Couples Therapy
Thanks for your interest in professional couples counseling. Just by visiting this page, you’re taking your first step toward a stronger, healthier relationship.
Ceil Mattingly, LMFT, provides emotionally focused couples therapy (EFT) in Hendersonville, NC. EFT might be right for you if you want to rebuild trust in your relationship, strengthen your bond, and return to love.
Want to learn more? Contact Ceil today to schedule your first session. We’ll start with a 15-minute consultation to discuss your relationship and current needs, then develop a unique plan to help you move forward as a couple.
Welcome to Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
EFT is a humanistic approach to couples therapy. This is the only form of relationship therapy based on a validated theory of adult love. Drawing on the science of emotions and attachment, EFT helps couples identify and overcome negative patterns that cause distress in a relationship.
This form of therapy is used to treat wide spectrum of relationship and individual challenges. The main goals of EFT for couples include:
- Rebuilding trust in your relationship
- Reconnecting as a couple
- Transforming distressed relationships
- Returning to your love for one another
Ceil Mattingly’s therapy practice in Hendersonville focuses mainly on EFT. However, therapy processes within EFT will always vary from couple to couple. Every relationship journey is different — EFT will give you the tools to manage your unique journey and grow as a couple.
How it Works
As an EFT therapist, Ceil Mattingly is trained to guide couples as they strengthen distressed relationships into secure emotional bonds. After an initial consultation, Ceil will work with you to identify negative patterns, delve into the causes behind them, and disrupt the habits causing distress in your relationship.
One of the first steps in Ceil’s EFT sessions is to reframe your thinking around romantic problems. Relationship problems are not necessarily roadblocks; they are mis-attempts to meet the universal longings for a deeper, more secure emotional bond.
With your therapist’s help, you’ll explore the softer emotions beneath protective, reactive emotions and behaviors. These behaviors often become so automatic that they can go unnoticed without a professional’s help.
The ultimate goal of your EFT practice is to transform negative cycles of distancing and blaming into positive cycles of connection, safety, and joy. Join Ceil on a healing journey and return to love.
Schedule Your Couples Counseling Session in Hendersonville
It’s never too late — or too early — to start your healing journey as a couple. If you’re looking for a dedicated couples therapist in the Hendersonville area, contact Ceil Mattingly. She’ll start with an initial 15-minute consultation to discuss your needs and determine if EFT is right for your relationship.