Training for Mental Health Professionals

Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Scrapers (Les raboteurs de parquet), 1875, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

I am involved in the training of mental health professionals since 1995. Initially at KETHEA’s Training Institute (1995-2003), then at the Laboratory for the Study of Human Relations (1998-2011) and from 2011 at the Training & Research Institute for Systemic Psychotherapy “Λόγω Ψυχής” of which I am a co-founder and co-director. 

The institute is a European Accredited Psychotherapy Training Institute από την European Association for Psychotherapy and accredited as a Full Member of EFTA-TIC Training Institutes Chamber of the European Family Therapy Association.

The Institute offers, among other trainings,  a 4 year clinical training programme in Systemic Psychotherapy to mental health professionals who are interested to be trained in SANESystem Attachment Narrative Encephalon®, an enriched with attachment theory, narrative psychology & neurosciences’ findings,  systemic approach.

In clinical practice it is implemented in sessions with individuals, couples, families, and groups. 

The 4 year training of 1440 hours consists of two 2 year parts.    

The programme is designed to fulfill the requirements of the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP), the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA), the Hellenic Association for Systemic Therapy of Families, Individuals and Groups (HELASYTH) & the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, UK (AFT).

The co-directors of the Institute are members of EFTA & HELASYTH and hold the European Certificate of Psychotherapy awarded by the European Association for Psychotherapy.

For more information regarding the clinical training programme in systemic psychotherapy see here.