Vesna Pahor

has a master’s degree in chemical education and is professionally engaged as a teacher at a grammar school. She has been implementing choice theory in her work since 2011, both in teaching and individual conversations with students, discussions with parents and collaboration with fellow teachers. She is a co-author and facilitator of programmes for professional training of workers in education titled Taking Care of Yourself as a Teacher to Create a Supportive Learning Climate and Achieving Greater Satisfaction in the Teaching Profession through Successful Problem-Solving. These programmes are conducted under the Ministry of Education’s auspices and delivered as 8-hour workshops for teachers. Additionally, she teaches a 50-hour course on choice theory, which is part of the European Institute for Reality Therapy’s programmes and intended for a broader audience. She is also a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy. As a Reality Therapy Counsellor, she is a member of the Slovenian Association for Reality Therapy (DRTS) and the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP).

Mirjana Palčič Bubnič

is a social worker and Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP). She is a supervisor and instructor of choice theory and reality therapy, a director of the European Institute for Reality Therapy and a member of the Faculty Board of this institute. She has 25 years of working experience at the Izola Social Work Centre, working with people with various problems. She has been running her psychotherapy practice for the last 13 years. She is a supervisor licensed by the Social Chamber of Slovenia and an InsideOut Coach certified by the Academy of Choice.

Marijana Rajčević Kazalac

has been a psychologist since 2007., permanently employed in the Counseling Centre for Children, Youth, Marriage and Family in Poreč. She has been a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist since 2019, a WGI supervisor and a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy.

Davor Apostolovski

is a psychologist, Reality Therapy Psychotherapist and a WGI senior instructor. He has acquired professional experience in the social care system and non-government organisations dealing with social issues related to refugees, children and adolescents. He worked as a psychologist in the health and educational system. He is now working as a school psychologist, psychotherapist and counsellor. He is teaching courses on quality parenthood and educative programmes on creative thinking. He is a member and co-founder of non-governmental organisations whose engagement is directed towards children and adolescents. As an innovator, he created many didactic toys and games.

Štefanija Prosenjak Žumbar

is a social pedagogue, Reality Therapy Psychotherapist and WGI instructor. She has acquired her professional experience by working with children and adolescents with behavioural disorders within social care and educational institutions and in the police on jobs related to criminal and legal protection of children and domestic violence. She now works as a psychotherapist in the Counselling Centre for Children, Martial Affairs and Family and offers counselling for the Ccub of women treated for breast cancer. She teaches the psychosocial treatment programme for persons who commit domestic violence and pre-martial preparatory courses. She is engaged in the prevention of addictive and behavioural disorders. She is a member of non-government organisations whose target is to assist people with various needs.

Jasna Sloković

is a teacher at the European Institute for Reality Therapy, a psychologist and a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy. For most of her professional career as a psychologist in High School, she focuses on counselling. She also works as an external associate – psychotherapist in the City Counselling Centre in Pazin and Buzet. She is teaching choice theory as a supervisor in different fields of human activities, such as parenting, marriage and education.

Katarina Rana Gluhan

is a social pedagogue and a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy, employed as the head of the Dubrovnik Probation Office since 2015. Through her workplace, she meets people with various difficulties in their psychological functioning. She continuously improves through shorter and longer education programmes organised by the Ministry of Justice and Administration, some financed as part of European projects. She gained her previous work experience through the educational system as a professional worker in an elementary school and a kindergarten. She actively participated in the work of the Obzorje Association, which deals with promoting and protecting mental health.

Martina Dumančić Vranješ

is a professor of social pedagogy who graduated from the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation of the University of Zagreb, majoring in behavioural disorder. Since finishing her studies, she has worked as a professional worker at the Marin Držić Primary School in Dubrovnik. She was promoted to the title of mentor in 2017. She is the head of the County Expert Council for preventive programmes of primary, secondary schools and student dormitories of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County. She actively participates in educating teachers, professional workers and teaching assistants at the county and state levels. She mentored students of the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation and students of Teacher Education in the Early Social Pedagogical Intervention course. She is a member of the Committee for Quality Assessment of Programmes/Projects of Civil Sector Associations at Dubrovnik-Neretva County. She is a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy and the Croatian Association for Reality Therapy. In 2022, she obtained the title of Reality Therapy Psychotherapist and holds a European Certificate of Psychotherapy.

