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About the Project

The EmpoweringEFT@EU project aims to facilitate the training, clinical supervision and the practice of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)

RESOURCES FOR THE PUBLIC AND INTERESTED THERAPISTS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS

Short vídeos

Ladislav Timulak (asadis.net, 2022): What is Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)

Leslie Greenberg (The Counselling Channel , 2020): What is Emotion-Focused Therapy?

Leslie Greenberg (The Counselling Channel , 2020): How did Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) come about?

Leslie Greenberg (The Counselling Channel, 2020): What is the difference between feelings and emotions?

Leslie Greenberg (The Counselling Channel, 2020): What is the difference between primary and secondary emotions?

Leslie Greenberg (The Counselling Channel, 2020): What is core pain?

Leslie Greenberg (The Counselling Channel, 2020): How do we get to our core pain?

Leslie Greenberg (The Counselling Channel, 2020): Is core pain the same as unmet need?

Leslie Greenberg, (The Counselling Channel, 2020): Changing emotion with emotion

Leslie Greenberg (The Counselling Channel, 2020): How does Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) relate to mental health problems?

Leslie Greenberg (The Counselling Channel, 2020): Depression and relationship difficulties explained by Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Leslie Greenberg (The Counselling Channel, 2020): Anxiety (GAD) explained by Emotion-Focused Therapy

Robert Elliott (The Counselling Channel, 2016): On Different kinds of emotional responses in EFT

Robert Elliott (The Counselling Channel, 2016): How Robert Elliott came to Emotion-Focused Therapy

Robert Elliott (The Counselling Channel, 2016): What is the difference between Person-Centred Counselling and Emotion-Focused Therapy?

Robert Elliott (The Counselling Channel, 2016): Why are emotions important?

Robert Elliott (The Counselling Channel, 2016): On Different kinds of emotional responses in EFT

Robert Elliott (The Counselling Channel, 2016): On the Emotional Deepening process

Robert Elliott (The Counselling Channel, 2016): On Counselling for Depression

Robert Elliott (The Counselling Channel, 2016): On Unfinished business and unresolved grief

Long Vídeos / Interviews

Catalina Woldarsky-Meneses (2023) on “How childhood trauma impacts our relationships” and how EFT for Couples can help

Animated Short Stories

Alfred & Shadow - A short story about emotions

Alfred & Shadow - A Short Story about Self-Criticism

Alfred & Shadow - A Short Story About Loneliness

Ted Talk

António Pascoal Leonne on How to get Over the end of a relationship. TEDx University of Windsor

Websites

Website for Emotion Focused Skills Training (Dolhanty et al., 2022)

Podcasts

Emotion Focused Podcast, developed by Lou Couper, Australia Website for Emotion Focused Skills Training (Dolhanty et al., 2022)

Youtube Channels

Feel it to heal it – You tube channel by Dr. Ghazaleh Bailey

RESOURCES FOR EFT SUPERVISION (SUPERVISEES OR SUPERVISORS)

Catalina Woldarsky on How childhood trauma impacts our relationships

Joanne Dolhanty, on Emotion Focused Family Therapy, an interview available at the Internal Family Systems website (in English, with English and Portuguese transcripts available):Feel it to heal it – You tube channel by Dr. Ghazaleh Bailey

Ladislav Timulak on Psychotherapy Research in Humanistic Therapies and Emotion-Focused Therapy, in an interview to the Psychotherapy Expertise website (in English, with automatic subtitles in other languages)

Leslie Greenberg on Emotion-Focused Therapy, in an interview to the Psychotherapy Expertise website (in English, with automatic subtitles in other languages)

Rhonda Goldman, on EFT for Couples, an interview available at the Internal Family Systems website (in English, with English and Portuguese transcripts available)

Robert Elliott, on EFT distinctive features and influences, an interview available at the Internal Family Systems website (in English, with English and Portuguese transcripts available):Rhonda Goldman, on EFT for Couples, an interview available at the Internal Family Systems website (in English, with English and Portuguese transcripts available)

Robert Elliott and Ladislav Timulak on Essentials of Descriptive-Interpretative Qualitative Research

Sandra Paivio, on EFT for Complex Trauma, an interview available at the Internal Family Systems website (in English, with English and Portuguese transcripts available)

RESOURCES FOR TRAINING IN EFT (TRAINERS OR TRAINEES)

Vídeos

Leslie Greenberg on EFT Training, in an interview to the Internal Family Systems website (in English, with English and Portuguese transcripts available)

Leslie Greenberg on Development of Emotion Focused Therapy, His Thoughts on CBT, and His Journey

