Les Greenberg

Who is Les Greenberg?

Les Greenberg is a South African psychologist and one of the originators and primary developers of Emotion-Focused Therapy for individuals and couples. He is a Professor of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario and also Director of the Emotion-Focused Therapy Clinic and the York University Psychotherapy Research Center, both at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Greenberg is actively involved in the training, research, and development of Emotion-Focused Therapy at the Emotion-Focused Therapy Clinic, and he travels throughout North America and internationally doing presentations and workshops in Emotion-Focused Therapy.

Greenberg has co-authored the major texts on emotion-focused approaches to treatment. These include Emotion in Psychotherapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, Facilitating Emotional Change, Emotion-focused therapy: Coaching clients to work through emotions and more recently Emotion-focused therapy of depression and Emotion-focused couple therapy: The dynamics of emotion, love and power. Dr.