Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP is international trainer & supervisor, the creator of the Tele'Drama method and the founder and director of the International Tele'Drama Institute which has already welcomed thousands of people, from 78+ countries. Dr. Simmons is the 2022 ASGPP recipient of the Innovator's Award for the creation of Tele'Drama. She is the current President of the American Society in Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP). Daniela Simmons', professional experience, both in Europe and the US, is in educational, research, and consultancy work in the social sciences and mental health. She received training on the psychoanalysis of group relations in organizations at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, headquartered in London. She has been utilizing action methods sessions since 1995 in Europe and since 2005 in the US.

Leticia Nieto, PsyD, LMFT, TEP is a leadership coach, psychotherapist, and educator specializing in liberation and equity, cultural responsiveness, motivational patterning, and evolutionary creativity. Her 2010 book, Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, is an accessible analysis of the dynamics of oppression and supremacy that offers readers ways to develop skills to promote social justice.  Dr. Nieto is internationally recognized for her expertise addressing social justice concerns from a developmental ecological perspective including orienting to systemic transformation, survivance, song and poetry, relational repair, joy, radical rest, intersectional coalition, and reparative and restorative justice. Dr. Nieto brings an enlivening approach to coaching, training and facilitation, drawing on expressive techniques and embodied practices to involve participants deeply and create opportunities for insight and change. Since 1980 she has successfully brought her skills to higher education and other learning communities (including three decades teaching in a graduate program in counseling), to service providers in helping agencies, to workplace teams, and to many community groups.  Dr. Nieto’s activism, scholarship, and consulting work are informed by living at the borders of intersectional experience. In addition to degrees in clinical psychology and human development, she is certified in Action Methods, including Psychodrama, Playback Theater, and Theater of the Oppressed. Leticia is a Senior Faculty at the International Tele'Drama Institute (ITI).  She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (WA) and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor.  

Dr. Meichenbaum is one of the founders of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). He is an American psychologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is research director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment at the University of Miami. Dr. Meichenbaum is known for his research and publications on psychotherapy, and contributed to the development of the technique of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). In 1982, a survey of 800 members of the American Psychological Association voted Meichenbaum the tenth most influential psychotherapist of the 20th century. At the time of his retirement from the University of Waterloo in 1998, Meichenbaum was the most-cited psychology researcher at a Canadian university.

Catherine D. Nugent, LCPC, TEP Laurel Psychodrama Training Institute. Catherine D. Nugent, LCPC, TEP, is Executive Director/Principal Trainer with Laurel Psychodrama Training Institute in Laurel, Maryland. Cathy also maintains a private psychotherapy practice with specialties in use of integrative and experiential approaches to help heal trauma, attachment injuries, challenging life transitions, and other concerns. In addition to her training in psychodrama, Cathy is trained in sensorimotor psychotherapy and is certified in Imago Relationship Therapy. Cathy is Immediate Past President, American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry & Group Psychotherapy. She is the humble and grateful recipient of the ASGPP’s 2019 J.L. Moreno Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Heloisa Fleury, MA, is the Founder and Coordinator of Aprender Vivo Teaching, Extension and Research Institute. She has a private psychotherapy practice in São Paulo, Brazil. She is the current President of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP); Editor-in-chief of the Brazilian Journal of Psychodrama (Revista Brasileira de Psicodrama); former President of the Brazilian Federation of Psychodrama (Febrap); former supervisor, Medical School, University of São Paulo; organizer of 8 books on Psychodrama and Group Practices and author of chapters and publications in Brazilian and international scientific journals.
 

TIAN DAYTON, MA, PHD., T.E.P is the author of sixteen books most recently The ACoA Trauma Syndrome, Emotional Sobriety, Trauma and Addiction:, Forgiving and Moving On, The Living Stage, and Relationship Trauma Repair, a model for using sociometry and psychodrama to resolve issues related to relationship trauma. Tian Dayton has a masters in educational psychology and a PhD in clinical psychology, is a board certified trainer in psychodrama and a licensed creative arts therapist. Dr. Dayton has been a guest expert on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Montel, Rikki Lake, John Walsh, Geraldo. Dr. Dayton blogs for The Huffington Post and Counselor Magazine. Dr. Dayton is the director of The New York Psychodrama Training Institute and was on the faculty at NYU for eight years teaching psychodrama. She is a nationally renowned speaker, expert, and consultant in psychodrama, trauma and addiction. Senior Fellow at Meadows Behavioral Healthcare.

Nikolaos Takis, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist American College of Greece Former president of FEPTO French and Hellenic Association of Psychoanalytical Group Psychotherapy Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society. Nikolaos Takis, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, individual and group psychotherapist, and psychodrama trainer. He is the former president of FEPTO (Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organizations). He is also an assistant professor and director of the counselling center of the American College of Greece. He is a full member of the French and Hellenic Association of Psychoanalytical Group Psychotherapy and the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society.

Myriam Savage ( Mimi) PhD, RDT /BCT is a registered drama therapist and board certified trainer. An associate professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, she is a core faculty member of the Master's in Counseling Psychology, Expressive Arts program. Dr. Savage is a founding faculty member of  the Social Emotional Arts (SEA) professional development programs at UCLArts and Healing, LA. She participated as an officer on the board of the North American Drama Therapy Association for a decade of service, acting as education chair for the organization (2019-2022)A member of the Drama Therapy Fund, she has developed an educational outreach committee to invite HBCU students to learn about drama therapy. She has implemented drama and expressive therapy for children and adults in acute inpatient psychiatric units as well as facilitated neuro diverse youth and young adults. She was part of building community for homeless women on skid row, LA for several years as the drama therapist on the award winning film project, Game Girls. Dr. Savage mentors professionals and students who train to become RDTs through SoCal Drama Therapy Center, where she is founding director.  Her research, publications and presentations often center on her doctoral work, adopted youth from foster care and arts based narrative interventions that address the intersections of self identity.

Tanja L. Lee, PhD, International Tele’Drama Institute Team Member & Faculty So Cal Drama Therapy Institute, APA, IAGP, Listening Hour (LH) Community, & SAG-AFTRA/EQUITY. Tanja L. Lee, Ph.D. is an online drama therapy facilitator, MS in Educational Leadership adjunct professor, Listening Hour Guide, SAG-AFTRA/EQUITY performer, and credentialed multiple subject educator. She has over 15-years of experience utilizing her knowledge of the arts, psychology, and education as a means for providing individual and community engagement, personal and social development, and mental health wellness. She has worked with children, teens, and adults from diverse cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic, and ethnic populations.

Soon Sob Lee
Current president of the "Korean Association of Psychodrama and Sociodrama" (KAPS).
Developed the "8 Stages Role Play Psychotherapy" in Korea.
Supervisor and TEP in KAPS.
She is also the current Director of Sejong Future Education Institute.

Professor of Counseling in Baekseok University, Korea.
Founding member of the "Korean Association of Psychodrama and Sociodrama" (KAPS)
that was established in February of 1997.
Translated Antonina Garcia's sociodrama book "Who's in Your Shoes" into Korean.
Teaches graduate class on Action Psychotherapy including psychodrama, sociodrama, playback theatre.
Mother to 2 sons and grandmother to 1 grandson.

Kyung Ae Shin

Current head of the "Seoul/Gyeonggi/Incheon Chapter" of "Korean Association of Psychodrama and Sociodrama" (KAPS).
Also is the head of the Role and Play Therapy subcommittee.
Psychodrama Specialist 1st Level. Licensed Mental Health Social Worker L1.
Appointed counselor working for Republic of Korea Army military life

Peter, PhD and Susan Pitzele Founders of Bibliodrama
International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Faculty.
Peter and Susan Pitzele are the creators of Bibliodrama. Originally called "The Psychodrama of the Bible" they have recently been offering an ongoing seminar for the psychodrama community via Tele'Drama. Peter has a PhD in Literature and was a TEP; Susan has a MA in counselling.

Dena D. Baumgartner PhD, TEP, LMFT, LPC, CGP Founder and Director of the Tucson Center for Action Methods and Psychodrama (T-CAMP) ASGPP, IAGP, AGPA. Dr. Baumgartner has been in private practice as a therapist and psychodramatist for over 30 years in Tucson, Arizona USA. She is the founder and Director of the Tucson Center for Action Methods and Psychodrama (T-CAMP). She is a fellow of ASGPP and was awarded the J.L Moreno Lifetime Achievement award from that organization in 2014. She served on the American Board of Examiners for 9 years serving as chairperson for one. She was elected to the International Association of Group Psychotherapy board (IAGP) for 9 years holding international chair for psychodrama for 3 of those years.She has presented in more then 25 countries.

