100 Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) Questions (PDF Templates Bundle)

The 100 questions are strategically organized into ten therapeutic domains, allowing clinicians to tailor their approach to the specific needs of the session:

• Emotion Identification: Questions designed to move clients from abstract thoughts to concrete emotional labeling.
• Somatic Processing: Prompts that bridge the mind-body gap by focusing on the physical “felt sense” of an emotion.
• Needs & Longings: Identifying the unmet attachment needs that often lie beneath reactive anger or withdrawal.
• Vulnerability & Protection: Exploring the “safety strategies” clients use to hide their most tender parts from others.
• Inner Child & Regulation: Tools for integrating past emotional memories and building the capacity to sit with difficult feelings.

Clinical Application: The After-Session Reflection

In addition to the 100 prompts, this bundle includes the After-Session Reflection Worksheet. In EFT, the “processing” of the session is just as important as the session itself. This fillable PDF encourages clients to maintain emotional momentum between visits, capturing insights about their “vulnerable parts” and unmet needs while they are still fresh. It is an essential tool for fostering emotional granularity and client autonomy.

What’s Included in the Bundle?

This comprehensive toolkit is designed to make your EFT sessions more structured, emotionally focused, and tailored to each client’s needs—whether you’re facilitating couples therapy, individual work, or relational healing within family systems.

• 100 EFT Therapy Questions (PDF and Word formats)
• “Choose Your Questions + Client Responses” Worksheet (1 page, 10 questions)
• “Choose Your Questions + Client Responses” Worksheet (4 pages, 49 questions)
• “Choose Your Questions + Therapist Notes” Worksheet (1 page, 10 questions)
• “Choose Your Questions + Therapist Notes” Worksheet (5 pages, 50 questions)
• “After Session Reflection” Worksheet (1 page, 5 questions)

Why Add This EFT Bundle to Your Therapy Toolkit?

This EFT-focused resource gives you a ready-to-use framework for deepening emotional engagement, supporting secure attachment, and transforming stuck relational dynamics. Use these materials for assessment, ongoing treatment, journaling, or as part of structured EFT interventions. Editable, fillable, and printable, the templates are ideal for both in-person and virtual therapy—making it easier to create sessions that are emotionally attuned, client-centered, and grounded in the core principles of EFT. Empower your clients to move from disconnection to closeness—one question at a time.

References

• Greenberg, L. S. (2015). Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings. American Psychological Association. (The foundational text outlining the use of therapist prompts to facilitate emotional transformation).
• Johnson, S. M. (2019). Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families. Guilford Press. (Detailing the role of therapeutic questioning in restructuring attachment bonds).
• Elliott, R., Watson, J. C., Goldman, R. N., & Greenberg, L. S. (2004). Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Process-Experiential Approach to Change. American Psychological Association. (Exploring how evocative questions lead to deeper emotional processing).
• Greenberg, L. S., & Paivio, S. C. (1997). Working with Emotions in Psychotherapy. Guilford Press. (The clinical basis for somatic and embodiment-focused questioning).
• Pascual-Leone, A., & Greenberg, L. S. (2007). Emotional processing in experiential therapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. (Research confirming how targeted emotional exploration leads to significant therapeutic gains).