EFT is an empirically supported treatment of depression for individuals,
and is also considered to be an integrative, transdiagnostic therapy
approach focusing on emotions that are the cause of a client's emotional
pain and suffering. The target of treatment is to facilitate emotional
processing to change unhealthy emotion schemes that underlie current
symptoms of depression. The therapist is highly attuned to the client's
moment-by-moment process to promote in-session work on emotion,
alongside experiential teaching. In-session work is consolidated and
expanded by between-session homework, which is viewed as a natural
extension of the in-session work. EFT views the therapist as an emotion
coach who offers interventions within a client's developmental and
experiential learning capabilities to move them to their end goals. A
case example is discussed to illustrate how homework is used effectively
in treating a depressed client in relation to treatment principles over
the course of treatment.