Formally clinical psychologist and certified psychotherapist (by the Swedish State). 
Born in Riga, Latvia and living in Sweden since WWII. Certified and mainly trained by Zerka Moreno (CP 1982) and TEP by Nordic Board of Examiners (1995); Supervisor and teacher for the European Institute of Psychodrama.
Co-founder of Stockholm Institute for Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. 
Founder of the Latvian Moreno Institute and have given education in Latvia since 1989.  Have also given seminars in the other Baltic countries and in Scandinavia and Europe and Ukraine. 
Clinically been working with addiction, abuse, incest, and crisis-intervention and since more than 40 years been a supervisor (within Social Welfare, Psychiatry, and Criminal Justice etc) 
Trained as Body psychotherapist (teacher and supervisor) and integrates it with Psychodrama. Received Family Therapy training mainly by Satir, Kempler, Kirschenbaum and Grammar. 
Co-writer of three books. inara.erd@gmail.com 
 

Kate Bradshaw Tauvon, TEP 
Former President of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP). Group analytic psychotherapist, teacher, supervisor. Co-Founded the Genuine Encounters Centre for Psychodrama 2009. Directs a Post-Graduate Diploma in Classical Psychodrama for the First Generation of Psychodramatists in South Africa. Co-Founder/Director of the Stockholm Institute for Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy [SIPS], which was an organisational member of FEPTO and the Nordic/Baltic Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy [NBBE]. Trainer of the York psychodrama group in the UK in the 1980s and in Stockholm became a Director, Swedish Moreno Institute. Co-Editor/co-author – the Handbook of Psychodrama 1998 Routledge. Co-author - Empowering Therapeutic Practice 2014 JKP

Monica Zuretti, MD, TEP International Psychodrama Trainer Centro de Psiicodrama y Sociodrama Zerka Moreno International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI). Monica Zuretti, MD is Medicine Faculty at Buenos Aires University, Argentina. Director of Psychodrama Trained by JLMoreno and Zerka T Moreno 1969 ,1970. Director of the Centro de Psicodrama & Sociodrama Zerka Moreno (Center of Psychodrama and Sociodrama Zerka Moreno) since 1992. Responsable Professor for the Program of Actualization on Psychodrama Method; Postgraduate Psychology Faculty. Author of El Hombre en los Grupos, Sociopsicodrama Lumen ed.1995 and other articles in Spanish and English.

Author, Psychodramatist, Psychoanalyst, Trainer, Supervisor by SOPSP - Psychodrama Society of San Paulo and by the J.L. Moreno Institute of São Paulo. Psychologist since 1974 by PUC-S.P. - Catholic University of San Paulo-Brazil ; Psychoanalyst since 1983 by the Sedes Sapientiae Institute of San Paulo-Brazil; Psychodramatist, teacher –supervisor by SOPSP - Psychodrama Society of San Paulo and by the J.L. Moreno Institute of São Paulo, author of the books: “ 1-Bipersonal Psychodrama - your technique, your client and your therapist“, Editora Ágora, SP, 1992; 2-“Emotional Survival: Childhood Wounds Relived in Adult Drama, Editora Ágora, SP 1998; 3- Words by Jacob Levi Moreno- Quotes Vocabulary of Sociatry , Psychodrama, Group Psychotherapy and Sociometry, Editora Ágora, SP, 2002 .; 4- “Life and Clinic of a Psychotherapist”, Editora Ágora, SP, 2018.

Eva Fahlstrom Borg, Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist Uppsala Psychodrama Institute FEPTO, IAGP.  Eva Fahlström Borg is Swedish senior consultant, licenced psychotherapist, qualified teacher and supervisor of psychotherapy, works internationally as a teacher, trainer and supervisor of Group processes, Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, Sociodrama, Restorative Practicies and Restorative Justice. Teaches Conflict Transformations. Co-founder and former Board member of FEPTO (Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations). Board member of IAGP (International Association of Grouppsychotherapy and Groupprocesses). Chair of IAGP Trauma Disaster Intervention Team (TDIT). Eva Fahlstrom Borg was 2011 awarded “Life Time Achievement” by FEPTO.

Anath Garber, trained by J.L Moreno and Zerka T. Moreno, was on the faculty of the Moreno Institute in New York City,has conducted and workshops nationally and internationally, and has been in private practice in New York City since 1975. She introduced psychodrama to the treament of stuttering, alcoholsim, andweight control through mind control, as well as spiritual growth.For 20 years she conducted groups combining psychoanalytic treatment with psychodrama.Currently most of her psychodrama sessions are conducted over the phone, a necessary adaptation to clientele in different parts of USA and the globe. She blends those with 'focusing' and” mindfulness” . She’s been quoted in various magazines :'Essence' and 'Body and Mind' and "Mode." Her work was featured on Oprah's OWN network. On Executive council of ASGPP, Fellow 1975

Chantal Nève-Hanquet, Member of the Centre for Psychosociological Training and Intervention (CFIP) International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Faculty. Chantal Nève Hanquet is a Belgian psychologist, trainer in psychodrama and in Family Therapy, and Jungian Psychoanalyst. She is a founding member, as well as a treasurer of the Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organizations (FEPTO) and a member of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Process (IAGP). Chantal and Agathe are both members of the Centre for psychosociological training and intervention (CFIP), Belgium, and are authors of “Facilitating Collective Intelligence, a Handbook for Trainers, Coaches, Consultants and Leaders” (Routledge 2019). Faciliter l'Intelligence collective, 35 fiches pour innover, coconstruire et accompagner le changement (Eyrolles, 2018)

Diane Adderley
Senior Trainer in Sociodrama &
Psychodrama Psychotherapist (BPA, UKCP)
Accredited Playback Theatre Trainer (APTT)

Diane Adderley lives and works in Manchester, UK and has been in private therapy practice for over 20 years. Together with Dr Ron Wiener, the founder, she co-directed the UK's only sociodrama training school (MPV/SAM) from 2006-2012. Recently, as a member of iSCAN (international Sociodrama and Creative Action Network), she has been delivering both training and experiential workshops online, particularly on topics connected to issues around age-ing, the pandemic and climate crisis. Diane was awarded the BPA's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 and in 2022 was elected to the role of Honorary President of the BPA for a 5-year term. She enjoys writing about sociodrama and has contributed to three books on the topic, both as co-editor and chapter writer.

Elaine Ades Sachnoff, PhD, T.E.P.
Trained at Beacon, NY with Dr. Jacob L Moreno and Zerka T. Moreno.
Her other teachers were Hannah B Weiner and Martin Haskell.
She is the Founder [1981] and Director of the Psychodrama Training Institute of Chicago {formerly known as the Oasis Psychodrama Institute].
She is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the author of numerous articles on training originating the Sachnoff method of "Hit and Run Doubling",and the "Use of Contracts in Psychodrama"as well as THE WARM UP BOOK.,
Dr Sachnoff was the 2005 recipient of the J L Moreno Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASGPP
She has served on both the Executive Council of the ASGPP,as a board member of the ABE and was a founding member of the Federation of Trainers in Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama and Sociometry.
She trains and teaches extensively all over the world.
 

Judith Teszáry is a certified psychodrama and sociodrama trainer and supervisor (Moreno Institute, Beacon, New York), international lecturer and private practitioner. She worked as a psychologist in the Stockholm City Child Care department in seventeen years with assessment of foster families, education of social workers, supervision of staff members. She has been working with psychosomatic patients in a research and treatment project at the Swedish Stress Research Department. Founding member of FEPTO (Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organizations) served as president of the federation for six years. She is the co- coordinator of the Task Force for Peace Building and Conflict Transformation group using the method of Sociodrama and Psychosociodrama in conflict areas. (For example, Maidan Revolution in Kyiv) She has been the coordinator of the international team in an Erasmus+ project in Sociodrama. She is the chair of the Swedish Association of Psychodramatists. She was granted a life time achievement award by FEPTO.

