Emotion Focused Podcast
This podcast explores the role of emotions in mental well-being. It explains how emotions work for us and sometimes seem to work against us. Listeners gain insights into why they feel certain ways and how those feelings can change.
Episodes
Series 2 Ep #15 Stephen: a client’s story
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.
Series 2 Ep #14 Let’s focus!
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.
Series 2 Ep #13 This thing called Focusing
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.
Series 2 Ep #12 It’s not supposed to be like this!
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.
Series 2 Ep #11 Emotions in sport
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.
Series 2 Ep #10 Where is the pain?
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.
Series 2 Ep #9 Autism and 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.
Series 2 Ep #8 Shame and Anger
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.
Series 2 Ep #7 Emotion Revolution?
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 Em
Series 2 Ep #6 Can you see me? Part II
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.
Series 2 Ep #5 Can you see me? Part I
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.
Series 2 Ep #4 Emotion Awareness on Emotion Awareness Day (2 June)
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 .
Series 2 Ep #3 Tears all the time
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.
Series 2 Ep #2 Being versus doing
Barry Strmelj is a Counselling Psychologist, and Emotion Focused Therapist and Supervisor based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
Series 2 Ep#1 Riding the roller coaster: emotions in young folk
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.
Series 1 Ep #24 Unshaming shame: a personal story
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.
Series 1 Ep #23 I just can’t let it go
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
Series 1 Ep #22 Give yourself a break
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.
Series 1 Ep #21 Still painful
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/.
Series 1 Ep #20 Shame
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.
Series 1 Ep #19 I’m so hard on myself
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.
Series 1 Ep #18 Go away feelings!
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.
Series 1 Ep #17 I’m stuck
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.
Series 1 Ep #16 Where lies self-compassion?
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.
Series 1 Ep #15 I’m shy
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 .
Series 1 Ep #14 Angry kids, angry parents
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.
Series 1 Ep #13 The trouble with love
Dr Rhonda Goldman is Professor of Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and Co-Author of Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples
Series 1 Ep #12 Will my grief ever end?
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.
Series 1 Ep #11 Changing Emotion with Emotion
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.
Series 1 Ep #10 I eat my feelings
‘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.
Series 1 Ep #9 I am sad
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.
Series 1 Ep #8 I'm scared of therapy
Ash White is a Counselling Psychologist based in Melbourne, Australia. who has a particular interest in emotions in the process of therapy.
Series 1 Ep #7 I’m hurting
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.
Series 1 Ep #6 I’m just not present
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.
Series 1 Ep #5 I don't feel anything
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.
Series 1 Ep #4 Who’s the boss?
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.
Series 1 Ep #3 Emotions in children
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. creatingri
Series 1 Ep #2 Can we learn empathy?
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.
Series 1 Ep #1 What is an emotion?
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.
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