About

Freda is a Germany based Certifying Coordinator with the International Focusing Institute TIFI and a Focusing Oriented Therapist with Specialization in FOAT-TIFI. She is a European certified Person-centred and Experiential Creative Arts Psychotherapist/Councelor, and a well-trained Art Therapist in her country

Freda works in private practice and at her art studio. She teaches at communial and national training centers, and internationally online. Her teachings on therapeutic arts in Focusing are embedded in the pluralistic-humanistic approach

Building on her practice and long-term teaching with the German-Swiss Focusing Network FN (1995 - 2023), she developed the approach of Expressive Arts Focusing ExAF

Freda has a background in design techniques and holds two Pre-Bologna degrees (MA) in Adult Education and Clinical Psychology

Credentials

Art Therapist AT (DAS) | Person-Centred Creative Arts Practitioner | Guided Drawing® Practitioner | Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® Practitioner

TIFI Certifying Coordinator | TIFI Focusing Oriented Therapist FOT with Specialization in FOAT-TIFI | TIFI Focusing Trainer | TIFI Focusing Professional FOAT®

Person-centred and Experiential Psychotherapist/Counselor PCT with diploma in Existential Well-Being Counseling 

Clinical Psychologist CP (Pre-Bologna BA, MA) | Registered non-medical Practitioner for Psychotherapy

Adult Educator Ed (Pre-Bologna MA) with undergraduate degree in Design Techniques

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