Publications:
Sociodrama the Art and Science of Social Change, eds. Sociodramanetwork editorial board,
2022, L'Harmattan
Teszary, J. Diverse Application of Sociodrama. 139-156
Teszary, J. Psychodrama with Psychosomatic Patients, International Journal of
Psychotherapy, vol 21 nr 2 June 2017
Sociodrama in a Changing World, ed. Ron Wiener, Di Adderley&Kate Kirk, 2011, Lulu
Teszary, J. (2011) Projection and projective identification as mechanisms in the creation of an
enemy. In Sociodrama in the Changing World. 213-217. Lulu.
Teszary, J. (2011) The Semitic Brothers. In Sociodrama in the Changing World. 217-223.
Lulu.
Supervision in Psychodrama, Experiential Learning in Psychotherapy and Training, ed.
Hannes Krall, Jutta Fürst & Pierre Fontaine, 2013, Springer
Teszary, J. Supervision – a Triangle of Drama in Transition, 129-138
Psykosomatisk läkekonst (Psychosomatic Art of Healing), ed. Theorell. T., Konarski. K. 1991,
NoK, Stockholm
När orden inte räcker (When words Are not Enough), ed. Theorell. T., 1998, NoK,
Stockholm;
Teszary, J. Psychodrama, 130-170
Skapande ögonblick (Creative Moments), ed. Hans Berglind, Cura, 1998, Stockholm.
Teszary, J. När jälen möter kroppen (When the Soul Meets the Body), 120-145

Márcia Karp M.A. TEP, UKCP IAGP, FEPTO, BPA; UKCP International Tele’Drama institute (ITI) Faculty. Honorary and Founding member FEPTO; Distinguished Fellow, Past Board IAGP; President Emeritus And Lifetime Achievement Award BRITISH PSYCHODRAMA ASSOCIATION, Fellow and JLMoreno Lifetime Achievement Award ASGPP; Co-editor “Psychodrama: Inspiration and Technique”; “Psychodrama Since Moreno”, “ The Handbook of Psychodrama”; International Trainer, Supervisor, Private Psychotherapist

Maurizio Gasseau, was born in Rome, Associate Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the University of Aosta. Past Chair of the Psychodrama Section of International Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes IAGP, Jungian analyst, honorary member of ARPA member of International Association of Analytic Psychology IAAP, certified psychotherapist and psychodramatist in Italy as well as leader of training groups all over the world. His main interests are researching dream interpretations in individual analysis and in psychodrama and group psychotherapy, social dreaming matrix, and working on transgenerational topics. He developed the Jungian Psychodrama method and theory in 1980 and Psychodramatic Social Dreaming in 2004. Director of Training of Postgraduate School of Psychotherapy IPAP – Institute of Analytical Psychology and Psychodrama.  Board member IAGP 2003 - 2012 and 2015 - 2025. Co-chair of IAGP Education Committee.
Co - chair of FEPTO Task Force for Peace Building and Conflict Transformation to share experience in intercultural work, working with refugees, using Morenian tools.
He led training groups in 46 countries in presence.
Author of more than ninety publications on group psychotherapy and research, such as Lo psicodramma junghiano co-edited with Giulio Gasca and  Il sogno. Dalla psicologia analitica allo psicodramma junghiano co-edited with Riccardo Bernardini. 
He received the Federation European Psychodrama Training Organization Excellence Award in 2017 and the Fellowship Award of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes IAGP in 2022
 
 

Marie-Louise Pierson
Psychoanalyst, Psychodramatist, Writer
Student of Dr. J.L. and Zerka Moreno
Boulogne, FRANCE

Marie-Louise PIERSON is a French psychoanalyst member of the S. P. F. (Societe de Psychanalyse Freudienne) and à Psychodrama Director trained in the Moreno Institute (Beacon, New York) by Jacob Levy and Zerka Moreno. Together with Doctor Moreno she directed psychodrama in the New York round theater (1969). Since then she has been in practice, consulting individuals and groups, training students in university and hospitals,  teaching and supervising for more than 40 years. She is an internationally renowned speaker Expert on French TV and radio. And most of her books (“L’Image de Soi” and “Renaître après la depression”, and “L’intelligence relationnelle”) are translated.

Carlos A Raimundo, MD, ASGPP, AANZPA
Dr. Carlos A Raimundo is an Argentinean Psychodramatist living in Australia with medical, psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, theological and business training. He's the creator of the Play of Life, for which he received the ASGPP 2002 Innovator Award. He bases his work on traditional psychodrama and neuroscience. He's the creator of RCompass digital sociometry and the Play of Life app, a digital psychodrama.

Clark Baim, PhD, is a Senior Trainer in Psychodrama Psychotherapy (UKCP, BPA) and Director of the Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama in the UK. He is also on the faculty of the Family Relations Institute, based in Reggio Emilia, Italy and Miami, USA. He is the former Honorary President of the British Psychodrama Association and is a recipient of the BPA's Lifetime Achievement Award (2018) and the ASGPP's David Kipper Scholar's Award. Clark has published widely in the fields of attachment, forensic treatment, psychodrama, co-working and applied theatre. A native of Chicago, USA, he has lived in the UK since 1987.

Edward is dedicated to Sociatry and Social Microscopy. This is his method’s transpersonal mystic tradition and the social justice vision. Edward's primary work is offering the instrument called the Social Microscope that teaches how to find the underlying largely hidden structure of society and organizations Moreno wrote about. This structure is what underlies all social injustice. Seeing this can lead to a personal encounter with “a healing center” that is around us, within us, between us; a force of unity that is at the core of all we have before us.

Nancy Kirsner, Ph.D.,TEP, OTR is a Certified Positive Psychologist, licensed Marriage and Family therapist, and a Board Certified Trainer, Educator, and of Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy. She has been in practice, teaching, or consulting for over 40 years. In 2015 Nancy became Certified in Positive Psychology through the Whole Being Institute studying under Dr.Tal ben Sha-har. Since then she has been translating Positive Psychology principles and research into applied practice utilizing action methods.

Urban Norlander, Psychodrama Director TEP (Trainer, Educator, Practitioner by NBBE), Coach (ICF). Trained supervisor in psychosocial work at Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University.

Urbans main interest in psychodrama is sociometry and has been trained by, among others, Ann Hale. He is a major contributor of psychodrama in Sweden where he has practised for more than 25 years. He has long experience as an actor, director and theater teacher with the theatre of the opressed as speciality.

Urban is the chairman and a trainer of Swedish Moreno institute and represents the institute at NBBE (Nordic Baltic Board of Examiners).

Bojana Glusac Draslar, Psychotherapist, Trainer, Supervisor, Educator International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Psychodrama Institute Belgrade European Association for Psychotherapy. Bojana graduated in Special Education and Rehabilitation at Belgrade University. Upon fulfillment of required conditions in qualifications, experience and expertise, she received the ECP (European Certificate for Psychotherapy), and the title of educator in psychotherapy and supervisor. Her work is focused on Individual and group psychotherapy clients within a private clinic that she founded 1999., developing a new psychotherapeutic approach TP (Transpersonal Psychodrama), wellbeing programs, stress management and self-care, international leadership assessment, executive coaching, leadership development and teambuilding. She has written 3 books on Mindfulness and Wellbeing, as well as articles on psychotherapy and other people's development approaches. 

Uneeda Brewer, MSW, TEP
Executive Council, ASGPP. Uneeda is a Board-Certified Practitioner of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy (CP) and a Practitioner Applicant for Trainer (PAT). Member of the ASGPP Executive Council where she serves on the Finance Committee and as Chair of the Kindness and Care Task Force. Uneeda is also one of the co-chairs of the task force on recruiting a more diverse next generation of psychodrama professionals to membership in ASGPP. Team member of 'Sociodrama for Social Action' project for using sociodrama with the non-clinical groups to enact changes in our world regarding racial and social justice. Uneeda is an executive coach and diversity and inclusion consultant who works virtually with a variety of clients.

Samuel Yie, BA, KBA-BS EXP Drama Edu. Samuel Yie lived in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Palau throughout childhood and adolescent years. Went back to Korea and graduated college with a double major in Counseling Psychology / Business Management plus a minor in International and Area Studies. Trained in psychodrama and drama therapy during and after college for 8 years, certified as Bibliodrama Specialist through “Korean Bibliodrama Association” and also trained with “Korean Association for Psychodrama and Sociodrama”. Worked mostly with adolescent and teenagers with multicultural backgrounds, TCKs, and dual citizenship groups. Currently lives in China working with overseas Korean teenagers conducting English programs for 4 years now.

Sheila Katzman is a passionate Applied Theatre Practitioner with over 25 years’ experience working in highly charged conflict situations, globally. She is co-Founder and Executive Artistic Director of Ten-Lanterns Transformative Theatre (TLTT), using methodologies of theatre of the oppressed, psychodrama, and sociodrama, as tools for social change. She holds an MA in Applied Theatre, University of Manchester; a BA in Broadcast Journalism/Media Studies, Hunter College, and a Teaching Diploma in Theatre Arts, The Edna Manley School of Visual and Performing Arts (Jamaica), and post-graduate credits in Conflict Resolution, CU/SIPA. Recipient of the UN Women Champion of Change Award.

Mark Wentworth (United Kingdom) Global Colour Ambassador Colour for Life; ASGPP Executive Council; Chair of the ASGPP International Committee International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Board of Directors & Faculty. Mark has been studying and working with colour for more than 30 years. He is the creator of the Colour PsychoDynamics® method, integrating colour therapy with the archetypal worlds of Carl Jung and the psychodramatic worlds of Jacob Moreno. Mark is the author of Add a Little Colour to Your Life, which is available in 7 languages. He teaches internationally as well as being a guest on many radio and tv shows around the world.

Erica Hollander, PhD, JD, TEP is a lawyer in Human Communication Studies, who now paints, writes poetry, dabbles in philosophy, and does psychodrama.
 

