Our Mission
We want to promote the growth of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) in India by offering high quality, internationally accredited trainings to practicing psychotherapists. Our goal is to build a supportive community of EFT therapists committed to delivering the highest level of psychotherapy services to their clients and disseminate EFT theory and practice. While adhering to international standards, we aim to tailor our courses to meet the unique needs of mental health professionals trained in India.
Core Values
Our Institute is grounded in a set of humanistic values, which shape our identity and work
01
Growth
We recognise the innate human
tendency to self-right and develop capacities towards growth.
02
Experiencing
We view immediate experiencing as fundamental and emphasize a process-oriented approach to understanding and engaging with experience.
03
Egalitarianism
We collaborate as equals, each contributing unique expertise in a non-imposing way.
04
Self-concordance
We constantly strive to be true to ourselves by acting in ways that align with our own
values and preferences
Mentors
Robert Elliott, Ph.D.
(preferred pronouns: they/them)
​is Emeritus Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde (Scotland). Their main interests are training and research on Emotion-Focused Therapy. Recent books include Emotion-Focused Counselling in Action and Essentials of Descriptive-Interpretive Qualitative Research; they have published nearly 200 journal articles or book chapters. They are a past recipient of the Distinguished Research Career Award of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the Carl Rogers Award from the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association. They now live in Northern California, enjoying walking, running, science fiction, poetry, and all kinds of music.
Juliette Becking
(She/her)
is a clinical psychologist/psychotherapist and the founder of EFTiN, the Emotion Focused Therapy institute Netherlands. She started this institute in 2019, because she felt the next step for her was to focus entirely on dissemination of Emotion Focused Therapy in the Netherlands and around the world. Having been an Personcentered Experiential psychotherapist and trainer for decades, she started her EFT-training with Robert Elliott and Jeanne Watson around 2008. Totally caught by EFT she knew this was what she wanted to master, train, and spread. So, after intense training and supervision by the EFT originators she became an international EFT-trainer herself. Juliette was nominated as isEFT Board member in 2017.
Founder and Head of Institute
Simran Chatha (She/her)
is a clinical psychologist passionate about facilitating emotional change and fostering congruence in individuals and couple relationships. Her journey with Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) began in 2018 when she trained under Dr. Les Greenberg and immediately connected with the approach. She is a certified EFT therapist and a Supervisor-in-Training. Dedicated to making EFT more accessible in India, Simran founded the EFT India Network in 2023 to build a supportive community of emotion-focused therapists. In 2024, with the guidance of her mentors, Robert and Juliette, she established the Emotion-Focused Therapy Institute India (EFTii) to expand EFT training and practice across the country. During a year of research supervision with Dr. Robert Elliott, Simran developed a strong interest in qualitative research, which led her to pursue a PhD at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Her research examines empathy blocks as a key interfering process in psychotherapy practice and training.