Two-Day Masterclass "Deepening therapy through Focusing / Guiding the inner relationship" with Agathi Lakioti, Ph.D., assisted by Dr. phil. Emma Smith

Agathi Lakioti, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist/ psychotherapist and the founder and clinical director of the Hellenic Institute of Emotion-Focused Therapy (HiEFT) in Athens, Greece. She is a certified EFT therapist and supervisor, and a certified Focusing trainer and Focusing-Oriented Therapist by the International Focusing Institute. She studied psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and received her PhD in clinical psychology from Panteion University of Athens and her MSc in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Strathclyde. Agathi teaches Inner Relationship Focusing classes and counselling and psychotherapy, Positive Psychology, and research methodology courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has also been a trainer and supervisor in the Person-Centred approach for over 15 years. Agathi has been trained and certified in Inner Relationship Focusing by Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin. She is especially interested in integrating Emotion-Focused Therapy and Inner Relationship Focusing and she is currently participating in several projects for that purpose. One of them is a qualitative study investigating the use of Focusing by experienced EFT therapists. Agathi is also working on the development of an advanced curriculum for the integration of IRF in therapy.

Emma Smith studied psychology at the University of Bern and completed her doctorate under Prof. Klaus Grawe. After a postdoctoral year at King’s College London, she completed the integrative psychotherapy training program at the University of Bern. Through her ongoing advanced training in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) under Prof. Leslie Greenberg, she has been recognized as an ISEFT-certified trainer for individual EFT since 2022. She is also currently training as a trainer in "Inner Relationship Focusing" according to Ann Weiser-Cornell.
Emma works as a federally licensed psychotherapist and certified EFT therapist in private practice in Bern and serves as a lecturer and supervisor at the Swiss Institute for Emotion-Focused Therapy (IEFT-CH). As a board member of IEFT-CH, she is particularly interested in promoting the personal and professional development of humanistically oriented psychotherapists.