Build a career in helping people discover meaning in their life.
Become an Accredited Logotherapist of the Viktor Frankl Institute, Vienna.
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Fully Accredited by Viktor Frankl Institute, Vienna
The course is fully Accredited by the International Society of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis at the Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna. Following successful completion of the course, graduates will be awarded the Diploma in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis from Vienna. They will also be recognised as individually Accredited Logotherapists, following payment of a registration fee (renewable every two years) and are able to offer professional services.
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Join a global community of Logotherapists
The Viktor Frankl Centre at the Mirabilis Health Institute, Northern Ireland is the newest of 147 accredited centres across 45 countries. It is the first, and currently only organisation of its kind in Northern Ireland. It is hosted by a private clinic of Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists providing a range of therapies (currently CBT, EMDR, and Logotherapy).
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Experienced Teaching Faculty
Our experienced teaching team consists primarily of the Centre’s co-founders, Dr. Scott Peddie and Prof. Paul Miller.
Dr. Scott Peddie BSc., MSc., MDiv., PGCert., PhD., GradCertTh., Diploma in Logotherapy & Existential Analysis., FMHC., FInstLM., FRSA, is a Logotherapist & Existential Analyst, Consultant EMDR Therapist, and Director of the Viktor Frankl Centre at the Institute.
Professor Paul W. Miller, MD, MB BCh BAO, DMH MRCPsych FRSA, is a Consultant Psychiatrist, EMDR Europe accredited Trainer, and EMDR institute (USA) facilitator.
What is Logotherapy?
Logotherapy and Existential Analysis is a talking therapy developed by the Viennese Psychiatrist and Holocaust Survivor, Prof. Viktor Frankl.
The key element in Logotherapy is an acknowledgement that we can find meaning in unavoidable suffering.
By tapping into a sense of meaning, we are able to see new, and more satisfying ways of living a life that is authentic and purposeful.
““When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor Frankl, Recollections: An Autobiography
What is it used for?
Logotherapy has a broad applicability across a range of diagnoses, including but not limited to:
depression
anxiety
addiction
trauma
Logotherapy can be used as a stand-alone therapy, or in conjunction with other therapies. It is also used as a means of navigating stressors in everyday life, including grief, chronic illness, relationship issues, career choices, and end of life situations.
““Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
— Viktor Frankl
The Diploma
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Teaching Format and Delivery
Core Teaching will consist of lectures, seminars and practicums, with reflective practice (applied Logotherapy) and self-care (utilising Logotherapy for the therapist) as an integral part of the programme.
We are able to offer a mix of face-to-face learning and remote learning via Zoom. The course content is suitable to be delivered via either modality.
We have a fully equipped training facility at the Mirabilis Health Institute in Monkstown, Northern Ireland. We also have a significant amount of experience in providing online training, including lectures, seminars and practicums; this has been very successful during the COVID pandemic, and our EMDR students rate their experiences very highly.
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Semester Overview
All teaching will be delivered remotely via Zoom.
Open for 2022 Applicants, starting 4th April 2022.
(limited spots remaining)• 4 x 2-day lectures at the start of each semester.
• 8 x 1-day lectures spread throughout each semester, normally on Wednesdays.
• Total of 120 hours of learning (72 hrs face-to-face; 48 hrs self-directed learning), which will consist of interactive lectures, case studies, practicums and reflective practice.
• Students will be expected to explore meaningfully how they will integrate what they have learned into their current therapeutic practice, as well as being able to apply Logotherapy as a standalone therapy, safely and effectively.
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Entrance Criteria
Candidates are required to be qualified, registered and insured with the appropriate professional bodies in the fields of nursing, psychiatry, counselling, midwifery, social work and psychotherapy.
We will also accept clergy with a suitable background in pastoral care, health-care chaplaincy and/or spiritual direction. Other candidates who fall outwith these groupings, including business and personal coaches, and who are deemed to be sufficiently experienced, will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
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Coursework
Students are required to complete a 750 word reflective piece at the end of each semester; this will be read by the tutor, and discussed with the student, but will not be graded. The aim is to enhance clinical skills via meaningful reflective practice.
Students are expected to attend at least 80% of classes, with discretion for those who have legitimate reasons for not reaching this figure.
The Curriculum
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a. Understanding Ontology, Phenomenology, and Nosology as the Philosophical Basis of Psychotherapy.
b. Comparison of Psychotherapeutic Methods (Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic, Humanistic, Cognitive-Behavioural etc).
c. Frankl’s Philosophy of the Person (contra Freud and Jung) as the Basis of Logotherapy & Existential Analysis.
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a) Freud, Adler and Frankl: Will to Pleasure; Will to Power; Will to Meaning.
b) Part 1: Will-to-Meaning, Defiant Power of the Human Spirit, Suffering and Tragic Optimism, Consciousness, Existential Vacuum and the Tragic/Neurotic/Triumphant Triad.
c) Part 2: Self-Transcendence and the Realisation of Values (Experiential, Creative, Attitudinal).
d) Philosophical Influences: Heidegger and the Stoics.
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a) Frankl’s Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders.
b) DSM and ICD in the Context of Logotherapy.
c) Logotherapy as a Transdiagnostic Therapy.
d) Logotherapeutic Techniques: De-Reflection, Socratic Dialogue, and Paradoxical Intention as Meaning-Centred Applications.
e) Autogenic Training.
f) Medical Ministry
g) Extensive Case-Studies
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a) Scientific/Evidential Basis for Meaning-Based Psychotherapies.
b) Case Formulation.
c) Use in Treating and Facilitating Recovery in Addictions, Bipolar Disorder, Trauma and Psychosis.
d) As a Stand-Alone Therapy.
e) As a Co-Therapy with Particular Emphasis on EMDR and Trauma.
f) As a Means of Building Resilience.
g) Extensive Case Studies.
Tuition Fee
£5,500
The course costs £5,500 which includes tuition and individual therapy.
Payment plans are available to spread the costs.
A deposit of £500 is required to secure each place.