About Hold Me Tight® Workshops
Re-establish trust and intimacy in your relationship, deepen your emotional connection, and create a secure base for your relationship to thrive.
Hold Me Tight® Workshops were created by Dr. Sue Johnson for the purpose of helping couples with the following goals:​
-Move out of negative cycles leave you feeling stuck and alone
-Make sense of your emotions as well as your partner's emotions
-Forgive emotional injuries that keep you from really connecting with your partner
-Communicate your emotional needs for connection
-Establish a secure and intimate bond with one another
-Restore commitment and hope
-Decrease feelings of isolation, distance and loneliness
-Learn to manage negative emotion
-Rebuild safety and trust within the relationship
What Other Industry Leaders Say About Hold Me Tight® Workshops:
Daniel J Siegel, MD
World renown author and founder of the Mindsight Institute
"Wonderful… Hold Me Tight® Workshops blends the best in research findings with practical suggestions from a caring and compassionate clinician. Hold Me Tight® will be of great benefit to couples trying to find their way to better communication and deeper, more fulfilling ways of being with each other. Bravo!"
John Gottman, PhD
Bestselling author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
"At last a road map through Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with its creator. Dr. Johnson’s superb science, humor, and clinical wisdom are finally accessible to all of us. I couldn’t pick a smarter, warmer and more real guide for this journey."
William J. Doherty, PhD
Bestselling author of Take Back Your Marriage
"Dr. Sue Johnson is the most original contributor to couples therapy to come along in the last thirty years. This book will touch your heart, stimulate your mind and give you practical strategies for improving your relationship."
Hold Me Tight ®
Dr. Sue Johnson, founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy and author of Hold Me Tight®
This Book and Workshop presents a streamlined version of EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) through Seven Transforming Conversations.
Seven Transforming Conversations:
Recognizing Unhelpful Dialogues
In this first conversation, couples identify negative and destructive communication patterns in order to identify the root of the problem and figure out what each other is really trying to say.
Finding the Raw Spots
In the second conversation, each partner learns to look beyond immediate, impulsive reactions to figure out what raw spots are being triggered within the relationship.
Revisiting a Rocky Moment
This conversation provides a platform for de-escalating conflict and repairing rifts in a relationship, while building emotional safety.
Hold Me Tight
This conversation moves partners into being more accessible, emotionally responsive, and deeply engaged with each other. The largest focus is on this conversation.
Forgiving Injuries
Emotional injuries may be forgiven in relationships, but they never disappear. Instead, they need to become integrated into couples’ conversations as demonstrations of renewal and connection. Knowing how to find and offer forgiveness empowers couples to strengthen their bond.
Bonding Through Sex and Touch
In this conversation, couples find how emotional connection creates great sex, and in turn, great sex creates deeper emotional connection.
Keeping Your Love Alive
This last conversation is built on the understanding that love is a continual process of losing and finding emotional connection; it asks couples to be deliberate and mindful about maintaining connection throughout all phases of the relationship.