New evidence-based perspectives in child mental health care respond to psychosocial problems present in a global area, given this, the need arises to outline the professional competencies of the child psychotherapist to address these current problems and that in turn respond to the objectives of sustainable development in the area of health and well-being to provide psychological care with a preparation by psychotherapists based mainly on ethics and professionalism, this is why this research was carried out to contextualize, identify and enunciating the profile of professional competencies of the child psychotherapist who is trained at the Gestalt Psychotherapy Research and Training Center and that responds to the demands of the ethical and professional practice of child psychotherapy of the theoretical and practical training of the Master in Child Gestalt Psychotherapy of the Center.

A prospective-descriptive study was conducted, the research was carried out with 18 participants of which all are experts in child Gestalt psychotherapy, who are all women with an average age of 45.8 (SD = 10), a validation of judges was carried out by their area of expertise in the field of child Gestalt psychotherapy in which it was measured through the coefficient of experts K of which they obtained an average of 9.40 which corresponds to a high level of expert coefficient. To reach a consensus on the competency profile of the Child Psychotherapist, the Delphi method was used in which the degree of congruence and relevance of each of the competencies declared in the instrument was evaluated and the Torgenson method to analyze the congruence and need for the competencies of a child therapist from the framework of the theoretical model of the Center for Research and Training in Gestalt Psychotherapy, 13% of the competencies are considered necessary and 87% are considered indispensable, from which it can be inferred that the construction of the behavioral indicators is very close to what is expected of a psychotherapist internally and externally and in this case also to those of a child psychotherapist trained at the Center for Research and Training in Gestalt Psychotherapy, of which the competencies of ethics and integrity, research, diagnosis, psychological intervention, which in this study are related to the theoretical-technical model of the Center, communication with the client and parents and therapeutic relationship with the client that lead to a professional competence that can ensure an effectiveness of the psychological intervention by the competencies of the child therapist, were highlighted as indispensable. In turn, it contributed to the construction of a competency profile that is required to be declared in the curricular design of the graduate studies in child Gestalt psychotherapy at the higher education center.

Keywords: Higher education, professional competence, child psychotherapist, education innovational, model competences.