Joanna Duchniewicz, psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapist, coach, trainer and lecturer. A graduate of the Medical Academy (Faculty of Medicine) and the University of Gdańsk (Faculty of Social Sciences: Psychology). Certified EAP psychotherapist, certified IEDTA teacher and supervisor. She conducts psychotherapy in the psychodynamic and integrative conventions. She has been working with the ISTDP approach since 2008. She has been a certified ISTDP IEDTA teacher since 2017 and a certified ISTDP IEDTA supervisor since 2018 (https://iedta.net/info/teacher-supervisor-directory/).
In the years 1999-2018, she was associated with the Psychoeducation Laboratory in Warsaw as a student of the Psychotherapy College and as a member of the psychotherapeutic team. She completed Individual and Group Psychotherapy Studies and Couple and Family Psychotherapy Studies – a comprehensive psychotherapeutic training certified by the Scientific Section of Psychotherapy and the Family Therapy Section of the Polish Psychiatric Association and by the Polish Psychological Association.
In the years 1999-2003, she co-founded and ran the first Day Therapeutic Psychiatry Ward for Children and Adolescents in Gdańsk. She gained her professional experience by working, among others, at the Prof. Tadeusz Bilikiewicz Regional Psychiatric Hospital in Gdańsk (in the departments of adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, neuroses and psychosomatic disorders, addictions, and neurology). In the years 2014-2024, she worked at the Developmental Age Psychiatry Clinic (UCKWUM) in Warsaw.
In the ISTDP field, she completed a 2-year Pre Core training, a 3-year Core Training, a teaching course and a supervision training (IEDTA certificate), a long-term advanced Core Training Advanced training and numerous additional trainings in Poland and abroad that meet the training criteria of the IEDTA (International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association). He is currently supervised by Dr. Josette ten Have-de Labije.
The Pre-Core and Core Training were led by outstanding international supervisors, most of whom were former students of Dr. Davanloo: Dr. Josette ten Have-de Labije, Dr. Robert J. Neborsky, Dr. Allan Abbas, Kees Cornelissen, Jon Frederickson, Dr. Patricia Coughlin, Ferrucio Ossimo.
She has participated in numerous advanced supervision groups with, among others, Jon Frederickson (2011-2013) and Dr. Josette ten Have-de Labije (since 2013 – ongoing), and in numerous training seminars with Dr. Allan Abbas (2020 – ongoing).
Since 2016, he has been assisting Dr. Josette ten Have-de Labije during Core Trainings, co-leading and leading ISTDP IEDTA Core Trainings. Editor of the following manuals: 'Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy for Practitioners’ (Josette ten Have-de Labije, Robert J. Neborsky) and 'Reaching Through Resistance. Advanced Psychotherapy Techniques’ (Allan Abbass).
She conducts seminars, workshops and training courses in the field of ISTDP.
Since 1998, she has been working in the business sector as a trainer and coach. She is a certified MBTI® and EQ-i® trainer and is responsible for certifying MBTI® and EQ-i® trainers in Poland (www.forid.pl).