Maurizio Andolfi, MD

Prof. Maurizio Andolfi is a Child Psychiatrist and internationally renowned Master Family Therapist. (Born in Rome in 1942, was a fellow in Social and Community Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, Visiting Professor at the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and studied at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic with Salvador Minuchin and Jay Haley and was associated with Carl Whitaker at the Wisconsin- Madison University).

Andolfi has been Professor at the Dpt. of Clinical & Dynamic Psychology at La Sapienza-University of Rome. He is currently the director of the Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia and president of the Silvano Andolfi Foundation in Rome, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Italian journal, Terapia Familiare. Andolfi is a founder member of EFTA and SIPPR and was awarded for his special contribution to family therapy by AAMFT in 1999 and got a Lifetime Achievement Award from AFTA in 2016. Andolfi recently relocated to Australia where he got the title of Distinguish Talent from the Australian Government and continues to teach around the world. He is a clinical member of the Australian Association of Family Therapy and Honorary Member of the Asian Family Therapy Association.

He has published widely in English, Spanish and several other languages. His latest books are Multigenerational Family Therapy (2015), Intergenerational Couple Therapy with Anna Mascellani (2021), The gift of truth (2022). He appears in a collection of Video Lectures and Masters Sessions in the Accademia Multimedia Library.

Marcelo R.Ceberio

Marcelo R. Ceberio is a psychologist and holds three doctorates from the Universities of Barcelona (UB), Kennedy (UK) and Buenos Aires (UBA). He has a Master's degree in Family Therapy (Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona), Master's degree in Psychoimmunoendocrinology (Univ. Favaloro), Postdoctor's degree in Psychology in Review Research Methodology and Bachelor of Education (in progress). He trained in the systemic model at the MRI (Mental Research Institute) in Palo Alto (USA), where he was a professor and researcher; at Minuchin For the family in New York and at the School of Family Therapy in Barcelona. He has worked as a volunteer coordinator in the Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation experience in Trieste (Italy) and is currently Academic and Research Director of ESA (Argentine Systemic School), directs the Doctorate of the University of Flores and the LINCS (Laboratory for Research in Neuroscience and Social Sciences). He is a full professor and visiting professor at various universities and family therapy institutes in Argentina, Latin America, Europe and the United States. He is the author of numerous popular and scientific articles and about 50 books.

Christian Clot

Christina Hunger-Schoppe

Roberto Pereira

Carlos E. Sluzki, MD

Carlos E. Sluzki completed his M.D. training at the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine, and his psychoanalytic training at the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. He was a core member of the team that developed the pioneering Department of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Residency Program at the Gregorio Araoz Alfaro Hospital in Lanus, Argentina.

Dr. Sluzki came to the United States as a Guggenheim Fellow and subsequently as an FFRP Advanced Research Fellow, becoming Director of Training and later Director of the above-mentioned MRI (1976-83).

He has been Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco (1976-83), the University of Massachusetts Medical School (1984-94), and the University of California Los Angeles (1995-2001).

He is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine as well as Professor Emeritus of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.

Dr. Sluzki has been Editor-in-Chief of the journals Acta Psiquiatrica y Psicologica de America Latina, Family Process, and the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, and Vice-President of the American Family Therapy Academy.

He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, as well as honorary member of multiple professional organizations worldwide. In 2018 he received the Distinguished Career in Science Award by the Washington Academy of Sciences, and a Doctor Honoris Causa degree by Maimonides University.

He has published extensively, delivered countless keynote and panel presentations, and conducted workshops worldwide, with special emphasis on couples and family therapy, social networks, violence and victimization, refugees and human rights.

Alexandra-Ariadni Vassiliou

Alexandra Vassiliou, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist, Processworker, trainer and supervisor, working in Greece and internationally.

Her work focuses on addressing challenges as opportunities for awareness and growth, in individuals, relationships and groups. She is especially interested in marginalization as an experience appearing internally and externally in personal, professional and social life. She has co-created projects that support community building, such as Open Forums, Social Dialogue Theater, GoDeepProject, etc.