Danko Butorac

is a psychologist and psychotherapist working at the Family Centre – a state-funded counselling service in Senj, Croatia. In his daily practice, he works with individuals, couples, families, and groups. As a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy, he is involved in providing training programmes as a supervisor and teacher of choice theory. He is president of the European Association for Reality Therapy (EART). He is happily married and a father of five wonderful children.

Mirjana Zečirević

graduated in psychology and English. She is a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP), a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy and a WGI senior instructor with long-term experience in teaching and offering supervision to students in CT/RT training. She has experience in various fields of applied psychology, especially juvenile delinquency, partnership and family issues, vocational rehabilitation, career skills development and human resource management, with many years of experience in providing individual and group counselling and psychotherapy to people facing various difficulties of personal, partnership and professional functioning.

Leandra Miletić Činić

is a doctor of medicine, a specialist in school medicine, a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP), a WGI supervisor and a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy. She is employed at the Institute of Public Health Dr Andrija Štampar in Zagreb and the counselling centre for eating disorders and obesity. As a school doctor, she has many years of experience working with children, young people and their parents. She deals with different mental and psychosomatic disorders in counselling and psychotherapy.

Petra Cvek

is a graduate pedagogue majoring in andragogy, a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy and an HSE Coach. She has a private psychotherapeutic practice and offers training and individual and couples psychotherapy online or in person in Šentjur near Celje. She has experiences with individuals facing various personal issues, relationship difficulties and mental distress. In her work, she combines reality therapy with self-help methods such as NLP, HSE and Brainspotting.

Tadeja Rajk

is a social worker, a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP), a supervisor-teacher of choice theory and reality therapy and a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy. She holds a supervisory license from the Slovenian Chamber of Social Workers. For over fifteen years, she has been actively working in the field of social welfare with individuals facing various personal issues, emotional distress and relationship problems, as well as those seeking to improve the quality of their lives. She has a private psychotherapeutic practice and provides individual and couples psychotherapy (in person and online) in Ljubljana.

Cvita Vasilj Studak

is a social pedagogue, Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP), a WGI supervisor and a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy and the Croatian Association for Reality Therapy (HURT). She has worked for 15 years in social services with children and young people with behavioural disorders and with their parents. She has years of experience providing psychotherapy for clients with eating disorders. As a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy, she provides training programmes, supervision and is a psychotherapist for personal (learning) psychotherapeutic experience. She is married and a mother of two boys.

Mirjana Belavić

is a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy, a psychologist with experience in education and social welfare. As an external collaborator, she is involved in the projects of several associations where she provides individual counselling and group workshops. She is a wife to one husband, mother of three children and mother-in-law’s daughter-in-law in the yard.

Ljiljana Šupraha

is a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) and a WGI instructor. For 33 years, she has been working with children and young people with behavioural disorders. Since 2003 she has been teaching choice theory and its application in different fields of human activity (counselling, education, coaching). She is an associate of the NGO White Circle, where she works with victims and domestic violence doers.

Nikolina Essert

is a psychologist, a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy, a supervisor, a member of the European Institute for Reality Therapy and the Croatian Association for Reality Therapy (HURT) and a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy. She is employed in her private psychotherapy practice working with individuals, couples and individuals who want to improve their relationships with others. She has experience in leading psychotherapy groups. She has worked with people with eating disorders for the last seven years.

Nina Vene

is a medical doctor and a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist. She is working as a doctor specialising in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine. She provides psychotherapy for clients with mental and psychosomatic disorders and counselling especially dedicated to healing from chronic disease and chronic pain distress. She also has long-standing experiences in counselling and raising awareness of the importance of a healthy lifestyle in chronic disease prevention in modern society. She is a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy.

Aida Ganović

is a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP), a WGI supervisor and a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy. Since 1999, she has had experience in individual and group counselling. Since 2008, she has had the status of a supervisor in teaching choice theory. Since the founding of the Association for Reality Therapy of Bosnia and Hercegovina, she has been a member of the Association’s Management Board. She has completed a three-year education in Philosophy and Methods of Psychodrama. She is the author of several articles on direct counselling, individual and group work.

Ksenija Centa

is a psychologist, has been a psychotherapist since 2009 and has held the European Certificate of Psychotherapy since 2011. After 11 years of work at the Employment Agency, she was employed for 17 years at the Health Centre Celje as a psychologist specialising in mental health for children and youth. During this time, she also worked partially at the Centre for Prevention and Treatment of Drug Addiction. She collaborated with the National Institute of Public Health as an online counsellor for adolescents and as a psychotherapist for adults. From 2009 to 2020, she also maintained a part-time private practice, which became her full-time regular employment in 2021. She offers individual psychotherapy, couple and family therapy and group supervision for school teachers. She is a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy and participates in education and supervision. She is also a psychotherapist for personal (learning) psychotherapeutic experience.

