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How can insights from Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy help individual clients? In the penultimate part of her series, couples therapist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author Anne Power outlines the EFT approach to working with relationship conflict, including regulating relational distress, amplifying attachment meaning and enabling helpful exchange – and explains why the ‘Pursuer-Withdrawer’ dynamic is both so prevalent and so pernicious.

When we fall in love, we may be reuniting with undeveloped, feared or even hated parts of the self. In the second instalment of her series about how insights from couple therapy can enrich work with individual clients, couples therapist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author Anne Power looks at developmental and defensive relationship spirals, and shares her concept of ‘the fascinating and the familiar’ as a way to understand what we unconsciously look for in a partner.

How do insights from couple therapy enrich work with individual clients? In her new six-part series, couples therapist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author Anne Power will share what she has learned about couple dynamics and suggest how these understandings and concepts can contribute to individual therapy – starting with the link between attachment strategies and escalating relationship cycles.