Gestalt therapist training program (2 Stage)
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12.09.2025 - 14.09.2025
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Gestalt therapist training program (2 Stage)

About the course

Gestalt therapists are specialists who help people to know themselves, understand how they build their lives and make their lives better and more qualitative.

Training consists of 2 stages:

First stage

"Fundamentals of Gestalt Therapy", consists of 5 three-day seminars during the year

  • It is the basic basis for teaching Gestalt therapy;
  • It takes place in the form of an educational and therapeutic group;
  • Focuses participants on personal and professional development.

At Stage I you:

  • Better understand what your emotions and feelings are for.
  • Discover your true needs and realize how to harmoniously satisfy them
  • Learn what diplomacy is in conflict
  • Understand your personal boundaries and how best to maintain them
  • You will learn that you are responsible, how ready you are to take it for yourself and give it to other people
  • You will try practical methods of work that will lead you to a deeper awareness of yourself.

The program includes:

  • therapeutic demonstrations of the main techniques of individual and group work,
  • group experiments,
  • mini lectures,
  • group discussions,
  • practical lessons,
  • lectures from leading trainers of MIGIS

Second stage

"Theory and Practice of Gestalt Therapy" consists of 17 three-day seminars.

professional training of Gestalt therapists, including various forms of training, such as:

  • group work,
  • work in small groups,
  • personal Therapy,
  • conferences,
  • festivals,
  • intense,
  • specialization,
  • supervision,
  • lectures.

Upon successful completion of the program, the CERTIFICATE of the "Gestalt Therapist" of the Interregional Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Art is issued.

Program Manager Tatiana Semibratova - Psychologist, Certified Gestalt Therapist, Certified Supervisor, Group Therapist, Accredited MIGIS Category L Trainer, Specializes in working with couples and families, Specializes in working with psychosomatics, Specializes in working with psychological (emotional) traumas, Uses art therapy, MIGIS Development Partner.

The program meets the standards of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT).

Feature of our institute:

1. The support and interest of the trainer and the community in the success of each student during the program and after its completion helps to become successful Gestalt therapists.

2.Professional identification
A targeted approach to the training of each Gestalt therapist helps shape his individual style of work, which is the platform for a successful career in psychology and psychotherapy.

The training program for Gestalt therapists consists of 2 stages. You can join the training group up to and including the 3rd seminar of the 1st stage. See the full schedule of seminars below.

Program structure
1 Stage
1 year
Acquaintance with the philosophical, biological and psychological prerequisites of Gestalt therapy, as well as with Gestalt therapy on one's own experience, receiving personal therapy in a group, solving psychological problems, deepening one's knowledge in the field of psychology and life. Recognizing, accommodating and using our feelings and emotions, inhabiting forbidden, blocked feelings that prevent us from moving forward, managing and being aware of our needs. Learning the intricacies and nuances of building strong and happy relationships with parents, partners, children, colleagues, self-development and getting to know the basic concepts of the Gestalt approach.
2 Stage
2,5 - 3 years
Multidisciplinary training, including all aspects of work in the field of Gestalt therapy: long-term work with the client, ability to work with children, families, work with neurotic conditions, work with addictions, with depression, solving various work and family problems. Practical knowledge, skills and ability to work with clients. Learn to separate your feelings from the client's; to endure and experience strong feelings alongside another. You will master the practice methodology, form your individual therapist style. Realize yourself, and you will be able to help people by mastering one of the most sought-after, beautiful and creative professions in the world and become a real professional in Gestalt therapy.
List of seminars
Seminar 1. Philosophical, biological and psychological background of Gestalt therapy.
02.02.2024 - 04.02.2024
The general idea of psychological counseling and psychotherapy. Professional ethics. The principles of personal approaches in psychotherapy. The formation of professional views of F. Perls and the emergence of Gestalt therapy. The basic concepts of Gestalt therapy: integrity, figure and background, "here and now", experience, awareness, self-regulation. The basic concepts of Gestalt therapy: contact and contact boundary, modalities of contact, creative adaptation, field "organism - environment".
Seminar 2. The theory of contact in Gestalt therapy.
05.04.2024 - 07.04.2024
Seminar 3. The integrative nature of Gestalt therapy.
07.06.2024 - 09.06.2024
Seminar 4. Therapy as creativity.
20.09.2024 - 22.09.2024
Seminar 5. Working with resistance in Gestalt therapy.
13.12.2024 - 15.12.2024
Seminar 6. Strategy and tactics of the therapeutic session.
16.05.2025 - 18.05.2025
Seminar 7. Experiment in Gestalt therapy.
12.09.2025 - 14.09.2025
Seminar 8. The main strategies for the work of Gestalt therapists. Work with internal phenomenology. Work on the border-contact.
28.11.2025 - 30.11.2025
Seminar 9. Principles of clinical application of Gestalt therapy. Working with neurotic disorders (part 1)
06.02.2026 - 08.02.2026
Seminar 10. Principles of clinical application of Gestalt therapy. Working with neurotic disorders (part 2)
17.04.2026 - 19.04.2026
Seminar 11. Gestalt therapy of psychosomatic disorders.
05.06.2026 - 07.06.2026
Seminar 12. The functioning of the body in life and psychotherapy. Body phenomena in Gestalt therapy
Seminar 13. Psychology and psychotherapy of addictive behavior.
Seminar 14. Working with various forms of organization of experience.
Seminar 15. In-depth consideration of the clinical aspects of working in Gestalt therapy.
Seminar 16. Creative aspects in the work of the therapist-client.
Seminar 17. Therapeutic relationship. Psychoanalysis and Gestalt therapy.
Seminar 18. Symbolic aspects in the therapeutic relationship.
Seminar 19. Dialogue in Gestalt therapy.
Seminar 20. Technique of therapeutic intervention. Supervision in Gestalt Therapy.
Seminar 21. Workshop on injury
How do we teach
Practice orientation
Training takes place directly in practice, and the participant receives experience that can be incorporated into himself and his life from the first seminar of the program.
Clear and simple
A step-by-step method that has been used and improved for more than 20 years for the training of Gestalt therapists. The program uses many exercises, techniques, work in pairs and threes.
Support and belonging
Coach and community support and interest in each student's success during and after the program helps them become successful Gestalt therapists.
Professional identification
A point-based approach to the training of each Gestalt therapist helps shape his individual work style, which is a platform for a successful career in psychology and psychotherapy.
Trainers:
Siemibratova Tetiana
Siemibratova Tetiana
Siemibratova Tetiana

Psychologist, Certified Gestalt Therapist, Certified Supervisor, Group Therapist, Accredited Leading trainer of MIGIS, Specializes in working with couples and families, Specializes in working with psychosomatics, Specializes in working with psychological (emotional) traumas, Uses art therapy in her work, MIGIS development partner.

 

Storozhevska Iuliia
Storozhevska Iuliia
Storozhevska Iuliia

Psychologist, Certified Gestalt therapist, Certified Supervisor, Accredited Trainer-assistant of MIGIS, Specializes in working with children and parents, Specializes in working with couples and families, Specializes in working with addictions, Uses art therapy in work, Uses body-oriented therapy in work.

Frequently asked Questions
What do I need to start training?

To study at our institute, you need to have a diploma of higher education in psychology, medicine, or a document of professional retraining in the speciality “psychologist”.

If you do not yet have a state diploma in the relevant speciality, you may start studying at the MIGIS Institute in parallel with obtaining the required education at a state institution, or complete the necessary academic difference, if such an option is available.

If the basic psychological education is obtained later, deferred certification is possible — no later than two years after completing the full training program at the MIGIS Institute.

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