The Team
Carla Shehfe
Carla is an Advanced Certificated Schema therapist and supervisor. She is the founder and general manager of CPD-PSYCH.
She qualifited in psychology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada before embarking on a career in the business sector. She has an MBA from the EU Business School, graduating from it’s Munich campus and has a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Law, Store Street, London, UK.
In 1999, she went back into psychology and has an Advanced Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy from the London College of Clinical Hypnosis, an MSc in Rational-Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural Therapies from Goldsmiths, University of London under the tutelage of Prof. Windy Dryden, an Advanced International Certification in Schema Therapy under the tutelage of Wendy Behary & Jeffrey Young, and an NCFED Practitioner Diploma in Eating Disorders under the tutelage of Deanne Jade.
Carla worked in the UK for 11 years, in private practice, Harley Street, and for 4 years at the Priory Hospital, Roehampton, before moving to Beirut in 2011, where she was the Head of Psychotherapy at Bellevue Medical Center, a general teaching hospital, until 2019.
Carla taught for 5 years at the College of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, where she is still a guest lecturer and was hired for 2 years by Goldsmiths, University of London, to supervise students undergoing REBT training as part of their Diploma in CBT.
More recently she participated in Embrace Line, Lebanon’s 1st suicide prevention hotline, as a designated trainer. She still works for Embrace, as a student supervisor.
She holds a HEART Approach (Humanistic Existential Approach to Relationship) Certification in Couples Counselling, which is accredited by the American Psychological Association, APA, and the Relational Path Institute.
She is a DBT therapist.
Carla now lives in Nicosia, Cyprus. She only works online and works with late adolescents, adults and couples.
