The InterPlay Team

Stefan Flegelskamp

co-founder

Graduate social worker, child and adolescent psychotherapist, supervisor. He has been a psychodrama trainer for adults since 2000, and psychodrama with children trainer since 2010.He has worked 10 years in Residential Care Unit for Traumatised children in Urft, Germany and 8 years in Specialised clinic for drug addicted for young adults in Schalkenmehren, Germany. He is head of the Institute of PsychodramaSzenen, Cologne, Germany since2011. He has held seminars in Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Palestine, Israel, Egypt, etc. Since 2016 he has been a co-leader of several international group for training in psychodrama with children. He was a main partner in Evidence Based Trauma Stabilization project (EBTS- 2017-2019), funded by Erasmus+ Programme of EU. From 2015 to 2017 he was a member of the Council of Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations (FEPTO). Since 2016 he is a coordinator of FEPTO Network Group for Psychodrama with Children and Youth.

Assoc. Prof. Milena Mutafchieva, PhD

co-founder

PhD of Developmental Psychology, Associate Professor in Cognitive Science and Psychology Department in New Bulgarian University, Sofia. She got her PhD in Developmental Psychology in 2007. She is child and adolescent psychotherapist. She has been a psychodrama trainer for adults since 2003, and psychodrama with children trainer since 2020. She has held seminars in Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Palestine, Israel, Egypt, etc. Since 2016 she has been a co-leader of several international group for training in psychodrama with children. She is the founder of Center for Child Development and Psychological Consulting “Cognitiva”, Sofia, Bulgaria. She was a main partner in Evidence Based Trauma Stabilization project (EBTS- 2017-2019), funded by Erasmus+ Programme of EU. From 2015 to 2017 she was the Vice-president of Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations (FEPTO).Since 2020 she is a coordinator of FEPTO Network Group for Psychodrama with Children and Youth.

Assist. Prof. Kristina Gotseva-Balgaranova, PhD

co-trainer

PhD of Psychology, Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science and Psychology Department in New Bulgarian University, Sofia. She got her PhD in Psychology in 2018. She is a group and an individual child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapist. She has been a psychodrama trainer for adults under supervision since 2015, and psychodrama with children trainer under supervision since 2020. She is apsychotherapist in Center for Child Development and Psychological Consulting “Cognitiva”, Sofia, Bulgaria. For many years she is conducting research projects related to child development. She has attended many scientific and psychodrama conferences in Bulgaria and abroad. She was in the research team in the Evidence Based Trauma Stabilization project (EBTS- 2017-2019), funded by Erasmus+ Programme of EU.

Denitsa Petrova

co-trainer

Master's in Clinical Social work. She is a Jungian psychodramatist, as well as a child psychodramatist. She has worked in many projects as a supervisor aimed to reduce poverty and enhance social inclusion, as well as taken part in numerous international psychodrama seminars.

Dimitar Mutafchiev

office manager

Bachelor of psychology at the University of Amsterdam, with a specialization in clinical psychology. Currently a graduate student in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Groningen. He was a junior researcher in the Evidence-Based Trauma Stabilization Project (EBTS– 2017-2019), funded by the Erasmus+ Project of the EU. Child psychodramatist in training and associate collaborator at the Centre for Child Development and Psychological Consulting “Cognitiva” in Sofia, Bulgaria.