blackbirdinstitute.dk

What It Is

Blackbird Institute is a private psychotherapy education institution in Denmark. Its curriculum is built around “relationships” and “contact,” offering a 1-year program in relationship and life competence, a 2-year program for relationship competence leaders and family counselors, a 3- to 4-year family and psychotherapist training program, and advanced training in body- and trauma-informed psychotherapy for trained psychologists/psychotherapists. Its core positioning is not short-term online courses, but long-term, in-person professional training that includes a personal development process.

Core Programs and Accreditation

The learning path is relatively clear: the first year can be taken independently as training in relationship and life competence; continuing into the second year develops participants into relationship competence leaders and family counselors; completing all four years leads to certification as a family and psychotherapist. Years 3–4 consist of 9 modules per year, each lasting 3 days, from 9:00 to 16:00. The content covers individual, couples, and family therapy, with training methods including theory, process-based experience, exercises, body awareness, demonstrations, and live and video supervision. The institution has been evaluated/re-certified by Dansk Psykoterapeutforening and Crossfields Europa, and states that it meets Denmark’s inter-ministerial quality standards for private psychotherapist education.

Pricing and Entry Requirements

The main text clearly discloses that the price for the advanced Years 3–4 family and psychotherapist program is DKK 62,500 per year, including certification, and payment is only required annually. Pricing for Year 1, Year 2, and the trauma-informed advanced training programs was not found in the captured content. Courses are mainly held in Copenhagen and Aarhus, with 14–18 participants per class, making them suitable for people who can commit to long-term in-person study in Denmark. The teaching language is not stated directly, but the pages and forms are in Danish, so non-Danish-speaking learners may face a significant language barrier.

Pros and Cons

The advantages are a complete training pathway that combines theory, practice, supervision, and personal growth; strong professional depth across topics such as relationship competence, attachment, trauma, body awareness, and couple and family dynamics; and third-party evaluation/re-certification as an endorsement. The drawbacks are incomplete pricing information, limited disclosure regarding support for international learners, online options, payment methods, and admission details; the programs are highly localized, and their accessibility and suitability for Chinese learners remain unclear.

Who It’s For and Access from China

It is better suited to helping professionals, education/institutional workers, public-sector consultants, HR professionals and managers, parents, and those who wish to become independent family and psychotherapists, especially those based in Denmark or able to travel there for study. For users in China, the website’s accessibility status and the remote availability of the courses cannot be determined from the main text, so china_access is marked as unknown.