Video Intervention Therapy Teachers and Supervisors
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Marc Pérez BURRIEL, PhD. Health Psychologist in private practice. Associate professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Girona. Lecturer of the Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology (UdG), Master of psychotherapy and attachment theory (UdG), and Master in Child and Adolescent Psychology: Intervention Techniques and Strategies (UOC). Researcher un the Laboratory of Attachment and Human Development (UdG). Member of the International Liaison of the International Attachment Network (IAN)
Languages : Catalan, Spanish and English
marc.perez@copc.cat
Tel. (+34) 972201886
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Margarita IBANEZ, Clinical psychologist, psychotherapist for children, adolescents and adults. Perinatal psychologist. Specialist in mistreatment and sexual abuse. Attachment researcher. Psychotherapy trainer. Institutions where I have worked: at the San Joan de Deu hospital, and at the Ferran Angulo Foundation (former director). Currently working at the Clinical and Training Association in Psychotherapy (ACiFeP) (ex FFA) where teach VIT. We have an on-line course on our website and I supervise cases treated with VIT.
Email: mibanez @acifep.com
phone: +34 651910245
web: https://acifep.com
I teach and supervise in Spanish, French and Catalan
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Fernando LASACA, Deputy of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Barcelona; doctor of psychology, clinical psychologist and licensed psychotherapist; founding member of the International Attachment Network Ibérica and associate professor at the University of Barcelona.
flacasa@hsjdbcn.org
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Dr. Fanny LEYTON, Psychiatrist, PhD in Psychotherapy, researcher at the Millennium Institute for Research on Depression and Personality (MIDAP) in Chile. Psychiatrist at Hospital Psiquiátrico Del Salvador, Valparaíso. Associate Professor of the Faculty of Medicine at University of Valparaíso. Member of the Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Neurology of Chile. Main lines of study: Mental Health and Psychiatry, Parenting, Psychosocial Determinants in Mental Health, Promotion, and prevention in Mental Health.
fanny.leyton@uv.cl
Languages: Spanish and English
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Paulina PIZARRO BARRERA, Psychologist and Master’s in Child and Youth Clinic. Psychotherapist specialized in psychodynamic orientation. Associate Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Valparaíso, Chile. Paulina has an extensive work experience in the public primary care service and public hospitals in outpatient and inpatient psychiatric care units. Founder and President of the Board of Directors at “Casa para la Infancia” foundation: www.fundacioncasaparalainfancia.org
paulina.pizarro.barrera@gmail.com
Language: Spanish
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Carmen TELLO, Doctor in psychology, specialized in clinical psychology. I carry out my professional practice at the Sant Joan de Déu Lleida Children’s and Youth Mental Health Center (Spain), where I am responsible for the eating disorders program. Where the VIT technique is applied in children from 0 to 8 years old *. Associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lleida. President of the International Attachment Network-Ibero-American (IAN-IA) and member of the Ibero-American Attachment Network (RIA). Head of Training, Teaching and Research of Sant Joan de Deu Lleida.
carmetello@gmail.com
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Laura CAETANI, Psychologist, psychotherapist. Teacher at Istituto dell’Approccio Centrato sulla Persona (Client-Centered Therapy). Founding member and Past President of Istituto Sviluppo Interazione George Downing Kàris. Certified scorer and coder of Adult Attachment Interview (A.A.I.) by Mary Main, Reflection Funtioning (R.F.) by Howard Steele, and Coding Interactive Behavior (C.I.B.) by Ruth Feldman. Trained in EMDR (advanced training, level 2). Trainer in Body Focused Therapy (BFT) based on George Downing’s method. Video Intervention Therapy (V.I.T.) teacher, and supervisor since 2012. Provides support for adoptive parenting and difficult behavior of children and adolescents, with particular regard to traumatic aspects.
lauracaetani@gmail.com
Languages: Italian and Spanish
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Sergio FACCHINI, Medical doctor specialized in paediatrics and psychotherapy. He is a video feedback psychotherapy (V.I.T. – G. Downing) supervisor. Lives and works as a primary care pediatrician in Trieste (Italy). He is dedicated to the support of affective development of children in the context of their family. He developed the Primary Care-VIT as an implementation of VIT for children from 0 to 3 years old.
serfac.pn@gmail.com
Languages: Italian and English
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Terry FALCONE, Psychologist, graduated from La Sapienza University of Rome in 1982. Psychotherapist Order of Psychologists n. 4426 – 20/12/ ’93 art. 35 L. 56/89. European Cetification from 31/07/03. Specialised in Psychosomatic Medecine with a Bioenegetic and Gestalt Analitic Orientation. Teacher and Supervisor in GTK Institute of Rome (D.M. 9/5/94). Teacher of Authogenic Training and Relaxation Techniques. Training in Ruth Feldman ‘s Coding Interactive Behavior (CIB). Training in BFT and Supervisor in VIT. She wrote articles of Psychosomatic Medecine and the book “Intercorporeality” Alpes Edition with a second republication in 2021.
