Institute for Psychotherapy
Member of the Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations (FEPTO)
Psychodrama Center Orpheus was created in Sofia in 1993 by Galabina Tarashoeva, MD, with the active support of Prof. David Kipper from Chicago and Daniela Kerina’s cooperation.
Psychodrama Center Orpheus is the first Bulgarian institute to engage in psychodrama training and create its own program for the full training course of Psychodrama Directors. This program meets the training standards of the Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations (FEPTO). Over the years it has developed in accordance with the minimal standards requirements of FEPTO, the Bulgarian Society for Psychodrama and Group Therapy (BSPGT), the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) and the Bulgarian Association for Psychotherapy (BAP). Psychodrama Center Orpheus’ training program is the first Bulgarian psychodrama training program accepted by FEPTO, serving as a model for future training programs in the country.
The director of Psychodrama Center Orpheus, Dr. Tarashoeva, was one of the co-founders of FEPTO in 1996. Orpheus has been an institutional member of the Federation since March 1998. Psychodrama training organizations, members of the Federation, recognize and accept each other’s certificates, trainers and students.
Here at Psychodrama Center Orpheus we see Moreno’s classical psychodrama as the basics of our foundations, but at the same time we are open to all the diversity and richness of forms, modifications and combinations of this method with others. We strive to give our trainees an opportunity to experience as much as possible of this richness and variety, produced by the spontaneity and creativity of the leading psychodramatists. But the aim of the training is that the trainees master the classical psychodrama method and apply it efficiently. We achieve it through the variety of guest lecturers and thematic seminars.
Over the years, Orpheus has opened its doors to a meeting of Bulgarian psychodrama students with one of the most prominent psychodramatists in the world – Prof. David Kipper from Roosevelt University in Chicago, USA; Bernhard Achterberg from the Institute of Ella Mae Shearon, Germany; d-r Monica Zuretti from Argentina; d-r Roberto de Inocencio from Spain, at that time President elect of IAGP; Marcia Karp from England; d-r Fabian Blobel from Germany; Prof. d-r Pierre Fontaine from Belgium; Chantal Neve from Belgium; Sue Daniel from Australia; Eva Falhsrom from Sweden; Elaine Sachnoff from Chicago, USA; Yaacov Naor from Israel; Gabriela Moita from Portugal; Manela Maciel from Portugal; Dena Baumgartner from Arizona, USA; d-r Ralitza Mendova from Germany; Helena Brem from Switzerland.
Since 2020, the training activity in Orpheus has expanded in partnership with the Center for Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy "Ariadna" in Veliko Tarnovo, with trainer Lyuba Tsanova