As a teamwork supervisor for professionals working in NGOs and Prevention Centers, she works on conflict resolution, prevention of burn out and on bringing awareness in how field dynamics affect the relationship processes within the group, as well as with the beneficiaries and the communities the groups work with.

www.processworkhub.gr

www.orlandolgbt.gr

Eva von Redecker

photo by Sophie Brand

Angela Abela
Angela Abela is a professor at the Department of Child and Family Studies, a clinical psychologist,a UKCP registered family therapist, and a supervisor. She holds a PhD from the Tavistock Clinic and the University of London and a Master's degree in Clinical psychology from the Université de La Sorbonne Paris V. She played a pioneering role in the setting up of a Centre for Family Studies at the University of Malta which later became the Department of Family Studies. She was course proposer for both the Master in Family Studies and the Master in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice.

Formerly teaching within the Department of Psychology, she was the first Director of Studies for the Master in Clinical, Counselling and Educational Psychology. She held the post of President of the Maltese Psychological Association, and played a leading role in the setting up of the psychology profession in Malta. She also spearheaded the setting up of the Maltese Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (MAFT-SP) which is affiliated with the European Family Therapy Association and is currently serving as its President. She is a former chairperson of the National Family Commission and currently is Deputy chairperson of the Committee for Positive Parenting and Strengthening of the Family.

She supervises professionals working in public social agencies in the area of children and families and serves as a consultant in the area of children and families for government and the Standing Committees on Social Affairs and on Family Affairs in Parliament. On an international level, she has worked extensively as an expert for the Council of Europe in the area of children and families. She has published widely in the field of family studies and is a former associate editor of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry published by Sage. She is also an International Advisory Editor of Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal, a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Science. In 2022, she received the European Family Therapy Association award in recognition of her excellence in the field of research in family therapy and systemic practice.

Pietro Barbetta
Psychologist, Director of International School of Systemic Therapy. Past director of the Milan Centre for Family Therapy, has written many books and does training in English, Spanish and Italian.

Paolo Bertrando, MD, PhD

Paolo Bertrando MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and a systemic therapist. He was trained in the Milan Approach to systemic therapy by Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin in the 1980s. He has been a trainer in the Milan Centre for Family Therapy, from 1993 to 2002, and the director of the Episteme systemic training centre from 2003 to 2012. Currently he is the scientific director of the Systemic-Dialogical School in Bergamo.

Among his books, The Times of Time (1993), and Systemic Therapy with Individuals (1996), both co-written with Luigi Boscolo, The Dialogical Therapist (2007), Emotions and the Therapist (2015).

Dr. Bertrando has travelled widely holding workshops and seminars on several topics related to systemic therapy, in Italy, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Greece, United Kingdom, Ireland, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. His present interests concern the relationship between psychiatry and systemic thinking, the effects of social and economic conditions on therapeutic practice, and the dynamics of emotions according to a systemic view.

Alfredo Canevaro

Founder of the Magazine Terapia Familiar (Argentina). First President of the Sociedad Argentina de Terapia Familiar (1978-1983). Member of the American Family Therapy Academy from 1982 to present. Member of the Board of the European Family Therapy Association (1998-2001). of the Training in Family Therapy of the Marche Region from 1989 to 1993. Lecturer at the Mara Selvini Palazzoli School of Psychotherapy from 1999 to present. 

Myriam Cassen 

Clinical psychologist, family therapist, psycho-traumatologist, addictologist, systemic trainer, Director and founder of the Institut Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux. Author of several books, including ‘Thérapie familiale intégrative’.

Raúl Medina Centeno

Hello, I am Raúl Medina Centeno from the University of Guadalajara and Founder of the Tzapopan Institute in Mexico. I invite you to meet at the Family Therapy Congress in the city of Lyon, France organized by EFTA-RELATES, on August 27, 28, 29 and 30, 2025.

