Welcome to my website!

If you are interested in trauma and body oriented psychotherapy, then this is the right place for you.

Further information about my professional background and my work can be gleaned from my CV. I work together with my wife Irina (click CV for further information) in Leipzig, Germany, where we have our own psychotherapeutic practice.

Together we have developed and finessed a successful method for trauma and body oriented psychotherapy since 2000, building on the work I started in 1996. It is a method that encompasses both individual and group therapy effectively.

Central to this method is a structured program of psychotrauma therapy which step-by-step intends to help adults, children and adolescents overcome complex traumatisation and dissociative disorders. This concept is based on a special form of externalising relationships by utilising so-called beseelbare therapeutic objects, which are symbolic props that facilitate this process in a safe and secure environment under guidance of an experienced therapist. After years of practicing psychotherapy we have found that the use of these objects in calming and psycho-educative settings is of great help to our clients.

The majority of the settings that are created for this purpose contain structured play sequences, imaginative arrangements, support and protection-inducing plot scenarios, scenes of conflict and confrontation and role-plays. The therapeutic work that we do deals gently and carefully with triggers. But it nonetheless encourages clients to express their physical self for the purpose of stabilisation, while taking special care to avoid retraumatisation and the chronification of perpetrator introjects.

A detailed overview of all the important criteria of this work and an introduction to the specially designed therapy objects which are used can be found in the book Vogt, Ralf (2005): Beseelbare Therapy Objects. Gießen: Psychosozialverlag. This is not only a theoretical textbook, but also part manual for the practice.

See Publications further books and publications. The best introduction to our overall concept is the book "Psychotrauma, State, Setting", published by Psychosozial Verlag Gießen in 2008. It contains manualised step sequences, handouts and a variety of settings with case studies and the first scientific research study regarding preliminary, follow-up and catamnesis examinations. The treatment programme is called SPIM-20-CT (Somatic-Psychological-Interactive Model Standard-20-Version for the psychotraumatic treatment of Complex-Traumatised people and other groups of disorders). The 20 basic principles:

1. Basic dimensions: soma-psyche-interaction
2. Transparency and standards
3. Psycho-education
4. Setting justification and negotiation
5. Role flexibility for patient and therapist
6. Reciprocal relationship structures
7. Body and trauma orientation
8. Combination of diagnostics and solution orientation
9. Beseelbare therapy objects for expansion of therapy space
10. Movement-oriented settings
11. Play as mirror and bridge for psyche-body interaction
12. Reparenting as developmental focus
13. Paradigm of regulation states
14. Combination of individual and group therapy
15. Therapist continuity
16. Levels of group therapy
17. Inclusion of systemic influence degrees
18. Transgenerationality
19. Role-play training
20. Continuous, transparent therapy evaluation

The book explains these concept dimensions in detail and it provides an overview of all the important terms which are used in this type of psychotrauma and therapy (e.g. transference and introjection are considered to have a unique connection).

If you are a professional colleague or a colleague from a related field (doctor, psychologist, social worker, etc.) and you would like to participate in one of our seminars, please click www.leipzigerakademie.de for a professional insight into our concept. I, Ralf Vogt, also provide further training courses at our academy in the use of beseelbare therapy objects. That page also offers a range of other training programmes on such topics as psychotrauma; dissociation; body, adult and child psychotherapy in movement oriented individual and group settings, and so on.

Should you be interested in purchasing any of the specially designed therapy objects for your practice or clinic, please have a look at www.vogt-objekte.de. Here is a small selection of the handcrafted products on offer.

However, do note that the actual design of these objects is trademarked. Similarly I kindly ask you to refer to the original source on this website or elsewhere in case you wish to cite me or my work. Thank you in advance for your collegial and friendly understanding.

Yours,
Ralf Vogt

My areas of expertise:

	Leipzig Academy for integrative psychotherapy Academy Heads: Irina Vogt and Dr. Ralf Vogt Trauma and body oriented psychologists and therapists (treatment method: SPIM-20-KT) Focus Overarching training and further education in all therapeutic concepts for both therapists and clients Primarily the field of trauma and body oriented individual and group therapy Seminars by Mrs and Mr Vogt at the Leipzig Academy Seminars and lectures by Mrs and Mr Vogt at various institutes and clinics Guest therapists from Germany and abroad Keeping offers up-to-date and relevant Link to website: website academy >>
	Trauma Institute Leipzig Institute Heads: Irina Vogt and Dr. Ralf Vogt Psychotraumatologists (DeGPT) and body oriented psychotherapists (treatment method: SPIM-20-KT) Focus Further training as a trauma psychotherapist for applying SPIM-20-KT treatment method with complex traumatised disorders and other mental illnesses (TIL – last update 01/04/2006 ) Suitable for complementing the treatment spectrum of PA, TP , VT and KJP in outpatient practices and clinics Further training as a trauma expert (TIL – last update 01/04/2006 according to DeGPT guidelines) Suitable for complementing counselling expertise of: Physicians and specialists Psychologists Educators Social workers Social pedagogues Remedial teachers School counsellors Nurses and carers And all practitioners from other professional backgrounds who are interested and meet the entrance. Link to website: Trauma Institute Website >>
	Joint therapy practice Irina Vogt (depth psychologist) >> Dr. Ralf Vogt (psychoanalyst, depth psychologist) >> Practice areas of expertise Subject to the regulations of the public health funds: Individual psychotherapy based in depth psychology Analytic individual psychotherapy Trauma and imaginative psychotherapy (KB) (as part of psychodynamically based psychotherapy) Relaxation procedures Psychodiagnostics Range of offers not subject to the regulations of the public heatlh funds: Trauma and body oriented individual psychotherapy for adults, children and families Trauma and body oriented group psychotherapy for adults (lead by therapy couple) Dynamic couple therapy (after Willi and Moeller and others) Supervision in trauma and body oriented psychotherapy Supervision in depth psychological and analytic individual and group psychotherapy Team supervision Family therapy Solution based short-term psychotherapy
	Vogt & Vogt Objekte GbR General Managers: Irina Vogt and Dr Ralf Vogt Vogt & Vogt Objekte GbR was founded based on our many years of experience as practicing psychotherapists and our positive experience of therapeutic objects in individual and group psychotherapy. More on the concept of “symbolic therapeutic objects can be found in the book “Symbolic therapeutic objects: structural enactments in trauma and body oriented psychotherapy ” (Psychosozialverlag: Giessen ) by Dr. Ralf Vogt (2004). The overarching concept that includes the utilisation of therapeutic media is called: SPIM-20-KT (somatic-psychological-interactive model standard-20-version for the psychotherapeutic treatment of complex traumatised disorders and other mental ailments). Further reading on SPIM-20-KT in ”Psychological trauma, state, setting: Individual and group settings in psychotherapy. A manual from education to evaluation.” By Dr. Ralf Vogt (2007) (Psychosazialverlag: Giessen ) On this website you will be able to look for specific objects or soft toys for specific areas of use. Link to website: Vogt & Vogt Objects website >>
	Interdisciplinary congress BodyPotentials "The body's potential for psychotherapy" 29/5-31/5/2007 in Leipzig , Germany . Interdisciplinary congress for body psychotherapy and sport sciences and other related areas of expertise Modern interdisciplinary research methods, practical assessments, case studies for practitioners Kinesitherapy, attachment research, trauma therapy, dissociation research, modern psychoanalysis, depth psychology, behavioral therapy, integrative concepts Link to website: congress website >> Link to congress enrolment: enrolment>>