xenia’s Reviews > Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings > Status Update

This is okay. It's essentially gestalt therapy shot through the framework of discrete emotion theory. A gradualist step, which is important, but I'm not learning much. Acceptance of emotion leads to transformation of emotion. Integration of more emotions leads to more flexible action tendencies. Growth is knowing there're always alternatives to reach you ends. Idk, you may get as much just watching Inside Out.

There's a strong utopian pragmatics to EFT, that the patient be directed to grow; to expand, integrate, take in more of their being; to suffer no dwelling, spirals, and upended becomings, as if restriction itself were self directed violence. But it's only in a totally atomised life that oppression becomes the actions of one. Isn't a coach always addressing a team? And before the coach, was there not the rule maker?