Lidija Pecotić is an international Gestalt trainer, supervisor, and therapist. She has a Masters's degree in Clinical Psychology (University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1986). She completed her Doctorate Studies in Clinical Psychology (University of Belgrade, Serbia, 1994). She is the founder and Director of Eapti-Gptim Malta, NCFHE 2014-FHI-020 since 1996, and Eapti-Seb Belgrade since 1990. She co-founded various Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institutes and Professional Psychotherapy Associations. She is the Editor of two Gestalt Journals in Malta and Serbia and the Founder of the EAPTI-GPTIM Network.

Michael Vincent Miller has practiced and taught Gestalt therapy for thirty-eight years, currently in New York City. His own training was chiefly with Fritz Perls, Isadore From and the Polsters. After ten years of teaching at Stanford University and M.I.T., he cofounded the Boston Gestalt Institute. He has also trained psychotherapists in Gestalt therapy in a dozen countries. He was on the editorial board of the “Gestalt Journal” and was Consulting Editor to the “International Gestalt Journal.” Besides contributing articles to many journals and magazines, he has written four books: “Intimate Terrorism: The Crisis of Love in an Age of Disillusion” (1996), which has been published in eight languages; “La Poétique de la Gestalt-therapie” (2002), which was published in France; “Teaching a Paranoid to Flirt” (2011), a collection of his writings over thirty years on Gestalt therapy; and “A Gestalt Therapy Testament” (2014), published in English and Italian in Milan.

Rose Galea started her career as a nurse, however she later continued studying and graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology. She continued her studies in Psychology and obtained a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology. In addition, she was trained in different schools of psychotherapy. She has finished a Masters Degree in Gestalt Psychotherapy and she is also an accredited EMDR therapist. She also obtained a post graduate diploma in integrative supervision. She is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and supervisor, who works in private practice. In the past she worked within the mental health system and was a member of different multidisciplinary teams which gives her a lot of experience in the area. Rose Galea is a Senior Visiting Lecturer at the University of Malta, within the Faculty of Health Science and she facilitates teams of medical students in Medical leadership. She teaches psychotherapy at the Gestalt Psychotherapy Institute Malta. She acquired the Doctorate Degree at GPTIM in September 2023.

 Dr. Charlie Azzopardi is a Systemic Family Therapist. Since the mid-eighties he has worked with families in the addictions field. He pioneered in the setting up of San Blas Therapeutic Community, Programme Spark, the Family Therapy Services at Sedqa and the family therapy service at Vincent Square Clinic in London. He recently set up a Family Therapy service in collaboration with a local charity to meet the therapeutic needs of families and children of those in prison. Dr. Azzopardi studied Addictive Behaviour & its management, Psychodrama, and Transactional Analyisis in Rome. He studied Psychology at the University of Malta, Family Therapy at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and obtained his Doctoral degree from the University of East London. Dr. Azzopardi also studied other therapeutic modalities including CBT, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, and DBT, Strategic Therapy, Dialogical Therapy and others.

Apart from spending more than 25 years working in the addictions and social fields, Dr. Azzopardi was involved with many other local services. Among these are Sedqa, Cana Movement, Richmond Foundation, Appoġġ, Eden Foundation, Caritas, Mid-dlam ghad Dawl and several private and public schools. He also lectured for twelve years at University of Malta and for six years with the Association for Psychological Therapies in the UK. in 2010, Dr. Azzopardi founded the Institute of Family Therapy Malta and introduced the first Accredited Professional Masters Training in Systemic Family Psychotherapy on the Island. He now teaches and practices within the Institute and continues to promote projects that improve the quality of family life.

Dr. Azzopardi continues to present in various seminars and conferences about social problems, drug addiction, the family, and family therapy. For a long time his articles about various aspects of family life were published on local newspapers. He appeared on many TV shows, with the intent of generating awareness on how to achieve better relationships in family life.

