EBTA President: Janine Ross RMN, RGN, BSc BA, Carlisle, England, Click to send an email
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Janine is a registered Mental and General Nurse working in the north of England. Her areas of specialty are substance misuse ( both adult and young people) and child and adolescent mental health.
More recently she has worked as a Primary Care Mental Health Practitioner in GP surgeries, with patients who have depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, phobias etc. She has a certificate in adult education and is a part time lecturer. Janine also has a private practice as a therapist, trainer and supervisor. She has been on the EBTA Board since 1997 and currently has the privilege of being President
EBTA Treasurer: Helene Dellucci Psychologist, systemic family therapist and EMDR Europe consultant, Lyon and Saint Etienne, France. Click to send an email
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Helene is psychologist, systemic family therapist and EMDR Europe consultant. She work in private practice and as a supervisor and a trainer. Her main work is with people who have complex trauma and dissociative disorder, by integrating solution focused therapy and traumatherapy. She also involved in humanitarian projects. She work in France in Lyon and Saint Etienne.
EBTA Secretary and EBTA Research Grants Awards Committee:
Dr Ferdinand Wolf Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Licensed Teacher, Trainer and Supervisor for Systemic Family Therapy (www.oeas.at), Coach, Mediator, Vienna, Austria. Click to send email
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Ferdinand is a clinical psychologist at a children's counseling Center in Vienna and a licensed teacher trainer and supervisor for systemic family therapy in Austria, Germany (NIK-Bremen), Czech Republic (ISZ-Prague), Slovak Republic (ISZ-Kosice) and Italy (Family Therapy Institute Bolzano). He is also teacher at the University of Klagenfurt/Austria, the School of Social Work FH-Campus Vienna, the Solution Management Center Vienna and the European Academy - EURAC Bolzano/Italy. Ferdinand was trained by Steve De Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg at BFTC in Milwaukee and in Vienna and Salzburg/Austria between 1987 and 1990. He is a member of EBTA-Board since 2004.
EBTA Research Coordinator for the EBTA Research Grants Awards Committee:
Dr Alasdair J Macdonald MB ChB FRCPSYCH DPM DCH, England. Click to send an email
Presentation Alasdair has been a consultant psychiatrist in the United Kingdom for 30 years. He has experience in all aspects of psychiatry. His psychotherapy training included psychodynamic, group andsystemic approaches. He is registered as a family therapist and supervisor with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. He has been the Medical Director of two Trusts and the Project Director of the Mental Health Institute, St Martin's College, Carlisle.
Presently He work with children with learning disability and as a therapy supervisor and coach. He also provide management consultancy and training in managing disagreements in the workplace. He teach solution-focused brief therapy in the UK and internationally as he has done for 20 years. He has special experience in the application of solution-focused approaches in mental health and with offenders. His research interest is the study of process and outcomes in solution-focused therapy. He is the Research Coordinator and past President of the European Brief Therapy Association.
For further information see www.solutionsdoc.co.uk
EBTA Research Grants Awards Committee: Dr Mark Beyebach, PH. D. Professor, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. Click to send an email
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Mark is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Approved Supervisor for the Spanish Federation of Family Therapy Associations. Mark is the Director of the Post-Graduate Training Program in Systemic Therapy at the Universidad Pontificia in Salamanca, Spain. He teaches at many university-based doctoral and masters level training programs in Spain. Mark research focus on therapeutic processes and outcomes, particularly on the therapeutic relationship in brief and family therapy. His clinical interests focus on clinical work with eating disordered, sexually abused, and chronically ill clients and their families. Mark is passionate about training mental health professionals to be respectful and integrative practitioners that base their clinical decision-making on clients’ input and on sound research evidence.
EBTA Web page administration: Caroline Klingenstierna, licenced psychologist and co-director at the solutionwork institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Click to send an email.
For further information see www.framtidsfokus.se
EBTA board member: Dr Luc Isebeart, psychiatrist and psychoterapist, the korzybski institute, Bruges, Belgium. Click to send an email
Luc is founding member and past president of the European Brief Therapy Association EBTA
For further information see www.korzybski.com
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EBTA board member: Michael K. Hjerth, licenced psychologist and co-director at the solutionwork institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Click to send an email
For further information see www.framtidsfokus.se
EBTA board member: Dr. Heike Schemmel, impuls - zentrum für systemisches arbeiten (www.impuls-dresden.de), Dresden, Germany. Click to send an email
Heike is clinical psychologist working as licensed psychotherapist & supervisor (AVM) in private group practice with kids, adults & families in Dresden.
She was trained in SFT during a 2 years’ postgraduate training at Bamberg as well as in workshops/supervision with Steve, Insoo, Yvonne & others. Since then she has been infected with SF-thinking that proofed helpful in the different contexts of her working life like outpatient therapy, teaching, training, child-psychiatry & a family-day-clinic offering multi-family-therapy. Since 2005 working in group practice, trying hard to establish multi-family-groups & family work within the rather rigid German health-insurance-system.
For further information see www.impuls-dresden.de
EBTA board member: Peter Sundman, family therapist consultant and trainer, Taitoba, Helsinki, Finland. Click to send an email
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Peter Sundman is a consultant and trainer at TaitoBa in Helsinki. TaitoBa offers Solution Focused and Positive Psychology based Training, Coaching, Supervison and Therapy. Peter is trained by MRI and BFTC in the 1980’s and has applied the ideas since in social work, therapy, consulting, training, supervision and coaching. He is a member of the EBTA Board.
For further information see www.taitoba.fi
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Manfred is a psychotherapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist.
Trainer of / Lecturer Supervisor and Coach (SG). Founding member of European Brief Therapy Association EBTA.
For further information see www.nik.de
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Plamen is a psychiatrist, Chief Physician at the Day Clinic of Rousse Regional Psychiatric Dispensary in Bulgaria. He is President of the Board of Solutions Centre Rousse, a non-for-profit organization working the solution-focused way in diverse social fields:
For further information see http://en.solutions-centre-rousse-bulgaria.org/
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Hans works at the at the 113 online - suïcide prevention Foundation.
For further information see www.praktijkvoorpsychologischehulpverlening.nl
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Tomasz applies sf ideas within contexts of therapy, social work, coaching. For more information please visit www.centrumpsr.eu
Non European Members
Non-Europeans can become members of the EBTA. Representatives from these countries can be members of the extended EBTA board comity.