Assoz.-Prof. Mag. pth. Dr. scient. pth. Katharina Reboly Katharina Reboly, BA. pth.

Faculty Psychotherapy Science
E-mail kathy.reboly@sfu-berlin.de
Location Berlin

Field of work

Head of the Department of Psychotherapy Science and the Psychotherapy Teaching Institute (overall management of the teaching institute & further training centre SFU Berlin GbR); course coordinator for psychotherapy science; lecturer; implementation and organisation of psychotherapy science teaching, research and specialist psychotherapy training and further training formats; head of the SFU teaching practice.

Resume

Kathy Reboly was the founding director of Sigmund Freud Private University Berlin from October 2013 to December 2023. She has headed the Department of Psychotherapy Science and the affiliated state-approved training institute for psychotherapy since 2016, and since 2017 together with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Georg Franzen.

She obtained her licence to practise as a psychological psychotherapist (in the fields of TP & PA) in 2010 and received her doctorate in 2016 on the academisation of psychotherapy at SFU Vienna. In 2018, she was appointed assistant professor of psychotherapy science; the final evaluation of her tenure track to associate professor was completed in 07/2025.

In 2024/25, she was co-opted as vice-dean for university psychotherapy at the Faculty of Psychotherapy Science Vienna Berlin.

Since 2013, she has been working as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in her own KV practice and in the SFU teaching practice. She is a supervisor, teaching therapist, KBV assessor, licensing examiner (LAGeSo Berlin) and, since December 2023, authorised by the PTK Berlin to conduct the new further training for specialist psychotherapists (TP).

Her specialist psychotherapy profile includes: Authorisation to train specialist psychotherapists (PTK Berlin, since 12/2023); Psychotherapy assessor (KBV, since 01/2023); Licensing examiner (LAGeSo Berlin, since 08/2022); Training manager and teaching therapist at the Psychotherapeutic Teaching Institute of the SFU Berlin (since 08/2019); Supervisor (DfT since 10/2018); Psychotherapeutic health insurance practice (since 08/2013); Licence to practise and specialist knowledge TP/PA (since 06/2010); Licence to practise as a psychotherapist in Austria (since 03/2010).

Her psychotherapy science profile includes: Start of habilitation thesis (since 02/2024); Assistant professor of psychotherapy science (since 11/2018); Curriculum development for the PTW programme in Berlin (since winter semester 2018/19); Supervision of BA & MAG qualification theses in psychotherapy science (since 2017/18); Continuous PTW courses with excellent evaluations (since 2010/11); Psychotherapy science work at SFU since 2008).

Research interests: academisation of psychotherapy; psychotherapy science & methodological pluralism; psychotherapeutic university didactics & university psychotherapy; psychoanalysis in a university context; somatopsychotherapy; psychosocial interventions; psychotherapeutic treatment techniques; scientist-practitioner model; university development & quality management; Art Brut/outsider art.