Providing Emotion-Focused Therapy Online

Name: Providing Emotion-Focused Therapy Online
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ISBN: 978-1-4338-3881-1

With Rhonda N. Goldman

ISBN: 978-1-4338-3881-1

August 2021

Item # 4310032

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Description

Practicing emotion-focused therapy (EFT) requires a keen awareness of the client’s body language, breath, subtle microexpressions on the client’s face, and any other nonverbal communication cues expressed in therapy. For this reason, conducting this therapy in an online setting has its challenges.

Rooted in a method that integrates strategies from client-centered, Gestalt, and systemic therapies, one important aspect of EFT is recognizing patterns as they are occurring in each moment and from within a highly validating therapeutic relationship.

In this video program, Dr. Rhonda N. Goldman demonstrates her approach to therapy remotely with a female client who is suffering from a deep sense of unexpressed grief and unhealed emotional wounds. During the demonstration, Dr. Goldman works with the client to explore underlying emotional and interactional states while simultaneously guiding the client towards a positive transformation by empathetically examining former relationship bonds and accessing healthier emotions.

In the interview, Dr. Goldman discusses her work with guest host, Dr. Serine Warwar. This session features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of a composite of different cases.

Approach

Emotion-focused therapy is an empirically supported approach that focuses on changing emotion by helping clients access healthy, adaptive emotion as a guide to living. Clients are helped to have the emotions they want and transform the emotions they don’t want. Emotion-focused therapists form a strong empathic bond so that clients can feel safe and secure to explore underlying painful emotions that they wish to transform.

In a moment by moment fashion, therapists engage in empathic exploration, tracking, and deepening of emotion in order to help clients transform and restructure problematic emotional states. Emotion-focused therapy involves the differential assessment of different types of emotional states, the recognition of in-session verbal and nonverbal markers that prompt the use of particular in-session tasks designed to help people to deepen emotion, soothe difficult emotional states, or transform unwanted emotional processes.

Ultimately new emotion-based narratives are formed, leading to the alleviation of the variety of symptoms clients bring to therapy.

Contributor bios

Rhonda Goldman, PhD, is a professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has authored six texts on emotion-focused therapy (EFT). Her most recent book is Deliberate Practice in Emotion-Focused Therapy (2021). Prior to that she coedited, with Leslie Greenberg, the Clinical Handbook of Emotion-Focused Therapy (2019).

She has also coauthored Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy: Co-Creating Clinical Maps for Change (2015). Other books include Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love, and Power (2008), Case Studies in Emotion-Focused Treatment of Depression (2007) and Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy (2004).

Dr. Goldman has also published two professional videos, published by APA, on emotion-focused therapy, one focused on case formulation and the other on EFT with couples. Dr. Goldman conducts research on EFT for couples, emotional processes, empathy, vulnerability, depression, case formulation, and self-soothing. She teaches graduate courses in humanistic and experiential psychotherapy, psychotherapy seminars, and emotion-focused therapy.

Dr. Goldman has over 25 years of clinical experience with a range of clients including depression, anxiety-based problems, trauma, social anxiety, eating, or body-image issues. Dr. Goldman is a founding board member of the International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy. She is a past-president of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI).

She runs Emotion-Focused Therapy, Chicago, a private practice where she sees both couples and individuals. She travels internationally conducting training workshops for mental health professionals in emotion-focused therapy for couples and individuals.

Suggested resources

Greenberg, L. S., & Goldman, R. N. (2019). Clinical handbook of emotion-focused therapy. American Psychological Association.

Goldman, R. N., & Greenberg, L. S. (2014). Case formulation in emotion-focused therapy: Co-creating clinical maps for change. American Psychological Association.

Greenberg, L. S., & Goldman, R. N. (2008). Emotion-focused couples therapy: The dynamics of emotion, love, and power. American Psychological Association.

Greenberg, L. S., & Goldman, R. N. (Eds.). (2018). Clinical handbook of emotion-focused therapy. American Psychological Association.

Goldman, R. N., & Greenberg, L. S. (2013, February). Working with identity and self-soothing in emotion-focused therapy for couples. Family Process, 52, 1, 62-82.

Goldman, R., Greenberg, L. & Angus, L. (2006). The effects of adding specific emotion-focused interventions to the client-centered relationship conditions in the treatment of depression. Psychotherapy Research, 16(5), 537-549.

Elliott, R., Watson, J., Goldman, R., & Greenberg, L. (2003). Learning emotion-focused therapy: A process-experiential approach to change. American Psychological Association.

Watson, J. C, Goldman, R. N., & Warner, M. S. (Eds.). (2002). Client-centered and experiential psychotherapy in the 21st century: Advances in theory, research and practice. PCCS Books.

Watson, J. C., & Goldman, R. N., & Greenberg, L. (2007). Case studies in emotion-focused treatment of depression. American Psychological Association.