Free Workshop – Foundations of Emotion Focused Therapy: Learn How to Work with Emotion in Psychotherapy

Date: September 18, 2026

Time: 11:00AM – 2:00PM (Eastern Daylight Time) 

Format: Live Online Workshop

Free Workshop

Many of the challenges clients bring to therapy, including anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, and problems with self-worth, are rooted in painful emotions that have never been fully processed. While working with emotion is essential to effective psychotherapy, many therapists receive little formal training in how to work with emotion in ways that lead to lasting change. 

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Dr. Leslie Greenberg, is one of the world’s leading evidence-based approaches to working with emotion. Grounded in decades of psychotherapy research, EFT provides therapists with a clear framework for understanding how emotions function, why clients become emotionally stuck, and how to facilitate meaningful emotional transformation. 

Join Dr. Leslie Greenberg for this FREE 3-hour introductory workshop and discover the foundational principles, interventions, and clinical skills of Emotion-Focused Therapy. Designed for therapists of all experience levels and theoretical orientations, this workshop will teach practical skills that can be integrated to any therapeutic approach. 

The workshop will include video recordings and discussion of real therapy sessions, allowing you to observe how expert EFT therapists recognize emotional processes as they unfold and make moment-to-moment clinical decisions that promote lasting therapeutic change.

A recording of the workshop will be available to registrants for 60 days. 

Please note that it may take 15–20 business days for the recording to be sent.

Learning Objectives

In this workshop, participants will: 

• Be introduced to the skills of moment-by-moment attunement to emotion, focusing on bodily felt feelings 
• Learn the framework EFT therapists use to identify and assess productive and unproductive emotion states and different emotion types (adaptive/maladaptive, secondary/protective, instrumental), and the ways to work with each. 
• Learn how to collaboratively identify clients’ core emotional issues. 
• Learn about strategies to work with clients who are overwhelmed by their emotions – deliberate and automatic emotion regulation techniques 
• Learn techniques to access, activate, and deepen emotions with clients who have trouble accessing and expressing their feelings. 
• Learn how to work with core painful emotions using chair dialogue techniques 
• Be able to describe the Emotion Principles of Change (Utilize, Regulate, Transform) to help clients process their emotions productively. 

Dr. Leslie Greenberg is the principal developer of Emotion Focused Therapy and is widely recognized for his distinguished professional contributions to applied research. He has devoted his career to research that specifies how working with emotion is at the heart of psychological change. Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Greenberg received the American Psychological Association (APA) Award for distinguished Research Career, the Carl Rogers Award of the APA Society for Humanistic psychology, the Canadian Council of Professional Psychology Program Award for Excellence in Professional Training, and the Canadian Psychological Association Professional Growth Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Profession. He was also awarded the APA Award for Professional Contributions to Applied Research.