Introduction to Couples and Relationship Therapy by Katarina Djordjevic

Introduction to Couples and Relationship Therapy

Have you been thinking about the love you want and the love you are getting in your relationships?

This workshop is aimed at students, psychotherapists, counsellors who are interested to learn more

about couples dynamics, how all of us have our way of being in relationship and how we bring ourselves

and take part in dynamics of relationship. We would be talking about importance of different

relationships in our personal growth and development and how it affects us when in a couple.

Our models of love from early youth, adolescence are often based on power struggles. Most people

carry that model into their adult relationships, consciously or unconsciously. We also bring in the

learned ways of behaving from our parents and their marital relationship as a measure of how it should

be or how we would never want it to be, without having time to reconsider what our way is and how

our relationship and marriage can be different. 

Both man and woman in relationship want to be satisfied, happy, lovingly connected and close.

Being married, living together with another human being, puts us in a situation where all our unresolved

situations from our previous life, early youth begin to surface and dramatically disturb our ideal image of

marriage and what that marriage was supposed to bring us. And downfall starts with a firm

determination not to disturb that picture. And the struggle for supremacy and control starts without us

even seeing the one next to and in front of us with whom we share life. And that is the moment when

two, as a team that chose to live together, have a chance to grow together.

In Katarina's words:

"I am Katarina Đorđević, a doctor and graduate Gestalt psychotherapist. Mom, wife, stepmother, sister, friend, daughter and ex-wife. I graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Belgrade in 2002. After completing the mandatory medical internship, I started a career of 12 years, working with professionals in medicine and pharmacy, as well as patient associations in order to educate about new therapeutic options, where I gained wide experience in working in a corporate environment. At the same time, I completed several years of education for psychotherapists within the framework of Gestalt studies in Belgrade, as well as the Master's studies of Gestalt Psychotherapy GPTIM in Malta. I am a certified therapist of the Union of Associations of Psychotherapists of Serbia, an accredited psychotherapist by the European Association for Gestalt Psychotherapy (EAGT) and a trainer at the Dutch Gestalt Institute - NSG (Nederlandse Stichting Gestalt). I am the founder of CentarCeres Consulting. I live and work in Belgrade."

Registration for the event is confirmed upon confirmation of payment.

General Entrance is €120, for Gestalt Students, €100.

Participants can cancel free of charge up to one week before the date of the workshop. Any later, the full admission fee will be charged.