Working with Parts of the Self in Therapy

Janina Fisher, PhD is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Instructor at the Trauma Center, an outpatient clinic and research center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known for her expertise as a therapist and consultant, she is also past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, a faculty member of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr Fisher has been an invited speaker at the Cape Cod Institute, the Harvard Medical School Conference Series, the EMDR International Association Annual Conference, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Westminster in London, the Psycho-traumatology Institute of Europe, and the Esalen Institute. Dr Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on integrating research and treatment and how to introduce these newer trauma treatment paradigms in traditional therapeutic approaches.

Hubert Hermans was born as son of a baker in Maastricht, The Netherlands. He studied psychology at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, where he became staff member at the psychological laboratory of the same university in 1965. In 1973 he became associate professor of psychology at the University of Nijmegen and in 1980 full professor at the same university. Since 2002 he is president of the International Society for Dialogical Science (ISDS) and since 2020 honorary president. Since 2020 he is associate editor of the Journal of Constructivist Psychology. For his merits to society, he was appointed as Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw (Knight in the Society of the Netherlands Lion) in 2002. His 2006 Dutch book “Dialoog en Misverstand” (Dialogue and Misunderstanding) was used by Herman Wijffels during the preparation of the Dutch government in 2007. From 1961-2007 Hubert Hermans collaborated with Hermans-Jansen, a psychotherapist, in the development of the Self-Confrontation Method (SCM). From 2008-2013 he was married to Agnieszka Konopka, who wrote a dissertation (Warsaw, 2006) on the relationship between Self and emotions. He continues to cooperate on the further development of Dialogical Self Theory in the International Institute for the Dialogical Self (IIDS) with Agnieszka Konopka .

Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D. is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University in Toronto. He was originally trained in Person Centred and Gestalt therapy and engaged in psychotherapy research. He has authored the major texts on Emotion Focused Therapy from the first books Emotion in Psychotherapy (1986) and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (1988) to most recent Emotion-Focused Therapy (2015) and Emotion focused therapy of Forgiveness and Letting go (2019). He has received both the Early Career and the Distinguished Research Career award of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research as well as the Carl Rogers and the Distinguished Professional Contribution to Applied Research of the American Psychology Association. He also has received the Canadian Psychological Association Professional Award for distinguished contributions to Psychology as a profession. He is a past President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. He now spends the majority of his time training people in emotion-focused approaches.