Steps to Emotional Coaching

There are five steps to emotional coaching within the emotion-focused family therapy approach, and they are:

1. Attend to the emotion
2. Name it (put it into words)
3. Validate the emotion
4. Meet the emotional need
5. Fix/problem solve

Often we tend to jump to fixing it, and then do the other steps.

For more information about this approach, visit the Emotion Focused Family Therapy website.