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A world-renowned expert in the field of neuropsychiatry, especially children’s psychiatry, has been renowned. A lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation in Zagreb. A founder of the Croatian Interdisciplinary Therapy Association for Children and Youth, and is the President of the European Association for Children and Adolescent Psychotherapy

The founder and director of the European Center for Psychotherapeutic Studies (European Center for Psychotherapeutic Studies), an experienced Gestalt and Integrative Psychotherapist, Coach and Supervisor, began his education in the UK in 1970. He was President of the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) in 1994, founded and presided over the European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy (1996-1999), and was President of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (2002-2008)

Doctor of Health Knowledge, gestalt psychotherapist and child and adolescent integrative psychotherapist. The Exhibitor is at numerous domestic and international conferences and conferences, educations within institutions and NGOs, on topics of protection of health, rights and interests of children. Mirela is a certified European psychotherapist and lecturer in the field of integrative psychotherapy for children, young people and adults. She is a lecturer in teaching in the field of psychotherapy counselor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zenica. The supervisor’s under supervision. Mirela is also the founder and director of BHIDAPA and the EIATSCYP Registry.

The director of the Polyclinic for the Protection of the Children of the City of Zagreb thirty years of her career deals with children. As a child psychologist at the Zagreb Children’s Hospital, Zagreb often met with abused and neglected children who did not have the necessary protection of adults. Therefore, she was among the first to recognize this issue in Croatia in the early ’90s and dedicate her further work to her.

Deputy Director of the European Center for Psychotherapeutic Studies (EUROCPS). Johanna is a Gestal therapist and a lecturer at the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in Zagreb, Ljubljana and the Gestalt Institute in Malta.

Professor of Psychology, Integrative, TA, Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapist. He deals with EMDR. Director of the IPSA Institute (Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy and Counseling) in Ljubljana, and a lecturer at psychotherapy education institutes in Great Britain, Spain, Bosnia and Croatia.

Maša Žvelc is a graduate psychologist, a M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology from Integrative Psychotherapy. Integrative psychotherapy is a graduate of the Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute (UK) under the mentorship of Ken Evans. IPSA institute leads training in integrative psychotherapy.

He started his subspecialization in psychotherapy in 2007, and in 2009 he took a subspecialist exam. Issues of sexuality, as well as transgenderism and transsexuality, etc. Arbanas has been in business for fifteen years. He completed his education in sexual therapy and is one of the founders of the Croatian Society for Sexual Therapy, of which he has been president since its founding. He also completed education in sexual medicine and participates in the work of the European Sexological Federation, in the commission for education in sexual therapy. In 2012, he passed the European Specialist Exam in Sexual Medicine and earned the title of FECSM.

Defectologist and Master of Integrative Psychotherapy, co-founder of the Croatian Interdisciplinary Therapy Association for Children and Youth, and secretary of the European Association. Vesna is a lecturer at the Ipsa Institute in Ljubljana. Areas of interest: children, adolescents and families.

Head of Diagnostics and Treatment at the Polyclinic for the Protection of Children of the City of Zagreb. Field of work: diagnostics and treatments with traumatized children and youth, work with families, individually and group work.

Günter Schiepek, Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. phil. habil. Director of the Institute Synergetics and Psychotherapy Research, University Hospital for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics at the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg (Austria) and of the Center for Complex Systems (Stuttgart/Germany). Since 2008 professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians- University Munich and at the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg. Visiting-Professor at the Donau-University Krems and at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt (Austria).

Head of the Department for Pediatric and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Tufts Medical Center, USA. He is a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Tufts Medical School, USA. He was Director of “Hope System”, a center for caring for children with emotional problems. He deals with the psychotherapy of children and adolescents, and his special interests are traumas, eating disorders, suicides of children and adolescents, family therapy and the development of international mental health programs for children and adolescents. He has published over 70 articles and books on children’s mental health. President of the American Academy of Family Therapy.