Emilija Stoimenova Canevska is an established psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. She is committed to continuously building and developing the Gestalt Training Institute Skopje to a high standard training center that has an ongoing growth of students and graduates in Gestalt psychotherapy while retaining an exceptional quality. She is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies at the International Balkan University, Skopje. She is supporting and leading the development of the Psychology undergraduate and postgraduate studies. She is a dedicated lecturer with more than 16 years teaching experience in diverse academic institutions in the area of Psychology, Research and PR Studies. Her passion for psychotherapy in general and Gestalt psychotherapy in particular has given her the motive to the pursuit of the lifelong educational background in the area and numerous trainings in the field. She has a notable volume of published work in established publications such as Patient’s rights in Psychotherapy 2013 and Retroflection as a creative adjustment of Macedonians 2014 among many others. She is one of the pioneers in the Macedonian psychotherapy field as to following European and world standards in the area of psychotherapy. She has active professional certification in: ECP-European Certificate for Psychotherapy, EAGT-European Certificate for Gestalt Psychotherapy, EAGT-Certificate for Supervisors, Diploma for applied Gestalt Practice in Organizations under the mentorship of Paul Barber and Ken Evans. She is committed to developing and teaching Gestalt psychotherapy within the region and actively cooperating with International Gestalt Institutes.

Margareta Mesić, univ.spec., is a clinical psychologist, certified Gestalt therapist, supervisor and trainer in basic course of training in Gestalt therapy. Since 2007 (Psihika ltd.), she has organized and conducted training in Gestalt psychotherapy according to the Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute Malta (GPTIM) programme and has conducted individual and group psychotherapy and supervision. From 1999 to 2014 she worked in clinical practice with risk population groups, drug users, their families as well as in primary prevention and mental health. She is a member of the Commission for psychotherapy of the Croatian Psychological Chamber, a member of the Supervisory Board of the Croatian Psychological Chamber and a member of the Board of DGIPH. She is an associate teacher in HITUDIM for students training in psychotherapy to work with children and youth. She is a member EAGT, a founding member of the European Association for Therapeutic Work with Children and Youth (EIATCYP) and an associate member of the Croatian Association for Supervision (HDSOR).

Slobodan Marković received his PhD from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, where he currently holds a full professorship leading the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology. His main fields of interest are psychological aesthetics, physical attractiveness and visual perception. He was an Action editor of the journal Psihologija and a reviewer of many scientific journals. He was a member of scientific committees of the European Conference on Visual Perception, Visual Science of Art and Empirical Studies in Psychology. He published three books, two book chapters, 53 papers, and more than 160 conference abstracts that were cited 872 times reaching h-index = 14.

Zoran Milivojević, MD, is a psychotherapist with many years of practice in individual, partner, and group therapy. He was the first in Eastern European to obtain the highest degree of international supervisor and educator of the International Association for Transactional Analysis (ITAA), as well as the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA). He is the president of the Association of Psychotherapists of Serbia, expert director of the Psychopolis Institute in Novi Sad, the president of the TA Center - Association of Transaction Analysts of Serbia, and a lecturer at the International Transactional Analysis Academy.

He is the author of several outstanding textbooks and books, including Emocije – Psihoterapija i razumevanje emocija (Emotions - Psychotherapy and Understanding Emotions) [Psychopolis, 2007]; Formule ljubavi – Kako ne upropastiti sopstveni život tražeci pravu ljubav (Formulas of Love – How Not to Ruin Your Own Life by Seeking True Love) [Psychopolis, 2008]; and Igre koje igraju narkomani – Transakciona analiza problematicnog uzimanja droga (Games Played by Addicts – Transactional Analysis of Problem Taking drugs) [Psychopolis, 2007]. Together with several Slovenian colleagues, he published a very practical and richly illustrated manual, Mala knjiga za velike roditelje  (A Little Book for Big Parents) [Mladinski dom Jarše, 2004; Psihopolis, 2007]. This was a great Slovenian bestseller about raising children, in which Milivojević's "Mercedes model" was presented, which helps parents and educators to find balance in the upbringing of children. The book Uloviti ljubav  (Catch Love) [Psychopolis, 2011] contains notable columns that the author had published in the daily Politika for three years, and the book Psihologike svakodnevnog života (Psychology of Everyday Life) [Psychopolis 2014] which contains columns from Politika until October 2014.

