Online Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) from just $35/session with licensed therapists (PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT) trained in this evidence-based approach. At Grouport, we offer couples therapy, online individual therapy, online group therapy, family therapy, teen therapy, and virtual IOP options. EFT is the most researched couples therapy in the world and one of only two approaches recognized as evidence-based by the APA.
Created by Dr. Sue Johnson and Dr. Leslie Greenberg in the 1980s, Emotionally Focused Therapy is grounded in attachment science, the research showing that our deepest need is to feel securely connected to the people who matter most. When that connection breaks down, we get stuck in painful cycles of conflict, withdrawal, or emotional shutdown. EFT helps you understand these patterns and create new, corrective emotional experiences that rebuild trust and closeness. A comprehensive meta-analysis of 20 studies found that 70% of couples are symptom-free at the end of EFT, with treatment gains maintained up to 2 years. Schedule a free call to learn if EFT is right for you.
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At Grouport, we offer multiple ways to access Emotionally Focused Therapy, all led by licensed clinicians. Whether you prefer couples sessions to rebuild your relationship, individual therapy to heal attachment wounds, group therapy for shared support, or family sessions, our EFT-informed offerings are designed to help you create secure emotional connections. Many members choose to combine formats for the most comprehensive support.
Our online Emotionally Focused Therapy is designed to help you rebuild emotional connection and create secure bonds through a structured, attachment-based approach. Here is how to get started.
Whether you're interested in group therapy, individual sessions, couples or family therapy, or IOP, you'll start by selecting the type of support that fits your needs. Complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.
After signing up, you'll connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will walk you through available therapists, group options, and scheduling. You'll make the final choice about your care based on your goals, preferences, and schedule.
Start your journey toward secure connection. Your therapist will guide you through EFT's three stages: identifying negative cycles, creating new emotional experiences, and consolidating secure bonds. Our team will support you every step of the way.
Whether you want couples sessions, individual EFT, group therapy, family therapy, or our IOP program for more intensive care, you will start by selecting the format that fits your needs and schedule. Complete our onboarding form and sign up directly.
After signing up, you will connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will discuss your challenges, goals, and where you are in the change process. They will match you with a therapist trained in EFT and attachment-based approaches and walk you through your options. You will make the final choice about your care, including which therapists you will meet with and session times.
Start your journey toward secure connection. Your therapist will guide you through Emotionally Focused Therapy's three stages: de-escalating negative cycles, restructuring emotional responses, and consolidating new patterns of connection. Most couples begin to notice shifts in how they interact within the first few sessions. Our team will be here to support you at every step.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) was created by Dr. Sue Johnson and Dr. Leslie Greenberg in the 1980s and is grounded in attachment theory, the science showing that humans are wired for emotional connection with significant others. EFT is the most empirically validated couples therapy in the world, with over 30 years of research. A comprehensive meta-analysis found a pre-post effect size of d=0.93, and 70% of couples are symptom-free at the end of treatment.
EFT works by identifying the negative interaction cycles that keep couples (or individuals) stuck: patterns like pursue-withdraw, attack-defend, or freeze-freeze. These cycles are not about who is right or wrong. They are driven by unmet attachment needs: the deep, universal need to feel safe, seen, and valued by the people who matter most. When these needs go unmet, we protect ourselves in ways that push our partners further away, creating a painful cycle neither person wants.
Through three stages, de-escalation, restructuring, and consolidation, your therapist helps you slow down the cycle, access the vulnerable emotions underneath the surface reactions (fear, sadness, loneliness), and express these emotions in ways that invite your partner closer. These are not just conversations about feelings; they are corrective emotional experiences that fundamentally change the bond between partners. EFT also applies to individuals (EFIT) for depression, anxiety, and trauma, and to families (EFFT) for parent-child attachment repair.
Emotionally Focused Therapy does not just teach communication skills. It transforms the emotional bond at the heart of your most important relationships.
Most couples get stuck in repetitive patterns: one partner pursues while the other withdraws, or both attack and defend. Emotionally Focused Therapy helps you see these cycles clearly for the first time, understand what drives them, and step out of them together. When you can name the cycle as the enemy instead of blaming each other, everything shifts.
When trust has been damaged by betrayal, emotional withdrawal, or repeated conflict, it can feel impossible to repair. EFT creates a structured, safe environment where partners can access their deepest fears and longings and share them in a way the other person can truly hear. This process of reaching and responding builds a new foundation of emotional safety.
Some relationship wounds go deeper than everyday conflict: moments when you desperately needed your partner and they were not there, or trauma that shattered your sense of safety. EFT specifically addresses these attachment injuries, helping the injured partner express their pain and the other partner respond with genuine empathy and accountability, creating healing that skills-based approaches cannot reach.
Many couples coexist without truly connecting. They manage logistics, parent together, and avoid conflict, but feel emotionally alone. Emotionally Focused Therapy helps you move beyond surface-level interaction into genuine emotional intimacy: the ability to share your inner world with your partner and know they will be there. This depth of connection is what makes relationships truly fulfilling.
