Robert Elliott, Ph.D., is Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde.  He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Toledo (Ohio). In collaboration with Leslie Greenberg and Laura Rice, he developed Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT).  He delivers EFT training internationally and within the UK.  He serves on the board of the International Society for Emotion-Focused Therapy.  He is co-author of Facilitating emotional change (1993), Learning emotion-focused psychotherapy (2004), Research methods in clinical psychology (2015), and Essentials of descriptive-interpretive qualitative research (2021), as well as more than 170 journal articles and book chapters. He is past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and previously co-edited the journals Psychotherapy Research, and Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies.  He is a fellow in the divisions of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association.  He is a past recipient of the Distinguished Research Career Award of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the Carl Rogers Award from the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He enjoys running, science fiction, poetry, and all kinds of music.

1. Emotion-Focused Counselling and the Person-Centred-Experiential Approach
2. Emotion Theory in Emotion-Focused Counselling
3. Deepening and Transforming Emotion
4. Beginning Emotion-Focused Counselling: Fostering the Relationship and Beginning the Work
5. Early Working Phase: Unfolding and Focusing
6. Early Working Phase: Two Chair Work
7. Late Working Phase: Empty Chair Work for Unresolved Relational Issues
8. Late Working Phase: Empathic Affirmation & Compassionate Self Soothing
9. Consolidation Phase: The Work of Ending Well
10. Next Steps in Emotion-Focused Counselling
References
Appendix I - EFT THERAPIST SESSION FORM
Appendix II - Person-centred & experiential psychotherapy scale-eft-t supplement
Appendix III - Person-Centred & Experiential Psychotherapy Scale-EFT Observer-Rating Version
Appendix IIII - Helpful Aspects of Therapy Form (H.A.T.)

The definitive introduction to the theory and practice of emotion-focused counselling.