Our Mission
The Essential Psychotherapy Institute is committed to excellence in professional education. Our staff and faculty are expected to be competent and ethical professionals committed to teaching the practice of psychotherapy and its application in the professional field. Our program provides a foundation for the understanding of mental health from an integrative perspective and prepares students to become Certified Essential Therapists. We promote an environment characterized by personal growth and collaborative learning between students and teachers, guided by the following core values of our institute.
Institute Values
Intellectual Excellence– To promote intellectual excellence, we
Maintain high academic standards for our students
Expect faculty to be dedicated to exceptional teaching and mentoring.
Encourage a balance between the theoretical and practical aspects of psychotherapy
Adapt our curriculum to include the latest innovations in the field of psychotherapy
Community– To promote connections within the Institute and with the greater community, we
Encourage shared decision-making and collaboration among students, colleagues, staff, and the communities we serve.
Promote an open environment in which ideas are shared freely.
Expect faculty, staff, and students to promote a positive environment that encourages cohesiveness, individuality, and self-worth.
Encourage faculty and students to use their talents to serve the Institute, our communities, and our professions.
Foster a growing therapeutic community in which the individual, faculty, staff or student, can belong and reach his/her potential.
Diversity– To promote diversity of viewpoints and experiences, we
Treat all individuals with dignity and respect.
Recognize the importance of both individual and group characteristics (i.e., those that make us unique and those that make us similar).
Promote diversity among students, staff, and faculty who have different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and ideas.
Maintain a supportive and collaborative learning environment designed to enhance one another’s personal and professional development.
Our Vision
The Essential Psychotherapy Institute aspires to be an internationally recognized leader in Integrative Therapist training and education, where students and teachers collaborate to learn the principles of Essential Psychotherapy, to make significant contributions to the knowledge and practice of psychotherapy and to produce professionals who serve the local and international communities.
The aim of our institute is to teach and train our students to become integrative therapists with a wide variety of knowledge and treatment interventions available to them. We combine elements of different sound therapeutic approaches with meditation and Essence work. We feel that this is our unique contribution to the field of Psychotherapy, that we include the understanding, knowledge and perception of Essence in the therapeutic process.
Our vision is to continue to expand our therapeutic community, a community in which each individual can grow and contribute, in which each individual is welcome and that supports him/her to find their own Essence and bring it into the world. In this way, we can help change the people around us, the communities we live in and humanity in general.
Profession for which we train:
Our graduates work within the category of Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) as Integrative Therapists. They can work in cooperation with other first- line health care providers such as psychiatrists or doctors of other specialties.
Educational Principles
Our didactic concept consists of three main components: self – experiential process, theoretical knowledge and hands on instruction. The first year is the foundation training and is primarily self-experiential, to give the students an experience and understanding of the therapeutic process. The experiential first year provides a basis for understanding the theory and applying it to oneself and others. The theory also functions in bringing meaning to the experience. In the practical years (2-4), the aim is to integrate the experience with the theory and apply it with hands on instruction and practice in order to work as a therapist in the field of integrative therapy.
Our therapists draw from paradigms and treatments methods which include: inner child work, body-oriented psychotherapy, energetic work, Essence work, psychodynamic or psychoanalytic disciplines, meditation and mindfulness, working with intuition, couple –relational work, trauma work and others. Our educational program ensures our students are qualified and meet the requirements of the field of Integrative Therapy.