Od 2004.godine radi u Centru za zaštitu mentalnog zdravlja Banja Luka. Pri Centru formirala prvi kompletan tim za djecu i mlade koji pruža usluge prevencije, dijagnostike, tretmana i liječenja poremećaja u mentalnom zdravlju djece i mladih, ne samo za grad Banja Luka, već i šire. Izuzetan angažman uložila u razvijanje i unapređenje intersektorske saradnje svih subjekata koji su uključeni u rad sa djecom i mladima. Koautor 3 priručnika koja su namijenjena roditeljima i djeci iz oblasti ’’Lavirint puberteta I i II’’, ’’Kako roditi zdravo dijete’’. U projektu ’’Mentalnog zdravlja u BiH’’, dala sam svoj doprinos u izradi nomenklature usluga u mentalnom zdravlju, a angažovana sam i kao edukator uposlenicima svih Centara za zaštitu mentalnog zdravlja BiH iz oblasti dječije i adolescentne psihijatrije.

Specialist in child and adolescent psychotherapy, Head of the daily hospital for youth at the Clinic for Psychological Medicine, KBC Zagreb. Full professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb, author of numerous papers in the area of ​​child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy.

She is a PhD student in “Early Childhood Education and Compulsory Education”. Vesna is a member of UNICEF’s expert council in the project “Safe and incentive schooling in schools”. The leader is a college violence against children and between children. She is the author and co-author of many books and textbooks. Vesna also actively participates in domestic and international scientific conferences and congresses.

Master of psychological sciences, Psychoterapist and Researcher. He is Accredited EMDR Practitioner, Mindfulness Teacher, Therapist of Family Constellation, Practitioner of Transactional Analysis. The supervisor is under supervision from the EMDR. He is the owner of a Counseling “Habibović” in
Zenica. He is co-author several books. He is member of the Editoral Board of several journals and participated in several studies. He is vice president
Association of EMDR Therapist Bosnia and Herzegovina.

She is an associate professor at the Department of Pedagogy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. Its professional development focuses on the education of future teachers, and psycho-pedagogical assistance to chronically ill children in the hospital and school. She is the author of a part of the university textbook in the field of pediatrics, book co-authors and manuals for assisting professions.

MA Jon Blend is an UKCP certified psychiatrist for children and adults, author, supervisor, trainer and musician. His past includes 30 years of experience working with adults, children, adolescents and families in the field of mental health care. Jon works as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in London.

Karen Hillman Fried is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an Educational Therapist in Santa Monica, California. Karen holds Master of Arts Degrees in Clinical Psychology and Human Development as well as a Certificate in Educational Therapy. She has a private practice in Psychotherapy and is Co-Director of the K&M Center, Inc., a learning center providing educational services to students ranging from four years old to college age. The K&M Center is located in Santa Monica. Professional Affiliations include membership in the Association of Educational Therapists and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

Professor Tatjana Stefanovic Stanojevic, PhD, teaches developmental orientation psychology, does research in the field of attachment theory, and also works as a psychotherapist. She is a full professor at the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Nis, and from 2002 to 2015 she was also employed at the Faculty of Philosophy of Banja Luka. At the Psychology Department in Nis she teaches the following courses: Theories of Cognitive Development, Theories of Emotional Development, Research in Developmental Psychology, Psychology of Partner Relationships, Trauma from the Perspective of Affective Attachment Theory. She is the author of the following monographs: The Emotional Development of Personality (2005), Early Childhood Experience and Romantic Relationships (2007), Affective Attachment, Development, Modalities, and Assessment (2010), When We Say Love, Do We Mean Love (2012), Affective Attachment and Family Relationships: Development and Importance (co-authored, 2012), Fear Is the Worst Place to Be: A Study of Early Childhood Trauma from the Perspective of Affective Attachment Theory (co-authored, 2018). In addition, she is the author of numerous works in the field of attachment theory, published in scientific journals and proceedings, as well as being one of the founding members of the Association for the study, assessment, and application of affective attachment theory: Safe Haven. She is an expert in the field of childhood trauma and is a KBT psychotherapist. Furthermore, as an expert in the field of attachment theory, she has organized numerous training sessions all over the region and possesses expertise in numerous therapeutic and diagnostic techniques in this field.