SAT Germany France: our therapists and facilitators

Clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and supervisor

Katrin Reuter

Clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and supervisor

Co-director of SAT Germany France, Katrin holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is a psychotherapist and psycho-oncologist. She is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Ericksonian hypnosis, and Family and Systemic Constellations. With over 15 years’ experience in research, academia, and hospital practice, she has developed in-depth expertise in psycho-oncology, which led her to Stanford University to study Existential Therapy according to Dr Irvin D. Yalom. In 2010, she cofounded a counselling and therapy centre in Freiburg, Germany.

She also holds the European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) and is a member of the FF2P (French Federation for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis). Her encounter, as a young woman, with Bob Hoffman and the Hoffman Process deeply influenced both her training and her clinical practice. Later, her collaboration with Dr Claudio Naranjo and his SAT Programme began in 2007 within the international school, before she went on to develop the SAT Academy in Germany and France. Today, she co-directs the Institute, which offers these two branches of personal development training, and leads SAT modules 1 to 3.

Body and movement therapist

Cherif Chalakani

Co-Director of SAT France Germany

Cherif is originally from Egypt, was educated in France and later adopted by Mexico. He now lives in Germany. After obtaining a degree in Mathematics and Statistics in Paris, he went on to complete a master’s degree in counselling and human development, as well as body-oriented psychotherapy training at the Wilhelm Reich Institute in Mexico City. From 1982 to 1985, he worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

His meeting with Dr Claudio Naranjo in 1978 marked a turning point in his life. First as a student and later as a collaborator, he began leading various SAT Programme modules in Spain (Babia) from 1987 onwards, and over the years also in France and Germany. From the 1990s onwards, he developed the biographical approach in Mexico through the workshop El Árbol que Canta (“The Singing Tree”).

Since 2012, he has also co-facilitated the Hoffman Process in France. A nomad between countries and cultures, his path brings together the academic world, traditions, and alternative approaches. His work integrates embodied presence through movement and, continuing his exploration of family dynamics, explores the theme of birth. The result of nearly four decades of development, Espacios Nacientes is an approach designed to tend compassionately to birth-related trauma, to lay the foundations for “mothering” and “fathering” our wounded inner child, and to be reborn with a generous vitality open to the space of possibilities. Within the SAT Programme, he facilitates modules 1 to 4, with his work around birth holding a permanent place in SAT 3.

Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist

Maria Grazia Cecchini

She is trained in psychodynamic, Gestalt, and Systemic therapy. For many years, she was active in politics and led a training institute for systemic counseling in Rome. She studied and worked alongside Claudio Naranjo for more than 30 years and edited several of his books. She also coordinated the collection Psicología de los Eneatipos, a ten-year project consisting of one volume for each Enneatype. Today, she is the director of the SAT Program and the Gestalt Viva School in Chile. At the Claudio Naranjo Foundation in Spain, she has been responsible for many years for the development and implementation of educational programs for families and young people. She currently leads the modules 3 to 5 of SAT Germany France.

Gestalt therapist

Manuel Cuesta

He specialized in body and movement work, with a clinical orientation grounded in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Since 2009, he has collaborated with Cherif Chalakani within Espacios nascientes in Spain, Mexico, and Germany, and has taught in institutes such as Hoffman and SAT Spain, Espai Gestalt and Espai TCI. In 2010, he founded Paziencia, a therapy center in Tarragona, Spain, where he offers an integrative approach focusing on adults and on the supervision of therapists. He facilitated work specifically for men and developed a theoretical and experiential approach for the exploration of rage and revenge. In 2025, he published La venganza del niño interior (The Inner Child’s Revenge, Editorial Plataforma). At SAT Germany France, he regularly contributes to SAT 2.

Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist

Assumpta Mateu

Assumpta discovered Gestalt therapy in 1987 in Palma de Mallorca and went on to further her training Spain, France, and the United States. Co-founder of the College of Psychologists of the Balearic Islands and of the Mallorca Gestalt Association, she has played a central role in the development of Gestalt therapy in the Balearic Islands. She is Director of the Gestalttransformació treatment and training centre in Palma de Mallorca. She was a disciple of Dr Claudio Naranjo for over twenty years, and she collaborates actively in the SAT Programmes in Spain and internationally. She helped establish Gestalt Viva schools in Latin America and is involved in the work with families of the Claudio Naranjo Foundation, serving on its board of trustees from 2016 to 2022. Specialising in palliative care and support for end-of-life and bereavement processes, she established a psychology service for patients living with haemophilia and HIV/AIDS. She later integrated these themes into the training of Gestalt therapists, notably through the DOL Programme (support for bereavement and end-of-life care). Her professional journey is deeply enriched by a longstanding commitment to meditation. At SAT Germany France, she regularly contributes to SAT 3.

Acting teacher

Alberto López Murtra

Alberto is an actor, theatre director, and teacher, working at the Corazza School of Dramatic Arts in Madrid. Trained by Juan Carlos Corazza since 1999, he has a solid background in the arts and humanities, enriched by extensive experience in cinema, theatre, television, opera singing, and musical theatre. His multidisciplinary approach lies at the intersection of art and human development. He has completed Claudio Naranjo’s SAT Programme, trained in Family Constellations, and completed the Timeless Wisdom Training cycle with Thomas Hübl in Germany. He is currently continuing his specialisation in the systemic field through training as a facilitator in collective trauma healing. He regularly contributes to therapeutic theatre work in the SAT 1 in France and Germany.

Painter

Jaclyne Scardov

Born in France, Jaclyne has lived for many years in Berkeley, California. She is a painter with an exceptional gift: the intuitive ability to tap into the personal and collective unconscious. A long-time companion of Claudio Naranjo, she offers her insights and perceptions to those engaged in an intensive process of personal development in the fourth module of the SAT programme.

Acting teacher

Oscar Velado

Actor, theatre director, and drama teacher, Oscar trained at the TAE in Vitoria as well as at the Corazza School of Dramatic Arts in Madrid. Throughout his career, he has taken part in numerous theatre and television productions, collaborating with directors such as Juan Carlos Corazza, Pablo Messiez, and Víctor Duplá, amongst others. Alongside his artistic career, he trained in Integrative Psychology through Claudio Naranjo’s SAT Programme, in Gestalt psychotherapy at the Madrid School of Gestalt Therapy, and in Systemic Therapy with Psicogestalt Madrid. He has also further developed his work in group facilitation and creativity with Paco Peñarrubia. He currently collaborates regularly with the Corazza School of Dramatic Arts in Madrid, as well as with Claudio Naranjo’s SAT Programme in Spain, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and Chile.

Artist and body-oriented therapist

Betina Waissman

Betina has both an artistic and humanistic background and brings more than twenty years of international experience in theatre, expressive movement, and body-oriented therapy. Trained in a variety of approaches, she notably integrates the Rio Abierto System, Authentic Movement, and other dance therapy methods into her work. With a degree in Sociology and Politics from the PUC University of Rio de Janeiro, she also trained as a Reichian body therapist in Brazil and Spain, as well as in EMDR. Her professional path includes twenty years as an actress with the Tá na Rua group, specialising in street theatre in Rio de Janeiro, as well as her work as a body therapist, instructor in Rio Abierto Expressive Movement, and a facilitator and trainer in Authentic Movement under Janet Adler. She is a teacher at the Corazza School of Dramatic Arts in Madrid. For many years, she has collaborated with Claudio Naranjo’s SAT Programme in Spain and internationally, contributing to various training and postgraduate programmes in Gestalt, bodywork, and the arts. She is currently a board trustee of the Claudio Naranjo Foundation in Spain and leads SAT 1 in Germany every two years.

Body-oriented therapist and author

Evânia Reichert

Trained in contemporary Reichian therapy, Evânia is also a journalist and writer. A collaborator at Claudio Naranjo’s SAT School in Brazil since 1992, she co-directs the Escola Aberta Vale do Ser centre in southern Brazil, a space dedicated to human development, awareness, and inner transformation. Specialising in the study of the relationship between the stages of childhood and character formation, she explores the impact of early life experiences on the development of personality. Her approach connects the bodily dimension, character psychology, and the development of consciousness. Actively committed to the defence and protection of children, as well as to education and ecology, Evânia works towards a more respectful and conscious vision of human development and social transformation. She is the author of several works published in Spanish and Portuguese, including Childhood, the sacred age and Adolescence, the age of power.