I am PhD in Social Psychology and Master in Family Therapy, my main contribution has been Third-Order Critical Family Therapy, Clinical Social Psychology and Collaborative Consulting for Organizations. Clinical techniques stand out, such as: Resistance as a psychotherapeutic resource, Dialogue from Stupid Questions to make the tacit narrative explicit, therapeutic Memory and Oblivion to differentiate oneself, Cultural Metaphors to externalize the problem, Indignant Love to redefine psychopathology as a problem of social injustice, Solidarity Dialogue to restore well-being.

In this congress I will present "Indignant Love as a clinical method that exorcises psychopathology and confronts domestic violence from honest critical resistance and solidarity dialogue"

See you in Lyon, France, for a conversation between you and me.

Contact:

Phone and whatsupp 523331159108

E-mail  Topraul2002@yahoo.co.uk

Facundo Cócola

In 2010, she graduated with a degree in psychology and immediately began clinical work, which she continues to do today, alongside other activities. She has seen individual patients, couples and families, in both public and private spaces, and in a variety of contexts such as: addiction centers, universities, clubs, eating disorder centers, etc. She has also led therapeutic groups and developed a multifamily therapeutic device, called EMIT, and an integrative systemic intervention for consumer problems, called MIT.
As for her academic training, she took postgraduate courses in family and couple therapy (UDA); trained as a systemic therapist at Escuela Sistemica Argentina in Buenos Aires; and interned at Escuela de Terapia Familiar in Barcelona. In 2020, she obtained her doctorate in psychology after presenting her doctoral thesis at the University of Flores (UFLO): “Attachment, emotional regulation and family functioning in adults with cocaine use disorders”, under the supervision of Dr. Marcelo Ceberio. In 2023, he completed his post-doctoral degree in psychology, with an endorsement in systematic review methodology, also at UFLO. He is the founder and director of the “Espacio de Prácticas Itinerantes en Estudios Sistemicos” (Espacio PIES) and the “Multiespacio Familia” therapeutic center. For several years he was coordinator of the Las Heras Center for Addiction Prevention and Assistance (CPAA), and is currently also coordinator of the prevention area of the Mendoza Ministry of Health's Provincial Addiction Plan. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the European and Latin American Network of Systemic Schools (RELATES), where he holds the position of Secretary.

Ivy Daure

Ivy Daure is a clinical psychologist and doctor of psychology in private practice in Bordeaux.

She supervises several teams of socio-educational and medico-psychological professionals in Aquitaine. A professor at the University of Bordeaux, she coordinates the postgraduate diploma (DESS) ‘Accompagner les personnes migrantes à l'aide de la psychologie interculturelle’.

Director of the Art de la Psychothérapie collection published by ESF Sciences Humaines, she is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal des Psychologues, the journal Terapia Familiare in Italy and the Journal of Psychosial Systems in Italy.

She lectures widely in France and Europe.

Laura Fruggeri 

Laura Fruggeri (laura.fruggeri@gmail.com) is a systemic/social constructionist therapist, supervisor, consultant, and researcher. She is the Director of the Bologna Family Therapy Center (Italy). She has presented at several national and international conferences, seminars, and training courses. She is author of numerous articles and books in Italian,  English, French, Spanish, and German.

Regina Giraldo

Former President of RELATES [2019-2022].

Psychotherapist. Doctor in Social Welfare. Director of Fundaterapia - Systemic School of Bogot. Expert in gender violence, couple therapy with abuse, and therapy with separated parents.

University Professor in Colombia, and guest lecturer in Europe and Latin America. International lecturer spreading her model of couple and family therapy. Author and co-author of books and book chapters, as well as several articles published in indexed scientific journals on couple and family issues.

