Emotionally focused therapy

Emotionally focused therapy and emotion-focused therapy (both EFT) are two related but distinct approaches to psychotherapy with individuals, couples, or families. Both EFT approaches include elements of experiential therapy (such as person-centered therapy and Gestalt therapy), systemic therapy, and attachment theory. EFT is usually a short-term treatment (8–20 sessions). Both EFT approaches are based on the premise that human emotions are connected to human needs, and therefore emotions have an innately adaptive potential that, if activated and worked through, can help people change problematic emotional states and interpersonal relationships. The approach now called emotionfocused therapy was originally known as process-experiential therapy, and it is still sometimes called by that name.

EFT should not be confused with emotion-focused coping, a category of coping proposed by some psychologists, although clinicians have used EFT to help improve clients' emotion-focused coping.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotionally_focused_therapy