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WHO WE ARE

We are honored to announce the opening of the "Caucasus Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Family Psychotherapy", which was officially registered in Tbilisi, Georgia on June 21, 2012, and we have a representative offices in Armenia, Yerevan, Azerbaijan and Baku. The institute offers education in accordance with international professional training standards and qualification improvement in leading psychotherapeutic modalities.

We are the first in the South Caucasus region
Professional Innovative Interregional Educational Post-Diploma Education Training Institute.
In the same year, in 2012, our institute became an associate member of the European Association for Gestalt Therapists (EAGT).

Today dozens of our graduates are Gestalt therapists and supervisors accredited by EAGT

The goal of the Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Family Psychotherapy is to present and popularize leading psychotherapeutic modalities such as Gestalt Therapy and Family Psychotherapy in Georgia, the Caucasus and the whole world, and to create a strong institution throughout the Caucasus region.

Let us remind you that the founder of the Georgian Scientific School of Psychology is Dimitri Uznadze, who is the author of "Theory of Attitude". He also founded the first scientific research institute in the post-Soviet space in 1943. Despite the fact that psychology and psychotherapy in Georgia and the Caucasus region are constantly developing, the current situation by the time the institute opened did not meet the recognized international professional standards. Today, the situation is changed dramatically, although there is still a lot to be done in terms of professional educational training standards and professional qualifications, competencies.

He is the author of one of the most important discoveries in psychology - Theory of Attitude and Set, which implementation he was involved in. Uznadze is the head of the first scientific psychological organization in Georgia, which was later transformed into the Institute of Psychology. However, despite the fact that psychology and psychotherapy in Georgia and the Caucasus region are constantly developing, the current situation here does not meet recognized international standards.

That is why there was a need to found a new institute that would contribute to the implementation of psychology and psychotherapy in compliance with European and American standards into the practice throughout the region, help professionals and interested individuals in obtaining education in psychotherapy, that meets these international standards of psychotherapy, for further development of their professional skills and became full members of the professional society in Georgia and abroad of the organizations such as the European Association of Psychotherapy, the American Association of Psychotherapists, the European Association for Gestalt Therapists (EAGT) and others.

A five-year training program in Gestalt therapy is developed by the Institute in cooperation with the European Association for Gestalt Therapists (EAGT) and complies with international EAGT training standards

A four-year training program in family psychotherapy in accordance with the international EFTA training standards is developed by the institute in cooperation with the relevant European and American professional associations, and in accordance with the EFTA training standards.

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TRAINING PROGRAMS OF OUR INSTITUTE:

FIVE-YEAR GESTALT THERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM IN ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL EAGT TRAINING STANDARDS

After graduation, the students have right to practice as Gestalt therapists/consultants, as well as get accredited by Georgian National Association of Gestalt Therapists, EAGT and other organizations if they desire.

FOUR YEAR FAMILY PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM IN ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL EFTA TRAINING STANDARDS

Upon completion of the program graduates are allowed to practice as family psychotherapists and also join local professional organizations if they desire.

UPGRADING QUALIFICATION AND SPECIALIZATION PROGRAMS

You are given an opportunity to deepen your professional knowledge and improve your skills and get specialization in different areas, such as working with families, couples, children and adolescents, eating disorders (bulimia), sexology, psychopathology, coaching and others.

LECTURES AND WEBINARS

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We regularly organize free as well as paid live broadcasts on various social networks.

PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SUPERVISION

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CERTIFICATES

Gestalt Therapy and Family Psychotherapy Therapy Program

Upon completion of the program and meeting all criteria of the educational training standards, students are awarded the International Gestalt Therapy Diploma and, if desired, EAGT and EPA accreditation.

Specializations and Courses in Various Areas

Upon completion of all modules, an international certificate is issued that complies with EAGT and EPA standards.

Upon completion of all modules, students are awarded the international certificate that complies with EAGT and EPA standards.

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CODE OF ETHICS

CODE OF ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

A. CODE OF ETHICS

1. Statement of equality of worth among individuals

2. Respect for the uniqueness, worth and dignity of the individual

3. Appreciation of the differences of race, extraction, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity or preference, handicap, age, religion, language, social or economic status and of the need for spirituality.

4. Recognition of the importance of autonomy and self-regulation of the individual in the context of contractual interpersonal relationships.

B. CODE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN GESTALT THERAPY

B.1. Competence

B.1.1 The Gestalt therapist will only undertake those tasks where he/she knows, or should know that he/she has the necessary competence to address these tasks and bring them to a completion that is beneficial to the client’s process.

B.1.2 During the working process, the Gestalt therapist, upon discovering the limits of his/her competence, will either refer the client to another professional or will establish collaboration with another professional/other professionals.

B.1.3 The first step during this process is the renegotiation of the original contract with the client. Continuing with the client means taking the necessary action to improve competence. Such action can be:

B.1.3.1 the therapist examines carefully whether his/her competence can be applied in the field in which the therapeutic work is to take place fully to the benefit of the client. If the Gestalt therapist determines that the contextual field, its structure, boundaries and the aims that dominate that field to be in any way contradictory or too restrictive to/for the unfolding of the competence that is necessary to further the client’s process, he/she abstains from any further working project undertaken in this field.

B.1.3.2 the Gestalt therapist seeks support and clarification of his/her difficulty regarding a problematic situation in an intermission context with experienced colleagues.

B.1.3.3 The Gestalt therapist seeks individual or group supervision, depending on which supervision setting is best suited for support and clarification in his/her situation.

B.1.3.4 the Gestalt therapist builds networks with members of other professions and institutions (such as clinics) in order to dispose of the necessary diagnostic and therapeutic security and availability of means of help for the client in case he/she reaches the boundaries of his/her competence or setting.

B.1.4 the Gestalt therapist protects his/her work and the profession in general from any unqualified actions and projects and procedures (lectures, interviews, in the public media, seminars) that are not in correspondence with the professional standards consented upon.

B.1.5 the Gestalt therapist seeks individual therapy in case of turbulence in his/her therapeutic work such as personal crises, signs of burn-out and/or difficulties in safeguarding the borders of intimacy and seductability.

B.1.6 The methodological and technical approach in the therapeutic process must serve the therapeutic aims and developmental requirements of the client agreed upon in the contracting. The Gestalt therapist is aware that any acting-out, especially expressive and cathartic acting-out, requires de-dramatization achieved through detailed and careful working through.

B.1.7 In an educative process lasting a whole professional life, the Gestalt therapist takes care to enlarge and deepen his/her professional and personal competence. The Gestalt therapist is open to important developments that affect this process, whether in the field of Gestalt Psychotherapy or in other fields or schools of psychotherapeutic research and practice, with regard to the benefit of the clients.

B.1.8 the Gestalt therapist maintains careful documentation of his/her diagnostic and therapeutic work with the client and observes the national prescriptions for the duration of document preservation and the security measure demanded. Careful documenting means corresponding to the scientific level foreseen by the national psychotherapeutic regulations and adhering to the objectivity and clearness necessary in order to make the documentation and its contents understandable and feasible for another therapeutic professional.