ISTDP teacher

Lidia Kulikowska

Psychologist and psychotherapist · Founding member, Polish Society for ISTDP Psychotherapy

Psychologist and psychotherapist. She completed a five-year master’s degree at the Faculty of Psychology of SWPS University, postgraduate studies in Psychological Assessment at SWPS, postgraduate studies in Clinical Sexology, a four-year postgraduate program in Individual and Group Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at Laboratory of Psychoeducation in Warsaw, a four-year ISTDP therapy training program - Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy - and a three-year teacher-supervisor course led by Jon Frederickson. She gained clinical experience at the Neurosis Ward of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw, at the Neurosis Ward of the Outpatient Clinic of the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, and at the 13th Day Unit of the Prof. Jan Mazurkiewicz Masovian Specialist Health Centre in Tworki. She is a founding member of PTP ISTDP - the Polish Society for ISTDP Psychotherapy - a member of the psychotherapy section of the Polish Psychological Association, a board member of the ISTDP section of the Polish Association for the Integration of Psychotherapy, and she has also participated in the work of the education committee of IEDTA - the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association. She participates in international conferences and seminars organized within the ISTDP framework. She is the translator of the Polish version of the exercises “Refining Therapeutic Interventions in Work with Highly Resistant Patients” by Jon Frederickson of the ISTDP Institute. She conducts individual and group therapy. She receives supervision for her work from Zofia Milska-Wrzosińska, Jon Frederickson, and Dr. Allan Abbass.