He is an international lecturer who has given lectures, workshops or otherwise presented at numerous international congresses, seminars and symposia, mainly in Western European countries, but also in the United States, Russia, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. He was a plenary lecturer at the First Eurasian Congress in Moscow in 2013, as well as at the Seventh World Congress in Durban, South Africa in 2014.

Zoran Milivojević currently works in a private practice, splitting time between in Novi Sad and Ljubljana.

Ruella Frank, Ph.D., is founder and director of the Center for Somatic Studies, NYC, and faculty at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy and adjunct faculty Gestalt Institute of Toronto. Ruella also teaches workshops and training programs throughout the United States, Mexico, South America, Canada, Australia and Europe. She is author of articles and chapters in various publications, as well as the book Body of Awareness: A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy, (2001, GestaltPress, available in five languages) and co-authored The First Year and the Rest of Your Life: Movement, Development and Psychotherapeutic Change (2010, Routledge Press, available in three languages). Her training video Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, now subtitled in French and Russian, is available at www.somaticstudies.com

Sanja Bratina graduated in clinical psychology from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, and received her Master’s degree in psychology – psychotherapy module in Novi Sad. She is currently taking doctoral studies in clinical psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy. She completed her training in Gestalt Psychotherapy and acquired ECP (European Certificate of Psychotherapy), a certificate of EAGT (European Association of Gestalt Psychotherapy) and a certificate of the Serbian Psychotherapy Association. Apart from Gestalt, she accomplished training in other psychotherapeutic orientations such as transactional analysis, REB, analytical psychotherapy, physical psychotherapy, EMDR, etc. Since 1994, she has been working in private practice providing individual and group therapy as well as a therapy of couples. In 1998 she became a trainer and in 2003 a supervisor. She provides supervision and training to the EAPTI Studio for Education Belgrade and gives lectures at Mokrogorska Management School. She has cooperated with numerous NGOs. She offers her psychotherapy practice in Serbian and English language. Besides Belgrade, she worked in Sarajevo, Rijeka, Novi Sad and Nis. Vice President of the Serbian Association for Gestalt Psychotherapy (SUGP).

Ivana Vidaković has obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degree in clinical psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. In the period 1999-2013 she was active in several non-governmental organizations working on various psycho-social projects in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her field of expertise is research and psychotherapy of post-traumatic stress disorder-PTSD. Since 2004 she has been working as a Gestalt psychotherapist and later as an associate teacher and supervisor at the Studio for Education Belgrade. She completed additional trainings in psychotherapy (EMDR, Group analytic therapy, Brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Brief therapy oriented to solutions – SFBT, etc.). Ivana is actively involved in the work of the professional association of psychotherapists (EAGT – European Association for Gestalt therapy and EAP – European Association of Psychotherapists), and their committees: the Committee for Research in Gestalt psychotherapy, the Committee for Human Rights and Social Responsibility, the Committee for professional competence and quality standard in Gestalt psychotherapy, the EAP Task Force for the development of generic and specific competences in psychotherapy. Ivana has facilitated several Gestalt workshops and lectures in Greece, Switzerland, Italy, Ukraine, Belgium, etc. She is a co-editor of three national and three international publications and author of more than 35 articles/chapters in monographs and journals on psychology and psychotherapy.

