Marianne Markink

After many years of experience in mental health care as a family and systemic therapist, I began specialising in couples and relationship therapy in 2018. I trained in Belgium as an EFT counsellor. EFT is currently probably the best known form of relationship therapy. EFT stands for Emotionally Focused Therapy.

We human beings are made to attach. When our attachment is threatened, we panic. One of us goes on the attack, the other would rather withdraw. It then becomes very hard to handle your own feelings, and even harder to communicate about them with the other person.

In EFT, the focus is on breaking through those negative patterns and on expressing the emotions that lie beneath the arguments and conflicts. The therapy helps you grow closer again, so that more emotional connection and mutual understanding can develop.

Are you happy together, but would you like to improve the way you communicate, or hear and see each other better? EFT offers an answer to that as well, so that you can make more time for each other and get to know each other better. That makes any relationship stronger and more enjoyable.