 Intervention design Experimental group: Emotion focused therapy was conducted in eight sessions without pretest and post-test sessions according to Greenbergs manual 22 in a clinic of gastrointestinal patients. According to Greenberg manual, emotion focused therapy consists of three steps:1 emotional awareness 2 accessing healthy emotions 3 skills of emotional intelligence.There were five individuals in the post-test because of being absent more than three sessions or not participating in the post-test. 