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Welcome to SC Upstate EFT

Here to support our Upstate community

SC Upstate EFT is a nonprofit community of Emotionally Focused Therapy clinicians serving the Upstate of South Carolina. We exist to support therapists in delivering compassionate, evidence-based care and to help individuals, couples, and families find EFT-trained clinicians who foster secure, healing relationships.

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What is EFT?

Emotionally Focused Therapy, or EFT, is a research-supported approach to therapy grounded in attachment science. It helps individuals, couples, and families understand the emotional patterns that shape their relationships and learn new ways of responding that foster safety, connection, and trust. Rather than focusing only on surface conflict, EFT works at a deeper level, helping people identify and share the underlying needs and emotions that strengthen secure, lasting bonds.

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“The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.”

-Dr. Sue Johnson

Our Resources

If you’re a client interested in finding out more about EFT - please see the “For Clients” page to learn what EFT is, its evidenced-based approach to working with client distress, the therapist training process (i.e., training rigor), and the therapist directory to locate an EFT-trained clinician. 

If you’re a clinician, please feel free to navigate to our membership page to learn about membership benefits or the upcoming therapist events page for information about upcoming trainings, learning events, or networking events. Please note that the “membership” and “therapist events” pages are for licensed therapists and/or counselors only.

For Clients
For Therapists
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We Affirm

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    1. We are created innately good and are worthy of love and belonging. 

    2. We all have the gifts we need to heal and flourish - as individuals and in our relationships.

    3. Attachment - that is close relationships with others - is a universal right.

    4. We need relationships with others to heal.

    5. Clients deserve access to quality, attuned therapy, to support their healing process. To meet this need, SC Upstate EFT exists to equip therapists in our community to offer the highest level of care.

    “Being the ‘best you can be’ is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.” - Dr. Sue Johnson, Love Sense

  • SC Upstate EFT supports and grows the local Emotionally Focused Therapy community so therapists and clients alike can experience competent, compassionate, and equitable care grounded in secure connection. Learn more about our Mission.

  • “SC Upstate EFT aims to create a space for both therapists and clients alike that is committed to demonstrating equity, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and allyship in our endeavors. We recognize that each person holds dignity and the ability to heal and self-determine, but there are systemic factors at play that can interfere with a person’s ability to experience safety and belonging. As such, we are committed to holding space for marginalized voices and affirming each person’s individual humanity regardless of one’s race, religion, physical or intellectual abilities, sexual orientation, gender orientation, and/or SES status.”

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