About

Dr. Rico Pohling
2004 – 2010 Diploma studies in Psychology at TU Dresden with a focus on Clinical Psychology / Psychotherapy and Work & Organisational Psychology; diploma passed "with distinction".
2010 – 2012 Research associate at TU Dresden, Chair of Process-oriented Diagnostics; project lead in several industry projects on aptitude diagnostics (requirements analysis, personnel selection).
2012 – 2017 Doctoral dissertation at TU Dresden, later at TU Chemnitz, on "Moral Sensitivity — the basis for perceiving social responsibility in organisations". My research covered personality traits that influence moral reasoning and action and that also play a major role in psychotherapy: empathy, moral attentiveness, sensitivity to injustice, moral identity.
  • 2012–2014: Scholarship holder of the Free State of Saxony ("Landesinnovationspromotion").
  • Grade: Magna cum laude.
2013 – 2020 Postgraduate training as Psychological Psychotherapist under the German Psychotherapists Act; initially at the Academy for General Psychotherapy (aap private GmbH), from 2016 at the renowned Dresden Institute for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (DIPP e.V.).
  • 06/2012 – 07/2012: preparatory internship at the InVivo Institute for Behavioural Therapy Dresden.
  • 07/2014 – 03/2015: Psychotherapist in training at the University Hospital of TU Dresden, Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, General Day Clinic.
  • 04/2015 – 11/2015: Outpatient psychotherapist in training at aap private GmbH under statutory health insurance.
  • 01/2016 – 05/2020: Outpatient psychotherapist in training at DIPP e.V. under statutory health insurance.
  • 02/2019 – 01/2020: Psychotherapist in training at Klinikum Niederlausitz (Senftenberg), Centre for Mental Health, acute psychiatry.
2017 Opening of own private practice as Diploma Psychologist with permission to practise psychotherapy under the German Heilpraktiker Act.
2020 State licence (Approbation) under the Psychotherapists Act as Psychological Psychotherapist, specialty: psychodynamic psychotherapy; entry in the register of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians of Saxony (KVS).
07/2020 – 12/2020 Psychological Psychotherapist at MEDIAN Klinik Berggießhübel (psychosomatic rehabilitation).
since 03/2021 Contract psychotherapist of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians of Saxony (KVS); accredited for statutory health insurance in the Dresden planning area.
since 10/2021 Member of the board of the Dresden Institute for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (DIPP e.V.), training commission for Psychological Psychotherapists, lecturing.

Further qualifications

  • More than 22 years of engagement with Buddhist psychology and personal meditation practice.
  • Leading meditation groups within and outside clinical settings.

Memberships in professional associations

  • Dresden Institute for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (DIPP e.V.)
  • Professional Association of German Psychologists (BDP)
  • German Psychological Society (DGPs)
  • Federal Association of Contract Psychotherapists (bvvp)
  • Interest Group for Psychoanalysis at Universities (IDPAU)

A full list of my scientific publications is available here.