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.
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
New decade, new beginnings, new journeys. Everyone seems to agree that the new decade will be crucial for the ecology of our planet, for democracy, and for human rights. Should we be weeping and wailing for a divided and disintegrating world, or dancing on into the ever-expanding century and its new worlds, trusting in the better angels of our nature?
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