TERESA GARIANO
SOCIAL WORKER / SYSTEMIC COUNSELLOR
SOZIALARBEITERIN / SYSTEMISCHE BERATERIN
PERSON
Social Worker (Master in Social Work) / Systemic Consellor in Training
Professional Experience |
Since 2023 Private practice for individuals and couples |
Since 2017 Counsellor and coach in the social and occupational integration of refugees |
2006 to 2017 Addictions counsellor in out- and inpatient therapies (in Canada and Switzerland) |
2006 to 2007 Group counsellor (Practicum) in outpatient therapy for persons in abusive relationships (victims and offenders) |
2002 to 2006 Care and crisis intervention worker for people with a mental illness |
Degrees and Courses |
2020 to 2021 Systemic Counselling Bodensee-Institut für systemische Therapie und Beratung |
2017 Einführung in das Sozialhilferecht |
2016 Leistungen der Sozialhilfe: Wenn alle Stricke reissen |
2015 Dialektisch behaviorale Therapie nach Linehan, Skills I & II |
2004 to 2007 University of Calgary, Canada Master in Social Work (recognized in Switzerland through SBFI) |
1997 to 2002 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Bachelor of Science, Specialisation in Psychology |
Membership |
Systemis (Schweizerische Vereinigung für systemische Therapie und Beratung) |
Persona
I have always been interested in people and how they find their own way through life, leading me to study psychology and social work. After completing my degrees I worked as a counsellor in a few different organisations, providing individual and group counselling to people struggling with addictions, family violence, suicide, crisis, mental health, and social and occupational integration.
In 2011 I moved to Switzerland. The experience of being a foreigner, learning a new language and forging my own integration path was a very humbling experience for me. Through this experience, I came to learn just how important different systems are in our life, and what it takes to build new systems. And so my passion for Systemic Counselling was ignited.
