Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy in Ottawa & Online Across Ontario
EFIT Therapy in Ottawa: Healing Attachment & Emotional Patterns
If you are seeking Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) in Ottawa or virtual EFIT in Ontario, I provide a specialized approach to help you experience and process the emotional responses that drive emotional patterns such as anxiety, self-doubt, and fear of rejection.
As humans, we are wired to need emotional safety and secure bonds — both with others and within ourselves — to thrive.
In my Ottawa psychotherapy practice, I use EFIT to transform the emotional strategies that were once adaptive survival responses, but now prevent you from feeling grounded and connected. Emotions can be seen as signals pointing toward unmet needs and opportunities for healing.
Understanding Your Emotional Patterns: Support for Ontario Residents
In my EFIT Ontario practice, emotional patterns are seen as being formed early in life as adaptive responses to unmet attachment needs.
In our therapy sessions, we can identify how these patterns manifest in your daily life:
Hyper-vigilance: A constant fear of rejection or scanning for signs of disconnection
Emotional Shutdown: Feeling overwhelmed or "numbing out" when vulnerability is required
Self-Criticism: Using a harsh inner critic as a way to manage the fear of being "not enough"
The Closeness Struggle: Wanting intimacy but fearing that dependence will lead to pain
How Emotional Wounds Develop
Emotionally-Focused Therapy in Ontario understands that our emotional struggles are often rooted in early experiences.
These early emotional adaptations shape how you regulate emotions, relate to yourself, and seek connection in adulthood.
Through EFIT, we can engage in a reparenting process: learning to offer yourself the emotional safety, responsiveness, and care that may have been missing.
Meet Gal Zohar, Psychotherapist Trained in Emotionally-Focused Therapy
In my Ottawa-based practice, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is used as an evidence-based approach to help you access, regulate, and transform the emotional experiences that shape your life.
As an EFIT therapist, I focus on how your emotions and attachment needs influence how you relate to yourself and others—how you receive love, give love, and tune into your inner world.
How EFIT Helps You Heal
Processing Core Emotions: Identifying the deeper feelings beneath anxiety or self-doubt
Understanding Emotional Reactions: Viewing your reactions as meaningful and adaptive survival responses
Transforming Stuck Patterns: Shifting the emotional responses that keep you trapped in old cycles
Building Secure Attachment: Developing self-compassion and emotional safety
Reshaping Your Self-Image: Allowing new emotional experiences to fundamentally change how you see yourself and connect with others
By working directly with emotions in a safe, attuned therapeutic relationship, EFIT supports lasting change from the inside out—strengthening emotional regulation, self-trust, and secure ways of relating.
What to Expect from Online EFIT Therapy Across Ontario
My approach to virtual EFIT in Ontario is collaborative and paced to support nervous system safety. My role is to be emotionally present and responsive, creating a secure base where you feel safe enough to explore deeper vulnerabilities.
In our sessions, we may focus on:
Repeating Patterns: Identifying how certain emotional loops sustain distress
Naming the "Underneath": Uncovering the primary emotions hidden beneath protective responses like anger or withdrawal
Corrective Experiences: Creating new emotional experiences that foster internal security and self-trust
Begin EFIT Therapy Online Across Ontario
If you’re ready to explore your emotional world, heal attachment wounds, and build more secure ways of relating — I welcome you to reach out to book a consultation.