Productive Emotional Processing
in Psychotherapy
Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Registered Psychologist &
Antonio Pascual-Leone, Ph.D., Registered Psychologist
Recorded Live
Overview
This workshop is designed by Dr. Leslie Greenberg and Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone, leaders in the field of psychology. It is aimed at mental health professionals from various training backgrounds who wish to acquire specialized skills in processing emotions productively in psychotherapy. Video-recordings of therapy sessions will be used to illustrate client processes and interventions.
Objectives
This workshop will teach fundamental principles and practical skills on how to assess, process, and transform emotions productively and how to transform unhelpful emotional schemes that underlie many mental health conditions.
Through didactic and experiential learning, participants will learn how to:
- Assess a client’s unique emotional processing style and emotional processing difficulties
- Facilitate emotional awareness, symbolize emotions, and deepen emotional experience using different interventions such as focusing, enactments and evocation
- Work with obstacles to productive emotional processing
- Guide a step-by-step emotion sequence to transform unproductive emotional states into productive emotional processes
- Promote memory reconsolidation and emotional change by meaning-making, narrative elaboration, and co-creating new narratives to foster meaningful changes
Details
Live Recorded
Approximately: 6 hours
Professional Rate: $260 (+applicable taxes)
Student Rate: $210 (+applicable taxes)
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- Refund: No Refund
- Transfers: No Transfers to purchase another pre-recorded workshop.
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Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D., Psychologist
Dr. Leslie Greenberg is a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario. He created and co-developed Emotion-Focused Therapy for individual and couples. He received a Distinguished Research Career Award from the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in 2004. His work has also been acknowledged with the Carl Rogers Award of the American Psychology Association, the Canadian Council of Professional Psychology Program Award for Excellence in Professional Training and the Canadian Psychological Association Professional Award for distinguished contributions to Psychology as a profession. In 2012 he was awarded the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution to Applied Research. His teaching style is highly praised and his workshops are well-known for their atmosphere of authenticity and warmth.

Antonio Pascual-Leone, Ph.D., Psychologist
Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Windsor, Director of the Emotion Change Lab, and an internationally recognized expert in emotional processing and psychotherapy research. He is the co-author of Emotion Focused Therapy for Complex Trauma (APA, 2nd edition, 2023) and the author of the upcoming Changing Emotion (APA, in press, 2025). His work has been recognized with career and distinguished publication awards from international associations, including the American Psychological Association and the Society for Psychotherapy Research. A certified trainer with the International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy, Dr. Pascual-Leone is also a sought-after educator and speaker, known for his innovative approach to teaching psychotherapy skills. His TEDx talk on resolving relational trauma has been viewed over six million times.
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