Emotion Focused Podcast

In this episode we ask the trainers and therapists to move aside and give the microphone to a client who has offered to tell us about the experience of exploring and working with his emotions. Where did this start and where did he get to? Stephen’s generosity in telling his story allows us to understand what it is like being a client in Emotion Focused Therapy.

Find a comfortable place to sit where you will not be disturbed and join Focusing teacher, Niels Bagge, as he guides you to explore your inner emotional experience - a way to discover what is really going on for you.

YWhat is Focusing? A process of emotional self discovery, an approach to working with emotions, a way of life, or all of these? In this episode Focusing teacher, Niels Bagge, answers this question, explains how you do it and and also why you might want to bring a little focusing into your life.

You know when something happens that is completely unexpected and challenges the way we see and understand the world and our lives in it? This is what we are talking about in this episode. Juliette Becking explains ‘meaning protests’ and ‘cherished beliefs’ and what we can try and do to move on from these challenging events.

How do emotions work in sport to make us win or lose, or just to motivate us to participate? Psychologist, Thomas Nordhagen talks about the role that attachment and identity play in driving us to run, ski or swim as fast as we can and what it means to athletes when they are no longer able to compete.

Why on earth would we want to engage with emotional pain when it can hurt so much? and how come it is so difficult to locate where emotional pain is in the body? Psychologist and Emotion Focused Therapist, Ashley White, explains why it might be useful to ask yourself, ‘Where is the pain’ in order to process difficult emotions.

Dr Anna Robinson talks about the challenge of being either hypo- or hypersensitive in a neuro-typical world and dispels some of the myths about the emotional experience of autistic people. Anna describes how activism has helped to depathologize autism and contributed to advancing changes in the nature of emotionally therapeutic support.

How are shame and anger connected? In this episode Dr Leslie Greenberg speaks of shame as ‘the most painful emotion’ and describes how the experience of feeling worthless can interact with anger. Listen in to find out how an understanding of this interaction might be helpful in changing difficult experiences of both shame and anger and our relationship to both these emotions.

Is there an emotion revolution happening? Well, there’s a conference coming up in Bergen, Norway, titled ‘Emotion Revolution’, and also a podcast mini series titled ‘Emotion Revolution’ so it would seem indeed that the revolution may be upon us. In this episode, Nicolai Hansen, discusses this possibility and gives us a teaser from interviews with the conference keynote speakers recorded for the Emotion Revolution podcast mini series.

Kurt Renders is a clinical psychologist and emotion focused therapist living and working in Antwerp in Belgium. Lou Cooper lives and works in this podcast! Both Kurt and Lou work as therapists supporting clients from within their own queer community.

Kurt Renders is a clinical psychologist and emotion focused therapist living and working in Antwerp in Belgium. Lou Cooper lives and works in this podcast! Both Kurt and Lou work as therapists supporting clients from within their own queer community.

Dr Robert Elliott is co-developer of Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), a celebrated trainer, researcher and author, and Emeritus Professor of Counselling at University of Strathclyde in Scotland, and most recently co-author of Emotion-Focused Counselling in Action .

Dr Imke Herrmann is a Clinical Psychologist, Emotion Focused Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer based in Munich, Germany. Imke has co-authored two books in German about Emotion Focused Therapy and has been involved in establishing Emotion Focused Therapy in German speaking countries.

Barry Strmelj is a Counselling Psychologist, and Emotion Focused Therapist and Supervisor based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

Dr Mirisse Foroughe is Clinical Director at the Family Psychology Centre in Toronto, Canada, and leads clinical research at the Emotion Transformation Institute. She is the developer of EFT-Y, Emotion Focused Therapy for Youth.

Marco Mendes is the Director of the Brazilian Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy and Integrative Psychotherapy in Rio de Janeiro. He is also co-host of his own Portugese language emotion focused podcast.

Dr Antonio Pascual-Leone is a clinical psychologist and full professor at the University of Windsor (Canada) and honorary research professor at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He has co-authored two editions of Emotion Focused Therapy for Complex Trauma (APA) and has a forthcoming book on the Principles of Emotion Change (APA). His 2019 TED Talk on recovery from the end of relationships has been viewed over 5.5 million times.

