Deputy Director

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.