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Hans Fribergh, formerly CEO of PAT Management / Alumni Global
Hans Fribergh, former CEO of PAT Managmen
about
Sara Ekenstierna
Sara Ekenstierna is a psychologist, author and entrepreneur, and the founder of Oakstar Invest AB and Ekenstierna Psykologkonsult, a well-established consulting company in Sweden, and Oakstar Coaching & Consulting in Australia. She is the author of the book The Part-Whole Relation and The Therapeutic Third: Otto Rank, David Bohm and Contemporary Psychoanalysis, which will be published by Routledge this year. Sara developed cutting edge approaches to public health and personal/professional development, by integrating frontier science with psychodynamic psychology and creativity theory. She facilitates growth and inspires meaningful transformation in individuals and organizations through research, consultation, tailored workshops and dialogue groups. Her research interests include wellbeing science and prevention, mindset research, mind-body relations, and therapeutic relationships.
Background
Sara leverages two decades of experience spanning psychiatry, private practice, entrepreneurship, and organizational psychology. Early in her career she worked in psychiatry and has since 2011 specialized in short-term dynamic psychotherapies, mainly through private practice through contracts with Kris- och Trauma Centrum and Region Skåne, and collaborations with several other large clinics in Sweden, including INM Psykiatrisk Mottagning. Additionally, Sara is experienced in organizational psychology, specializing in personality and leadership development. She was employed by PAT Management from 2007 (now Alumni), and proceeded as a consultant for the firm through Ekenstierna Psykologkonsult. Clients included major companies like Skanska AB and Swedbank.
Education
Sara is a licensed psychologist since 2009. She studied at Lund University in Sweden, was a visiting student at University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She also has a PhD in Philosophy from University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where she was the recipient of the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. Additionally, she has studied at Malmo University in Sweden. Sara has undertaken continued education and masterclasses in short-term dynamic psychotherapies with Jon Frederickson, Patricia Coughlin Della Selva, Susan Warren Warshow, as well as the legendary Swedish psychoanalyst Ulla Bejerholm Hansen. She is also experienced in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), having trained with JoAnne Dahl and Tobias Lundgren. She has offered experiential workshops focused on personal and professional development since 2010. She also facilitates educational-experiential hybrid workshops, recently in collaboration with Existential-Humanistic Institute, USA (co-sponsors: KU Leuven and Instituto Europeo de Psicoterapia Humanista y Existencial) (2023) and Houston Psychoanalytic Society, USA (2025).
Engagement
Sara is the creator and host of the new podcast Bohmian Dialogues, which explores creative forms of being and how to manifest new shared realities. She was a columnist for the popular Swedish professional magazine Psykologtidningen. Her work is also published in Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Blog of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), and Blog of American Philosophical Association (APA). Sara is a frequent speaker on the international arena. She is a member of multiple professional- and research communities including Sveriges Psykologförbund, American Psychological Association (APA), Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA), Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (APA), Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), The Association of Humanistic Psychology (AHP), Society for Humanistic Psychology (APA), and International Society for the Science of Existential Psychology (ISSEP).
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