Clinical psychologist, adictologist, psychotherapist, and certified supervisor. A graduate of the single-major master’s programme in psychology at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno and postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Arts of Palacky University in Olomouc. In 2005 he qualified as a senior lecturer ("docent") in clinical psychology at Palacký University in Olomouc and in 2012 he was appointed as a professor of clinical psychology at Charles University. He started his professional career as a prevention and counselling worker at the Podané ruce association in Brno, where he later worked as the head of the Elysium day-care psychotherapeutic centre and the manager of the Department of Treatment Facilities. In parallel, he pursued clinical psychology at the Brno-Bohunice Psychiatric Department. From 2001 to 2005 he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Psychology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and as a lecturer at the Department of Psychology of Palacký University in Olomouc. While there, he was mainly concerned with research methodology, the treatment and prevention of substance abuse-related problems, and narrative psychology applied to work with film. In 2005 he was appointed the head of the newly-established Centre for Addictology at the Department of Psychiatry of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague. After the merger of the Centre for Addictology and the Department for Addiction Treatment at the General University Hospital (U Apolináře), an independent Department of Addictology was established (January 2012) with Professor Miovský as its head, a position which he continues to occupy until this day. Since 2008 he has held the office of Vice-Dean for non-medical study programmes at the First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University. From 2016 to 2018 he served as the President of the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE). In 2016 he became a founding member of the International Consortium of Universities for Drug Demand Reduction (ICUDDR), where he was elected its first ever President in 2017 after this international organisation had been formally registered. He is a permanent member of the Scientific Board of Charles University and a member of the Scientific Board of the Minister of Health of the Czech Republic.
CV detail: https://www.adiktologie.cz/file/849/miovsky-cz-s-fotkou.pdf
MD Cure service for foreigners is led by one of our senior therapist Silvia Miklíková. Along with therapy, she is responsible for coordination and Case Management and is clients first contact person.
Silvia Miklíková, MA has been working with clients since 2009, providing services to drug users and their families and loved ones in the Slovak non-profit organisation Plan B, which she founded and led. Since 2012 she has been working in private practice - mostly with foreign clients (in English).
Silvia graduated in psychology from the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia and completed certified training in crisis intervention and accredited IVGT psychotherapy training in gestalt therapy in Prague. She is licensed to work as a psychologist in the healthcare sector. She is an external consultant for the Institute for Training in Gestalt Therapy and Gestal Studia School. In Years 2018 and 2019 she conducted seminars on Counselling and Addictology at New York University Prague. She is an alumna of the IPsiG – Istituto di Psicopatologia e Psicoterapia della Gestalt supervisory training program in Turin, Italy, and is certified Gestalt therapist and supervisor by the EAGT. She has lived abroad for a some time (London, UK).
Psychotherapeutic work requires a good command of, particularly, crisis intervention and motivational work with the client. In therapy and counselling, she focuses on the client, their needs, and experience of the specific, often difficult life situation. In recent years, she was involved in the preparation and development of educational and training materials for professionals in the prevention of risky behaviour among children and adolescents at the Department of Addictology of the First Medical Faculty of Charles University and the General University Hospital in Prague.
In addition to psychology, she has also been active in other areas. She worked for the Open Society Foundation, where she headed the public health programme for five years. In her work, she focused on mediation activities and research supporting the protection of the rights and improvement of the life and opportunities of people using illegal drugs and other disadvantaged minority social groups (people working in the sex industry, people living with HIV/AIDS, and others). She also worked for the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia in Vienna and was involved in long-term projects for the UN Regional Centre and the Delegation of the European Union in Bratislava.
From 2015 to 2018 she worked in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she collaborated on the Raising the Level of Creativity in Primary Schools programme. The programme was supported by the Slovenian Ministry of Education. She also participated in the Društvo za nenasilno komunikacijo programme to support children with experiences of violence in the family or among peers.
She also worked on a project concerning the involvement of vulnerable groups in public life implemented under the auspices of Javna agencija za knjigo and conducted individual counselling for clients with eating disorders under the auspices of Društvo Svetovalni svet. For the company Legebitra from Ljubljana, she conducted individual counselling for clients with self-harm issues and eating disorders.
Trained psychologist, graduate of the Instep accredited psychotherapy training for integrative gestalt therapy and a master's degree in family and couples therapy from the University of Kentucky, USA. In addition to her therapeutic practice, she has worked in a management position developing teams in HR. Since 2018, she has been working with clients in private practice where she specializes in couples therapy with predominantly English speaking couples using EFT (Emotion Focused Therapy).
After completing his studies at the Faculty of Medicine (2nd Medical Faculty, Charles University) - physician - pyschiatrist, Ondřej joined the Department of Child Psychiatry at the 2nd Medical Faculty and University Hospital Motol as a psychiatrist, serving in both inpatient and outpatient capacities. Subsequently, he worked at the Psychiatric Department of the Military University Hospital Prague (ÚVN), where he was responsible for patients in both acute and open inpatient wards. Since 2022, he has been employed at the Psychosomatic Clinic in Prague 6, where he provides treatment to adult and child patients through outpatient services. Ondřej is currently undergoing psychotherapeutic training in Gestalt approach in Institute for Gestalt studies - DIALOG, Brno .