Robert Elliott, Ph.D., is Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde. He is an internationally recognized psychologist, researcher and trainer. He conducts trainings in Emotion Focused Therapy in the USA, several countries in Europe and Asia. He is 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 counseling in action (2021), and author of more than 170 scholarly articles and chapters. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Research Career Award from the Society for Research in Psychotherapy, and the Carl Rogers Award from the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She enjoys running, science fiction, and all kinds of music.

Agathi Lakioti, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and works privately as a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer and seminar presenter. She studied psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and obtained her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Panteion University and her MSc in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Strathclyde. She teaches counselling and psychotherapy, Positive Psychology and research methodology at undergraduate and postgraduate level and has been a trainer and supervisor in the Person-Centred approach for over 15 years. She is a certified therapist and supervisor in Emotion-Focused Therapy by the International Society of Emotion-Focused Therapy. She is also a certified Focusing trainer by The International Focusing Institute. Noting the effectiveness of EFT in her practice, as well as the professional and personal growth she has experienced through the training and application of this approach, she decided in 2021 to found the Hellenic Institute of Emotion-Focused Therapy (HiEFT) and spread this approach in Greece.