Thomas Moore is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul. He has written twenty-four other books about bringing soul to personal life and culture, deepening spirituality, humanizing medicine, finding meaningful work, imagining sexuality with soul and doing religion in a fresh way. In his youth he was a Catholic monk and studied music composition. He has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Syracuse University and was a university professor for a number of years. He is also a psychotherapist influenced mainly by C. G. Jung and James Hillman. In his work he brings together spirituality, mythology, depth psychology and the arts, emphasizing the importance of images and imagination. He often travels and lectures, hoping to help create a more soulful society. His family members are also deeply involved in spiritual approaches to the arts: His wife, Hari Kirin, is an accomplished painter and teaches a course she has created on Yoga and Art; his daughter Ajeet is a musician and recording artist and spiritual teacher; his stepson Abraham is an architect focusing on design related to the social aspects of building. Thomas also writes fiction, arranges music and plays golf in New Hampshire, where he has lived for twenty years.

Charles Cassar has been a practising Gestalt psychotherapy in private practice as a registered Maltese and European certified psychotherapist for the past eighteen years. For the past fourteen years, he has been the Chair of the NUOC within the EAP (European Association of Psychotherapy) and a Member of the Executive Committee of EAP. He has lately been elected as Vice President/President Elect of the EAP. He has held the position of President for the Malta Association of Psychotherapists (MAP) for the past eighteen years, to date. As President of MAP he has been actively and strongly engaged in lobbying for legislation which would regulate the profession.  

After graduating with an honours degree in psychology, Charles went on to pursue a diploma and eventually a Masters’ degree in Gestalt psychotherapy. He is also a certified supervisor. Before taking psychotherapy as his main profession, Charles held various posts in the aviation and maritime industries, where he worked mostly in strategic management and human resources. He has been engaged in several consultancy projects involving organisational analysis and consultancy with local and international companies. He has also been invited to lead workshops and lecture on topics related to psychotherapy in the Ukraine and in other local organizations in different occupational spheres.

Due to his experience and interest in strategic management, he has also been engaged in political assignments which he deals with from a psychotherapeutic point of view. In the local Maltese context, he is at present holding various government appointments, which continue to contribute to his exposure and experience in dealing with delicate situations and achieve results in an efficient and effective manner.

Dubravka Kocijan-Hercigonja is a neuropsychiatrist and psychotherapist as well as a holder of PhD in Psychiatry (University of Zagreb, Croatia). She is a world renowned and respected psychiatrist with subspecialty in child and adolescent psychiatry. She was a professor at the University of Medicine and University of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences. She was one of the founders of the first Center for Autism in Zagreb in 1985, Croatia, then the Centre for Mental Health and Psychological Trauma of Children in the Children’s Hospital “Klaićeva”. She was the head of both the National Centre for Psychological Trauma, Department of Psychiatry, and the Reference center of the Ministry of Health for disorders caused by stress. She founded private Psychiatric Polyclinic Kocijan Hercigonja and is a president of the EIATCYP and the Croatian Association for Children and Adolescent Psychotherapy. She leads trainings in Integrative Psychotherapy and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.

Theatre director Tomi Janežič (European Certificate of Psychodrama) holds a post as a Full Professor of Theatre Directing at University of Ljubljana. He is also a psychodrama psychotherapist and an internationally acclaimed expert in the field of acting, who has explored applications of psychodrama techniques to artistic and art-pedagogical processes for many years. He lectured and participated as an invited artist to more than twenty countries around Europe, in Russia and USA, and has received four dozens of mostly international prizes and awards for his artistic work. He has been the artistic director of Studio for Research on the Art of Acting since 1996.

Snežana Opačić is a psychologist, M. Psych (Gest), Gestalt coach and organizational consultant, teacher and supervisor EAPTI - Training Studio for Belgrade. She has completed specialized programs for working with children and adolescents, as well as for applying Gestalt therapy in working with organizations. She is one of the authors and implementers of the academically accredited specialist program Gestalt in organizations. She is currently on the doctoral studies in Gestalt Psychotherapy in Malta.

Dunja Vesić is Gestalt psychotherapist, graduated in political science, social work and social politics in Belgrade. She finished Gestalt psychotherapy Master program in Malta (EAPTI-GPTIM), and she is currently doing her doctoral thesis at the same institute. She has completed specialization "Gestalt in organizations" (Belgrade), and "Gestalt therapy and phenomenological approach in work with psychopathology and clinical practice" in Torino. Her field of interest is shame and contact in online psychotherapy.