Marjut Partanen-Hertell, M.S. (Tech), TEP Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner (CTP – Level 3), ARUA, Helsinki Psychodrama Institute (Finland) IAGP and ASGPP, FEPTO Network Group for Climate Change. As environmental engineer and sociodramatist Marjut Partanen-Hertell worked in the Finnish Environment Institute for 40 years with international projects supported by the EU and the World Bank. Former chairman of the inter-governmental working group on Public Awareness and Environmental Education of HELCOM in the Baltic Sea area, facilitating co-operation between 14 countries and various NGOs. Finland’s Representative on the Management Committee of the environmental financial instrument EU/LIFE. Presenter in international conferences. Supervisor for private and public clients. Author and co-author of several books, latest Sociodrama in a Changing World (2011). Former president of the Association of Finnish Psychodrama Trainers (MOPSI)

Agathe Crespel, Members of the Centre for Psychosociological Training and Intervention (CFIP) International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Faculty.

Deborah Karner, LCSW, MSS, TEP Private Practice, ASGPP, NASW, DVPC, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Deborah's most recent professional manifestation is as a Clinical Social Worker and a TEP. She arrived in these roles from having been an operatic stage director working in the US and Europe then teaching at Mannes College of Music in NYC and Temple University in Philadelphia. Current clinical work is with addictions, trauma and traumatic brain injury. She co-facilitate an ongoing group for people with TBI and Trauma; is involved in research about spontaneity and TBI; and has plans with her colleague to run groups sponsored by the Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania for families of people with brain injury.

Tania Lewis, M.Ed, LCSW, LCDC, SAPa
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master of Science degree from the University of Texas, Arlington. I also hold the license as a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and a Certified Life Coach. I am a proud United States Navy veteran. I honorably served my country during Desert Storm aboard the USS Mount Hood AE 29 and at ACU-5 at Camp Pendleton, CA. I'm the proud wife of a Master Sergeant of the United States Marine Corps.

Colleen Baratka, MA, TEP Private Practice, ASGPP, DVPC, BIAPA, IAEDP. Colleen Baratka, MA TEP is a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. In clinical practice for over 30 years, she has developed psychodrama and trauma programs at The Belmont and Renfrew Centers in Philadelphia, PA. Colleen is a published author on the topics of trauma and eating disorders and currently is in private practice where she specializes in trauma and co-current issues. She works with individuals, families and groups, she also guests lectures at local universities, organizations and treatment centers. Recently , Colleen has begun study into traumatic brain injuries ,trauma, and the role spontaneity plays in recovery.

Monica has been working as a health care professional for over 20 years. She is a psychotherapist in private practice since 1997 and is the co-founder of Choices in Action Counselling Services. Specializing in Addictions and Childhood Trauma, Monica does individual and couples therapy and currently runs a long term group therapy for the Physicians Health Program. She has facilitated group therapy programs for addictions, anger management and male survivors of childhood sexual and physical abuse.

Monica has received extensive training in Transactional Analysis and Psychodrama. A seasoned trainer and educator, she has presented on numerous psychotherapy issues for other health care professionals, both within the community and in other major cities in North America. She has presented on Transference/Countertransference, Attachment Theory, Male Sexual Victimization, Trauma and Resiliency, Vicarious Trauma and Psychodramatic Techniques.

 

Violeta Kadieva, Ph.D., LMFT-S, AAMFT Approved Supervisor received her doctoral degree from Texas Tech University. She has worked as a marriage and family therapist for about 10 years and is currently an Associate Professor at Texas Wesleyan University. She has published articles and presented workshops and posters at numerous conferences, including WAMFT, AAMFT, APA, TAMFT and International Family Therapy World Conference.

Jennie Kristel, MA, REAT, APTT, RMT is a registered expressive arts therapist, group facilitator, supervisor, Eco artist, and an instructor at Lesley University. Being raised in the shadows of the Holocaust and born with a disability has deeply framed her outlook and work as a social justice-based clinician. She is an international trainer of both Playback Theatre and Expressive Arts Therapy and has written on using the arts in therapy including co-writing Using Art Therapy in Diverse Populations: Crossing Cultures and Abilities, and published chapters and articles related to using the arts to support people experiencing grief and trauma as well as building community.

Filipe De Moura
Dynamic Theatre World Association
International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Board of Directors & Faculty.
Filipe De Moura is a musician and artist who believes art is one of the best ways to positively transform humanity and the world. He, along with Mark Wentworth, created Dynamic Theatre (Incognito Auxiliary) and has been working with expressive arts for more than 15 years. Part of which also includes working with Colour Psycodynamics as well developing his own approach to music therapy. He studied Classical Singing at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. On stage, he premiered the world renowned musical “The Phantom of the Opera” in Portugal, in the role of Raoul, in 2019.

Angela Christoph, M.A. German Psychodrama Association International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI). Angela Christoph, MA, was born in Vienna/Austria und currently lives in Germany. She was trained in the Moreno Institute Edenkoben/Überlingen which was founded by Dr. Grete Leutz in 1975. Angela is a psychologist, psychodramatist and trainer for the Moreno Institute in Germany. She is on the board of the German Psychodrama Association and works as Supervisor/Coach and trainer. Her special interests are exploring strategies for coping with stress, resilience and resources using psychodramatic methods.

 Ichiro (Okkady) Okajima, M.A., Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner (CTP – Level 2). Ichiro Okajima, known by most as Okkady, is the chair of the department of Psychology for Nishikyushu University, Japan. He first experienced psychodrama when he was a freshman at the university, and was attracted by the mental enrichment and camaraderie that psychodrama brings. As a result, he researched warm-ups of psychodrama at graduate school and earned a master's degree in educational psychology. Okkady joined the TELE'DRAMA team in search of a new method of psychodrama in response to COVID-19. He showed a method called "Treasure's Message" and some Japanese culture at the 2021 TELE'DRAMA Conference. The 14-hour time difference is a challenge for him, but he is once again experiencing the warmth of people and personal growth.

Margarida Belchior, PhD, Researcher,
Sociodramatist Lusófona University - Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Education and Development.
Margarida Belchior is a sociodramatist, teacher and researcher. She conducts teacher training workshops on Sociodrama in Education and develops, in collaboration, the project “Public Sociodrama with Art”. She participates in several international initiatives and is teacher educator at the Instituto Politécnico da Lusofonia (Superior School of Education of Lusofonia). She is doing research in the field of Inclusion and Expressive Pedagogies at the Center of Interdisciplinary Studies for Education and Development (CeiED – Lusófona University).
 

Alexandr Usov is a clinical social worker and a psychodrama therapist. He is a licensed Social Worker at NYS and provides therapeutic services at Camelot of Staten Island, the facility for clients struggling with addiction and their families. Alexandr works with individuals and groups implementing different kinds of techniques through psychodrama and sociometry, music therapy and other expressive-arts modalities. 

Kirsty Weedon is a UK-based psychodrama psychotherapist who works with adults and young people, providing individual and group therapy from her private practice and as a freelance therapist. She is also a creative outdoor therapist and professional in outdoor learning who co-facilitates the (UK’s) Institute for Outdoor Learning working therapeutically outdoors professional development group. Kirsty has a background in education, youth and community work, working outdoors and facilitation, and loves the opportunity to connect and collaborate with other practitioners. 
 

Sandra is an international feminist consultant, movement facilitator, somatic/body therapist and embodied trauma counselor and trainer.

Her work dives deep into social justice, spirituality and personal sovereignty. To locate herself within this offering she lives and works at the convergence of healing, individual and collective transformation and political organizing.

As someone with 25 + years of experience working with various communities: LGBTIQ+, Womenx, human rights activists, various non profit organizations and community organizers, she is also lifelong student in the work of learning to undo whiteness and white supremacy while learning to co-create cultures of healing and collective liberation.

For more then 25 years, Sandras’ work is inspired by mindful activism and social healing with human rights activist communities around the world and creating innovative holistic approaches to safety and well being. Sandra works with individuals, groups, facilitates workshops and trainings creating and offering space for personal, organizational and community growth.

Alona Seidel has MA in Psychology. She is a licensed psychologist (Israel) and certified psychodrama-therapist. She got her psychodrama education in Moreno-Institute (Germany), and she is doing her supervision at Sociometric Institute (US). She has been working as a psychodrama therapist for almost two decades. Her specialties are neurodiversity and sexual addiction. In 2020 she started her work as a psychodrama supervisor.
She has organized many support projects to help promote psychodrama and mental health wellness, such as “Let’s stay in touch – support for psychotherapist during corona-time” and “You are not alone – support for families with neurodivergent children,” etc.

Catherine specializes in populations who are struggling with depression, relationship and family conflict, addiction, anxiety and stress, trauma related disorders, grief and loss, self esteem, and life transitions. Some of the evidenced based approaches she uses are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution Focused Therapy. These approaches paired with a solid therapeutic rapport result in clients reaching goals and seeing actual results from counseling. Catherine is currently pursuing her PhD in Psychology. She is eager to work with clients who are ready for change.

