I’m Dr. Sue Johnson.
My work is primarily about creating connection in close relationships. Emotion has a deep logic to it, and we can learn to use it as a compass to guide our steps as we move with others through life.
Backed by years of research, my team and I want to help everyone learn about the revolutionary science of attachment and bonding. Growing emotionally and finding attachment at the heart of our humanity – what’s more thrilling than that?
Hold Me Tight® Online
Hold Me Tight® Online can show you and your partner the way home
My flagship program, based on 30 years of groundbreaking research, can show you and your partner the way home. Work through each chapter’s exercises and videos when it’s convenient for you, so you can
- Feel closer to your partner, both emotionally and physically.
- Turn long-standing conflicts into opportunities for connection.
- Understand the underlying emotional needs that may be sabotaging your relationship.
- Break patterns that cause you to feel alone and distant from your partner.
- Create unique, fresh ways to nourish your love for years to come.
BOOKS
Hold Me Tight
Hold Me Tight offers a revolutionary way to see and shape your relationships. The stories, ideas, and exercises, based on the science of love and the wisdom of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), walk the reader through seven conversations that can define a love relationship. Learn to shape these crucial relationship moments and create a secure bond that will last for a lifetime.
Love Sense
Love Sense (2014) draws on groundbreaking research and reveals that romantic love is an attachment bond, just like that between mother and child, and by understanding this concept, it’s possible to develop “love sense” — the ability to build long-lasting relationships. Learning how to enhance or repair the bond with your partner no longer has to be a matter of guesswork. This book will change the way you think about love!
Edgar and Elouise: Sagas 1 & 2
A saga tells of a heroic journey where characters find out who they are, face fear and peril, and with comrades, fight to save their world. The whimsical tales of Edgar and Elouise make up two such sagas.
But how do we know – and even change – how we see ourselves? A strangely wise and wordy porcupine seems to be able to tell us! And after all, he says, “We all need new stories – new ways to see.”
Sagas are about being human in an uncertain and dangerous world. How do we sculpt an inner strength and strong connections with others, and how can we protect what we love – our frail and magical world?
Stories are like magic – they help us survive.
FROM THE BLOG
More and more couples are seeking out therapists to try to repair their relationship, but what story do we give them? How do we repair what we don’t understand, really understand? It’s time to use a different story for our own love lives, and for how we frame love for our clients through interventions.