ZSB Bern Zentrum für Systemische Therapie und Beratung (Bern)

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

Continuing and further education

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

• Advanced training on current topics in counseling and therapy
• Continuing education in systemic therapy and counseling
• Supervision for individuals, teams and organizations
• team development

Our trainings are recognized by professional societies (SYSTEMIS.CH, SGPP) and professional associations (FSP, SBAP, FMH).

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

Continuing Education

Continuing Education

Supervision and self-awareness

Teachers

Publications

Community of practice

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

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

The ZSB Bern only has a mediating function and cannot take responsibility for your request.
The ZSB cannot guarantee you a therapy place.
If you receive a therapy place, then ask your therapist about the administrative conditions (registration, billing, etc.).

Therapists

Courses, Groups

Systemic Therapy

What is Systemic Therapy?

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

• The psychoanalytic model
• The behavioral therapy model
• The systemic model.

These models are characterized by their effectiveness, which has been tested on a scientific basis. All models refer to consistent basic values, which concern, among other things, human dignity, human rights, responsibility towards people seeking help, therapeutic professionalism and the greatest possible transparency of methods and processes (e.g. the professional ethical rules of conduct of the Swiss Association for Systemic Therapy and Counseling: PDF Ethical Guidelines systemis.ch).

Systemic therapy is a distinct psychotherapy 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 generate 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 adaptations to the environment. Symptoms are thus an expression of interpersonal and other psychosocial conflicts and can also be seen as biological stress indicators.
The goal of systems therapy work is to get stagnating developmental processes going by activating and supporting the system's own forces and possibilities.

In the practice of system therapy, the therapist allies with the patient as well as with his or her family and non-family caregivers to form a developmental and solution-oriented "therapeutic" system. In order to build this system, the therapist promotes the binding cooperation of all participants, both during the therapy sessions and in everyday life. He or she thus creates a socially binding formal framework for organizational and developmental processes.
Systems therapy practice can draw on any psychiatric and psychotherapeutic methods as well as psychopharmacotherapy. Under certain conditions, therapy sessions may involve parts of the therapeutic system, or the therapeutic system may be limited to the therapist and one other person. Systems therapy is not identical with family therapy.
Documentation and intervision with audio-visual means is an indispensable part of system therapy work.