About Leanne

Dr. Leanne Campbell and Dr. Sue Johnson, 2022

Dr. Leanne Campbell is co-director of the Vancouver Island Centre for EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) and Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group and is an Honorary Research Associate of Vancouver Island University. Trained by Dr. Sue Johnson in the early 1990s, she has continued to work in the EFT model since that time, and has provided psychotherapy services to hundreds of individuals, couples, and families over the past about three decades. By request, Dr. Campbell also provides personalized results-driven ‘intensives’ (i.e., ‘boot camps’) for couples motivated to improve their relationship and/or address ‘attachment injuries’ related to infidelity, other significant life events and/or transitions (e.g., loss or trauma).

Known for her expertise in trauma, Dr. Campbell has provided hundreds of psychological assessment reports for forensic/legal and personal injury matters being considered before various levels of Court. She also is regularly called upon to provide expert opinion, as well as psychological evaluations for various insurance companies and bodies involved in adjudicating personal injury and other trauma-based claims. In addition to maintaining a full-time private practice, with a primary focus in the areas of relationship strain, trauma, grief and loss, Dr. Campbell currently co-manages a multi-site practice comprised of twenty-five clinicians and is a site coordinator for an Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) outcome study.

An active ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Leanne trains professionals around the globe and is involved in the development of various materials including DVDs, on-line educational/training programs, books, workbooks, and articles. Most recently, she co-authored the first basic EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy) text with Dr. Sue Johnson, A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client (Routledge, 2022), as well as a workbook for therapists training in EFT (see Furrow et al., Routledge, 2022).

What Leanne Is Reading

Role of Vulnerability in Relationships

When you feel vulnerable, how do you respond with positivity? In a relationship struggling with the idea of vulnerability, how do you find value in your feelings?

According to Dr. Leanne Campbell, rather than withdraw, you can move with and through emotions. Dr. Campbell’s experience has taught her the more we can see ourselves, the easier it is to have empathy and open up to the concept of vulnerability with your partner. Vulnerability is about allowing yourself to live fully and completely, so are you ready to discover and grow in your relationships?

Dr. Leanne Campbell, Our.Love Podcast

The Best Love Story Ever

More and more couples are seeking out therapists to try to repair their relationship, but what story do we give them? How do we repair what we don’t understand, really understand?

It’s time to use a different story for our own love lives, and for how we frame love for our clients through interventions. This story is called the science of attachment, and it’s a tale of how we struggle with our vulnerability, a tale of trauma and how emotional isolation is poison for a human being. It’s about how we grow into who we are and habitually engage with the world. It’s a great tale: ancient, timeless, bred in the bone, integrating inner self and social interaction. After all, the self is a process, constantly constructed in key interactions with those closest to you..

Dr, Susan Johnson, Psychotherapy Networker

The Power of Authenticity

A path toward deeper intimacy.

We long for acceptance, love, and connection. But oftentimes we don’t know how to create it. In fact, we often push away the love we long for.

Love and intimacy don't blossom by trying to pull it toward us or manipulating people. Connections thrive as we create a climate that’s conducive for them. Love and intimacy have a greater opportunity to grow as we cultivate a climate of authenticity.

John Amodeo PH.D.,MFT, Psychology Today

A Therapist’s Guide to Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)

Emotionally focused individual therapy (EFIT) is based on emotionally focused therapy (EFT), a tried-and-true methodology used with couples. EFIT focuses on helping people grow into a sense of secure, positive connection with the self—a self that is fit and vibrantly alive.

This type of therapy is used primarily with clients who struggle with depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Dr. Sue Johnson Therapist.com

Listen up

Dr. Leanne Campbell joins Therapy On The Cutting Edge to discuss Healing Trauma Individually and Through Couples Therapy Using Attachment In Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT).

October 31, 2022

Dr. Leanne Campbell joins The Leading Edge on the CARE. The C.A.R.E Model of Assessment in EFT is a great tool to help in assessment and attunement throughout the EFT process with individuals, couples, and families. Leanne so graciously shared an outline of her notes with us. You can also read The Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy.

August 15, 2022

Dr. Leanne Campbell joins The Leading Edge on EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) with individuals and helping clients find their voice.

February 14, 2022

Renowned EFT Trainer Dr. Leanne Campbell joins That Relationship Show to explain how Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy helps build resilience and increase self-awareness and self-compassion. With her warmth & wisdom, she helps us see the enormous impact these things have on our relationships.

January 9, 2021