Relationship distress and individual depression and anxiety are deeply intertwined. Research shows that EFT not only improves relationship satisfaction but also significantly reduces depressive and anxiety symptoms in both partners. A 2025 RCT confirmed that EFIT (the individual format) is effective for depression and anxiety as a standalone treatment.
Unlike approaches that teach coping strategies, Emotionally Focused Therapy creates fundamental shifts in how you experience your partner and yourself. Because EFT rewires the emotional bond rather than just managing symptoms, research shows treatment gains are maintained up to 2 years after therapy ends, and some studies show couples continue to improve even after sessions stop.
Emotionally Focused Therapy follows three clear stages. Each builds on the last, moving from understanding patterns to creating new emotional experiences.
Your therapist helps you identify the negative interaction cycle that keeps you stuck: the pattern of pursuing, withdrawing, attacking, or shutting down that plays out between you and your partner (or within yourself in EFIT). You begin to see the cycle as the shared enemy rather than blaming each other. As you understand the pattern and the attachment fears driving it, the intensity of conflict naturally begins to decrease.
This is the heart of EFT. Your therapist guides you to access the vulnerable emotions underneath your protective reactions: the fear of rejection, the longing to be held, the grief of feeling alone. Then, in carefully facilitated moments, you express these deeper feelings to your partner and experience them responding with openness and care. These are the corrective emotional experiences that rewire the bond.
With a more secure emotional bond in place, you and your partner develop new ways of interacting and solving problems together. Old triggers lose their power because you now have a secure base to return to. You create new narratives about your relationship story and develop strategies for maintaining your connection through future challenges.
See how our therapy options have helped our members experience life-changing results
Stephanie
“Grouport is time flexible and affordable and if it didn’t exist, I don’t know where I would go. I had looked into other places before Grouport and there really wasn’t any option like it.”
Michael
“I highly recommend this to anyone who is struggling with anxiety or depression. The therapists are top notch and have made me feel really comfortable and my anxiety has improved tremendously in only a few sessions!”
Isabel
"I joined Grouport to work on myself and to heal. I’m learning so much at every session! The change I see not only in myself but in my fellow group members is abundantly encouraging and profoundly fulfilling. Group therapy with Grouport is a powerful healing tool."
Sheldon
“I was feeling very down at the end of 2020 and I was ready to do something drastic that I know I'd likely regret. The group definitely helped show me that there are people who feel the same way as I do.”
Nancy
“The therapy from Grouport is high quality and convenient. I am becoming much more self aware and am liking myself more. My relationships at work are better and I’m much happier.”
Emily
“I like the connection you can make with total strangers and the confidentiality it comes with.”
Danielle
"Grouport can help you with your issues. Their therapists are well trained to work with you on your issues. I felt my anxiety greatly improve after only a few sessions. I highly recommend it!"
Glenn
"Grouport's approach to DBT is a real strength. This approach provides tools and methods for working with difficult emotions and getting a handle on them. It has given me hope where other approaches have failed."
EFT was originally developed for couples but has since been adapted for individuals and families. Research supports its effectiveness across a wide range of presenting concerns.
This is EFT's home territory. A comprehensive meta-analysis found a pre-post effect size of d=0.93 for relationship satisfaction, with 70% of couples symptom-free at end of treatment. EFT is effective regardless of severity: research shows it outperforms behavioral approaches for moderate relationship distress and maintains gains up to 2 years.
EFT is particularly effective for relational trauma: moments when a partner was not there during a critical time, betrayals that shattered trust, or childhood attachment wounds that play out in adult relationships. Research within VA healthcare showed EFT reduced PTSD and depressive symptoms alongside relationship distress improvement.
Relationship distress and depression fuel each other. EFT research with couples where one partner has depression shows significant improvement in both relationship satisfaction and depressive symptoms. A 2025 RCT also demonstrated that EFIT (individual EFT) is effective for depression as a standalone treatment, working through attachment and emotion regulation.
When couples say "we just can't communicate," the problem is rarely about skills. It is about emotional safety. When you do not feel safe, you cannot be open. Emotionally Focused Therapy rebuilds the sense of safety that makes genuine communication possible, rather than teaching scripted techniques that fail under emotional pressure.
Many anxiety symptoms are rooted in attachment insecurity: the fear of abandonment, rejection, or not being good enough. Emotionally Focused Therapy addresses these fears directly by helping you build secure emotional bonds. The 2025 EFIT RCT confirmed its effectiveness for anxiety, and couples EFT consistently reduces anxiety symptoms in both partners.
Some couples rarely fight but feel deeply alone in the relationship. This quiet disconnection can be just as painful as open conflict. EFT helps partners re-engage emotionally, share their inner worlds, and create the kind of responsive, attuned connection that attachment science shows is essential for wellbeing and stress resilience.
Every Grouport therapist is a licensed, accredited mental health professional with specialized training in evidence-based approaches including Emotionally Focused Therapy, and extensive clinical experience in couples therapy, relationship distress, depression, anxiety, and attachment-related concerns.
