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Carola Butscheid

HP, Psychotherapy, DGK
Solingen, Germany

I am Co-founder and director of the Institute for Formative Psychology in Solingen Germany. I have a limited private practice where I offer...

Leila Cohn

Licensed Psychologist
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

I am the founder and director of the Brazilian Formative Psychology Center, in Rio de Janeiro, where I teach Formative Psychology to the public in...

Marilyn Haller

Formative Psychology
Archive Project
Pt Richmond, California
and Missoula, Montana

Forty three years of experience with Stanley Keleman taught me many things, two of the most...

Ursula Wenderspiess

Dipl.Psych
Baden, Switzerland

I maintain a private practice in Baden, Switzerland for adults and couples. I am comfortable speaking both German and English. My work is based in...

Christina Loeffel

MA, LMFT
San Anselmo and
San Francisco, California

I maintain a private psychotherapy practice working with individual adults, teaching online Formative Practice classes and providing consultation for...

Peter Loliger

Dr.med. Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
Basel, Switzerland

In my private practice I offer individual psychotherapeutic sessions based in Formative Psychology and Philosophy. I also conduct ongoing group...

Karl Adler

MD, Board Certified Psychiatrist
Berkeley, California

I work with individuals, conjoint, and couples in person and remote using Formative principles, and limited psychiatric and medication...

Richard Adelman

M. A. Psychology
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

I am Certified in Feldenkrais and Pilates and have studied osteopathic techniques, My work goes beyond biomechanics to elucidate and deepen the...

Sylvia M. Adler

M.S.S., LCSW
San Francisco, California

I have recently retired and closed my office in Berkeley. I practiced for almost 50 years in the same building where Stanley worked, and where we...

Michael Anne Conley

M.A. LMFT
Lafayette, California

My introduction to Stanley Keleman happened by chance in 1983. I could not have known how this experience would become so remarkably life...

Terry Cooper

Psychotherapist, UKCP
Founder Director of Spectrum Therapy (1976-2021)
Highgate, London England

Formative Psychology has been the focus of my work and professional study since the mid 1970’s and continues to be my theoretical frame of...

Gine Dijkers

Netherlands

With Carola Butscheid I am co-founder and director of the Institute for Formative Psychology in Solingen, Germany. I have a private practice for...

Piet Dijkers

Vierakker, Netherlands

I practice in two locations and speak Dutch, German and English. In Vierakker my practice is limited to individuals; in Stitswerd I serve...

James Feil

MA, DC
Barcelona, Spain

As an American living in Barcelona, I work and teach in Spanish and English. I have a private practice for individuals and couples, online and in...

Dr. sc. Ruth Förster

Counsellor in Formative Psychology
Zurich, Switzerland

In my private practice I offer counselling based on Formative Psychology, the Tamalpa Life Art process® (www.tamalpa.org) and nature based coaching....

Clifford Goldenberg

MA, LMFT
Berkeley, California

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Counselor with an office in Berkeley since 1985. I began as a student of Stanley’s in 1976 and became a...

Conn Hickey

MA Asian Studies
San Anselmo, California

I met Stanley Keleman when I was 24 and my 30 minutes of work with him was like a karate chop altering my life trajectory. At the time I was a...

Liliana Illic

FMH Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Bern, Switzerland

I have a private practice for adults in Bern where I incorporate the principles of Formative Psychology taught by Stanley Keleman. I began studying...

Martha Knobler

M.A. LMFT
Berkeley, California

I have an office in Berkeley where I practice psychotherapy with individuals and couples, and offer consultation, remotely and in person. My interest...

Connie Lompa

Center Press, retired
Pt Richmond, California

I first met Stanley Keleman in 1978 at a workshop in Minneapolis MN, and right from the beginning I knew he was speaking my native language. Impelled...

Amy Lundblad

Formative Psychology
Archive Project
Alameda, California

As part of the team preserving the work of Stanley Keleman, I am gratified to have a way to honor the important contribution he and Formative...

Bob Potenza

MS Physics
Formative Psychology
Archive Project
Alameda, California

My first introduction to Stanley, at a Kairos workshop in 1971, had a profound impact on me personally and on a conceptual level. He spoke more...

Jenner Roth

Psychotherapist, UKCP
Founder Director of Spectrum Therapy (1976-2021)
Highgate, London England

Formative Psychology is the basis for how I live and work. Experiential work, working with an individual’s experience to personalize, learn and...

Phil Seab

MD Neurology, retired
Formative Psychology
Archive Project
San Francisco, California

After 30 years of clinical practice in the California Bay Area, I enjoy a relaxing schedule deepening my personal experience of Formative principles...

David Shaw

LMFT
Walnut Creek, California

I am licensed in California to provide psychotherapy for adolescents, adults, families and couples. I currently work online. I also supervise...

Sonja Sutherland

MA, GCFP
Berkeley California

I am a practitioner and Assistant Trainer in the Feldenkrais Method® with 18 years of ongoing personal and professional studies with Stanley...

Peter Wright

MA, LMFT
Berkeley, CA

I am an Executive and Performance Coach, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. My first meetings with Stanley in 1994 produced a memorable...