Emotional Safety

Emotional Safety is designed to help couple therapists identify and conceptualize the problems of their clients and to provide solutions, focusing on the two central elements of emotion and attachment. Problems occur in relationships when the partners no longer feel safe being open and vulnerable with each other. Emotional Safety: Viewing Couples Through the Lens of Affect enables couple therapists to recognize and articulate the emotional subtext of their clients’ interactions.

Key Features

• Based on modern affect theory.
• Focuses on the affective tone of messages in attachment and esteem.
• Addresses the subtle interplay of perceived threat and emotional reaction.
• Helps therapists to enhance emotional safety in relationships.

Additional Information

The emotional safety model allows therapists to address the subtle interplay of perceived threat and emotional reaction which underlies their clients’ difficulties and disrupts emotional safety.