I have been member of the ISST Executive Board for several years since 2015/2016, and, after being elected as Vice President of the current EB, I followed Jeff Conway as President of the EB after his resignation in January 2024. I am medical specialist in psychiatry, as well as psychotherapist and trainer/supervisor in CBT and Schema Therapy. Besides being head of the Institute for Schema Therapy in Vienna, I am holding a professorship at the Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna since 2021. After being medical director of an ambulant psychiatric rehabilitation clinics in Vienna for many years, since 2022 I am also responsible for the organization unit including the professorships in psychiatry, neurology, ophthalmology and otolaryngology at the Faculty for Medicine of the Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna. My major research focus has been psychiatric genetics since 2001, in addition to psychiatric rehabilitation and psychotherapy research since 2013.

Liam Spicer is a Psychologist, Academic and Researcher based in Tasmania, Australia. He is an EMDR Consultant and Training Facilitator, and works in private practice with children, adolescents, and adults. Liam is actively involved in both training and research in the areas of trauma, grief, suicide, alexithymia, neurodivergence, EMDR, and schema therapy. He recently contributed to the International Handbook of Child and Adolescent Grief and has published in peer reviewed journal articles. He has published in the area of Schema Therapy and has is the lead researcher/author on two current projects including a qualitative exploration of schema therapists confidence and the impact on their therapeutic work, and the schemas and modes of neurodivergent individuals. Liam’s current PHD at Curtin University, Perth is focused on the use of Schema Therapy for Prolonged Grief. This involves exploring the schemas and modes in those with prolonged grief, interviewing schema therapy and grief experts to inform the development of a schema therapy for grief intervention, and also testing a schema therapy for prolonged grief intervention through a case series design. Liam has recently published in the ISST bulletin on the application of Schema Therapy for Prolonged Grief. He has presented at various national conferences and events, and he currently holds a position at the University of Tasmania teaching clinical psychology skills to students.

Leonardo is a psychologist, has a master's degree in Clinical Psychology and is a PhD fellow at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. He is also one of the directors of the Wainer Group. Leonardo is an Advanced Level Schema Therapist and Supervisor. Leonardo is the current Media Coordinator of International Society of Schema Therapy and is a founding member of the Brazilian Association of Schema Therapy.

Jędrzej Kosewski is a certified schema therapist and supervisor/trainer. For over 10 years he has been teaching on CBT and schema therapy. He worked in Anxiety Disorders Ward (with policemen and jail officers) for several years. Currently he has a private practice and runs his Schema Training Program organized by Nowoczesna Terapia Schematu.

Dr. Nermin Taşkale is a clinical psychologist. She uses Cognitive-Behavioral and Schema Therapy and EMDR with adults and Emotionally-Focused Therapy with couples. She is also a full-time researcher and instructor at Istanbul University. Her research focuses on conflict resolution in intimate relations and violence against women.

ISST Advanced Schema Therapist and Supervisor, EMDR Therapist, working in The Netherlands, The Hague with expats with developmental trauma, in different languages (Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish). PhD Candidate at Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology - Tilburg University.