Founder of the Institut Sviluppo Interazione Karis George Downing (ISIKARIS) and currently in a position of Scientific Coordinator.
She lives and works in Italian language in Rome.
terry881958@gmail.com
Cell. 3208186636
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Dr. Adelaide GARGIUTO, Former Chief Psychologist Manager of ASL Roma 2 Complex Structure currently retired. Psychotherapist, trainer, teacher. Founding member and current president of the “Istituto Sviluppo Interazione George Downing Karis”. Supervisor in Video Intervention Therapy, Training in Body Focused Therapy. Training in Ruth Feldman’s Coding Interactive Behavior (CIB). Teacher and Lecturer of the Four-year Specialization Course in Individual and Group Analytical Gestalt Psychotherapy from 2001 to today. Full Teacher Supervisor FISIG (Italian Federation of Gestalt Schools and Institutes). Supervisor in Bioenergetic Analysis. She practices the profession as a psychotherapist, supervisor in Rome.
adelaide.gargiuto@gmail.com
Language : Italian
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Dott. Marcello LONGO, Psychotherapist doctor. Transactional Analyst Diploma, EATA 2002 certified. In permanent training on Body Focused Therapy (B.F.T.) with Dr. G. Downing from 2004. V.I.T. diploma released by the “International Institute of V.I.T., Paris” and V.I.T. Supervisor for Italy. C.I.B certified (Coding Interacting Behavior) for coding of videotaped mother-child interactions. First and second level on E.M.D.R. training with Completion Certificate. 2010 to now contract lecturer at IUSVE (Salesian University Institute of Venice) in Mestre teaching (Italian language) the V.I.T. and the Mentalization in two different Laboratories. Psychotherapist at the IRIPES Institute of Pordenone (Research and Intervention in Education and Socialization Psychology) with support interventions for mother-child dyads and supervision of educator-child dyads, using V.I.T.
longomarcello592@gmail.com
Languages : Italian en English
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Dott. Giorgio SARNO, psychologist-psychotherapist. Didatta S.I.P.O. (Italian Society of Organismic Psychotherapy). Trained with George Downing, Katherine and Malcolm Brown, Jacob Stattman, Vittorio Guidano, Cesare Lena and Paola Ortolani. He integrates the body model with the cognitive model in individual, couple and group interventions. With VIT he realizes interventions to support parenting and training for educational workers. Lives in Forlì. He works, in Italian language, in Forlì, Ravenna and Bologna. Founder of the Omnibus Center and the Psytools Center in Forlì.
Founder of the Institute Sviluppo interazione George Downing Karis.
gs.giorgio.sarno@gmail.com
Cell. 3498846430
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Karen DOYLE BUCKWALTER, MSW, LCSW, is the Director of Carolina Attachment and Trauma Services in the United States. She is a Registered Play Therapist and a Family Therapist. She has been using Video Intervention Therapy and studying with Dr. Downing since 2010. Her clinical specialty areas include attachment and trauma issues in children, adolescents, and adults. She has used VIT in residential and outpatient treatment settings and in intensive in-home therapy programs. She has worked extensively with fostered and adopted children and their families using VIT. She offers VIT training and supervision online and in person.
She can be reached at karen@karendoylebuckwalter.com
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Dr. Kristie BRANDT is an internationally known teacher, clinician, and consultant, and directs the Parent-Infant & Child Institute in Napa, CA that provides clinical services for children age 0-5, consultation for parents and providers, and professional training. She is also an Assistance Clinical Professor of Pediatrics V.F. at U.C. Davis School of Medicine, and a Child Trauma Academy Fellow with Dr. Bruce Perry. Brandt is lead editor of the book “Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts & Clinical Practice”, and an endorsed Infant-Family & Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. Brandt has been actively using VIT since 2003 in home visits, clinic settings, and supervision sessions, and has attended yearly 3-day trainings with Dr. Downing for over 12 years.
dr.kristiebrandt@sbcglobal.net
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Christina LANSDOWN, LMFT, specializes in Infant-Parent and Early Childhood Mental Health and Somatic Psychotherapy. She has been studying with Dr. Downing and honing her practice in VIT since her participation in the Napa Infant Parent Mental Health Fellowship in 2010. Ms. Lansdown offers home-visiting services and clinical supervision through her private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as providing clinical supervision and program management at a local non-profit mental health agency. She is bilingual in Spanish.
lansdownlmft@gmail.com
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Dr. Rachel TALAMANTEZ is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and holds a doctorate and a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. Rachel specializes in Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Traumatic Stress, and Reflective Practice. Along with clinical work, Rachel’s career has focused on program development, implementation, evaluation, management and reflective consultation/supervision.
