I was lucky enough to interview Les Greenberg, developer of Emotion Focused Therapy and visiting Professor at the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute of England. Les tells me all about how Emotion Focused Therapy was developed, what it involves, and why us Brits may find an emotion focused approach a little more tricky than some other cultures.

Dr. Leslie Greenberg is one of the originators and primary developers of Emotion-Focused Therapy for individuals and couples. Dr. Greenberg provides on-going consultation and training to CMBH’s Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) Associates. He is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Greenberg is actively involved in the training, research, and development of Emotion-Focused Therapy at the Emotion-Focused Therapy Clinic. He travels throughout North America and internationally providing presentations/workshops in Emotion-Focused Therapy. He has co-authored seminal texts on emotion-focused approaches to treatment, including Emotion in Psychotherapy (1986), Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (1988), Facilitating Emotional Change (1993), Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Emotions (2002). His more recent works include Emotion-Focused Therapy of Depression (2006), Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love and Power (2008), and Emotion-Focused Therapy: Theory and Practice (2010).