Edith Goldbeter

Doctor in psychology, Systemic psychotherapist and trainer. Prof. hon. at the Free University of Brussels (ULB).Director hon.  (1983 to 2022) and creator of the training at the Institute for Family and Human Systems Studies in Brussels. Chief Editor of the Cahiers critiques de thérapie familiale et de pratiques de réseauxDirector of the “Carrefour des psychothérapies” collection, Deboeck, Brussels.
Author of books and articles.

Alejandra González

Doctor of Psychology and Director of the Paraguayan Systemic School. She is a FEATF-accredited systemic family therapist, an expert in systemic interventions and a teacher at the Basque-Navarra School of Family Therapy. Member of the RELATES Board of Directors.

Annette Kreutz

Annette Kreuz is the Director of the Centro de Terapia Familiar “Fase 2” of  Valencia, where she carries out Training groups with programmes accredited and  backed by national and international entities (FEATF; FEAP, EFTA, Col de Psicólogos) since 1989.

She is a Clinical Psychologist and Supervisor in Family Therapy, working from and with the Transcultural Model of Family Phase Therapy (Carole Gammer, USA).

She holds positions of responsibility related to Family Therapy: she was a founding member of ATFCV, General Secretary of both the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA) and the Spanish Federation of Associations of Psychotherapists (FEAP) and the Spanish Federation of Family Therapy Associations (FEATF) and External relations officer EAP (European Association for Psychotherapy).

He is a regular guest speaker in postgraduate education in different University Master’s Degrees and in National and International Congresses on Family Therapy.

In 2010 she received the award for her exceptional contribution to development and EFTA work.

Juan Luis Linares

Camilo Loriedo

Professor of Psychiatry in the “Sapienza” University of Rome, Member of the Board of Directors of the Milton Erickson Foundation. Past President of ISH and ESH. President of the Società Italiana Milton Erickson, and President of the Società Italiana di Psicoterapia and of the Società Italiana di Ipnosi Scientific and Training Director of the Istituto Italiano di Psicoterapia Relazionale of Rome, and of the Scuola Italiana di Ipnosi e Psicoterapia Ericksoniana of Rome Editor in chief of the scientific journal “Rivista di Psicoterapia Relazionale” and of the scientific journal “Ipnosi”. Awarded by the Milton H. Erickson Lifetime Achivement Award for outstanding contribution to the field of Psychotherapy, and awarded with the highest honor of ISH, the Benjamin Franklin Award (Gold Medal), with the following motivation: Prolific author, creative therapist distinguished leader. You have exemplified the highest achievement in promoting academic and clinical efficacy of hypnosis worldwide, while pionering the use of hypnosis in couples and family psychotherapy.

Jacques Miermont

President of the Société Française de Thérapie Familiale, Honorary Professor at the École des Psychologues Praticiens, author of several books including: Dictionnaire des Thérapies Familiales, Écologie des liens, L'Homme autonome, Psychose et thérapie familiale, Psychothérapies contemporaines, Thérapies Familiales et psychiatrie.

Robert Neuburger

Psychologist, psychoanalyst, specialist in the field of couples, enrolled at the University of Brussels, has been Vice President of the French Society of Family Therapy. Co-director of the family therapy center of the Parisian Mental Health Society, scientific director of the CEFA (Center for the Study of the Family Association), has been professor at the Free University of Brussels and a trainer and supervisor of systemic-relational therapists in France and abroad.

Reynaldo Perrone

Reynaldo Perrone is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist specializing in individuals, couples and families.

A former associate professor at Grenoble's Pierre Mendès- France University, he is Director of Studies at the Institut de formation et d'application des thérapies de la communication (IFATC) in Lyon. He is also a trainer in France and abroad.

Jacques Pluymaekers

Kyriaki Polichroni

Scientific Council Athenian Institute of Anthropos, Greece. Director EFT Greek Network, EFTA-TIC Honorary Chair, F. President EFTA

Peter Rober

Peter Rober, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, family therapist and family therapy trainer at Context - Centre for Marital and Family Therapy (UPC KU Leuven, Belgium). He is a full professor and teaches family therapy at the Institute for Family and Sexuality Studies (K.U. Leuven Medical School, Belgium). His research focuses on the practice of family therapy and the therapeutic process, in particular the therapist's use of the self and the therapist's inner conversation.