Currently, Rachel lives in San Jose, California where she oversees clinical services at KidScope Center for Developmental and Behavioral Health, is adjunct faculty at De Anza Community College and is Assistant Director of the University of California Davis Extension, Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship Program. Rachel has been using VIT in clinical work and supervision since 2006.
dr.rachel@hush.com
www.racheltalamantez.com
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Maria Teresa Pi ORDONEZ, Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. Head of service of the CSMIJ of Gironés and Pla de l’Estany of the Institut d’Assistencia Sanitaria. She is a member of the Affective Bonding and Human Development Laboratory at the University of Girona and a professor in the master’s degree taught at the Laboratory. Member of the International Attachment Network Iberoamericana (IAN-IA), of the Spanish Society of Psychotherapy and Group Techniques (SEPTG), of the International Association for Group Therapy and Group Processes (IAGP) and others. She would be willing to supervise remotely over the internet.
pimaite@telefonica.net
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Dra. Marta SADURNI BRUGUÉ. Professor of Evolutionary Psychology. Head of the Affective Bonding and Human Development Laboratory of the Department of Psychology. Girona University. Director of the Master in Psychotherapy, Clinical-Evolutionary Psychology and Attachment Theory (UdG). Specialist Psychologist in Clinical Psychology and psychotherapist. President of the Catalan Association of Clinical-Evolutionary Psychology and Affective Bond Psychotherapy. Member of the International Attachment Network-Ibero-American (IAN-IA) and of the Catalan Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ACPP).
marta.sadurni@udg.edu
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Cristina RIVA CRUGNOLA, Associate professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Milan-Bicocca, where she is co-responsible for the Counseling Center for students. Psychoanalyst, she is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association. She studied the impact of maternal attachment and mother-child emotional regulation modalities on infant attachment, identifying early risk indicators. She coordinates a prevention project aimed at adolescent mothers, entitled PRERAYMI (Promoting responsiveness, emotion regulation and attachment in young mothers and infants) in which Video Intervention Therapy is used. She has published numerous articles and volumes, including The Parent and Child Relationship. Between adequacy and risk. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2012.
cristina.riva-crugnola@unimib.it
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Dr. (H) Susanne WORTMANN-FLEISCHER is a resident specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy in the neurological group practice ZNS Mannheim / Ludwigshafen. She has many years of experience in the therapeutic application of video intervention therapy according to G. Downing in the context of outpatient and inpatient treatment of mentally ill parents and as a supervisor.
wortmann@zns-mannheim.de
Body-Focused Therapy Teachers & Supervisors
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Elisabeth BREIT-SCHRÖDER, Dipl.-Psych. / Psychologische Psychotherapeutin TP / ST
Qualifications: Supervisor and trainer in body-oriented psychotherapy (MAK). Systemic therapist / family therapist and supervisor (DGSF). Lecturer for systemic therapy and counseling (DGSF). Lecturer for Systemic Supervision (DGSF). Accredited training organizer of PTK Bavaria.
Activities: Formerly worked in a specialist hospital for addicts. Worked for several years in an education and family counseling center. Since 1986 own psychotherapeutic practice in Munich
Focus: body-oriented psychotherapy. Individual, couple and family therapy. Supervision, advanced training and teaching within the framework of various advanced training institutes. Supervision in institutions. Coaching / seminars in team development and systemic self-awareness for the private sector.
info@mak-fortbildung.de
www.mak-fortbildung.de
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Andrea OPITZ-GERZ, Dipl.-Psych., Psychologische Psychotherapeutin
Qualifications: License to practice medicine and medical approval in psychotherapy based on depth psychology. Supervisor and trainer in body-oriented psychotherapy (MAK). Systemic couple and family therapist, teacher for systemic therapy and counseling (DGSF). Systemic supervisor, teacher for systemic supervision (DGSF). EMDR therapist. Accredited supervisor and lecturer at the Bavarian Chamber of Psychotherapists.
Activities: Long-term employment in a social psychiatric service and in a marriage, family and sexual counseling center. Since 1994 own practice for psychotherapy, supervision and further education.
Focus: body-oriented psychotherapy. Individual, couple and family therapy. Supervision and teaching as part of further training. Team and case supervision in institutions. Training activity at various training institutes.
