ABOUT FREDA

About

Freda is a Certifying Coordinator for 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 communal and national training centers, and internationally online. Her approach to arts in Focusing is one that creates a space for art healing, which allows for experiencing the world with all the senses

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 (2019)

Freda has a background in design techniques and holds two pre-Bologna MA degrees in Adult Education and Clinical Psychology. She is currently working on her third MA in art therapy

Credentials

Art Therapist AT (Grad Dip) | Adv Cert Person-Centred Creative Arts Practitioner | Cert Guided Drawing® Practitioner | Cert Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® Practitioner

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

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

Make Space For the Arts. Create Your World!