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Josta Bernstädt
Graduate psychologist with additional training in Gestalt therapy,
body and energy work and meditation.
Personal
I am married and have two grown-up children from whom I can still learn a lot.
I lived in Scotland for 17 years and also work in English. This time has significantly shaped my – sometimes black – sense of humour.
I like to cook – as long as it’s not too often. I always change recipes.
I love the sea with its constant movement, change, calm and endless expanse, as well as its varied play of light and colour. Here I come to rest and enjoy the feeling of purposelessness and timelessness, as an important prerequisite for creativity.
Qualifications
Additional training in Gestalt psychotherapy in Scotland at the GTS (Gestalt Training Service Scotland), Gestalt therapist (DVG), non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy (HPG), licence to practise as a psychological psychotherapist, European Certificate for Psychotherapy (ECP).
Training in psychosomatic relaxation techniques, supervision training with Metanoia, Training Institute in
Counselling and Psychotherapy, London.
Training in Integrative Body Psychotherapy at the Lomi School California.
Ausbildung in Integrativer Körper-Psychotherapie an der Lomi-Schule Kalifornien.
Methods
As a Gestalt therapist, I include all aspects of our existence in my work, the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual.
I offer a participatory and committed relationship in which impulses and support for processes of change can arise.
Goals
- Cultivating a kind, sensitive way of dealing with yourself and others.
- Learning to master difficult situations imaginatively, playfully and with humour.
- Shaping a life in which you feel included.
Work experience
| since 2012
Internationally active as a trainer with a focus on the “Gestalt approach in group work”. since September 2010 Teaching therapist and trainer for the Gestalt Institute Hamburg with training groups in the Rhine-Main area. from April 2009 – May 2018 Employed in the forensic psychiatry department of the Rhein-Mosel-Fachklinik Andernach in the Maßregelvollzug. Individual and group therapy with drug-addicted, delinquent men. Sep. 2001 – Apr. 2009 Consultant for the Catholic FBS in Koblenz and Montabaur. Jun. 1999 – Aug. 2010 Staff member at the Gestalt Institute Kontakte, as a teaching therapist and trainer; leader of the one-year basic courses, two-year advanced courses in Gestalt counselling and Gestalt pedagogy, two-year advanced courses in Gestalt therapy and Gestalt supervision and the one-year additional qualification for Gestalt work with children and young people. |
since 1999Own psychotherapeutic practice in Koblenz. Nov. 1996 – Nov. 1999 Employed as group and individual therapist at the Hanosiusmühle, Blankenrath, a specialist clinic for drug addicts. Jun. 1993 – May 1996 Director of the training programme in Gestalt psychotherapy at the Gestalt Training Institute Edinburgh;(Scotland) May 1989 – May 1996 Co-founder of the Gestalt Training Institute Edinburgh, offering training, individual and group therapy, supervision and various continuing education courses 1984 – 1987 Counselling and supervision of the staff of a boarding school for difficult-to-educate adolescents and children (in Scotland)1981 – May 1996Worked as a freelance Gestalt psychotherapist (individual, couple and group therapy, long-term and short-term therapy, or counselling and crisis intervention) and counsellor to social institutions in the UK. |
Work experience
since 2012
internationally active as a trainer with a focus on the “Gestalt approach in group work”.
since September 2010
Teaching therapist and trainer for the Gestalt Institute Hamburg with training groups in the Rhine-Main area.
from April 2009 – May 2018
employed in the forensic psychiatry of the Rhein-Mosel-Fachklinik Andernach. There I work with drug-addicted, delinquent men in the prison system and offer individual and group therapy.
Sep. 2001 – Apr. 2009
Consultant for the Catholic FBS in Koblenz and Montabaur.
Jun. 1999 – Aug. 2010
Staff member at the Gestalt Institute Kontakte, as a teaching therapist and trainer; leader of the one-year basic courses, two-year advanced courses in Gestalt counselling and Gestalt pedagogy, two-year advanced courses in Gestalt therapy and Gestalt supervision and the one-year additional qualification for Gestalt work with children and young people.
since 1999
Own psychotherapeutic practice in Koblenz.
Nov. 1996 – Nov. 1999
Employed as a group and individual therapist at the Hanosiusmühle, Blankenrath, a specialist clinic for drug addicts.
Jun. 1993 – May 1996
Director of the training programme in Gestalt psychotherapy at the Gestalt Training Institute Edinburgh;(Scotland)
May 1989 – May 1996
Co-founder of the Gestalt Training Institute Edinburgh, offering training, individual and group therapy, supervision and various continuing education courses
1984 – 1987
Counselling and supervision of the staff of a boarding school for difficult-to-educate adolescents and children (in Scotland)1981 – May 1996Worked as a freelance Gestalt psychotherapist (individual, couple and group therapy, long-term and short-term therapy, or counselling and crisis intervention) and counsellor to social institutions in the UK.