Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen
PhD, LCHMC
Therapist, Trainer · San Diego Center for EFT
Rebecca Jorgensen, PhD, is an internationally recognized therapist, trainer, supervisor, and educator specializing in attachment, couple relationships, and sexuality. One of the original ICEEFT trainers, Dr. Jorgensen trained directly with Dr. Sue Johnson and regularly taught alongside her. She has trained thousands of therapists and taught EFT in 44 countries worldwide. For more than two decades, Dr. Jorgensen has worked with couples navigating sexual and relational concerns, including differences in desire, sexual functioning, and difficulties with emotional and sexual intimacy. Her work integrates contemporary sex therapy with attachment science and Emotionally Focused Therapy, with particular attention to how couples’ sexual and attachment cycles interact and shape intimacy. She is the creator of the best-selling professional training programs EFT Step by Step and Emotionally Focused Therapy: A Complete Treatment and maintains a clinical practice providing intensive couple and sex therapy. She directs the San Diego Center for EFT, and the EFT Counseling and Education Center.
Sessions
South Africa · Tuesday 3 November · 7pm SAST in Johannesburg · ninety minutes
Integrating Sex, Attachment and EFT
Sexual connection is a powerful part of the couple bond—and often one of the places where attachment security and insecurity are most clearly expressed. This presentation introduces an attachment-based understanding of sexuality within Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT). It will examine how emotional and sexual connection influence one another, how attachment strategies shape desire and sexual engagement, and how negative relational cycles can become sexual cycles of pursuit, pressure, avoidance, and disconnection. The presentation will highlight how EFT provides a framework for helping couples create the emotional safety, responsiveness, and secure connection that support more open, satisfying, and integrated sexual relationships.