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Carla Cunha is a Clinical and Health Psychologist, specialized in Psychotherapy and Professor at ISMAI where she teaches Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) at the PhD program in Psychology and coordinates the MSc in Clinical and Health Psychology. She is a Clinical and Health Psychologist, with an advanced specialization in Psychotherapy, according to the Portuguese Association of Psychologists (Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses), and is a trained EFT therapist, recognized by the ISEFT (International Society for Emotion-focused therapy).
In the EmpoweringEFT@EU project, Carla Cunha will coordinate the project, becoming involved in the development of Intellectual Outputs regarding the training and supervision of new EFT therapists in Portugal, the Good Practice Guides for EFT training/supervision and the digital platform to disseminate and support EFT practice.
Carla Cunha has participated previously in several projects for the treatment of depression, like the project “Decentering and Change in Psychotherapy” (2010 – 2013), which involved the practice of EFT and “iCare4Depression: Combining face to face psychotherapy with digital mobile and internet solutions” (since 2016), both funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the project “STOP Depression: Stepped Care Treatments and Digital Solutions for Depression and Suicide Prevention in Primary Care, funded by the EEA Grants (European Economic Area) by Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein.
Christina, PsyD, is a accredited counselling psychologist, registered in Cyprus and the UK.
Before she moved to Cyprus in 2018, she worked for 7 years in Scotland with people with a wide range of mental health difficulties and she was also an Associate Lecturer for the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology for 4 years. Christina was the first EFT therapist in Cyprus and the founder of Cyprus Institute for Emotion Focused Therapy, an institute that offers continuing education courses in Emotion-focused Therapy (EFT) recognized and certified by the ISEFT (International Society for Emotion-focused Therapy – ISEFT).
She is now based in Cyprus as a private practitioner and she is a visiting lecturer at University of Nicosia, Cyprus and Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland and a clinical supervisor for clinical and counselling psychology masters students at University of Nicosia. She is an EFT supervisor, trained by Robert Elliott, Les Greenberg and Lorna Carrick and she facilitates EFT trainings in Europe, Iran, the UK and the USA. Christina is a board member of the Cyprus Professional and Scientific Psychological Association and a co-founder of the division of Counselling Psychology department in Cyprus.
In the EmpoweringEFT@EU project, Christina will be involved in the discussion and feedback regarding the intellectual outputs produced and in the translation to Greek, her native language.
Pedro Lopes graduated in Psychology in 2019 and completed the Master’s in Clinical and Health Psychology in 2021. He is currently in his junior professional year, to become an effective member of the Portuguese Psychological Association. He is currently a PhD student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Maia – ISMAI. He is starting his career as a clinical and health psychologist through clinical practice, scientific research and developing a doctoral project within the scope of clinical supervision in Emotion Focused Therapy. Pedro participates in the research project “EmpoweringEFT@EU” as a researcher, supporting the team in data collection and analysis, project management, logistics, planning and event registration, among others.
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