Exploring Consensual Non-monogamy in EFT Couples Therapy

Relationships take many different structures. There are many types of Consensual non-monogamous relationships. It’s essential for EFT Therapists to have a level of comfort having these conversations, to know what types of non-monogamous relationships exist, and to have assessment questions to ask, in order to facilitate conversations about relationship orientation structures.

You will see an EFT first session with a mildly distressed clinical couple who are navigating these conversations in their relationship. The same sex couple has one partner who is bisexual and one partner who is poly-amorous, and they talk through how they have adapted to their current agreement of a monogamous relationship with one another.

The second clip is a first session with an individual client, who identifies as monogamous, but is currently in a heterosexual relationship who someone who identifies as polyamorous.

In the clips, the therapists are doing EFT sessions, and the clips demonstrate how to ask questions about relationship orientation preferences.