Who we are
Ken Evans – President
ken@euroips.comKen Evans FRSA is registered as a Psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. He is Director of Training at the Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute and Founding Director of the European Institute for Psychotherapeutic Studies which is based in Normandy, France. He also works as a Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer in a number of European countries including more recently: Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Norway, Slovenia and Sweden.
Ken was originally trained as a Social Worker and employed as a local authority Principal Social Worker/Team Leader for several years prior to studying as an Anglican Priest in Cambridge and working as a Chaplain in mental health.
Ken first trained as a psychotherapist in the early 1970s and again in the mid 1980s. He is qualified as both a Gestalt Psychotherapist and Integrative Psychotherapist and has extensive experience working with adults (in the Mental Health and Private Sectors), as well as couples and groups.
His main areas of professional work are: Psychotherapy, Supervision, Consultancy, Therapist training and research
Peter Schulthess – Vice President & Chair of Training Standards Committee
Peter
Schulthess is a gestaltpsychotherapist, working in his own practice for
psychotherapy, supervision and coaching in Zürich since 1975. He has an
university degree equal to a master of Science. He studied Educational Science,
Psychology and Philosophy.
He is a member of the Swiss Association for Psychotherapy (SPV-ASP) and a holder
of an ECP. For EAP he is a member of the pool of international experts, visiting
training institutes that want to be accredited by EAP.
As president of the Swiss Charter for Psychotherapy (www.psychotherapiecharta.ch)
he chairs an organisation that unifies over thirty institutes and professional
associations from different psychotherapy approaches.
He teaches in Zürich and Germany for the Institute for Integrative
Gestalttherapy Würzburg (IGW); in Athens as well in Thessaloniki for the Greek
Gestaltfoundation.
He also is engaged as a politician: He is a member of the parliament of the
Canton Zürich for the social-democratic party and cares for health- and social
politics."
Katia Hatzilakou - External Relations and NOGTs officer
Katia Hatzilakou, MSc, Social & Clinical Psychologist, Gestalt Psychotherapist & Trainer co-founder of Gestalt Foundation, a Training and Psychotherapeutic Center in Greece Chair of the Extended Board of EAGT.
She works in her private practice with adults and couples.
Bas
Lokerse – Treasurer
Bas is treasurer of EAGT since 1995 with a break of 2 years. Bas received his Gestalt Education from the Noord Nederlandse Gestalt Organisatie, which he started in 1992 and finished in 1995. In those days it was a three-year training. His Gestalt education was very imported to him because he learned there the value, as a main person, to bring sense and reason more in balance and … in touch.
Bas is a self-employed person and he guides people to develop their careers. On the one hand he uses the supervision-method and on the other hand he uses the Gestalt-method. He merged both methodologies into the field-theory. Bas is a licensed and registered supervisor at the LSVB and as a career developer at the CMI.
Bas his tasks within the committee move between:
the purpose of the EAGT and that what the activities bring along with them
and of course the available means
Both issues are at odds with one and another and therefore cannot do without each other. Bas mediates, slows down, take care of and sometimes he rejects. Besides that he intervenes with the EAGT as an organisation.
Ester
Neumanova -
Secretary
Ester works and lives in Prague. She is a director and a trainer in Institute for Gestalt therapy in Prague.
Ester was originally trained as a pedagogue later as a psychologist. She finished her training in Gestalt therapy in 1998. Since 1999 she has been in her private practice as a Gestalt therapist. She works with individuals, couples and groups.
She joined EAGT board in 2001.
Marga Berends-Euving - Office Manager
Since April 1st , 2004 Marga works for the EAGT as an office manager. Before she started working for the EAGT she has worked for more than 20 years at a bank where she fulfilled several jobs, namely, she sold insurances (for business and private persons), was a mentor for colleagues who also sold insurances for private persons, she checked whether departments stick to the prescribed rules, she made offers and contracts for business people who wanted to finance their business, but she also did administrative work and to cut a long story short she fulfilled numerous tasks during her banking career.
Marga’s first contact with Gestalt was when she met Bas for the first time because she consulted him for a career consult.
Marga supports the officers with their tasks and/or enlightens their tasks so they can spend more time to run the organisation.