Emilia Rodriguez, MMFT, LMFT-Associate
Emily Rodriguez grew up in McAllen TX and went on to complete her B.A. in Psychology from Baylor University. She then earned her Master of Marriage and Family Therapy from Abilene Christian University. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy at Texas Wesleyan University. She has counseling experience with clients of various ages, backgrounds, and different stages of life. Emily’s passion is working with teenagers, young adults, and couples to identify their personal struggles and to set attainable goals.

Mireya P. Ruiz Esparza has a Doctorate in Anthropological Sciences from Universidad Autonomy Metropolitana- Iztapalapa in Mexico City, with a specialization in Classical Psychodrama. She worked with indigenous communities coordinating Community Development projects with women and children in Veracruz, Mexico. She is the co-founder of FORMA-Z de Vida – a training center in action methods/psychodrama from 2016 to 2020. She is co-founder of Etica en Espiral: a project that seeks to facilitate learning tools for personal, collective and social transformation. Mireya is also a Playback Theatre practitioner since 2007.


 

Nathalie is a Psychodrama therapist (MA), Executive coach and Senior trainer at HURACT. She grew up in France and lives today in Israel.
After a first career as a strategic consultant and business executive, Nathalie was called to reorient her career on helping people and organizations to connect to their unique purpose and act from a space of presence and awareness.
Besides her practice as a therapist, she works with entrepreneurs and executives to help them develop their leadership skills and foster the collective intelligence of their teams. She uses action methods and other alternative techniques to help leaders go beyond rational thinking and connect to their emotional and body intelligence.

Violeta Azis, Clinical psychologist, Psychotherapist Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner (Level 1). Violeta is a clinical psychologist and psychodrama therapist, currently working in Lozenets hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria and in private practice. She has more than ten years of experience in working with patients with chronic and acute somatic illness, transplantations and cardiovascular surgeries. Violeta has worked with psychodrama groups for five years and conducts individual consulting and psychotherapy of adolescents and adults.

Artaya Brown is an LMFT. She has received her M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy at Texas Wesleyan University. Artaya is currently a third year PhD student in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Texas Wesleyan University. Her main research interest is exploring the uniqueness of First-Generation College Students. She works as an outpatient group therapist and assessment specialist at a behavioral mental health hospital. Artaya has previous experience presenting at a TAMFT conference.

Carola Marashi M.A., Psychedelic Integration Therapist

Despite a chaotic childhood Carola completed a Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology. This led her to Psychodrama as her internship. Psychodrama conjures courage for her to explore outside the box and go out on a limb by setting up the stage. Through enchantment, participants drop into their bodies and new stories become animated. After decades of psychotherapy, it was microdosing that helped her face, engage and participate with her depression and anxiety. Psychedelic is a state of mind. We consume psychedelics to remember that state of mind. Psychedelic Integration combined with Psychodrama techniques conjures spontaneity and creativity for human evolution.

Ozge is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at St John Fisher University. Having a Ph.D. in social and personality psychology and being a FEPTO (Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organizations) and American Board of Examiners certified psychodramatist, she helps individuals and organizations for growth, development, and wellbeing via motivation research and action methods of experiential learning. Throughout her academic career so far, she has had different roles as a researcher and practitioner, organizational trainer, project consultant, management advisor, and customer/user experience and employee experience advisor. Ozge loves conducting research about human motivation that goes beyond lab settings. Her work focuses on advocating the human-centered approach to enable better understanding and handling of the complexity of our psychosocial nature, building psychosocial ecosystems for fully functioning, and implementing compassionate wisdom for integration in various life domains by amplifying the potential committed to doing good in the world. So far, she has cross-cultural experience working with teams in Turkey, the US, and Canada in addition to remote individual global clients and worldwide projects including the UK, Netherlands, Australia, Korea, India, Singapore, Dubai, and Iran.

Daniela Tahirova, MEd, MPsy Therapeutic Center "Vitae" International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Representative Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner. Daniela Tahirova has a master's degree in pedagogy, speech therapy and psychology. Psychodrama Therapist, Director of Psychodrama with Children, Family Therapist. She is conducting therapy groups for children - according to the method of A.Aachinger and W.Hall and for adults under the supervision of Dr. Daniela Simmons. Daniela Tahirova is the director of the "Psychodrama and Action Methods in Education" program, which is certified by the Ministry of Education and Science at the Adler Institute-Bulgaria. Founder and part of the board of the Balkan Association of Psychodrama, Sociodrama and Active Methods. She trains, practices and teaches Teledrama in Bulgaria. Co-leader in the Bulgarian groups of Dr. Daniela Simmons.

Débora Moghilevsky de Penna, Doctor in Psychology. Thesis on “the Use of the Stage Space of Psychodrama in Argentina”. Co-founder of the Zerka T. Moreno Center (1992). Currently Professor UBA.

Natalia Toumashkova, Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Psychodramatist.
Senior trainer of The Institute Of Psychodrama and Psychological Consulting

Shyaw Nawroly, Family Therapist and Coach International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Training (Iraq)
Ahmed Khalidi, Family Therapist and Coach International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Training (Iraq)

Shyaw Nawroly and Ahmed Khalidi traveled abroad to study Family education and Counseling in Istanbul, Turkey. At that time they were introduced with top Turkish parenting writers Adem Gunes, and based on his recommendation they translated 8 books into Kurdish language which are among the bestsellers in Iraq. They had a great passion for therapeutic and coaching approaches, so they started taking education and training from International and well-known pioneers such as John Gottman, Daniela Simmons, Joseph Dillard, Laura Markham, Kate Northrup and Jillian Roberts. They have an integrated approach which is a combination of Therapeutic and coaching style that touched the life of thousand in the region through training. They worked with top Kurdish NGO as freelancer and are Family Mediators in The Court of Sulaymaniyah. They were also the creators of curriculum for newly weds, sponsored by the United Nations. In present times they are entrepreneurs and Founders of FAM Academy Family and Marriage Academy that serves parents and spouses through online and one on one training programs, coaching sessions, workshops and TV interviews. They also have a family show in a well-known top Kurdish Televisions. They are parents of 18 months Zheero!

Viktor Zaretskiy, PhD
Professor of Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, psychodrama therapist.

Alexandrina Milcheva has a Master degree in Clinical psychology – psychoanalytic approach, she is a certified Psychodrama therapist and Tele’Drama Practitioner (Level 2). Alexandrina has working experience in the psychiatric ward at the Military Medical Academy (Sofia, Bulgaria), Clinic of Nervous Diseases at the University Hospital "Alexandrovska'', as a school psychologist with children with special needs, people affected by violence and more. Alexandrina works individually and in groups using all kinds of tools through psychodrama, psychodynamic approach and visualizations. In her practice she works with problems connected to anxiety, panic attacks, psychosomatics, difficult attachment, etc.  

Monica Munoz, PsyD, LP, LSSP, NCSP, HSP CCTS-I.Dr. Monica Munoz is a Licensed Psychologist and Licensed Specialist in School Psychology. She has been studying Psychodrama for 3 years and is passionate about utilizing experiential methods to bring healing to the populations she works with. Monica works with children and families in Dallas Independent School District as well as runs a private practice, where she works with ethnically diverse populations with high levels of trauma and poverty. 

Reyhan Çakmak, M. Sc. on Clinical Psychology, Istanbul Jungian Psychodrama Institute, ASGPP, BAPSGPT. Reyhan Çakmak is a Psychological Counselor and Psychotherapist. She was born in Ankara. Assistant Psychodrama Trainer at Istanbul Jungian Psychodrama Institute (Ijungi). She has been working as a school counselor and as a member of the Ministry of National Education since 2010. She continues her Jungian psychoanalysis process with individual dream analysis. She is a founding member and vice president of Balkan Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapies Association. She is actively involved in community mental health studies within various non-governmental organizations.

Mirjana Stanković has 16 years of experience in psychodrama. She fell in love with it back in 2005, when she became a therapeutic group member and decided to enroll an educational group led by Bojana Glusac in Belgrade, Serbia, back in 2012. Mrs. Stankovic has been an independent transpersonal psychodrama practitioner since 2018. In March 2022, she enrolled for the first level of Tele’Drama educaton and has become an active member of this vibrant community. Mirjana is a near-native speaker and a professional user of English language, with an M.A. degree in English language and literature obtained in 1986. She is experienced in working with culturally diverse and multinational groups across the globe. Since March 2020, she has explored and applied various online counselling techniqes, in virtual sessions with clients from different continents.

Mirjana applies a highly ecclectic approach, of mainly Jungian orientation, by combining standard psychodramatic techniques with creative elements of gestalt, transactional analysis, transpersonal psychology, systemic family therapy, CBT and other. She cherises a highly humanistic approach, by looking into each person as a whole, sufficient, creative and unique individual beyond birth in this particular existence.

Mrs. Stanković is particularly dedicated to offering group or individual Tele’Drama support to the clients challenged and troubled by various ailments of the nervous system, classified as autoimmune degenerative diseases of obscure ethiology. The focus of group psycho-social support is on looking into the root causes, the underlying factors for severe, aggravating self-attacks, which are manifested at the physical, mental and emotional level, thus jeopardizing the individual’s well-being
here and now.
 

