Matthias Ochs

Prof. Dr. Matthias Ochs is a psychologist, psychotherapist (certified by the German psychotherapy law), systemic family therapist, trainer for systemic therapy and counseling (certified by the German systemic associations) and a Gestalt therapist.

He is a professor for Psychology and Counseling at a department for Social Work at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences in Germany and a professor member of the PhD center for social work of the Hessian Universities of Applied Sciences.

He was 2010-2017 co-president together with Prof. Dr. Jochen Schweitzer of the International Systemic Research Conferences in Heidelberg.

He is the president of the German Association for Systemic Therapy, Counseling and Family Therapy.

His current topics of interest are systemic practice and research, epistemology of psychotherapy and systemic work, dialogism in systemic work, systems theory of professional networks, multi- and interprofessional cooperation of employment and welfare offices, negative and adverse effects of systemic therapy and counseling. Also, he has a passion for a “systemic” Europe, that means to connect systemic therapists and researchers together all over Europe and to develop a European perspective regarding systemic therapy and counseling.