Irena Krajcar Kokalj

is a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) and a WGI senior instructor. For the majority of her career, she was employed in Social Services. She has been employed in the Family Centre in Pula for the past fifteen years, offering individual, marriage or family counselling. She is teaching choice theory as a supervisor and instructor and organising and leading workshops for children, adolescents, parents and other groups.

Olga Lilija Hribernik

is a professor of pedagogy and sociology, a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) and a specialist for supervision. She is a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy and a WGI supervisor. She carries out supervisions for receivers of RT/TI Certificates at the Slovenian Association for Reality Therapy. She was employed in the Prison for Juveniles in Celje. She gained the most counselling and therapeutic experience by working with individuals and groups with problems of socially unacceptable behaviour, problems with addiction, adjustment problems due to the deprivation of freedom, psychosomatic disorders, suicidal behaviour and learning problems. She has experience in leadership, training and supervision of professional workers in the field of education and social protection. She has been an active pensioner since 2017.

Bosiljka Boba Lojk

is a Reality Therapy Psychotherapist holding a European Certificate of Psychotherapy. She is an EIRT and WGI senior instructor, expert head of the European Institute for Reality Therapy and Secretary General of the European Association for Reality Therapy (EART). She has been working in the field of counselling for four decades. Since 1990 she has been teaching choice theory and its applications in various fields of human activity (counselling, teaching, leadership). With her husband Leon, she established a five-year study to obtain the title of Reality Therapy Psychotherapist and a four-year study to obtain the title of Reality Therapy Counsellor. She is the author of numerous articles and co-author of several books.

Maša Žilevski

Psychologist, participant in the fifth year of the programme to obtain the title of reality therapy psychotherapist. Within organisational psychology, she works as an outside expert support to HR. She carries out psychological profiling, workshops, lectures, assessment centres, coaching, competency models, various HR measurements, evaluations, etc. Alongside this work, she also works as a psychotherapist (under supervision) and participates in the European Institute for Reality Therapy as a teacher trainee.

Dubravka Hrovatič

is a social worker and Reality Therapy psychotherapist with a European Certificate in Psychotherapy (ECP), and a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy (EIRT). She has worked in the field of social care for 30 years. She is a licensed supervisor with the Social Chamber of Slovenia and an InsideOut Coach licensed by the Academy of Choice. She provides individual, group, and couples psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is offered in Croatian and Slovenian, both in person and online. She lives and works in Novo mesto.

Silvija Jurčević

is a psychologist and Reality Therapy psychotherapist with a European Certificate in Psychotherapy (ECP), and a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy (EIRT). She has over twelve years of experience working with and counselling children, adolescents, and families. She collaborates with numerous institutions and organises and leads various seminars and workshops. In addition to her permanent post as a school psychologist at the Centre for the Education of Children and Young People with Developmental Difficulties, she runs a non-governmental organisation that provides counselling and psychotherapy services. She lives and works in Tomislavgrad.

Marijana Barišić

Is a psychologist and Reality Therapy psychotherapist with a European Certificate in Psychotherapy (ECP), and a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy (EIRT). She has experience working with people facing relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, burnout, addiction, eating disorders, behavioural disorders and other mental health difficulties. Her work also covers parenting issues, adolescent delinquency and support for
victims of sexual violence. She lives and works in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Asja Palinić Cvitanović

is a medical doctor, specialist in school medicine, and a Reality Therapy psychotherapist with a European Certificate in Psychotherapy (ECP), and a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy (EIRT). She has thirty-eight years’ experience counselling and working with school-age children and their parents, married couples, and war veterans, as well as with people facing various problems. Since 2002, she has taught Choice Theory and its application across different fields of human activity (counselling, education, management). She has actively participated in numerous Croatian and EU congresses, conferences and seminars. She lives and works in Metković.

Maja Perić

is a psychologist and Reality Therapy psychotherapist with a European Certificate in Psychotherapy (ECP), and a member of the Faculty Board at the European Institute for Reality Therapy (EIRT). Since 2016, she has worked as a psychologist, trainer, and counsellor at the Mostar Employment Service. She provides individual and group therapy in several counselling centres in Mostar. She lives and works in Mostar.