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Emotion Focused Therapy

Notes & Documentation

You have Emotionally Focused Therapy among your modalities, but you might be unaware that there are two separate wings to this school. The first was developed by Leslie Greenberg (Emotion Focused Therapy) and an offshoot was developed by Sue Johnson (Emotionally Focused Therapy). Upheal seems to be working with Sue Johnson’s model (very popular), but seems ignorant of Les Greenberg’s (the O.G.). Great texts for learning Greenberg’s model are: Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy (Goldman and Greenberg); Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy (Greenberg and Goldman); Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy, 2nd Ed (Elliot et al); Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Therapy (Timulak and Keogh); Changing Emotion with Emotion (Greenberg); and Shame and Anger in Psychotherapy (Greenberg).

Posted by Ian Singer ·
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  • Ian Singer

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    Jul 6

    BTW, I notice that even with Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Therapy, Upheal seems to be filtering individual session through the couples and family modalities of this treatment. Sue Johnson’s model also includes “EFIT” (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy). The manual is published under the title A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client.

  • Ryan O'Farrell

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    Jun 17

    Thanks for highlighting this! I noticed that as well that Upheal has Emotionally Focused Therapy, but no Emotion Focused Therapy, which I use regularly. Would love to see the Greenberg branch of Emotion Focused Therapy added to Upheal.