by Lori Linseedoil Case | Jul 30, 2026 | Emotionally Focused Therapy, Reflections
In therapy, it’s easy to assume that the request a client makes is the place we should begin. They ask for communication tools, conflict strategies, or better ways to respond. Yet sometimes those requests point toward something much deeper. I’ve found...
by Lori Linseedoil Case | Jul 29, 2026 | Emotionally Focused Therapy, Reflections
We often think healing begins by uncovering the emotions beneath anger. But over time, I’ve found myself noticing something that comes even before emotion. Distance. The distance someone has had to travel from themselves in order to survive. This realization has...
by Lori Linseedoil Case | Dec 8, 2025 | Better Together, Emotionally Focused Therapy
Growth Requires New Conditions, Not New Effort People in close relationships often come to me after years—sometimes decades—of being stuck in painful cycles. Individuals come for similar reasons, hoping to find relief from internal patterns so deeply ingrained that...
by Lori Linseedoil Case | Jun 17, 2025 | Better Together, Emotionally Focused Therapy
“I didn’t yet understand that I was moving through a world that saw and treated me differently—and that those differences, though mostly invisible, had been shaping us all along.” I’ve spent a lot of time learning how childhood trauma and neglect shape the nervous...
by Lori Linseedoil Case | Feb 23, 2022 | Emotionally Focused Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Dr. Sue Johnson and her colleagues, is largely responsible for transforming the field of couple therapy over the past 30 years. Without EFT training, couple therapy is often ineffective. With EFT, couple therapy has...
