{"id":183,"date":"2013-03-18T16:45:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graz-psychotherapie.com\/?page_id=183"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:10:13","slug":"professional-training","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.graz-psychotherapie.com\/en\/professional-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional training and work experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graz-psychotherapie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dr-gesine-schmuecker-schuessler-wp.jpg\" alt=\"gss\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My most relevant professional training and work experience has been the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1989 Psychology degree MA (Hons.),\u00a0Edinburgh University, GB<\/li>\n<li>Research assistant at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, GB<\/li>\n<li>1997 Doctorate in Psychology (Ph.D), King&#8217;s College London, GB<\/li>\n<li>1995 -2003 Clinical research assistant and Clinical Psychologist at the Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital, Ulm, Germany<\/li>\n<li>Teaching commitment for the Department of Psychotherapy (Medical students, Midwives), Ulm, Germany<\/li>\n<li>Psychotherapy at the student counselling service, psychological consultancy for the Dept. of Psychotherapy for the Paediatric and Gynaecological Deptartment, University Hospital, Ulm, Germany<\/li>\n<li>2003 accredited as psychological psychotherapist, T\u00fcbinger Akademie f\u00fcr Verhaltenstherapie (TAVT), T\u00fcbingen, Germany<\/li>\n<li>2007 accredited as Psychotherapist (Cognitive Behavioural Therapist), Austria<\/li>\n<li>2011 accredited as Clinical Psychologist, Austria<\/li>\n<li>2014 teaching therapist of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft for Verhaltensmodifikation\u00a0(<a title=\"AVM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.verhaltenstherapie-avm.at\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AVM<\/a>), Salzburg<\/li>\n<li>Coordinator of the Graz AVM study group of cognitive and behavioural psychotherapists<\/li>\n<li>Further training in couple therapy according to Gottman, Jellouschek, Revensdorf<\/li>\n<li>Basic curriculum of Schema Therapy according to Young<\/li>\n<li>Additional qualification as an infant, child and adolescent psychotherapist (AVM)<\/li>\n<li>2017 -2024 School Psychologist at GIBS (Graz International Biligual School)<\/li>\n<li>2018 set up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schillerpraxis.at\"><strong>Schillerpraxis<\/strong><\/a>, a CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) Practice with colleague Dr. Susanne Presinger, in Graz<\/li>\n<li>2024 teaching therapist at the Sigmund Freud Privatuniversit\u00e4t Wien (SFU)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 24px;\">I was born Frankfurt am Main, Germany and live in Graz since 2003. As I have spent many years in the UK, I also offer psychotherapy in English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My most relevant professional training and work experience has been the following: 1989 Psychology degree MA (Hons.),\u00a0Edinburgh University, GB Research assistant at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, GB 1997 Doctorate in Psychology (Ph.D), King&#8217;s College London, GB 1995 -2003 Clinical research assistant and Clinical Psychologist at the Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-183","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Professional training and work experience - 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