Dr. Mia Leijssen

Focusing Institute Certifying Coordinator

Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist

Certified Focusing Trainer

Personal Statement

In 1980 I attended a focusing workshop with Eugene Gendlin. I had the chance to be a client in a demonstration session with him. This experience was a turning point in my life. I came in touch with a bodily felt wisdom that was so much richer than anything of which I had until then encountered in my work as clinical psychologist and client-centered psychotherapist.
I made my doctoral dissertation on Focusing and became full professor at the university of Leuven, where I teach until now experiential psychotherapy.

I love my work as a psychotherapist, because that experience is a necessary source of inspiration for my teaching and writing, and most of all it keeps me in touch with my inner source.

Since 2009 I have also an international online course on counseling in existential wellbeing. http://www.existentieelwelzijn.be

Location(s):

Online and live in Keerbergen, Belgium

Public Contact Details:

Email: mia.leijssen@kuleuven.be

Website: www.existentieelwelzijn.be

Languages: Dutch, English

Professional Details:

Professional memberships with licensing or registering bodies:

Vlaamse vereniging klinische psychologen
Belgische federatie psychologen
Client-gerichte experiëntiële psychotherapie
WAPCEPC

Academic and training qualifications:

Klinisch psycholoog
Client-gerichte experiëntiële existentiële psychotherapie
Doctor in de psychologie
Hoogleraar emeritus in de psychotherapie KU Leuven

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Therapeutic services:

o Individual counselling
o Individual Focusing sessions
o Live or Online sessions

Workshops live or online

Areas of special interest or advanced training:

Focusing

Existential wellbeing
Spirituality
Dreams

Training:

o Consultation and Supervision for psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors