Supervision essentials for emotion-focused therapy /
ISBN: 9781433823589
Platform/Publisher: PsycBOOKS / American Psychological Association,
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapter; Download: Chapter
Subjects: Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy; Emotions; Emotion-focused therapy; Psychotherapists;

The authors introduce a model of supervision that is founded on the fundamental principles of emotion-focused therapy (EFT): a safe supervisory alliance and relationship, an agreed-upon focus for each supervision session, and the identification of appropriate task markers (moments of uncertainty that present opportunities for supervisory intervention).

Together, EFT supervisors and supervisees carefully deconstruct recorded therapy sessions, with moment-by-moment processing of the supervisee's responses and emotional understanding. Through close observation, supervisors enable trainees to develop seeing, listening, and empathic skills, as they become more attuned to both verbal and non-verbal cues that indicate clients' emotional responses.

Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has authored major texts on emotion-focused approaches to treatment of individuals and couples, and has published extensively on the process of change. Dr. Greenberg has received the Distinguished Research Career Award of the international Society for Psychotherapy Research, as well as the Carl Rogers Award and the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research of the American Psychological Association. He also has received the Canadian Psychological Association Professional Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession. He conducts a private practice for individuals and couples, and trains people internationally in emotion-focused approaches.
Lilliana Ramons Tomescu, PhD is a registered clinical psychologist with the College of Psychologists of Ontario. Originally from Romania, Dr. Tomescu earned her PhD in clinical psychology at York University under the supervision of Dr. Greenberg. She has been trained in psychodynamic, humanistic, and emotion-focused therapies. Dr. Tomescu has a special interest in psychotherapy process research and is the recipient of numerous scholarly awards, including the American Psychological Association Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) Scholars Award. She studied intensively the role of adoptively and appropriately expressing emotions, particularly anger, in resolving depression due to interpersonal injuries. Dr. Tomescu also works in private practice, where she provides psychotherapy to adult clients with mood, anxiety, adjustment, and stress difficulties; emotional dysregulation: and personality disorders.

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