Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD , is professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the director of the York University Psychotherapy Research Clinic, one of the leading authorities on working with emotions in psychotherapy, and a developer of emotion-focused therapy. He has authored the major texts on emotion-focused approaches to treatment of individuals and couples. His latest authored book is Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings . Dr. Greenberg is a founding member of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration and a past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, an international interdisciplinary society. He received the 2004 Distinguished Research Career Award of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.

He is on the editorial board of many psychotherapy journals, including the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy . Jeanne C. Watson, PhD , is an associate professor in the Department of Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is coauthor of the books Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Process-Experiential Approach to Change and Expressing Emotion: Myths, Realities, and Therapeutic Strategies and coeditor of Client- Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy in the 21st Century: Advances in Theory, Research, and Practice and Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy . In addition, Dr. Watson has written numerous articles and chapters on psychotherapy process and outcome and maintains a part-time private practice in Toronto. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from York University.