Instituto de Desenvolvimento Pessoal de Ensino Superior

What Instituto de Desenvolvimento Pessoal de Ensino Superior does

Instituto de Desenvolvimento Pessoal de Ensino Superior (IDEPES) is a Brazilian private educational institution founded in 2006 and headquartered in São Paulo. It specializes in postgraduate Lato Sensu programs, professional training courses (capacitação), and international university extension programs across integrative and complementary therapies, orthomolecular medicine, integrative aesthetics, contemporary psychoanalytic theory, and — most recently — orthomolecular veterinary medicine and elderly-care institutional management. The catalog comprises 8 postgraduate programs and 1 MBA ranging from 360 to 760 hours, plus 6 shorter professional training courses (32–150 hours) on topics including quantum theory, radiesthesia, Pythagorean numerology, dream analysis, and fairy-tale psychoanalysis.

The platform is delivered 100% online through the IDEPES EAD portal (idepes.eadbox.com), built on the Eadbox LMS, providing asynchronous video lectures and supplementary materials. All postgraduate programs are authorized by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) and certified through partner institutions UNISEPE (primary) and UNIVR (Centro Universitário do Vale do Ribeira), with certificates registered at INEP and the Biblioteca Nacional (RDA). An optional international certification is offered through Logos University, and select programs carry additional endorsement from the Academia Brasileira de Ciências Naturais (ABCN).

IDEPES operates a direct-to-consumer enrollment model via its institutional website (idepes.com.br), supported by content marketing through a topical blog and organic social channels (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube). Pricing is not publicly disclosed and prospects are routed through WhatsApp or web enrollment forms. The institution has no external funding, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and a reported headcount of 1–10 employees, indicating a micro-enterprise structure. Faculty consists of specialists, master's, and doctoral-degree holders coordinated by a small executive team led by founder-director Sônia Maria Martins Adoglio Dick.

Name

Instituto de Desenvolvimento Pessoal de Ensino Superior

Legal name

Instituto de Desenvolvimento Pessoal de Ensino Superior

Website

https://idepes.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Postgraduate Education (Integrative Therapies)

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Professional and Management Development Training (611430)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAAALAD

Behavioral Health & Counseling (Social Work, Psychology, Substance Use CE)

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Professional Licensure & Continuing Professional Education (CE/CPE)

SECONDARYEDAOALAE

Esthetics / Skincare

Education/Vocational, Technical & Trade Education/Beauty, Cosmetology & Personal Care Training

Keywords

• Postgraduate online education
• Integrative therapy courses
• Orthomolecular medicine training
• Professional development EAD
• Holistic wellness certification

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

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Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Postgraduate Lato Sensu Tuition: IDEPES generates revenue primarily through tuition fees for its postgraduate specialization courses (Lato Sensu), which are delivered 100% online. Programs range from 360 to 760 hours and are certified through partner institutions UNISEPE and UNIVR.
2. Professional Training and Extension Courses: Revenue is also generated from shorter professional training (capacitação) and university extension courses, which are fee-based programs covering topics such as Radiesthesia, Numerology, Quantum Theory, and Dream Analysis.

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Core offering

IDEPES sells 100% online postgraduate Lato Sensu specialization programs, professional training (capacitação) courses, and university extension courses in integrative and complementary therapies, orthomolecular medicine, aesthetic integrative practice, contemporary psychoanalytic theory, tealogy, quantum-based mental model reprogramming, and veterinary orthomolecular clinic. Courses are delivered asynchronously through the Eadbox-powered EAD portal and certified through partner institutions UNISEPE and UNIVR under MEC authorization, with optional international certification via Logos University.

