Carmine Saccu is a Family Therapist, child neuropsychiatrist, and former Professor of the faculty of Child Neuropsychiatry at the Sapienza University in Rome. He has carried out lengthy clinical activities as head of the family therapy service, and on didactic analysis at the Roman Institute of Psychoanalysis. Since 1975, he has been active in the teaching, training, and supervision of family therapists. Carmine is a family therapy pioneer who started his work at the beginning of the 1970s in Rome when he founded the Center for the Study of Systems Communication. He is a founding member of the Institute of Family Therapy, The Italian Society of Family Therapy, The Italian Society of Psychology and Relational Psychotherapy, The Italian Federation of Psychotherapy Associations, the Institute for Systemic Mediation Onlus, The European Family Therapy Association (EFTA), and founder and current director of the Roman School of Family Psychotherapy. As a leading Child-neuropsychiatrist, he specialises in working with children, adolescentsand & their families with issues related to antisocial behaviour disorders, autism, childhood psychosis, hyperkinetic, and school problems (from learning disabilities to ADHD syndromes). He has developed a distinctive approach to working with children in therapy, utilizing play and humour, recognizing children as masters in activating the ‘fantastical’ areas of the therapist. In processing these areas of resonance, Professor Saccu helps therapists to discover creative potential and new relational spaces.

Carmine Saccu è neuropsichiatra infantile, terapeuta familiare ed ex professore di Neuropsichiatria Infantile presso l'Università La Sapienza di Roma. Ha svolto attività clinica per molti anni come responsabile del servizio di terapia familiare. Ha inoltre svolto attività di analisi didattica presso l'Istituto Romano di Psicoanalisi. Dal 1975 è attivo nell'insegnamento, nella formazione e nella supervisione di terapeuti familiari. Carmine è un pioniere della terapia familiare, che ha iniziato la sua attività all'inizio degli anni '70 a Roma, fondando il Centro per lo Studio della Comunicazione Sistemica. È membro fondatore dell'Istituto di Terapia Familiare (ITF), della Società Italiana di Terapia Familiare (SITF), della Società Italiana di Psicologia e Psicoterapia Relazionale (SIPPR), della Federazione Italiana delle Associazioni di Psicoterapia (FIAP), dell'Istituto per la Mediazione Sistemica Onlus (IsMeS), dell'Associazione Europea di Terapia Familiare (EFTA), nonché fondatore e attuale direttore della Scuola Romana di Psicoterapia Familiare.

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Daniela is a Systemic, Family & Couple Therapist. She has a graduate degree in Psychology and a Master's degree in Social Psychology and Health. She has tertiary teaching experience as Professor of Postgraduate Courses. Daniela is former President of the Paraná Association of Family Therapy. She was Coordinator of the Deliberative and Scientific Council of the Brazilian Association of Family Therapy, and Coordinator of the Scientific Dialogues Study Groups of APRTF. Daniela is a co-author of the book Conjugal Infidelity & Attachment Processes, Ed. Artesã, 2020. She has 30 years clinical experience providing couple, family and individual therapy, with a focus on Couple’s Infidelity. She also provides clinical supervision for therapists in the same area.

Psicóloga formada pela PUC PR 1989. Especialista em Ensino Superior. Terapeuta Sistêmica de Família e Casal. Professora de Cursos de Pós-Graduação. Supervisora Clínica. Foi Presidente da Associação Paraná de Terapia de Família - APRTF 2014-2016. Foi Coordenadora do Conselho Deliberativo e Científico da Associação Brasileira de Terapia de Família - ABRACEF de 2016-18. Foi Coordenadora dos Grupos de Estudo de Diálogos Científicos da APRTF, com ênfase em Terapia de Casal e Infidelidade. Uma das organizadoras e autoras do livro "Infidelidade Conjugal & Processos de Apego", Ed. Artesã, 2020. Clinicamente há mais de 30 anos, com ênfase em terapia de casal e fam.

Terhi is a supervisor, educator and licensed psychotherapist and social worker with specialisation in Family and couple therapy, and a Master’s degree in Social Sciences. Terhi’s focus is on trauma centered approaches, integrating attachment-based, narrative, solution-focus. EMDR, and embodied practices. Terhi worked for child protection at Tampere University Hospital Child Psychiatry Unit for twenty years, and for the past 10 she has been in private practice conducting family, couple therapy, and clinical supervision. As a systemic thinker, humanity, cultural sensitivity and social justice are at the core of her values. She is an advocate for meaningful connections, a facilitator of dialogical interaction, and systemic practice. Terhi served on the board of the Family and Couple Therapy Association of Finland, and on the European Family Therapy Association, and the National Family Therapy Organization, 2019-2025. She holds memberships with the EFTA’s Social Justice Task Force and the advisory board of the Family and Couple Therapy Journal of Finland.

Conny is a systemic psychotherapist with degrees in psychology, and postgraduate in Medical Sexology from the University of Florence. She holds a post grad-diploma in family psychotherapy from the Institute of Family Therapy in Florence and a certificate of family mediation, leading to her specialization in these areas.. She founded the Co.Me.Te. Center in Empoli in 1996. She is a tertiary educator, at the Institute of Family Therapy in Florence, the International Association of Systemic Mediators, and professor in Forensic Psychopathology and Criminology at the University of Florence. She provides supervision to clinicians working in public and private organizations. She is an expert consultant for the Court in Florence, and has extensive experience working with children and families therapeutically and in the legal system. Conny has presented nationally and internationally in the field of family therapy and family mediation. She is a published author of journal articles and book chapters on the use of art images in psychotherapy and on family therapy and family mediation.

Susana Munoz Alburto is a Chilean systemic therapist, midwife and psychologist. Her profesional focus is on the relational, the corporal and the transgenerational, viewing gestation as a deep territory where the first threads of existence are woven. She is interested in the intrauterine world as a source and raw material for later development, given one can be damaged, but also repaired through relationships. She is founder of the Centro Serbal, dedicated to creating contexts for development and change in people, groups and Systems. She has developed and facilitated numerous workshops aimed at expanding personal, professional and group resources. She is autor of the book “Vínculo, Percepción y Conciencia en la Coordinación Grupal: la Persona del Coordinador. She is co-producer of the radio program, Herencia y Co-Herencia Historias que Cambian Vidas, exploring influential people in our profession and other professions, focusing on their life journey, the human behind their role, and their professional multiplicity.