Jeanne Watson
Professor
Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Dr. Watson is a major exponent of humanistic-experiential psychotherapy and has contributed to the development of Emotion Focused Psychotherapy, the process experiential approach. She teaches and conducts research on the process and outcome of psychotherapy with a focus on emotion focused psychotherapy. During her career, Dr. Watson has conducted psychotherapy outcome studies to examine the effectiveness of different approaches to psychotherapy including emotion focused, client-centered and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. In addition she studies psychotherapy process to identify the active ingredients of change. Much of this work has focused on factors related to emotion, attachment and interpersonal processes including the therapeutic relationship and the working alliance. Dr. Watson has co-authored and co-edited a total of 8 books on humanistic and emotion focused psychotherapy. Her most recent book is entitled Emotion Focused Psychotherapy for GAD with Dr. Leslie Greenberg. This is currently being translated into simplified Chinese. Dr. Watson received the Outstanding Early Career Achievement Award from the International Society for Psychotherapy Research in 2002 and was President of the Society in 2014-2015. She was recognized as an APA Fellow in 2013. c
Research Interest
Applied Psychology and Human Development