Jordan Miller, MPH, LSW, MSS, CET I, International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Training. Jordan is a licensed social worker and psychotherapist. She works with folks living with trauma, poverty and substance use. In her work with individual, she integrates her knowledge of public health, psychodrama, and intersectional feminism to address social disparities experienced in the mental health field.

Victor Semenov, PhD, is Director of the Institute of Psychodrama and Psychological Counseling, Vice-President of the Psychodrama Association, Chairman of the Psychodrama Online Section. 

Abrar Qari, MBBS and Saudi board Certified medical doctor in obstetrics and gynaecology, on process to be Certified as Tele’Drama practitioner CTP level 1, Certified Group coach, established online psychodrama club in Saudi Arabia empowering and educating about emotional intelligence
Also start an online Arabic Women circle to coach female how to grow in a soft power community and follow their inner calling

Claudia Ledesma has a MA, PhDC. Psychology and Family Therapy. She worked with women victims of gender violence and sexual violence in Mexico City, Puebla and Guanajuato. She is the co-founder of FORMA-Z de Vida – a training center in action methods/psychodrama from 2016 to 2020. She is co-founder of Etica en Espiral: a project that seeks to facilitate learning in tools for personal, collective and social transformation

Lăcătuș-Iakab Bela Olimpiu is an ethnic Roma of Romanian nationality. Currently he is a public servant and is working at The Medical and Social Work Directorate from Cluj-Napoca Municipality. He previously worked for as process manager in ”Pata-Cluj” project and as a consultant for UNDP between 2012 – 2014. By proffesion is social worker, he graduated The Sociology and Social Work at ”Babeș Bolyai” University.

In the last 17 years he is working with vulnerable people and whit in the Roma communities (in child protection and community empowerment - at individual level and collective level).

Ryan Lloyd, MS, LMFT Associate, LCDC
Ryan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate and Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor. He works for the local mental health authority for Tarrant County, Texas. Ryan also works with Denton County Juvenile Probation. He enjoys, and feels at his best, working with families and couples. He is also a 3rd year Marriage and Family Therapy PhD Student at Texas Wesleyan University. Ryan Lloyd absolutely loves Psychodrama and has attended multiple trainings to learn more. Involving this when working with families and other systems is something he is striving to do.

Medical Doctor, Pychodramatist, Trainer and Supervisor.
He created “Change your role to change your weight” (or shortly SlimRole) approach on obesity. While working on obesity, he realized the link between trauma and obesity and began to study on coping with trauma. He developed “Four Port” model for working on trauma.
He used psychodrama as an education tool in the field of medical school students and health service workers (nurses, midwifes dietitians etc.) and also to educate mums and mums to be. He took roles as a member of Board of Director and Vice Presedent of Istanbul Pschodrama Association which is a sect of Abdülkadir Özbek Institute. He established a new Jungian oriented Psychodrama Institution called IJUNGI (Istanbul Jungian Psychodrama Institute, formerly known as Dr. Ali Babaoğlu Jungian Psychodrama, Sociodrama and Public Mental Health Institute).

Dr Med. Wilma Scategni 2022

Training analyst in Psychodrama and Analytical Pshycology.Founding member of FEPTO and past Member of the Board. Editor of Newsletter Commitee FEPTO(Federation of European Psychodrama training organization)Staff Member Int. Granada Academy since 2005.Member IAGP.Doc. CIPA –IAAP, C.G. Jung Inst,Zurich.Author of many books and articles published in many different languages.The most important: Psychodrama: Group Processes and dreams: Archetypal Images of individuation(Routledge 2003)was published in 4 Languages (English, German,Italian and Spanish)
 

Vladimir is graduated Computer Science engineer who has been sharing passion for psychotherapy for many years. He followed his dream and became psychotherapist, finishing  Transpersonal Psychodrama Institute in Belgrade (Serbia). Vladimir has international experience in business consultancy which helped his psychotherapeutic practice in many ways. Today, many of his clients became very successful people in personal and business life. He is devoted to meditation and exploring different states of consciousness. He strongly believe that the path to successful healing is interdisciplinary approach and to be open for different knowledges and sources. He combines meditation, energy healing and psychotherapy in his practice.

Vladimir is father of two beautiful daughters, he enjoys music, nature and reading.

Dr. Louisa Foster is a clinical psychologist and board certified trainer in drama therapy in private practice in Omaha, NE. Louisa engages the healing process with a spirit of spontaneity, creativity, and play, often working through the lens of ritual, folklore, and myth. She offers regular workshops, groups, and immersive retreat experiences through The Center for Mindful Living in Omaha.  She is the founder and director of The Midwest Drama Therapy Institute and is the artistic director of The Space Between Playback Theatre Company.
 

Candice Jones Ronemus, LPC Associate Supervised by Dr. Linda Metcalf
Candice has worked as the Clinical Office Manager at the Texas Wesleyan University Community Counseling Center for the last 2 years. She is currently in her third year of the Marriage and Family Therapy PhD program at Wesleyan. Outside of work Candice likes to spend time with her daughter and travel.

Benjamin Eule, MS, LMFT-Associate,  has a background of working in academic research laboratories. He was a paid researcher in The Development of Social Cognition Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas in a multi-year NIH-funded study investigating ASD, schizophrenia, and social communication. Benjamin also served as team leader for behavioral coding in the Personality and Interpersonal Relationship Lab at UTD. Benjamin is currently a doctoral candidate in Texas Wesleyan University’s Marriage and Family Therapy Ph.D. program. One of Benjamin’s recent projects is co-authoring a chapter in the upcoming 3rd edition textbook, Marriage and Family Therapy: A Practice-Oriented Approach, published by Springer.

Joanne has worked with first generation early college high school students for 6 years. She has worked with clients of all ages, but is now focusing mainly on adults. She is in her third year of a PhD program in marriage and family at Texas Wesleyan . Joanne’s hobbies include reading, travel and listening to live music. She loves her three daughters and husband of 18 years dearly.

Syeda S. Jesmin, Ph.D., MPH
Syeda S. Jesmin, a medical sociologist/social epidemiologist, is an Associate Professor of Sociology with a joint appointment in Public Health. Her scholarly interests center on policy-relevant research in social determinants of health and health disparities. Her current research focuses on mental health promotion, opioid misuse, and evidence-based interventions. Dr. Jesmin serves as Principal Investigator SAMHSA-funded GLS suicide prevention grant focused on providing suicide prevention training and mental health promotion at UNT Dallas and surrounding communities. Her work has appeared in Substance Use & Misuse, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Aggressive Behavior, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Violence and Victims, Culture, Health & Sexuality, Women & Health, Health Care for Women International, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Educational Gerontology, and several other peer-reviewed journals. Along with new course development and consistently high teaching evaluations, Dr. Jesmin is rated excellent in the area of teaching.

Betty Garrison, BFA, IPNB, MA, MS, CMHC, CTP-2

Betty G Garrison is a psychotherapist who has been studying and practicing Psychodrama for over 10 years. Though not native to technology, Betty has become involved in Tele’Drama during the pandemic and is enjoying her training in this unique modality that can be shared internationally; she is excited about the endless possibilities, of which Moreno foretold. Betty has earned three Master’s Degrees: Theatre Ed/Drama Therapy, Film/Social Reform, and Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She has over 30 years of experience using theatre arts and film to engage, inspire, educate, and heal children, adolescents, and adults.

Andrea Wilches
International Tele'Drama Institute (ITI) Board of Directors & Faculty
Psicodrama Grupal Pavlovsky institute. Identidad Recovery Center. Andrea Wilches, born in Colombia, currently living in Argentina, is psychologist, psychotherapist, psychodramatist, actor, psychodrama trainer, International Tele'Drama Institute (ITI) member of the Board of Directors & Faculty. Trainer at Psicodrama Grupal Pavlovsky Institute; Identidad Recovery Center. Trained as a psychodramatist, by Dr. Mónica Zuretti, and by Dr. Eduardo "tato" Pavlovsky and Maria Carolina Pavlovsky in Dramatic Multiplications psychodrama. Andrea she has a certification in mindfulness by the University Favaloro in Argentina; a certification in disability as a social and political category by the University of Buenos Aires; and is also a Kabbalah student. Currently she works with psychodrama groups in the treatment and recovery of addiction and as an one on one therapist.
 

Hande Karakılıç Üçer, MD Dr. Abdülkadir Özbek Psychodrama Institute International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Board of Directors & Faculty FEPTO, IAGP, ASGPP. Dr. Hande Karakılıç Üçer, is a Psychiatrist in clinical private practice, providing medical treatment and psychotherapy in Turkish, English and French. Psychodrama Trainer at Dr. Abdülkadir Özbek Psychodrama Institute in Ankara, Turkey; also Expressive Arts Therapist. Presently trainer at TELE’DRAMA. She worked with refugees with IOM, UNHCR; coordinated various disaster psycho-social interventions. Worked for the Turkish Security Forces. Is doing organizational work for Embassies, EU Delegation etc. in Ankara, Turkey. Ex-Secretary General (2017-2020) of the International Society for Health and Human Rights (ISHHR); member of International Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP) and its Trauma Task Force; member of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) and its Trauma Task Force; member of the Federation of Psychodrama Training Organizations (FEPTO) Peace Building and Conflict Transformation Task Force.

