Anita Thén

I obtained my psychology degree in 2006 at the Károli Gáspár Reformed University. In the course of my career, I had the opportunity to gain experience in several fields, I encountered many different life situations and problems. Initially, I worked in the social field, then in various spheres of education and training, at the Pedagogical Service ("Educational Consultant") and as an institutional psychologist. I currently work in the Expert Committee of a Pedagogical Service, performing diagnostic examinations of children, adolescents and adults of different ages. In addition, within the framework of a foundation, I am also active in the family therapy service of a family that deals with helping people with various injuries and disabilities and their families.

During my career as a psychologist, I have experienced in many cases that it is necessary to help the processing of difficulties and losses experienced in specific life situations and the related feelings on a systemic level, focusing on the family as a whole. In order to provide the widest possible support to the families who turn to me and to deepen the necessary knowledge and professional knowledge, I took part in various professional training courses. In 2014, I graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, majoring in counseling psychology, specializing in family and relationship counseling, and later obtained general and family mediator qualifications there. I obtained my family therapist qualification in 2021, in the training system of the Hungarian Family Therapy Association. In 2021, I continued my studies at the literary therapist (bibliotherapist) specialized further education course at the University of Pécs, where I graduated in 2023.

In the psychological counseling process, as well as in family therapy, creative, art therapy practices - including literary therapy methods - can help new approaches to problems and the mobilization of resources as additional elements of verbal therapies. It is a very important experience for me how effectively different therapeutic methods complement each other in the therapeutic relationship and process can help my clients on the path to development. I myself receive and learn a lot from the families who turn to me; the relationship I have with my clients, the common work process and the progress towards the set goals contribute to my professional and personal development.