Together with Sérgio Veleda, Evânia leads The Archaeology of Love at our Institute, a special SAT course that they have developed over the years, focusing on the maturation process of intimate relationships.

Shaman and Gestalt therapist

Josefa Kirvin Kulix

Josefa is a genuine Mexican shaman. Besides her training as a “medicine woman”, which includes “walking the red road” of the Lakota tradition, she is also a Gestalt therapist. She transmits with the simplicity of her presence, combining the long-forgotten heritage of the Mayan tradition with an openness to contemporary psychology. She collaborates in SAT 5.

Psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer

Jutta ten Herkel

Trained in systemic and gestalt therapy Jutta contributed to the development of systemic constellation training in the UK as well as internationally through teaching, publications training centres in Europe. She co-created the first English-language journal on this work, The Systemic Constellation Bulletin, later renamed The Knowing Field and translated several of Bert Hellinger’s books into English. Over many years of clinical practice, Jutta has developed an integrative approach linking psychotherapy, social systems, neurobiology, and mindfulness. She expanded her work to include the studies of the five realms and is collaborating with SAT integrating the transformative potential of the Enneagram with Systemic Constellations. At SAT Germany France she is involved in SAT 4.

Physiothérapeute

Brisa Esteve

Brisa is a Spanish physiotherapist and holds a degree in Fine Arts. Her background includes training in experiential and integrative anatomy. She currently practices as a physiotherapist specialising in bodywork and body awareness. She has been practicing meditation for more than twenty years and was a disciple of the Zen teacher and Gestalt therapist Anik Billard, who contributed to the SAT Programme for many years. Today, Brisa contributes to SAT 2, where she teaches Zen meditation, in continuity with the transmission she herself received.

Body-oriented therapist and author

Sérgio Veleda

Sérgio is a contemporary Reichian therapist, Brazilian poet and writer, as well as a meditation teacher. He co-directs the Escola Aberta Vale do Ser centre and leads extended silent retreats centred on shamatha-vipassana meditation. His approach brings together body-oriented psychotherapy, Theravāda meditation, contemplative practices drawn in particular from Sufism and the Desert tradition, as well as an artistic and expressive dimension. Trained in various traditions —including Hindu Tantra, Dzogchen, the Shambhala tradition, and the teachings of Claudio Naranjo within the SAT School — he describes himself as “a Sufi without a tariqa”, faithful to a spirit of inner freedom while offering an embodied and creative path. He is the author of I Believe Only in a God Who Knows How to Dance (published in Portuguese and Spanish) and The Art of Keeping Balance on an Empty Ground (Portuguese). Together with Evânia Reichert, Sérgio leads The Archaeology of Love at our Institute, a special SAT course (link to page).

Actor, writer, and acting teacher

Alain Vigneau

Born in France, Alain is the creator of the La Stravagante theatre company. He has performed at numerous theatre festivals in Spain, Venezuela, Mexico, and Gabon. He teaches theatre and clown within the AEC/UVIC Master’s programme in Art Therapy in Barcelona, and he is also co-founder of the Conciencia y Artes Escénicas centre in Puebla Mexico. He collaborates with centres for personal and artistic development throughout Europe and Latin America. Initiated by Rosine Rochette (Paris) into the union between clown work and Gestalt therapy, he trained in Integrative Psychotherapy through Claudio Naranjo’s SAT Programme and gradually developed his own approach over the years: Essential Clown. A disciple and regular collaborator of Claudio Naranjo in several countries, he now dedicates himself to research in the therapeutic and artistic fields connected to the world of clown and is internationally recognised as one of the leading figures in this discipline. Every two years, Alain leads his intensive workshop The Ways of the Clown within SAT France Germany.