Apart from the accredited courses and specialist training , at IFT-Malta we offer a variety of psychotherapeutic services. We work from a systemic post-modern social constructionist perspective. This means that our therapeutic orientation is based on enabling and empowering people within the systems they live in. Research shows that Systemic Psychotherapy is very effective with children, young people and adults experiencing a wide range of difficulties and experiences. We work ‘with’ people rather than ‘on’ people as we journey through a collaborative experience to find and highlight the persons’ or relationships’ best resources upon which to build further strengths to make the necessary changes.
The Institute’s practice extends to those who may be going through financial hardship and who likewise would like to receive a professional service. The training clinic is structured as a group practice with live supervision. This means in every session there is a specialising trainee (Typically in the last two years of the training programme) working with the client/s and an observing team of another two specialising trainees together with a warranted supervisor and trainer in a different room observing and intervening immediately and directly during the session. This is a team-based training clinic. Agencies and NGOs who would like to refer please feel free to fill a referral form here. This is a professional service we offer in Malta & GOZO & costs €15 (negotiable) per one hour session. Individuals, couples, families, and organisations in need of addressing various problem situations are are welcome to call 79823572.
At IFT-Malta we also offer professional colleagues Individual or Group Supervision, as well as Team Supervision within organisations which can be combined with bespoke training for agencies’ specific needs.
Issues We Deal With in Therapy & Supervision:
Some of the issues we regularly work with are listed below:
• Parenting issues with all age groups
• Children’s behavioural problems
• Couple and marital wellebeing
•Issues relating to divorce, separation, step-parenting and lone parenting
• Issues arising out of illness and disability
• Problems relating to alcohol and other substance abuse
• Lesbian and Gay family issues
• Coping with the effects of violence, sexual or emotional abuse in the family
• Re-building relationships after traumatic events
• Coping with the effects of stress on relationships
• Meeting the challenges of life cycle change
• Family business related issues
• Mental Health problems like depression & anxiety
• Eating disorder
• Personality disorder
• Etc.
At IFT-Malta we also offer professional colleagues Individual or Group Supervision, as well as Team Supervision within organisations which can be combined with bespoke training for agencies’ specific needs.
At IFT-Malta we also offer professional colleagues Individual or Group Supervision, as well as Team Supervision within organisations which can be combined with bespoke training for agencies’ specific needs.
Issues We Deal With in Therapy & Supervision:
Some of the issues we regularly work with are listed below:
• Parenting issues with all age groups
• Children’s behavioural problems
• Couple and marital wellebeing
• Issues relating to divorce, separation, step-parenting and lone parenting
• Issues arising out of illness and disability
• Problems relating to alcohol and other substance abuse
• LGBTIQ family issues
• Coping with the effects of violence, sexual or emotional abuse in the family
• Re-building relationships after traumatic events
• Coping with the effects of stress on relationships
• Meeting the challenges of life cycle change
• Family business related issues
• Mental Health problems like depression & anxiety
• Eating disorder
• Personality disorder
• Etc.
A specialist service set up during 2021, LOCKED OUT is a free government-funded service being provided by Mid Dlam Ghad Dawl with IFT-Malta’s professional collaboration to families and children affected by the incarceration of a loved one. Anyone can self-refer or refer to this service including professionals in private practice, government agencies, NGOs, and so fort. The service is completely free of charge and is targeted to contribute towards the wellbeing of the society at large through the reduced transgenerational transmission of crime, preventing recidivism, and increasing social inclusion of afflicted families and children. Please fill referral form, enquire on 77778001 or send messages through our Facebook page here. All communication is made in strict confidence and in line with current GDPR regulations.
IFT-Malta is a Mental Health Institution whose primary focus is relationships. Workplace Wellbeing is a service we offer to support businesses in the development and sustenance of a mental health framework
with a clinical set up conceptualised to enable our honorary therapists (advanced students under live supervision) to work with people and generate the necessary change most helpful to clients. The training clinic uses the Classical Milan style team approach that ensures that clients benefit from multiple perspectives, including theirs, and the live supervision of a consultant. To maximise this practice we use live video that enables the team to observe the engaged honorary therapist and input their perspectives live during the session. This enables the other team members (usually 3) to observe the sessions live from an adjoining room and the supervisor to coach the therapist in the room with the clients. Their ideas and comments are shared with clients through various techniques. Appointments for this clinic are currently held on fixed dates, Monday to Friday at either 4.30pm pm or 6.30pm.
IFT-Malta is committed to implement its Quality Assurance Policy and part of this is to do all that is possible to make the service appropriate and accessible to everyone in the community without any distinction of any quality or attribute. All this is done in strict confidence and along our privacy policy compliant with current GDPR law. This service runs at the subsidized rate of €10 per session. Referrals can be made by agencies and individuals using the referral form here. Self referrals shall also use this referral form and email a copy at [email protected]. Enquiries can be made on 79823572
This service receives various referrals and may involve a waiting time as your request/referral form proceeds on a waiting list.
Staff at the Institute of Family Therapy – Malta are all fully qualified and warranted by the Government of Malta’s respective regulatory bodies. As highly experienced professionals, some have been working for 30 years and more in various clinical areas including addictions, eating disorders, children’s services, mental illness, children in care, mediation, couples problems, family problems, children’s behavioural problems and more.
Sessions are confidential and we do not communicate with anyone outside the IFT-Malta unless requested by the client or mandated by court. Occasionally we may feel that it would be useful for some information to be shared and we will discuss this with you. However, in the event of serious concern for the immediate safety of someone it might be necessary to consult another service. Wherever possible this would be discussed with you first. However, on rare occasions it might be necessary to proceed either without prior discussion or without the clients’ agreement. All records are kept securely.