Rate My Professor Jason Sharbanee

Dr. Jason Sharbanee is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the Discipline of Psychology, School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. He earned a Master of Psychology (Clinical) and a PhD from the University of Western Australia, completing his doctoral studies from 2008 to 2013. Prior to his current role, he was a Lecturer at Edith Cowan University from November 2015 to December 2021. As a clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience, he balances teaching, research, and clinical practice. He teaches psychotherapy to postgraduate clinical psychology trainees across multiple therapeutic orientations and is an internationally certified trainer in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) by the International Society for Emotion-Focused Therapy. He delivers professional trainings in EFT for individuals and couples through the Western Australian Institute for Emotion-Focused Therapy and maintains a small independent private practice. Sharbanee also chairs the College of Clinical Psychologists - Western Australia section of the Australian Psychological Society and serves as an editor for the PCEP Journal for Person-Centered Psychotherapy and Counselling. He has been trained and supervised extensively by Professor Leslie Greenberg, the developer of EFT, for more than 10 years.

Sharbanee's research examines the process of change during psychotherapy, with a focus on emotion-focused therapy for grief and bereavement, humanistic-experiential psychotherapies, substance-assisted psychotherapy, mental health recovery processes, cultural adaptations in psychotherapy, and implicit action tendencies in dysregulated behaviors such as alcohol consumption and snacking. His publications include "Emotion Focused Therapy – Case Conceptualization and Treatment: Adults" (2021), "Emotion-focused therapy for grief and bereavement" (2022), "Research on Humanistic-Experiential Psychotherapies: Updated Review" (2021), "Experiences of the change process during Emotion Focused Group Therapy" (2024), "Task analyses of emotional change" (2018), "Dosing and Therapeutic Conduct in Administration Sessions in Substance-Assisted Psychotherapy: A Systematized Review" (2023), "The Cognitive-Behavioural Theory and Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa: An Examination of Treatment Mechanisms and Future Directions" (2015), and "Implicit Action Tendencies and Evaluations in Unwanted Snacking Behavior" (2017). He has received the Postgraduate Research Travel Award from the University of Western Australia Convocation and a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning at Edith Cowan University. His contributions advance the understanding and practice of experiential psychotherapies globally.