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Saturday, September 19, 2026 from 1:00pm - 3:00 New York time
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Class will be recorded for all registrants and available for viewing for one month.
Nikos and Judy will introduce the work of their collaborator, Parvy Palmou, a Focuser and Gestalt therapist who is an international figure in the world of LBGTQI+ affirmative psychotherapy.
Through a combination of individual presentations and dialogue, they will consider some of the following questions:
• Affirmative Therapy is Focusing-Oriented Therapy, but is the practice of Focusing and Focusing-Oriented Therapy Affirmative?
• Why might a Focusing practitioner, a Focusing trainer or a Focusing-Oriented therapist need training on Affirmative Therapy?
• Can a wish to accept a Focusing partner, trainee or client detract from authentic relational contact?
• How might naivety, over-identification and exotification be disguised as contact?
Parvy will explain the theoretical basis of Affirmative Therapy and its connection to Focusing, Gestalt and Person-Centred therapy. Nikos will present Gendlin’s view regarding the ‘political’ in psychotherapy and all three will explore the expansion of the gender and sexuality spectrum in a hostile political environment, such as has recently developed in the UK.
The Highlight is introductory and suitable for all Focusers.
Format
We use Zoom videoconferencing for our online classes. In this webinar format, you will see the presenter and host, but you will not be seen. You will be able to ask questions during the webinar by typing them. Highlights presenters may at times invite a small number of participants to unmute or join them onscreen during the webinar (optional).
You will need to have a computer/mobile device. Calling in by phone is also possible but not preferred. All registered participants will be sent a link to the video recording approximately two weeks following the class. So if you are unable to attend the live webinar, you will still be able to view it for one month.
Bios
Judy Moore, PhD, is former Director of the Counselling Service and Director of the Centre for Counselling Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. She was a trainer on both person-centred and focusing-oriented psychotherapy courses at UEA for many years and has made extensive study of the early collaboration of Carl Rogers and Eugene Gendlin, which she examines in detail in the two volumes of Senses of Focusing (co-edited with Nikolaos Kypriotakis, Eurasia publications, 2021; https://sensesoffocusing.weebly.com). She is a Certifying Coordinator of the Focusing Institute and lives and works in Norwich, UK, where she is a therapist and supervisor in private practice.
Nikolaos Kypriotakis has been trained in person-centred & Focusing-oriented psychotherapy, in Children Focusing, in person-centred supervision, in person-centred & emotionally focused therapy for couples and in affirmative therapy for LGBTQIA+ persons. He is a European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) holder, from 2021. Currently he works as a Focusing trainer for the Hellenic Focusing Center in Athens. He is a Certifying Coordinator with The International Focusing Institute.
Nikos co-edited in English (together with Judy Moore) the two-volume publication Senses of Focusing, Eurasia Publications, Athens, 2021. He has also translated Gendlin’s seminal text, Focusing, into Greek (published 2023) as well as Ann Weiser Cornell’s book Focusing in Clinical Practice (published 2025).
[e-mail: [email protected]]
[web: https://sensesoffocusing.weebly.com]
Parvy Palmou, PhD, is a Gestalt psychotherapist, trainer, researcher, and lecturer based in Athens, Greece. Their work specializes in LGBTQI+ affirmative psychotherapy, with a particular focus on transgender, intersex, and non-binary people. They have received training in Focusing, while their Gestalt psychotherapy education included extensive integration of Focusing theory and practice. Since 2010, they have led the Health & Affirmative Care Department of the Greek Transgender Support Association (GTSA). They serve on the Board of Directors of the International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (IAAGT) as Continuing Education Coordinator and are the author of the Greek book Gender Forms and Transformations: A Handbook of Affirmative Psychotherapy.
Focusing Highlights
The Focusing Highlights series highlights the work of those teaching, practicing and carrying forward Focusing all over the world. Presenters generously donate their time and participants pay what they can. If you are certified through The International Focusing Institute and would like to offer one, please check out this page.
Registration Information and Price
Judy, Nikos, and Parvy are offering this class to support The International Focusing Institute. This live online class is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30.
If you need to give less, that's fine, but we do require each participant to give something. Please give extra if you can! Thank you for supporting the Institute.
Refunds: A full refund minus a $15 administrative fee (regardless of the registration fee paid) for cancellations 14 days before the start date. Cancellations less than 14 days before the start date are nonrefundable.
Registration Policies: TIFI reserves the right to cancel, change and alter the program if necessary. The opinions offered by presenters and participants are their own and do not necessarily represent the opinions of TIFI. Participants authorize TIFI to use their name, statements and likeness without charge, for promotional purposes in publications, advertising, video, web, new media, or other formats. Please note that the class will be recorded and may be distributed to a wider audience. By registering for this course with the Institute, and in consideration of the right and opportunity to participate in and contribute to the Institute’s classes, for the purposes of its control of all video and/or audio recordings thereof pertaining to uses serving our purposes and goals, in enrolling in this session you acknowledge and agree to the Institute’s ownership of all rights in such classes, including all rights under copyright therein. In no circumstance shall any portion or clip posted or displayed exceed 3 minutes in duration. If you plan to use, post or display any portion or clips of these recordings, including posting these to a website or to a social media platform or portal, you agree that you will seek and obtain the prior approval of the Institute.
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Registration Information and Price
This live online class is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30. If you need to give less, that's fine, but we do require each participant to give something.