Tijana Mićović is a MA Clinical Psychologist and M. Psych (Gest). Currently she is a doctoral candidate in Gestalt Psychotherapy within the European Accredited Psychotherapy Training Institute – Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute Malta (EAPTI-GPTIM). Working in a private practice.

Dr. Elvira Duraković–Belko is a psychologist, psychotherapist, supervisor and consultant. She defended her diploma and master thesis at the University of Zagreb and obtained her PhD at the University of Sarajevo. She was employed at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy University of Sarajevo, in the period from 1996. - 2010. as lecturer in the field of clinical psychology. She was also engaged as lecturer at the Faculty of Pedagogy, Department for Social Work (Faculty of Political Science University of Sarajevo) and at the International University of Sarajevo. She developed her practical clinical experience at psychiatric clinics in Zagreb and Sarajevo, SOS-Children’s Village Lekenik in Zagreb and at the Cantonal Prosecutor's Office of Sarajevo Canton. She was engaged in numerous professional and scientific projects in governmental and non-governmental organizations, as an expert associate, educator, supervisor and consultant. She published several articles in various psychology journals and some chapters in two university text books. For the last 10 years she has been working with clients as a psychotherapist in a private practice. Recently she is more deeply involved in supervision and gestalt work with organizations. Elvira lives and works in Sarajevo.

Master in Gestalt Psychotherapy EAPTI-GPTIM, Level 7, (1/9/2016-1/2/21017)

Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy, EAPTI-GPTIM, (21/6/2016)

Graduate in Psychology at University of Law and Business Studies dr Lazar Vrkatić, Novi Sad, (10/6/2011)

Owner of an educational center named ‘Sklad” in Novi Sad, where I have worked as a psychologist counselor since 2012, and as a psychotherapist from 2016.

Academician Nada Pop-Jordanova completed studies of Medicine and Psychology in Skopje. She specialized paediatrics and was a full professor at the University Kiril and Metodij, Skopje. She teaches paediatrics, medical psychology and ethics, as well as neuropsychology and developmental psychology at the Medical, Dental Faculties, as well as faculty for Psychology and defectology, and IBU. Her interest in psychological medicine and Psychosomatics motivates her to upgrade and improve in this particular area realizing stays in appropriate institutions in Vienna, Sofia, Zagreb, Belgrade, Tokyo, Imperial College London as well as in the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, mainly at the departments for development and mental health problems among young people. Working and publishing scientific and research papers in the field of mental health and psychophysiology she has become internationally recognizable name which is indicated by her selection as a regular member of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine (1994), European Association for Research in Adolescence (1996), Swiss Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1996), International Organization of Psychophysiology (1997), International Society for Neuronal Regulation (2002), Society for Applied Neuroscience (2004), Society for Self-regulation and Biofeedback (2005).

Acad. Pop-Jordanova has published over 500 scientific papers in international scientific journals. She wrote 23 books in Macedonian language and over 10 chapter in English books. The scientific activity of Acad. Pop-Jordanova consists in the realization of 17 international and 20 domestic projects. She is a member of New York Academy of Sciences, USA (1997), the World Academy of Art and Science, USA (2006) and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, Austria (2012). As a full member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts she was elected in 2012 y.

Natasha Madzevska has a Degree in Preschool education, and Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy, currently finalizing Master Upgrade Program at EAPTI GPTIM. Additionally, she has been educated in Play and Sand Therapy by the Oaklander Method and in Intercultural Educational Approach. She is actively involved in the educational process at EAPTI GI-S, as well as an external collaborator in the educational program for children Bibiversum. She works with children and adults who come with social problems, separation and adaptation problems, family problems, communication problems, traumatic experiences, peer violence. She is EAGT and ECP Holder. She has published several articles the field of education, education of children and parents, and psychotherapy with children and parents, gestalt therapy, and attended several Congresses in the field of Psychotherapy and Gestalt Psychotherapy.