In this podcast we interview Dr. Sue Johnson, who is a leader in the field of relationships and couple therapy and is the primary founder of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, which is used as an approach to working with couples throughout the world. She calls herself an attachment theorist and researcher and she helps people learn how to have relationships that heal.

Dr Johnson has conducted innovative and cutting-edge research with couples and different populations and discovered many interesting things about the science of love and romantic relationships.

In this interview she discusses how she developed her passion for relationships and helping couples, how her new book Love Sense evolved out of her best seller Hold Me Tight, how she was influenced by the work of John Bowlby and his attachment theory, what the research is telling us about love and why and how we love, current thinking on adult bonding and attachment theory and what’s changed in the field of couples therapy in the last 15 years.