Robert Elliott on EFT Effectiveness and Training, in an interview to the Internal Family Systems website (in English, with English and Portuguese transcripts available)

Leslie Greenberg on “Emotion-Focused therapy: From certainty through chaos to complexity”, 2016

Slides

Leslie Greenberg on “Emotion-Focused therapy: From certainty through chaos to complexity”, 2016Publicly available 4-Day Level 1 Training Slides from the Scottish Institute for Emotion Focused Therapy

Where you can find there the slides for:

• Empathy training from Becking and Goldman

• On Becoming Emotion Focused by Les Greenberg

• On becoming an EFT-Trainer by Robert Elliott and Laco Timulac

• Working with the coach-critic in two-chair work for self-criticism by Ben Sahar

• Self-Interruption by Les Greenberg

Available Papers on the internet

Ana Bela Couto, Eunice Barbosa, Sara Silva, Tiago Bento, Ana Sofia Teixeira, Joào Salgado, & Carla Cunha. (2016). Client’s immersed and distanced speech and therapist’s interventions in emotion-focused therapy for depression: an intensive analysis of a case study. Research in Psychotherapy, 19(2)

Barbosa, E., Silva, S., Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Salgado, J. (2019). How and when immersion and distancing are useful in emotion focused therapy for depression. Psychotherapy Research, 29(6), 737–751

Barbosa, E., Couto, A. B., Basto, I., Stiles, W. B., Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Salgado, J. (2018). Immersion and distancing during assimilation of problematic experiences in a good-outcome case of emotion-focused therapy. Psychotherapy Research, 28(2), 313–327

Behrad Zadafshar, Tayebeh Sharifi, Reza Ahmadi, & Maryam Chorami. (2021). Effects of Emotion-focused Therapy and Existential Group Therapy on Depression, Anxiety, and Stress in the Victims of Child Sexual Harassment. Journal of Client-Centered Nursing Care, 227–236

Ben Shahar. (2020). New Developments in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9(2918), 2918

Braga, C., Oliveira, J. T., Ribeiro, A. P., & Gonçalves, M. M. (2018). Ambivalence resolution in emotion-focused therapy: The successful case of Sarah. Psychotherapy Research, 28(3), 423–432

Connolly-Zubot, A., Hession, N., Coleman, N., & Timulak, L. (2020). Emotion-Focused Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Women with Breast Cancer. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 50(2), 113-122–122

Cucu-Ciuhan, G. (2015). Raised by a Schizophrenic Mother: Application of Emotion Focused Therapy in a Clinical Case with Mild Depression. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 205, 30–34

Cunha, C., Mendes, I., Ribeiro, A. P., Angus, L., Greenberg, L. S., & Gonçalves, M. M. (2017). Self-narrative reconstruction in emotion-focused therapy: A preliminary task analysis. Psychotherapy Research, 27(6), 692–709

Elliott, R., & Greenberg, L. S. (2007). The Essence of Process-Experiential/Emotion-Focused Therapy. American Journal of Psychotherapy (Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy), 61(3), 241–254

Elliott, R., Partyka, R., Alperin, R., Dobrenski, R., Wagner, J., Messer, S., Watson, J., & Castonguay, L. (2009). An adjudicated hermeneutic single-case efficacy design study of experiential therapy for panic/phobia. Psychotherapy Research, 19(4/5), 543–557

Elliott, R., & Shahar, B. (2017). Emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety (EFT-SA). Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, 16(2), 140–158

Elham Zohrabniya, Bagher Sanaei Zaker, Alireza Kiyamanesh, & Kianoush Zahrakar. (2022). Comparison of the efficacy of emotion-focused therapy and cognitive-behavior therapy on post-divorce adjustment and self-esteem of divorced women

Goldman, R. N., Watson, J. C., & Greenberg, L. S. (2011). Contrasting Two Clients in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression 2: The Case of “Eloise,” “It’s Like Opening the Windows and Letting the Fresh Air Come In.” PCSP: Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, 7(2), 305–338

Gonçalves, M., Mendes, I., Ribeiro, A., Angus, L., & Greenberg, L. (2010). Innovative Moments and Change in Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Case of Lisa. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 23(4), 267–294

Glisenti, K., Strodl, E., & King, R. (2023). The Role of Beliefs About Emotions in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Binge-Eating Disorder. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 53(2), 117-124–124

Greenberg, L. S. (2010). Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Clinical Synthesis. Focus: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, 8(1), 32–42

Kevin Glisenti, Esben Strodl, Robert King, & Leslie Greenberg. (2021). The feasibility of emotion-focused therapy for binge-eating disorder: a pilot randomised wait-list control trial. Journal of Eating Disorders, 9(1), 1–15

