Team Members
I am working as a Gestalt trainer, therapist, coach, supervisor and consultant for more than 35 years. I was a staff member of the former MultidiMens Gestalt Institute in Belgium, and was involved as a staff member to help building up gestalt institutes, like the Bulgarian Gestalt Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Caucasian Institute for Gestalt therapy and Family therapy in Tbilisi, Georgia and also the Gestalt Institute Nepal in Kathmandu, Nepal and now the Gestalt institute in Yerevan, Armenia. Next to that I am a faculty member or guest trainer in many other Gestalt institutes in Europe. As a therapist and counsellor, I am seeing clients in my private practice, and have worked for about 25 years in a counselling centre for clients with cancer. As a coach/consultant, I have mainly worked in healthcare, and especially in the care of old people with dementia. Working in other countries and other cultures has always been my passion. It enriches me, and deepens my understanding of my own culture, assumptions and what I take for granted. I am a registered member of the EAGT as therapist, GPO and supervisor and as an European Certified Psychotherapist of the EAP.
Program coordinator, Trainer
Frans Meulmeester
I am certified Gestalt therapist and I have Master’s degree in Psychology from Yerevan State University.
I have nearly 22 years of experience as a psychologist. I have worked with children including children with limited abilities. Since 2015 I have been practicing as gestalt therapist both with children and adults, and from 2021 only with adults.
I completed my five-year gestalt therapy training at the Caucasus Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Family Psychotherapy (Georgia, Tbilisi). And I regularly attend different gestalt therapy workshops and projects.
In addition to my private practice, I work with different groups as well as conduct workshops and seminars for psychologists.
I completed 2-year program “Training for Gestalt Supervisors” at The Instituto di Gestalt HCC, Italy, 2023-2025
Since November 2023, I have been a trainer at the Gestalt Institute Nepal (Kathmandu, Nepal).
Since October 2025 I have been a trainer at the Caucasus Institute of Gestalt therapy and family psychotherapy( Tbilisi, Georgia).
I find the foundation of Gestalt Institute in Armenia very important and worthwhile. It will provide complete psychotherapeutic education and will foster the development of professional community.
As a practitioner I am very much interested in Field paradigm, psychopathology, work with body, trauma including developmental trauma.
I am really fond of gestalt therapy and admire it extremely because so many ideas of it are parts of my life. I am a strong believer in healing power of the quality of therapist’s presence and therapeutic relationships.
Director and program coordinator, Trainer
Marina Serobyan
Having fallen in love with Gestalt therapy at a young age I started my formal Gestalt therapy training
in 1991.
My professional career started with an internship at an substance misusers in patient clinic.
Subsequently I have been working in women’s counselling centers and since 1997 in private practice
as Gestalt therapist and supervisor.
In the course of my professional development, I have done different training in the area of trauma
specific therapy and treatments for individuals with eating disorders.
I have always come back to Gestalt therapy as this is in my experience everything I really rely on
when working with people with different needs and sufferings. I can learn many techniques but what
is important for me is the therapeutic relation and the process as a fundamental of Gestalt therapy.
In EAGT I have served in various functions, as Austrian delegate, as member of the Ethics Committee
and chairing the working group for “Professional Competences and Qualitative Standards” for Gestalt
therapists.
After my term as EAGT president together with colleagues I have founded the working group on
Climate Change & Biodiversity in EAGT, which has now become substantial part of EAGT and a very
well-functioning group supporting EAGT in different areas and raising awareness for the members
around the topic of climate change.
I am teaching Gestalt therapy in Nepal and Switzerland, have authored articles on Gestalt therapy
and co-edited the book “Women in Gestalt therapy” in 2016.
https://www.gestaltitaly.com/woman-gestalt-therapy-adriena-feckova-beatrix-wimmer-eds/
Recently an article has been published in “Field Perspectives in Clinical Practice. A Dialogue between
Relational Psychoanalysis, Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis, and Gestalt Therapy.” Edited By Gianni
Francesetti, Michela Gecele, Paolo Migone, 2025
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003597308/field-perspectives-clinical-
practice-gianni-francesetti-paolo-migone-michela-gecele?
At the beginning of the war against Ukraine I have for six months in 2022 been engaged in supporting
Ukrainian Gestalt therapy colleagues in pro bono “support process groups”.
For the last 10 years I have been chairing a community based organization in Vienna, fostering a
Holocaust Memorial Project in my immediate neighborhood.
I am living in Vienna, Austria, being married and mother to a daughter as well as a grandmother to 2 boys.
GIY Trainer
Beatrix Wimmer
I am a self-employed Gestalt psychotherapist, clinical psychologist, supervisor and trainer
and I work with individuals, couples and families in the areas of psychotherapy, counselling,
psychopathology, trauma, and forensic psychology.
I work privately in two italian cities, Vicenza and Padova, and i also work with inmates of the
local prison in Vicenza.
In the past I worked for many years with people victims of sexual and psychological abuse
(and their families), with mental health issues and mental disabilities.
I am a trainer at the Institute of Gestalt Therapy Kairòs in Venice (Italy), and i furthermore
teach in Warsaw (Poland), Vilnius (Lithuania), and collaborate with the Gestalt Nepal
institute.
