Creating connection
is our most ancient survival code.
We can intentionally shape and repair our key relationships and stop paying the price for emotional isolation.
My work is primarily about creating connection in close relationships. Emotion has a deep logic to it, and we can learn to use it as a compass to guide our steps as we move with others through life.
Backed by years of research, my team and I want to help everyone learn about the revolutionary science of attachment and bonding. Growing emotionally and finding attachment at the heart of our humanity – what’s more thrilling than that?
My flagship program, based on 30 years of groundbreaking research, can show you and your partner the way home. Work through each chapter’s exercises and videos when it’s convenient for you, so you can
Thousands of couples around the world have benefitted from Dr. Sue’s bestselling book and Hold Me Tight® workshops. Now, it’s your turn.
Bring the power of Emotionally Focused Therapy into your home and strengthen your most important relationship today.
EFT: Attachment Science in PracticeGrounded with thirty years of process and outcome research, Emotionally Focused Therapy takes the attachment perspective out of the research lab and into therapy sessions with individuals, couples, and families.
Join Dr. Sue Johnson and learn how the principles of attachment theory translate into organic, on-target interventions that allow therapists to create significant moments of change in every session.
Hold Me Tight offers a revolutionary way to see and shape your relationships. The stories, ideas, and exercises, based on the science of love and the wisdom of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), walk the reader through seven conversations that can define a love relationship. Learn to shape these crucial relationship moments and create a secure bond that will last for a lifetime.
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Love Sense (2014) draws on groundbreaking research and reveals that romantic love is an attachment bond, just like that between mother and child, and by understanding this concept, it’s possible to develop “love sense” — the ability to build long-lasting relationships. Learning how to enhance or repair the bond with your partner no longer has to be a matter of guesswork. This book will change the way you think about love!
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This is a fascinating, paradigm-shifting book, impressive in its scope and depth and staggering in its implications for us all. It is a giant leap forward. It is also a great, fun read – enjoy!
Sue Johnson [is] the most original contributor to couples therapy to come along in the last 30 years.
— WILLIAM J. DOHERTY, PH.DSue Johnson sees no contradiction in viewing love as biology and poetry, physiology and romance. For her, love is the hard-won endowment of our evolutionary history and a source of hope in a world of uncertainty and danger.
— DR. JAMES COANSue Johnson has led the scientific field in helping us understand love and how to repair relationships.
— DR. JOHN GOTTMAN
Our main defences – our sense of belonging to a group and the feeling that we can do something together – are rapidly eroding. Now, when people need each other more, suddenly the people in our communities that we thought were fine and safe feel dangerous to us.
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