Jennifer R. Salimbene, MSSW, LCSW-R, CASAC, CDAC, TEP is on faculty at the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute. She has been Director of Clinical Services at several in and outpatient substance abuse programs including Lexington Center for Recovery in Dutchess County, NY and St. Christopher’s Inn at Graymoor in Garrison, NY. She has over 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist. She has a clinical supervision and private therapy practice with offices in Hopewell Junction and Rhinebeck, NY, a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP), and a graduate of the School of Playback Theatre.

Magdalene Jeyarathnam, MSW, PhDC, CP, Psychodrama Trainer Board member IAGP, member ASGPP, Co-founder, Expressive arts therapy association of India, founding member Indian academy of professional supervisors. Magdalene Jeyarathnam is an expressive arts therapist and a board certified Psychodramatist working with individuals, couples and groups including family groups in India. Magdalene has more than 25 years of experience in working with addiction, HIV/AIDS and mental health issues, she has worked with several state and central government agencies in India, She has also worked with UNICEF and WHO as consultant on projects. She is the founder of East West Center for Counselling which is an Expressive arts therapy center providing therapy services to schools, universities and organisations; She also founded the Indian Institute of psychodrama which is the first psychodrama training institute in India. She is the Co- Chair for the Health and well-being vertical for Indian Women’s Network (IWN) – Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Tamil Nadu chapter for 2020 – 2021. She is currently pursuing her doctoral study.

Nancy Scherlong is a licensed clinical social worker in the states of NY and CT in the USA, a registered poetry therapist, certified journal therapist and an international trainer in both methods. Her multi-modal practice features in person and distance therapy and coaching based in the models of EMDR, IFS and SE (Somatic Experiencing). She is on the core faculty of the KINT institute as well as the lead faculty for Adelphi University's certificate program in Applied Expressive Arts in Counseling. She is a life-long learner and in the process of completing her CP studies in psychodrama and enjoys interweaving enacted and written metaphors as well as encouraging the embodiment of storytelling. For more, visit her website at www.changeyournarrativetherapy.com

Fernan Rodriguez Cetran, PhD, National Art University, Argentina Centro Zerka Moreno Psicodrama y Sociodrama. Fernan Rodriguez Cetran, PhD in Folklore specialty Tango, National Art University, ArgentinaPsychodramatist from Centro Zerka Moreno Paintor and Sculpturer. Creator of the whales cards 2008. Tango dance Professor. UNA . Many of his art productions are exposed around the world Buenos Aires Argentina Luca Italy, Trondhein Norway, among others.

Ofra graduated Bet Zvi Academy of Drama (Ramat Gan, Israel, 1967). She earned her BA from Ben-Gurion University, in literature & education (Beersheva, Israel, 1989), Her MA, from the University of New South Wales, in Theater Studies & Directing (Sydney, Australia, 1990). Certified Group Conductor, Bet Berl Academic College (Tel Aviv, Israel, 2003). She has professional experience in: Acting, Directing, Drama Therapy for children, teachers, adult groups, the elderly. Ofra also has participated in many international Conferences, Workshops, etc. Member of AGPA and IAGP.
 

Regina Sewell, PhD/ MEd, LMHC, PCC, CP is a licensed mental health counselor in New York and a licensed professional counselor in Ohio. Regina specializes in co-dependency, addictions, LGBT issues, stress management, and getting unstuck. She has a private therapy practice with offices in Hopewell Junction and Rhinebeck, NY. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) and is president of the Hudson Valley Chapter of the ASGPP. Regina also teaches Theatre Therapy at Russell Sage College in Troy, NY and Sociology at SUNY New Paltz.

Rhona Case, M.Ed., TEP ASGPP. Rhona has been a member of the Psychodrama community since 1991. She is a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania and a Trainer, Educator & Practitioner of Psychodrama since 1997. Rhona is a founding partner in a group practice called Crossroads Counseling Center, that was formed in 1995. Rhona has presented at ASGPP National Conferences, Live and Virtually, and presented at the First Annual International Tele'Drama conference. She loves giving workshops virtually and has found ways to incorporate sandtray and EMDR, along with psychodrama, in her work online.

Psychiatrist, psycodramatist, university profesor, supervisor/profesor en Edras Chile. Coauthor of The book "Vida y muerte: dos bailarines en movimiento ".

Marco Greco, Torino University Director and Teacher, Dr. Giovanni Boria School “Studio di Psicodramma“. Former president of the AIPsiM (Italian Morenian Psychodrama Association). President of the ´Moreno Museum´ Association (Vienna, Austria). FEPTO Research Committee IAGP, FEPTO, AIPsiM President, "FaberActive" (Psychodrama Applications in Organizations). Marco Greco is a psychotherapist and psychodramatist in Torino, Italy. He works in a tutoring role with the psychology students of the Torino University. He works in Psychodrama groups and individual formats. He is Director and teacher of the Torino based Dr. Giovanni Boria school “Studio di Psicodramma“. Former president of the AIPsiM (Italian Morenian Psychodrama Association). President of the ´Moreno Museum´ Association (Vienna, Austria). Experience in dependence disorders, Director of Therapeutic Community. Trainer and supervisor at Institutions, Associations and Cooperatives. President of "FaberActive", a Company who works in the Organizations with psychodrama. Member of the FEPTO Research Committee.

Candace Tkachuck, MA, MS is a reparational activist who is working for cultural change through intentional community, repair, and social justice.

Alexandra Doljenko
Professional Psychotherapeutic League
Coordinator of International Programs of the Psychodrama Section Online.
Alexandra Doljenko is a psychodrama therapist, regional supervisor of the Professional Psychotherapeutic League, and coordinator of International Programs of the Psychodrama Section Online.

Melanie Raimundo, is the Director of Active Learning International (ALI) with a Diploma in Counseling and currently studying a double degree in Psychology and Philosophy. In her time with ALI as a Relationship Coach and International Speaker and Presenter, Melanie has worked with corporate leaders & teams, executives of large organizations, refugees, small businesses, teenagers, families, and individuals. She is an Accredited Play of Life trainer and practitioner, founder, and head coach of Enneagram.rc and is a professional member of the International Enneagram Association (IEA). Her passion in everything she does is in helping people come back to themselves through self-acceptance and personal responsibility to move towards a life of goodness, humility, and reverence.

Paolo Mecacci, Sociologist and Psychodramatist Organizational Psychologist Supervisor Career Counselor Trainer and Tutor for Entrepreneurship Development Programs (M.I.P.) Co-founder and Board Member, FaberActive (Psychodrama Applications in Organizations). Paolo Mecacci is a psychodramatist, sociologist with a degree in work and organizational psychologyis in Torino, Italy. He is a supervisor career counselor, accompanying managers and workers in career transition and outplacement programs. He works as a trainer and tutor for entrepreneurship development programs (M.I.P.) for Regione Piemonte. He is co-founder and board member of FaberActive srl.

Domenico Agresta, CSPP (Center of Psychology and Psychosomatic Medicine); IAGP. Domenico Agresta, formerly Trustee of the Gordon Lawrence Foundation, now a member of Social Dreaming International Network. He works with SD studying Rites of Passage, Religious Rites and cultural contexts. He is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, group-analyst and psycho-oncologist. He is the President of the Centre for the Study of Psychology and Psychosomatic Medicine (CSPP) and studies the correlation between mind and body, links to anthropology and group processes using dreams icons. Board Member of the Italian Society of Psychosomatic Medicine (SIMP). Academic Member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA); Chair of Family Therapy Section and Chair of Webinars Committee in IAGP (The International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes). He teaches at University and at Schools of Psychotherapy. He lives and work in Pescara (Italy).

Cristina Schmidt, Transgenerational Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, Sociodramatist Associate Professor, Bucharest University International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) ASGPP, IAGP, ARPSIC. Associate Professor in Bucharest University, Founder Member of International Center for Psychogenealogy. He focuses his activity on transgenerational topics. He has delivered many workshops internationally: Asia, Europe and North Africa.