After I graduated at the Music Academy "A. Pedrollo" in Vicenza (Italy), where I live, and
obtained a master's degree in Clinical Psychology in Rome (Italy), I then studied Gestalt
Counselling at the Center for Studies Gestalt Therapy (CSTG) in Milan and specialized in
Gestalt Psychotherapy at the Gestalt Therapy Kairòs Institute in Venice (Italy).
I regularly attend supervision and CPD courses both in Italy and abroad.
I am an accredited member of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT).
As part of my personal growth, in the past I practiced the arts of concentration such as Zen
and Vipassana meditation at the Santacittarama Vihara of Rieti (Italy), the Cittaviveka Vihara
of Cithurst (UK) and the Magnolia Zen Centre in Mary Esther (Florida-USA). From 1993 and
for a decade I also served as a Human Rights activist in conflict areas such as Guatemala,
Kossovo, and for the Sri Lanka project of the International NGO "Peace Brigades
International".
Currently, my areas of interest and research are psychopathology from a
phenomenological gestalt perspective, family gestalt therapy and forensic psychopathology.
GIY Trainer
Giovanni Turra
I am a Psychologist, Gestalt Psychotherapist and Gestalt Practitioner in Organisations based in Athens, Greece. After obtaining my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, I began working as a career guidance counsellor in Athens and later on as a communication manager. During that period, I started my Gestalt Psychotherapy training, as well as my MBA at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Since 2011 I have been working as a psychologist and psychotherapist guiding adults and teenagers in finding new and more effective ways to meet their needs, improve their communication and work creatively towards the life they desire. In addition to my work in private practice, I collaborate with businesses and international organisations, in order to train groups in the field of organisational development. My work as a gestalt practitioner is depicted in the book “The Art of Change - Gestalt: A Different Approach for Organisations” which I have co-authored with Frans Meulmeester and George Stamatis. I am a member of the Association of Greek Psychologists, the Hellenic Association of Gestalt Psychotherapy and the EAGT (European Association for Gestalt Therapy).
GIY Trainer
Giovanni Turra
I majored in Psychology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. I have a master’s degree in Artistic Psycho-Social Practices and Psychodrama. I am a certified gestalt therapist, psychodrama therapist and have various others therapeutic courses and qualifications. I am trainer at the Institute of Gestalt Therapy in Bulgaria
I have been working as a psychologist and trainer for 18 years, I have experience both in the corporate branch and the non-governmental sector as a trainer, facilitator and leader of groups. I have extensive experience in a number of trainings for young people, teachers, specialists, such as in soft skills, social and emotional competences, and human rights, democracy and democratic citizenship.
Since 2015 I have started my own consulting and therapeutic practice aimed at children, adolescents and adults. In my practice I work with a wide range of topics, from motivation, existential issues, neuroses, panic attacks, to family and parenting topics, relationships and trauma.
I believe in creativity, spontaneity, authenticity and honesty, and they are a major part of my life and work.
The stage has always attracted me and I participate as a presenter and actor in the company for Playback Theatre in Sofia, Bulgaria.
GIY Trainer
Aneta Kalcheva
I was born in 1955 in The Netherlands. I am a Gestalt supervisor, trainer and therapist. I work for Gestalt institutes in the Netherlands, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Finland, Poland and Belgium. My passion is the topic of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (Intersectionality) and I wrote chapters, articles and a book: 'Coaching and Diversity' and developed the methodology “The Power of Difference, Diversity Cards”. I also worked as a Social worker with youngsters, people with mental and physical challenges, people with addictions, in juvenile prison and as senior trainer for the Dutch refugee organisation. Since 1999 I work as a free-lancer: training and coaching for Private university Nyenrode, Public transport Amsterdam, banking, national police, etc. Training and supervision for general practitioners, trainers, supervisors. Gestalt therapy for a diversity of clients, trauma, anxiety, gender and sexual topics. Volunteered at organisations of Moroccan immigrant, Dutch LGBT organisations and Neighbourhood communities.
GIY Supervisor
Marten Bos
I am a Gestalt therapist with over 10 years of experience. I hold a Master Diploma in psychology and completed my Gestalt therapy training at the Caucasus Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Family Psychotherapy. In 2018, I became accredited by EAGT.
In addition to my therapy work, I was also a trainer and worked with vulnerable groups, such as IDPs and ethnic minorities. I have over 10 years of experience working in private sector, where I managed human resources.
As a Gestalt therapist, I work with individuals, couples, and groups, with a keen interest in process-oriented work and field experience.
I completed a two-year program - Gestalt Therapy Training for Supervisors - organized by IPsiG (Torino, Italy), and Gestalt Studia (Czech Republic).
Group Process Therapist
Ekaterine Paverman
I have my private psychotherapy practice; I have been working as a gestalt therapist for ten years. I am a psychologist, Master of Psychotraumatology and EAGT accredited professional. I received five-year professional training at Caucasus Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Family Psychotherapy (CIGTFP).
In 2022 I graduated Advanced International Training program of a Gestalt Therapy Field Approach to Development and Psychopathology at The Instituto di Gestalt HCC, Italy. I am a member of Georgian Society for Psychotrauma, as well as EMDR association of Georgia. I work with individuals, groups, and couples. I have experience of working with human rights activists and the most discriminated beneficiaries of human rights organizations in Georgia. As a practitioner I am inspired by the process-oriented aspect of gestalt therapy and believe in resourcefulness of authenticity and care during the gestalt dialogue.