Psychologist Sue Johnson started a global movement with her ‘emotionally focused therapy’

Sue Johnson, the Canadian psychologist who created and popularized Emotionally Focused Therapy, an innovative approach to treating troubled couples that turned into a movement and spread around the world, died on April 23 in Victoria from a rare form of melanoma. She was 76.Born in England, Dr. Johnson came to Canada as a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, where she earned a doctorate in psychology. Moving to Ottawa, she developed her new model of treatment, also known as EFT, as a psychology professor at the University of Ottawa and as a practising therapist.