Our therapists typically have over a decade of clinical experience across diverse settings, with specialized expertise in EFT, attachment-based, and emotion-focused approaches, as well as couples therapy, depression, anxiety, and trauma. Our therapists are trained in EFT and other proven modalities to provide the best fit for your needs.
We continually evaluate outcomes through internal studies and outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne.
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80%
of our members start with moderate to severe mental health symptoms
70%
of our members feel significantly better within just 8 weeks
50%
of our members achieve remission levels within just 8 weeks
Group, individual, couples, family, IOP, and teen therapy — all online, all therapist-led. Mix and match care options to fit your needs — and get discounted pricing when you bundle.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy addresses the attachment bonds at the core of relationship distress and emotional wellbeing. Our licensed therapists also treat a wide range of conditions using proven methods.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a structured, evidence-based approach to couples, family, and individual therapy developed by Dr. Sue Johnson and Dr. Les Greenberg in the 1980s. Grounded in attachment theory, EFT helps people recognize and transform the negative emotional cycles that drive disconnection in close relationships. It is recognized as the most empirically validated approach to couples therapy.
EFT is primarily used for relationship distress in couples and families, but it also treats attachment wounds, communication breakdowns, recovery from affairs and betrayal, co-occurring depression and anxiety in the context of relationships, and individual attachment issues through EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy). EFT has strong evidence for couples coping with chronic illness, trauma, and infertility as well.
Yes. Our therapists are licensed mental health professionals (PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT) with training in Emotionally Focused Therapy and attachment-focused approaches for couples, families, and individuals.
Unlike approaches that focus mainly on communication skills or behavioral agreements, EFT works at the emotional and attachment level. EFT identifies the negative cycle keeping a couple stuck, accesses the softer emotions underneath conflict, and restructures the emotional bond. Research consistently shows EFT produces larger and more durable improvements than skill-based approaches alone.
Most couples and families complete EFT in 8 to 20 sessions, with significant improvement often visible within the first several sessions. At Grouport, 70% of our members feel significantly better within just 8 weeks. EFT outcomes have been shown to be durable, with gains maintained 2 years or more after treatment.
Yes. Research supports telehealth delivery of EFT with comparable outcomes to in-person treatment. EFT translates well to video sessions because the focus is on emotional conversations between you and your partner, family member, or therapist. All Grouport sessions are held via secure, HIPAA-compliant video chat.
Group Therapy averages $32/session. Individual Therapy averages $103/session. Couples Therapy averages $114/session. Family Therapy averages $148/session. IOP is $311/week. Teen Therapy averages $103/session. Payment options include Monthly, Quarterly (Save 10%), and Biannually (Save 15%).
Grouport provides online group therapy, individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, teen therapy, intensive outpatient program (IOP), and a DBT self-guided program. Many members combine multiple therapy types for comprehensive support.
Our therapy outcomes are backed by outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne. 80% of our members start therapy with moderate to severe symptoms. Within just 8 weeks, 70% of members see clinically significant reduction in anxiety and depression, and 50% achieve remission levels.
You can cancel anytime, and your membership will remain active until the end of your current billing period. Email support@grouporttherapy.com and we will send you a quick cancellation form to fill out.
Grouport is available worldwide for everyone. All sessions are held virtually over video chat. We offer separate therapy groups for Adults (18+) and Teens and Adolescents (under 18).
Yes. After signing up, a care coordinator will reach out to understand your needs and match you with the right therapist and schedule. You can switch therapists anytime.
Not necessarily. While couples EFT is the most well-known form, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is highly effective for individuals working on their attachment patterns and relationship dynamics, even when a partner cannot or will not attend. EFFT (Emotionally Focused Family Therapy) is another option for parents and family members.
Yes. EFT has been shown to be effective across diverse couples, including same-sex couples, non-monogamous relationships, intercultural couples, and couples in various life stages. Attachment needs are universal, and EFT meets each couple where they are.
Yes. Specific EFT protocols address the trauma of an affair or betrayal, helping the injured partner process the rupture while the offending partner takes meaningful responsibility. EFT provides a structured path to genuine repair and renewed attachment security rather than a return to old patterns.
Yes. Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) helps repair attachment bonds between parents and children of all ages, including teens. By creating safe emotional conversations and restoring secure connection, families resolve recurring conflicts and rebuild trust across generations.
Yes. EFT principles help teens understand their own emotions and attachment needs, repair relationships with parents and peers, and develop healthier ways of connecting. At Grouport, we offer separate therapy groups for Adults (18+) and Teens and Adolescents (under 18) to ensure age-appropriate support.
Whether you are a couple stuck in painful cycles of conflict or disconnection, an individual struggling with attachment-related depression or anxiety, or a family seeking to rebuild bonds, Emotionally Focused Therapy can help you create the secure emotional connections you need. With licensed therapists, the strongest evidence base in couples therapy, and flexible online formats, Grouport makes it easy to get started. Take the first step toward deeper connection today.
