About Robert:
Robert is a Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) and is a Professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Toledo (Ohio).
He is a psychotherapy research methodologist with experience in a wide variety of research methods. He has also held visiting faculty positions as Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), York University (Canada), University of Sheffield (UK), and La Trobe University (Australia).
Robert is one of the primary originators of Emotion-Focused Therapy for individuals.
He spends the majority of his time training people in emotion–focused approach and conducting research.
Languages spoken:
-English (native)
Robert is from California.
Robert’s qualifications:
Robert has received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978.
Robert’s memberships and affiliations
Robert is past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.
Former co-editor of the journals Psychotherapy Research, and Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies.
Fellow in the divisions of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association.
Board member of the International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy
Robert’s publications
Robert’s main research interests are in change processes in humanistic-experiential psychotherapies and psychotherapy research methodology. They are co-author of Facilitating emotional change (1993), Learning emotion-focused psychotherapy (2004), Research methods in clinical psychology (2015), Essentials of Descriptive-Interpretive Qualitative Research (2021), and Emotion-Focused Counselling in Action (2021), as well as more than 200 journal articles and book chapters.
Received Awards:
-The Distinguished Research Career Award of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.
-The Carl Rogers Award from the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association.
They currently divide their time between Scotland and California, where they enjoy running, science fiction, and all kinds of music.
