Ermal graduated in Clinical Psychology in 2004 from Tirana University and was trained and supervised in Art Therapy while working for SOS KD International (2006 – 2010) under guidance of Ingeborg Breder, from University of Oslo. Since then he has practiced art therapy with children and youth and also offered trainings on art therapy.
Ermal has worked as clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in various NGOs, with vulnerable children and youth, from 2005 till 2017.
During the period 2015 – 2017 followed the specialisation course in CBT from Israeli Association for Behavioural-Cognitive Therapy (ITA) in collaboration with Albanian Association for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AACBT). Is member of AACBT from 2015.
From 2015 is working in Private practice as Therapist, mostly working with adults, and also as trainer and supervisor. Also from 2017 is Cofounder and Executive Director of Centre for Integrated Psychological Services, Albania.
From 2019 is Member of International Society for Schema Therapy and Advanced Schema therapist in individual therapy. From March 2022 he is supervisor for individual schema therapy and from March 2025 Ermal is certified as Trainer from ISST.
Tijana Mirović holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is accredited advanced level schema therapist, trainer, and supervisor (ISST), Systemic Family therapist and CBT / Rational Emotive Behavioral therapist (Associate Fellow of Albert Ellis Institute). She was, until 2019 an associate professor at the University and has owned and managed a counseling center (Counseling center Mozaik) in Belgrade, Serbia since 2009. In 2016 Dr Mirović founded Schema Therapy Center Belgrade (the first accredited schema therapy center in the region) and subsequently held accredited trainings and supervisions in Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Egypt. In addition to this, Tijana is creator of „Trauma – our story“ project, author and host of the series „Trauma Heroes“ and „ZOOMing Trauma“, editor-in-chief of professional publications published by Mozaik and Schema Therapy Center Belgrade. She authored / co-authored “Schema Therapy Cards set”, three books, seven book chapters and numerous research papers related to schema therapy or trauma.