“A brief, practical and penetrating therapy that helps clients become more skillful with their critically important emotions. ”
Emotion Efficacy Therapy was developed to help people develop more powerful relationships with their emotions and choices. Blending Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and exposure therapy into a brief 8-session treatment, the emotion efficacy protocol can be administered in clinical individual, group and organizational settings.
Emotion efficacy is simply the ability — and your belief in your ability—to harness experience, shift your mindset and take action aligned with your values. The EET protocol helps people learn to respond more intentionally, flexibly and creatively to emotion triggers and to take action aligned with their values in moments of choice. This means not only learning to better tolerate distress but also to dial down the intensity of emotional experience and consistently pivoting in moments of choice to take action aligned with their values.
The skills training is highly experiential and helps clients not only learn what they can do differently, but how. A growing body of evidence suggests the EET protocol is effective for significantly increasing emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and reducing avoidance behaviors, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction relapse rates with just 8 weeks of treatment.