Ann Duchateau, M.A. in Anthropology Certified Psychodramatist International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Team Members & Faculty Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner (CTP Level 1) (Belgium) has been utilizing action methods and applied theatre since 2006 as important tools to help people and groups discover, share and use their wisdom. She's convinced playfulness is the best way to help people navigate through life with agility on the way to happiness and freedom. That is why she’s now also training professionals in applied theatre and action methods. She is skilled in Action Methods, including Psychodrama, Playback Theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed. She uses these three techniques in groups for personal growth as well as in individual therapy. https://lifeonstage.org and https://perspektives.eu

Nikola Dimov designs and facilitates programs, based on action methods, experiential learning and nonviolent communication (NVC). He has 8 years of experience supporting children, adolescents, and adults in various educational and personal development projects. Nikola is a Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner (CTP-1), Certified Psychodrama Assistant, Trauma and Wellbeing Practitioner (Teach for All fellowship) and Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF, Certified by EBCC). He is in a training to become a Certified Psychodrama Psychotherapist for adults and for children and youth.

Tatjana Prokić
Tatjana graduated in Psychology at the University of Novi Sad, and she has finished two years of University for Communication in Jonkoping, Sweden and become Trainer for youth work and leadership. After that she started her education in psychotherapy. During a five-year programme with the Institute for psychodrama in Belgrade, she acquired a status of psychotherapist.

Tatjana has finished playback theatre course, and she is an experienced group and inividual psychotherapist. She is working with parents for more than 5 years and she has developed wide range of programs related to parenting issues. Tatjana also has fruitful experience on lead positions in Human Resources.

She is conducting support groups for mothers called “Little me-time” as well as workshops on emotional intelligence in early stages of life and many other trainings for parents and nannies.

She is a mother of three children.

FOCUS:
Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, Psychotherapy, Motherhood, Parenting Support, Education of Nannies

EDUCATION:
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia. University for Communication in Jonkoping, Sweden. Institute for psychodrama, Serbia

University for Communication in Jonkoping, Sweden. Institute for psychodrama, Serbia
Conscious parenting by Shefali, Parent as a couch“- Erickson Academy, Mindfulness for parents and children by Susan Kaiser Greenland


 
 

Zaure Tulebaeva, Programs of the Moscow Institute of Psychodrama and Psychological Counseling Psychodrama Association (Russia)
Zaure Tulebaeva ia a psychodrama therapist, Regional Director and Senior Coach of the Programs of the Moscow Institute of Psychodrama and Psychological Counseling, Coach of the Psychodrama Association, Secretary of the Psychodrama section online.

Antonio Aras is a graduate theologian who has gained many years of experience working with children in elementary and secondary schools. He is the author and organizer of numerous workshops on Biblical and psychological themes. His workshops and trainings were attended by more than 3,000 people. Antonio is a member of Playback Theater Belgrade, TA practitioner and coach, as well as psychodrama psychotherapist on supervision.

Pembegül İlter
Psychologist, MA, Assistant Psychodramatist (IPI),
International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI), Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner Level Two.

Pembegül İlter is a psychologist and psychodrama co-therapist, who trained at the Istanbul Psychodrama Institute. She has been helping families, children and individuals of all ages overcome relational, behavioral and emotional conflicts since 2008. She worked with parents, children, adolescents and adults conducting individual sessions and supportive group work focused on social skills, self-expression, attention development, creativity and art work. She specializes in family and relationship conflicts counseling, child and adolescent behavior, learning disorders and ADHD. During the pandemic period, she continues her individual sessions with adults, group work on psychological flexibility and resilience, workshops and psycho-educational seminars online. She continues her training as a Certified Tele’Drama Practitioner Level Two.

Tihomira Stanojevic, University of Novi Sad faculty of philosophy, department psychology, MA degree. Certifies Tele'Drama Practitioner, Level 2. Formal & non/formal dedicated researcher & listener in the field of human souls and bodies, all our circles and spirals. Introdused to psychodrama in 2009 and since then in love with it. Female warrior and healer, observer and facilitator.

Francesco Binetti is a Engineer and Software Developer Graduated in Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin,
he began his work experience in 2008 as a desktop and web software developer. In 2014 he landed at FCA where he was in charge of managing the production software of the Mirafiori plant, he is currently employed at MSC Technology as Product
Specialist. Since 2019 he has been collaborating with FaberActive® in the design and implementation of FaberMeter®.

Federico Mendez is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Texas. Federico is bilingual in English and Spanish. His clinical focus is with Spanish-speaking populations, LGBTQAI2S+, anxiety, depression, sex therapy, couples/families, non-traditional relationships to include kink/poly folx. Federico has worked extensively at a non-profit servicing Veterans and their families. Federico's theoretical foundation is Bowen Family Systems Theory. He has been trained in Gottman Couple's Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Couple's Therapy as well. He has also started the process in becoming a certified sex therapist through Dr. Stephanie Buehler's Institute of Sex Therapy. One of Federico’s recent projects is authoring a chapter in the upcoming 3rd edition textbook, Marriage and Family Therapy: A Practice-Oriented Approach, published by Springer on Bowen Family Systems Theory. When he is not working, he enjoys reading, and friends and family outings.

Osta Iwobi, M. Arch. International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Training. Osta Iwobi, M. Arch. was born in Nigeria and both lived and studied in various European countries where he graduated as an architect. He then studied at the Colorado Technical University, where he graduated with a Computer Science and Engineering degree. Osta speaks multiple languages. He lives in Dallas, TX, United States, where he works as an architect. Osta has always been interested in psychology and five years ago he started training at the Expressive Therapies Training Institute (ETTi) with director Daniela Simmons, PhD, TEP. Osta has been actively participating in the local psychodrama community and co-presenting at regional psychodrama communities.

Vladana graduated in Defectology at the University in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After that she started her education psychotherapy. During a six-year program with association of Transactional Analysis Serbia in Novi Sad, she acquired a status of psychoterapist. Vladana has finished Transpersonal Psychodrama, Playback theater course, Art/Sound therapy course, and she is an experienced individual and group psychotherapist. She also has a lot of experience as a yoga instructor, and she is currently attending training for yoga therapists at the Yoga Academy.She is conducting educational and therapeutic groups in the field of Well bieng, Stress management, Art-Music therapy and Yoga.  Focus: Psychotherapy, Transactional Analysis, Psychodrama, Yoga, Sound Therapy,  Education: University of Tuzla, Faculty of Educational Rehabilitation, Bosnia and Herzegovina. TA Center Association of TA Analysts Serbia. Yoga Association of Slovenia. Maya Yoga Academy, Serbia.

Alessandro Greco is a Psychologist and Psychodramatist in training.
Graduated in Psychology of Organizations and specializing at the school of Psychodrama in Turin. He has been working in
Human Resources for several years, as a consultant and as an employee in a company. He combines business goals with the interests of workers in order to involve them personally and achieve concrete sustainability. Since 2019 he has been collaborating with FaberActive® in the design and implementation of FaberMeter®.

Gözde Özer Danış is a psychologist working with adults. She completed Psychological Counseling and Guidance doctorate
program with her thesis about therapeutic relationship; Coping with Stress, Trauma Psychology, Systemic Family Therapy,
EMDR (Level 1), and Psychodrama are among the important training she received. She completed her psychodrama training at Dr. Abdülkadir Özbek Psychodrama Institute. She worked as an instructor and supervisor since 2017 at the same Institute. She moderated groups with different themes using the psychodrama method. In addition to the psychodrama group sessions she carries out with adult cancer patients, she continues to practice psychodrama-centered life groups for adults. Her curiosity and studies on small group dynamics, in-group resistance, the use of psychodrama in individual therapy, and research methods in psychodrama continue. In addition, trauma, attachment, transgenerational processes, genosociogram, and the therapeutic relationship are her special interests in the individual counseling process.

Pınar Ulupınar Erakay, Psychologist,
Co-Trainer Dr. Abdulkadir Ozbek Psychodrama Institute
President, Member of the Board of Directors of the Izmir Branch of the Turkish Psychological Association,
and also member of the board of Directors of İzmir Psychodrama Association.
She is a private practitioner who employs a variety of therapeutic techniques, the most common of which being monodrama and psychodrama. In the field of civil society, she is particularly concerned with issues of gender inequality, violence against women, and discrimination.

İnanç Sümbüloğlu, PHD Candidate in Medical Education Co-Trainer, Dr. Abdulkadir Ozbek Psychodrama Institute President, Play Therapy Association Vice-President, Community Mental Health Association International Tele’Drama Institute (ITI) Training Program. Inanc Sumbuloglu, PHD Candidate in medical education, clinical psychologist, psychodramatist and a dance therapist. She is also Co-Trainer in Dr. Abdulkadir Ozbek Psychodrama Institute and the President of Play Therapy Association and Vice-President of Community Mental Health Association in Turkey. She works with private practices and as a guest faculty member in Istanbul Medical Faculty. Her main interest is to adapt therapeutic tools to developing community mental health. She uses psycho- drama and group therapy in the organization, education and civil society's project. She advocates mental health issue in all policy.

Hadass Pelter has been in love with theatre from a young age. With great enthusiasm she graduated as a drama therapist and drama teacher. She became involved in the world of applied theatre in many roles: from theatre maker at the world famous Oerol festival to theatre teacher of people with Down's syndrome, from director in amateur theatre to playback theatre practitioner. She feels honored every time she gets to play back people's personal stories.