Lorrie L. Brubacher - Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change

My gratitude begins with Dr Sue Johnson. Thank you for recommending me to write this book. Thank you for creating a model of therapy that fits so perfectly with all I have striven to practise and to teach from my Rogerian roots, and yet is a model that, apparently, in its endless possibilities, extends beyond the stars. Thank you for endorsing me as an EFT therapist, a supervisor, and a trainer, and deepest thanks for the many opportunities you have afforded me to write about EFT, both as your co-author and alone.

Enormous gratitude as well to Alison Lee for your honesty, brilliance, wise insights, and perseverance in reading my rough drafts. And thank you for our feisty conversations and debates. My thanks for all your work blends with my gratefulness for your friendship, encouragement, and belief in me. I definitely could not have done this without you.

My steady source of support, encouragement, and consultation is my husband, Dan Perlman, my safe haven and a secure base, and without whom I would not understand Bowlby. Thank you for many hours of reading drafts, endless discussions, armloads of groceries, and for being at least as excited about this project as I am.

To my many colleagues, supervisees, trainees, and couples: I learn something new each day from you about EFT. I am energised and enlightened by the transformations we co-create. Special thanks to Craig Cashwell from the Counseling and Educational Development Department at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Your support and generosity is immeasurable. Many colleagues have inspired me and believed in me: Becca, Janet, Lillian, Kenny, Yolanda, Veronica, Zoya, and many more.

I have deep appreciation for countless other secure bases in my life and supporters of ideas for this book. They include John Douglas and Jackie Evans, my children Shannon and Josh, my siblings, Ross (and Erin), Moe, Sandy, and Colette, my parents Alice and Curtis, my extended Winnipeg family, Bev, Genevieve, Everett, and Brian, my NC EFT supporters: Alicia, Scott, Jenna, HM, Jordan, Felicia, Lucy, Lynn, Maria, David, Susan, and more.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to each of you.

Epigraph from A Way of Being by Carl Rogers. Copyright 1980 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, renewed 2008 by David E. Rogers and Natalie Rogers. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Epigraph from Attachment: A guide to a new era of couple interventions by S. M. Johnson, M.-F. Lafontaine, & T. L. Dalgleish. In: J. A. Simpson & W. S. Rholes (Eds.), Attachment Theory and Research: New Directions and Emerging Themes . Copyright 2015 by Guilford Press. Reprinted with permission of The Guilford Press.

Epigraph from John Bowlby, A Secure Base . Copyright 1988 by R. P. L. Bowlby, R. J. M. Bowlby, and A. Gatling. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group for distribution in USA and Canada and by permission of Taylor & Francis Group for World distribution rights excluding USA and Canada.

Epigraph from A Way of Being by Carl Rogers. Copyright 1980 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, renewed 2008 by David E. Rogers and Natalie Rogers. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Epigraph from The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (2nd edn) by S. M. Johnson. Copyright 2004 by Brunner/Routledge. Reprinted with permission of Taylor and Francis Group and Copyright Clearance Center.

Epigraph from Emotionally focused couple therapy, by S. M. Johnson. In: A. S. Gurman, J. L. Lebow, & D. K. Snyder (Eds.), Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy (pp. 97128). Copyright 2015 by Guilford Press. Reprinted with permission of The Guilford Press.

Epigraph from The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (2nd edn) by S. M. Johnson. Copyright 2004 by Brunner/Routledge. Reprinted with permission of Taylor and Francis Group and Copyright Clearance Center.

Epigraph from The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (2nd edn) by S. M. Johnson. Copyright 2004 by Brunner/Routledge. Reprinted with permission of Taylor and Francis Group and Copyright Clearance Center.

Epigraph from Emotionally focused couple therapy and addiction by M. Landau-North, S. M. Johnson, & T. L. Dalgleish. In: J. L. Furrow, S. M. Johnson, & B. A. Bradley (Eds.), The Emotionally Focused Casebook: New Direction in Treating Couples . Copyright 2011 by Routledge. Reprinted with permission of Taylor and Francis Group and Copyright Clearance Center.

Epigraph from The Relationship Paradigm: Human Being Beyond Individualism by G. Barrett-Lennard, published 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.