Mission

Science, training, and care.

ICCPP is a non-profit membership organisation. It advances clinical psychology and psychotherapy as a science and as a means of health, education, and human well-being.

Purpose

What the Centre stands for

Knowledge

We disseminate psychological knowledge, support research in the human sciences, and publish methods, teaching materials, and clinical findings.

Standards

We work toward high standards of ethics, practice, education, and performance for specialists in clinical psychology and psychotherapy.

Training

We educate clinical psychologists and psychotherapists through seminars, internships, language courses, and supervised practice.

Cooperation

We connect municipal, national, and international institutions so that psychosocial care can develop across borders.

Training areas

Methods taught at ICCPP

Education covers group, family, child, and body-oriented approaches, as well as specialised therapies.

Group psychotherapy

Humanistic psychodrama, depth-psychology groups, encounter groups, and topic-centred interaction.

Systemic therapy

Family therapy and related systemic practice.

Gerontotherapy

Psychological and psychotherapeutic work with older adults.

Child & adolescent

Humanistic psychodrama and non-directive play therapy.

Trauma & addiction

Therapy of post-traumatic disorders including EMDR, and addiction treatment.

Client-centred work

Talking psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, and supervision.

Relaxation

Autogenic training, progressive muscle relaxation, and feedback methods.

Body-oriented

Bioenergetics, Rolfing, Shiatsu, and related methods.

Arts & sexuality

Art therapy, music therapy, sex counselling and sex therapy.

Further aims

Research, clinic, and exchange

  • Teaching and research in clinical psychology and psychotherapy, including social work and education.
  • Development and publication of quantitative and qualitative psychodiagnostic methods.
  • Teaching materials for psychological and pedagogical subjects.
  • Language courses specialised for the clinical-psychological field, in preparation for international exchange. See the language course page.
  • A psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic for university students and the local population.
  • Worldwide provision of specialists for psychosocial care through institutional partnerships.