Publications: Opitz-Gerz, A .: The importance of the body dimension for trauma work. In: Trauma & Violence (2nd year) issue 4/2008.
info@mak-fortbildung.de
www.mak-fortbildung.de
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Marcel RAAS, 1960, FMH specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy as well as psychiatry and psychotherapy. Own practice in Winterthur since 1997. Psychotherapeutic focus in systemic couple and family therapy as well as body-oriented psychotherapy. Supervisor in the continuing education curriculum for systemic couple and family therapy, phasic model (C. Gammer).
marcel.i.raas@hin.ch
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Terry FALCONE, Psychologist graduated from La Sapienza University of Rome in 1982. Psychotherapist Order of Psychologists n. 4426 – 20/12/ ’93 art. 35 L. 56/89. European Cetification from 31/07/03. Specialised in Psychosomatic Medecine with a Bioenegetic and Gestalt Analitic Orientation. Teacher and Supervisor in GTK Institute of Rome (D.M. 9/5/94). Teacher of Authogenic Training and Relaxation Techniques. Training in Ruth Feldman ‘s Coding Interactive Behavior (CIB). Training in BFT and Supervisor in VIT. She wrote articles of Psychosomatic Medecine and the book “Intercorporeality” Alpes Edition with a second republication in 2021.
Founder of the Institut Sviluppo Interazione Karis George Downing (ISIKARIS) and currently in a position of Scientific Coordinator.
She lives and works in Italian language in Rome
terry881958@gmail.com
Cell. 3208186636
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Dott. Marcello LONGO, Psychotherapist doctor. Transactional Analyst Diploma, EATA 2002 certified. In permanent training on Body Focused Therapy (B.F.T.) with Dr. G. Downing from 2004. V.I.T. diploma released by the “International Institute of V.I.T., Paris” and V.I.T. Supervisor for Italy. C.I.B certified (Coding Interacting Behavior) for coding of videotaped mother-child interactions. First and second level on E.M.D.R. training with Completion Certificate. 2010 to now contract lecturer at IUSVE (Salesian University Institute of Venice) in Mestre teaching (Italian language) the V.I.T. and the Mentalization in two different Laboratories. Psychotherapist at the IRIPES Institute of Pordenone (Research and Intervention in Education and Socialization Psychology) with support interventions for mother-child dyads and supervision of educator-child dyads, using V.I.T.
longomarcello592@gmail.com
Languages : Italian en English
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Katharina KÖRNER, Physiotherapist, dance therapist (BTD), advanced training in body-oriented psychotherapy (G. Downing), video intervention therapy (G. Downing), hypnotherapy. Many years of experience in the therapeutic application of video intervention therapy and body psychotherapy with patients in the mother-child unit at the Heidelberg University Clinic. Also active in therapy in the Systelios Clinic Siedelsbrunn and in our own practice.
kath-koerner@web.de
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Frau Prof. Dr. Corinna RECK, since 2013 head of the teaching and research unit for “Clinical Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence & Counseling Psychology” at LMU Munich. Before that, she worked as a senior psychologist in a mother-child unit for postpartum mental disorders at the Clinic for General Psychiatry at Heidelberg University Hospital. Psychotherapeutic training in behavioral therapy, body-oriented psychotherapy (according to George Downing, PhD), psychodrama, children’s play therapy and in video intervention therapy for the treatment of disorders in the parent-child relationship.
corinna.reck@psy.lmu.de
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Gudula SCHEINER, Graduated psychologist, psychological psychotherapist, has been working in her own medical practice since 1993. Before that she worked for several years in a psychosomatic and a psychiatric clinic. She is trained in behavior therapy, body psychotherapy, systemic couple and family therapy, systemic supervision, VIT and trauma therapy and works with adults, couples, parents, groups and teams.
scheinerirsee@gmx.de
FINLAND
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Riina JOHANSSON, Psychiatric nurse. Body psychotherapist, supervisor and teacher of body psychotherapy in Finnish and English. riina.johansson@sunriina.fi
Aune KARHUMÄKI, M.soc Sc. Body psychotherapist, sexologist, supervisor and teacher of body psychotherapy in Finnish and English.
aune@prosensus.fi
Mirka LAMMI, Psychologist. Body psychotherapist, supervisor and teacher of body psychotherapy in Finnish and English. psychotherapist.lammi@gmail.com
Bodil LINDFORS, Ph.D. Body psychotherapist, supervisor and teacher of body psychotherapy in Swedish, Finnish and English.
bodil.lindfors@abo.fi
Mikko LOUNELA, MA. Body psychotherapist, supervisor and teacher of body psychotherapy in Finnish and English.
mikko.lounela@gmail.com
Laura MANNILA, Body psychotherapist, supervisor and teacher of body psychotherapy in Finnish and English.
lauramarjaanamannila@gmail.com
Minna MARTIN, Body psychotherapist, supervisor and teacher of body psychotherapy in Finnish and English.
minna.martin@outlook.com
Jaana RAJAVERÄJÄ, MSc. Body psychotherapist, supervisor and teacher of body psychotherapy in Finnish and English.
jaana@rajaveraja.fi