Lynne Angus, Jennifer Lewin, Tali Boritz, Emily Bryntwick, Naomi Carpenter, James Watson-Gaze, & Les Greenberg. (2013). Narrative Processes Coding System: A Dialectical Constructivist Approach to Assessing Client Change Processes in Emotion-Focused Therapy of Depression. Research in Psychotherapy, 15(2)

Mendes, I., Rosa, C., Stiles, W. B., Caro Gabalda, I., Gomes, P., Basto, I., & Salgado, J. (2016). Setbacks in the process of assimilation of problematic experiences in two cases of emotion-focused therapy for depression. Psychotherapy Research, 26(6), 638–652

Mendes, I., Ribeiro, A., Angus, L., Greenberg, L., Sousa, I., & Gonçalves, M. (2010). Narrative change in emotion-focused therapy: How is change constructed through the lens of the innovative moments coding system? Psychotherapy Research, 20(6), 692–701

Øystein Ottesen Nødtvedt, Per-Einar Binder, Signe Hjelen Stige, Elisabeth Schanche, Jan Reidar Stiegler, & Aslak Hjeltnes. (2019). “You Feel They Have a Heart and Are Not Afraid to Show It”: Exploring How Clients Experience the Therapeutic Relationship in Emotion-Focused Therapy. Frontiers in Psychology, 10

Ribeiro, A. P., Mendes, I., Stiles, W. B., Angus, L., Sousa, I., & Gonçalves, M. M. (2014). Ambivalence in emotion-focused therapy for depression: The maintenance of problematically dominant self-narratives. Psychotherapy Research, 24(6), 702–710

Ribeiro, E., Cunha, C., Teixeira, A. S., Stiles, W. B., Pires, N., Santos, B., Basto, I., & Salgado, J. (2016). Therapeutic collaboration and the assimilation of problematic experiences in emotion-focused therapy for depression: Comparison of two cases. Psychotherapy Research, 26(6), 665–680

Robinson, A. (2018). Emotion-Focused Therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case Conceptualization Model for Trauma-Related Experiences. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 48(3), 133-143–143

Robinson, A., & Kalawski, J. P. (2023). Experiences of the step-out technique in emotion-focused therapy for clients with autistic process. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 22(3), 265-282–282

Robinson, A., & Elliott, R. (2017). Emotion-focused therapy for clients with autistic process. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, 16(3), 215–235

Robinson, A. (2020). Enhancing Empathy in Emotion-Focused Group Therapy for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case Conceptualization Model for Interpersonal Rupture and Repair. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 50(2), 133-142–142

Robinson, A., Elliott, R. Brief Report: An Observational Measure of Empathy for Autism Spectrum: A Preliminary Study of the Development and Reliability of the Client Emotional Processing Scale. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46, 2240–2250 (2016)

Shufen Su (2016). Emotion Focused therapy and its clinical application

Shameli, L., Mehrabizadeh Honarmand, M., Naa’mi, A., & Davodi, I. (2019). The effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on emotion regulation styles and severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in women with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, 24(4), 356-369–369

Sutherland, O., Peräkylä, A., & Elliott, R. (2014). Conversation analysis of the two-chair self-soothing task in emotion-focused therapy. Psychotherapy Research, 24(6), 738–751

Sutherland, O., Peräkylä, A., & Elliott, R. (2014). Conversation analysis of the two-chair self-soothing task in emotion-focused therapy. Psychotherapy Research, 24(6), 738–751

Timulak, L., & Keogh, D. (2020). Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Transdiagnostic Formulation. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 50(1), 1-13–13

Thalia Nicolaou, Robert Elliott & Anna Robinson (2022) Extending empathy to physical symptoms, Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, DOI

N. Mikaeili, P. Molavi, S. Einy, & R. Tagavy. (2017). Effectiveness of Emotion Focused Therapy on Emotional Dysregulation, Hopelessness and Suicidal Ideation in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Veterans. 117–111), 3, 9 ,جانباز طب.

Timulak, L., Keogh, D., McElvaney, J., Schmitt, S., Hession, N., Timulakova, K., Jennings, C., & Ward, F. (2020). Emotion-focused therapy as a transdiagnostic treatment for depression, anxiety and related disorders: Protocol for an initial feasibility randomised control trial. HRB Open Research, 3

Watson, J. C., Goldman, R. N., & Greenberg, L. S. (2011). Contrasting Two Clients in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression 1: The Case of “Tom,” “Trapped in the Tunnel.” PCSP: Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, 7(2), 268–304

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