About me

Amira Tönig – Dipl.-Päd.
psychotherapist

Personal information
born in 1975 in Vienna; living in a long-term relationship; one son

Education/Qualification

• psychotherapy at the Institute of Integrative Gestalt Therapy (IG Wien) from September 2011
• propaedeutic at ÖAGG (Vienna) graduation in March 2011
• degree at the teacher's college (Pädagogische Hochschule Wien) 2001

Work Experience

• Psychotherapist since 2016, in an independent surgery
• Psychotherapist since 2014, with the organization P.A.S.S (Vienna), experienced in addiction, depression, anxiety and phobias
• Teacher since 2001 at a Viennese Middle School
• Instructor for adult education at a VHS, 1996 – 2000

Field of work

• Depression
• Anxieties/ Social phobias
• Alcohol abuse/ addiction
• Women’s issues
• Transcultural issues/ migration
• Binational families/ marriages
• Grief/ farewell
• Spirituality/ faith
• self-awareness

Further education to these topics

• addiction
• structural disturbances
• (OPD2) Operationalized psychodynamic Diagnosis
• Sexuality
• Sand play therapy
• couple therapy 1+2
• EMDR basic course
• Psychosomatic Integration I (Tapping by Gallo)

I have continuously been attending training sessions, to expand my therapeutic skills and refine them, to be able to give the support you need.

Traineeships 

• Maimonides Sanatorium (geriatrics und gerontology), 2009 – 2010
• ÖKIDS ( Austrian society for children and adolescent psychology), 2011 – 2013
• P.A.S.S ( Help with addiction problems) Vienna, 2012
• Neurological centre Rosenhügel, the Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, July 2014