A brief, practical and penetrating therapy that helps clients become more skillful with their critically important emotions.
— Rick Hanson, PhD, Author of Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness and Buddha's Brain

Emotion Efficacy Therapy was developed by Aprilia West, PsyD, MT, PCC and Matthew McKay, PhD to help people develop more powerful relationships with their emotions and increase their wellbeing and performance.

Blending Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and exposure therapy into a brief 8-session treatment, the emotion efficacy protocol can be administered in clinical individual, group and organizational settings.

Most simply EET helps people learn to respond more intentionally, flexibly and creatively to intense emotion triggers. This means not only learning to tolerate distress and dial downt he intensity of emotional experience, but successfully and consistently pivoting to taking action aligned with their values.

The skills training is highly experiential and helps clients not only learn what they can do differently, but how. A growing body of evidence suggests the EET protocol is effective for significantly increasing emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and reducing relapse rates among people struggling with chemical dependency in a brief period of time (8 weeks).

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