Dr Shari Geller is a Clinical Psychologist, author and certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Mind Body Health in Toronto, Canada. Shari teaches Emotion Focused Therapy, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, and Therapeutic Presence and is Co-Author of Therapeutic Presence: A Mindful Approach to Effective Therapy.

Aksel Inge Sinding is a psychologist, a supervisor and facilitator in Emotion Focused Therapy and Emotion Focused Skills Training and Director of the Institute of Psychological Counselling in Oslo, Norway. He is the author of several emotion focused books in Norwegian and co-developer of the emotion focused website https://emotioncompass.org/.

What is the experience of shame and how does it differ from feeling embarrassment or guilt? Dr Shigeru Iwakabe addresses these questions as well as talking about the cultural differences in shame and its functional purpose.

Do you have a critical part of yourself that sometimes gives you a really hard time? In this episode Rhonda Goldman discusses the benefits of becoming aware of this critical voice and how tuning into the emotions it generates can be helpful.

Why on earth would we want to feel emotions that are painful? It makes sense that we often do things to avoid feeling pain but, as Lars Auszra explains, sometimes this can lead to an even more painful experience.

Dr Anna Oldershaw if a clinical psychologist and reader in clinical psychology at the Salomons Institute for Applied Psychology at Canterbury Christchurch University in the UK. She is the head of the Emotion Focused Institute in England and co-developer of SPEAKS, an emotion focused therapy for anorexia.

Dr Shari Geller is a Clinical Psychologist, author and certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Mind Body Health in Toronto, Canada. Shari teaches Emotion Focused Therapy, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, and Therapeutic Presence.

Dr Robert Elliott is co-developer of Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), a celebrated trainer, researcher and author, and Emeritus Professor of Counselling at University of Strathclyde in Scotland, and most recently co-author of Emotion-Focused Counselling in Action .

Anne Hilde Vasbo Hagen is a Norwegian emotion focused psychologist and co-author of the book Angry Kids, Angry Children: Understanding and Working with Anger in your Family. Anne Hilde is also a film maker and one of the originators of the Emotion Revolution and Emotion Awareness Day.

Dr Rhonda Goldman is Professor of Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and Co-Author of Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples

Dr Jason Sharbanee is a Lecturer in Psychology at Curtin University in Western Australia and trainer at the Western Australia Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy.

Dr Leslie Greenberg is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University, Toronto, and the primary developer of Emotion Focused Therapy. Les is author of the book Changing Emotion with Emotion.

‘Yummy foods and starvation are like taking a good strong dose of pain medicine.’ Joanne Dolhanty talks about an emotion focused perspective to understanding eating disorders.

Juliette Becking is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist and Founder of the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute in the Netherlands. Juliette is an Emotion Focused Therapist, Supervisor and International Trainer.

Ash White is a Counselling Psychologist based in Melbourne, Australia. who has a particular interest in emotions in the process of therapy.

What is at the core of emotional pain, and how does it show itself? Join Dr Ladislav Timulak as he explains what has been learnt from listening to individuals in therapy about their experience of emotional pain.

Dr Shari Geller is a Clinical Psychologist, author and certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Mind Body Health in Toronto, Canada. Shari teaches Emotion Focused Therapy, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, and Therapeutic Presence.

Kurt Renders is a clinical psychologist, person-centred and emotion focused therapist and an international trainer in Emotion Focused Therapy based in Belgium. He co-ordinates a 4 year postgraduate program in person-centre and Emotion Focused Therapy at the Catholic University in Louvain.

Dr Joanne Dolhanty is a supervising and consulting Clinical Psychologist who provides Emotion Focused teaching to parents and professionals worldwide. She if the developer of Emotion Focused Skills Training for Parents and co-author of the book by the same title.

Vivienne Wisniewski is an Educational and Developmental Psychologist and Emotion Focused Therapist based in Melbourne, Australia. After 17 years working in primary and secondary school settings she now works with both young people and their parents in private practice.  Vivienne has a particular interest in accessing the internal worlds of children through their drawings. creatingripples.com.au

Dr Robert Elliott is Co-developer of Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), a celebrated trainer, researcher and author, and former Professor of Counselling at University of Strathclyde in Scotland.

Dr Leslie Greenberg is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at the Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto Canada. He is the primary developer of Emotions Focused Therapy (EFT) and author and co-author of numerous books about EFT, most recently Changing Emotion with Emotion.