness

Week 70 – Growth Comes Within the Healing Work

Week 77 – The Role of Attachment in Triggering and Resolving Anxiety

Week 84 – Mistakes That Take an Emotional Toll on the Practitioner

Week 87 – Advice from Teachers and Mentors

Week 93 – How a Client’s Criticism Can Strengthen the Therapeutic Relationship

Week 99 – Strategies That Can Keep Your Client from Relapsing into Depression

Week 101 – How to Heal Relationships Hurt by Depression

Week 125 – Diffusing the Intense Emotions that Can Accompany Blame

Week 129 – How to Help Clients Contextualize Their Triggers

Week 132 – Strategies for Clients Who Fear Abandonment

Week 149 – The Impact of Avoidance on Relationships

Week 153 – Important Precautions When Working with Self-Narratives That Sustain a Client’s Suffering

Week 156 – The Role of Relationships in Forming (and Transforming) Narratives

Week 168 – How to Conceptualize Emptiness

Week 172 – How to Help Clients Connect to Meaning, Purpose, and Values

Week 195 – Loneliness That Stems from Attachment Failure and Trauma

Week 217 – Rigidity as an Adaption to Trauma

Week 222 – Trust Examined

Week 237 – Strategies for Helping Clients Build Skills to Navigate Uncertainty

Week 242 – The Critical Link Between Connection and Belonging (and Strategies to Help Clients Build Both)

Week 245 – Strategies for Working with Social and Cultural Blocks to Belongingness

Week 246 – Grandiosity and Narcissism – What are They? How Do They Differ?

Week 251 – Particular Challenges in Working with Narcissism