Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy

Rhonda N. Goldman, PhD, is an associate professor of clinical psychology at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, Schaumburg and an affiliate therapist at the Family Institute at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where she works with both individuals and couples. She has co-authored three texts on emotion-focused therapy including Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy, Case Studies in Emotion-Focused Treatment of Depression and Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love, and Power. She is currently writing a book on case formulation in emotion-focused therapy. In addition, she practices, teaches, and conducts research on emotional processes and outcomes in therapy and has written on an array of other topics such as empathy, vulnerability, depression, and case formulation. She sits on the editorial review board of two journals: Psychotherapy Research and Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies. She is the recipient of the 2011 Carmi Harari Early Career Award from APA Division 32 (Society for Humanistic Psychology).