Peter Rober has published several articles in international family therapy journals. Since 1992, he has presented international workshops on family therapy with children and adolescents. Every August, he organises the European Summer University in Family Therapy in Leuven (Belgium), in collaboration with Jaakko Seikkula, John Shotter, Justine van Lawick and Jim Wilson.

Carmine Saccu

Carmine Saccu Child Neuropsychiatrist is Director of the Roman School of Family Psychotherapy. Former Associate Professor of Child Neuropsychiatry at the University of Rome "LA SAPIENZA", he has carried out many years of clinical activity as head of the Family Therapy Service.
Since 1975 he has been teaching in the training and supervision of family therapists.
With games playing and humor, he developed a particular way of working in therapy with children, exceptionally skilled in activating the resources of the therapist's imagination.
In the elaboration of these areas of resonances, prof. Saccu helps therapists to discover creative potential and new spaces for relationships.
As a major in Child Neuropsychiatry he is particularly competent in working with children, adolescents and their families in situations of separation and supervisor problems related to disorders of antisocial behaviors, autisms, child psychosis, hyperkinetic children, children with school problems (from learning disorders ADHD syndromes)

He is a founding member of:

• ITF Institute of Family Therapy since 1975;
• SITF Italian Society of Family Therapy since 1976;
• SIPPR Italian Society of Psychology and Relational Psychotherapy since 1984;
• SRPF Roman School of Family Psychotherapy since 1992;
• EFTA European Family Therapy Association since 1990;
• IsMeS Institute for Systemic Mediation Onlus since 1999.

Dr. Reenee Singh 

Dr. Reenee Singh is a Consultant Family and Systemic Psychotherapist. She is the Founding Director of the London Intercultural Couples Centre, a Visiting Professor at the University of Bergamo in Italy, former CEO of the Association of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the U.K, and past Editor of the Journal of Family Therapy.

Reenee has written and edited a number of academic books and numerous articles in the areas of ‘race’, culture and qualitative research, as well as systemic therapy. These include: The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy, Volume 4 (co-editor, 2020), The Process of Family Talk Across Culture: A Qualitative Research Study (2013), The Intercultural Exeter Couples Model: Making Connections for a Divided World Through Systemic-Behavioral Therapy (2020, with Janet Reibstein), and Race and Culture: Tools, Techniques and Trainings: A Manual for Professionals (2019, with Sumita Dutta).

She presents her work at national and international conferences and teaches all over the world.

Valeria Ugazio

Valeria Ugazio, Ph.D (www.valeriaugazio.com),has been carrying out her psychotherapeutic practice, her research and training activities in Milano where she leads the European Institute of Systemic-relational Therapies (EIST) (www.eist.it), she founded twenty-five years ago. She developed the semantic polarities model set out completely in Semantic Polarities and Psychopathologies in the Family. Permitted and Forbidden Stories (New York: Routledge, 2013).  She is currently interested in developing systemic therapeutic approaches specific for individuals and families facing eating disorders, phobic, obsessive-compulsive, and depression.

Catherine Vasselier-Novelli

A member of the Association Européenne de Thérapie Familiale (E.F.T.A.) and the Société Française de Thérapie Familiale (S.F.T.F.), Catherine Vasselier-Novelli has been practising as a psychologist and psychotherapist in Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, for many years. Her professional career has been shaped by her empathy and sincere desire to support those whose lives have been disrupted.

In her consultations with individuals, couples, families and groups, Catherine Vasselier-Novelli provides guidance and support for people who want to inject a new dynamic into their lives.

Specialising in trauma treatment, she works with both victims and perpetrators of violence. Treatment is tailored to the individual's sensitivity, experience and needs. It is also modulated over time, depending on the psychotherapeutic progress made to date.