The ZSB Bern (Center for Systemic Therapy and Counselling Bern) is a federal foundation and integrates a systemic practice community, a further education institute and project groups under the same roof.

Further education and training

Since the 1990s, the ZSB has been imparting knowledge and skills from practice directly for practice.

-    Further training on current topics in counselling and therapy
-    Further training in systemic therapy and counselling
-    Supervision for individuals, teams and organizations
-    Team development

Our further education and training courses are certified by the professional associations (SYSTEMIS.CH, SGPP) and professional associations (FSP, SBAP, FMH).

All teaching staff at the ZSB Bern have sound professional training in their field on a scientific basis and most of them have many years of experience in therapeutic-counseling problem solving in complex systems.

Further training

Continuing education

Supervision and self-awareness

Teachers

Publications

Community of practice

The ZSB Bern is a network of freely practising therapists, whereby each therapist is responsible for himself or herself, i.e. each one runs a freelance practice - either on his or her own responsibility or with delegated responsibility.

For registration, we kindly ask you to contact the individual therapists directly. The ZSB Bern secretariat is responsible for continuing education and does not accept registrations for therapies or consultations.

The ZSB Bern only acts as an intermediary and cannot take responsibility for your request.
The ZSB cannot guarantee you a place in therapy.
If you are offered a place in therapy, please ask your therapist about the administrative conditions (registration, billing, etc.).

Therapists

Courses, groups

Systemic therapy

What is systemic therapy?

Both the Swiss Society of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (SGPP)
and the Federation of Swiss Psychologists (FSP)
support concepts and methods that are based on one of the recognized psychotherapeutic models. These include:

• The psychoanalytical model
• The behavioral therapy model
• The systemic model
.

These models are characterized by their scientifically proven effectiveness. All models refer to consistent basic values, which include human dignity, human rights, responsibility towards people seeking help, therapeutic professionalism and the greatest possible transparency of methods and processes (e.g. the professional code of conduct of the Swiss Association for Systemic Therapy and Counseling: PDF Ethikrichtlinien systemis.ch).

Systemic therapy is an independent psychotherapeutic discipline and can be defined as intervention in complex human systems (both psychological and interpersonal systems) with the aim of alleviating or eliminating suffering. For this purpose, conditions are realized that allow patients to overcome processes that cause suffering, taking into account their concerns and possibilities' (Günter Schiepek: Die Grundlagen der Systemischen Therapie - Theorie, Praxis, Forschung; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999, p. 30).
    
In a text of the Swiss Society for Systemic Therapy, SGS (today systemis.ch), dated 19.5.1991, systemic therapy and counseling is defined as follows:
The systems view of human behavior draws on general systems theory and is based on various scientific concepts that focus on the interaction between the individual and his or her social environment. It understands psychological and psychosomatic symptoms as an expression of the individual's ability to adapt to the environment. Symptoms are therefore an expression of interpersonal and other psychosocial conflicts and can also be seen as biological stress indicators.
The aim of systems therapy work is to set stagnating development processes in motion by activating and supporting the system's own strengths and possibilities.

In the practice of systems therapy, the therapist joins forces with both the patient and their family and non-family caregivers to form a developmental and solution-oriented "therapeutic" system. To build this system, the therapist promotes the binding cooperation of all those involved, both during therapy sessions and in everyday life. He or she thus creates a socially binding formal framework for organizational and developmental processes.
Systemic therapy practice can draw on any psychiatric and psychotherapeutic methods as well as psychopharmacotherapy. Under certain conditions, therapy sessions can take place with parts of the therapeutic system or the therapeutic system can remain limited to the therapist and one other person. System therapy is not identical to family therapy.
Documentation and intervision with audiovisual means is an indispensable component of system therapy work.