Olena Shakhova, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology and Psychology of the University, had online training within the framework of the international long-term educational program “Advanced training in Gestalt therapy.  Gestalt approach  working with complex clients and  working with a couple and a group”.  Coach - Irena Holuba, Gestalt therapist, supervisor, coach of the Riga Gestalt Institute, member of EAGT, president of the Latvian Association of Gestalt Therapy (LGTA), the first president of the Latvian Society of Psychotherapy (LPB).

Gestalt therapy is one of the most popular areas of modern psychotherapy, founded by F. Perlz, which integrates the achievements of Gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis and holistic theory and involves individual and group work.  Gestalt therapy is defined as helping anyone to find true vitality, the ability to meet their needs, to enjoy life now, "here and now", without postponing joy and happiness indefinitely "someday", to strive for open and immediate  contact with other people, to "meeting" and intimacy.