Dr Anna Oldershaw is a Clinical Psychologist, Reader in Clinical Psychology and Director of the Emotion Focused Therapy Institute of England at the Salomons Institute for Applied Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University. Anna is an accredited Emotion Focused Therapy therapist, supervisor and trainer, having trained under the supervision of Professor Robert Elliot and Professor Les Greenberg. Anna is passionate about EFT, and in providing EFT training that is engaging, exciting and accessible.
Anna’s clinical specialism is working with eating disorders/difficulties, and she has over 20 years of clinical and research experience in this field. In 2016, Anna was awarded a research fellowship form the UK’s Department of Health to develop and test an emotion focused intervention for anorexia. The resultant ‘SPEAKS’ approach is now adopted in some NHS services and a therapist guidebook to this new EFT adaptation is soon to be published.