Product overview

IDEPES (Instituto de Desenvolvimento Pessoal de Ensino Superior) is an educational institution founded in 2006, specializing in postgraduate Lato Sensu programs, professional training courses, and university extensions in the fields of integrative therapies, orthomolecular health, aesthetic medicine, psychoanalytic studies, and holistic practices. The portfolio consists of 7 postgraduate programs (Pós-Graduação) including Gestão de Terapias Integrativas e Complementares, Ortomolecular, Nutracêuticos Injetáveis na Estética Integrativa, Teoria Psicanalítica Contemporânea, Tealogia, Reprogramação de Modelos Mentais e Emocionais: Uma Estratégia Quântica, and Clínica Ortomolecular e Modulação Intestinal Veterinária; one MBA program (Gestão de ILPI's); and 5 professional training courses (Capacitação Profissional) covering Quantum Theory, Radiesthesia & Radionics, Pythagorean Numerology, Dream Analysis, and Fairy Tale Psychoanalysis, plus an International Biomolecular Extension. All postgraduate programs are 100% online, MEC-authorized and certified by partner institutions UNISEPE and UNIVR.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pós-Graduação em Gestão de Terapias Integrativas e Complementares Postgraduate Lato Sensu program with 360 hours over 12 months, 100% online, authorized by MEC and certified by UNISEPE. Covers 12 modules from Functional Food to Flower Therapy, forming leaders in integrative health management. Target audience: healthcare and wellness professionals seeking specialization in integrative and complementary therapies.
• Pós-Graduação em Ortomolecular Postgraduate program with 555 hours, offered in partnership with UNIVR – Centro Universitário do Vale do Ribeira, covering vitamins, clinical phytotherapy, nutraceuticals, injectable practices, ozone therapy, and platelet-rich plasma. Recognized by MEC with registration at Biblioteca Nacional. Target audience: clinicians and wellness professionals seeking specialization in orthomolecular medicine.
• Pós-Graduação em Nutracêuticos Injetáveis na Estética Integrativa 360-hour postgraduate program over 6 months, 100% online, in partnership with UNIVR. Covers injectable nutraceuticals, mesotherapy, ozone therapy, and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in integrative aesthetic practice. MEC-certified. Target audience: aestheticians, biomedics, and healthcare professionals seeking injectable nutraceutical specialization.
• Pós-Graduação em Teoria Psicanalítica Contemporânea Postgraduate program with 760 hours covering contemporary psychoanalytic theory from Freud to modern innovations, including modules on psychopathology, dream analysis, and fairy tale psychoanalysis. Target audience: psychoanalysts, psychologists, and therapists seeking formal postgraduate credentials.
• Pós-Graduação em Tealogia 360-hour postgraduate program exploring the Sacred Feminine across religious traditions, feminist theology, and cultural archetypes, from ancient goddess worship to contemporary ecofeminism. Target audience: theologians, religious studies professionals, and holistic practitioners seeking specialization in feminine spirituality.
• Pós-Graduação em Reprogramação de Modelos Mentais e Emocionais: Uma Estratégia Quântica 360-hour postgraduate program integrating quantum science with psionic therapy, chakras, neuro-linguistic programming, and mental model reprogramming techniques. MEC-certified, issued by UNISEPE. Target audience: coaches, therapists, and holistic practitioners seeking quantum-based mental reprogramming specialization.
• Pós-Graduação Clínica Ortomolecular e Modulação Intestinal Veterinária 9-month, 360-hour postgraduate program, 100% online, for veterinary physicians. Covers orthomolecular clinic, injectable nutraceuticals, intestinal modulation, and integrative therapies for pets. MEC-certified by UNISEPE. Target audience: licensed veterinarians seeking specialization in integrative veterinary orthomolecular practice.
• MBA em Gestão de Instituições de Longa Permanência para Idosos (ILPI's) MBA program covering legal, strategic, financial, hospitality, and quality management aspects of long-term care institutions for the elderly, with 100% online video lessons and complementary material. Target audience: administrators, directors, and managers of elderly care institutions.
• Extensão Universitária Internacional em Biomolecular 150-hour international university extension course covering biomolecular introduction, semiology, clinical phytotherapy, nutraceuticals, heavy metals, and functional food. Certified by Logos University. Target audience: healthcare professionals seeking international certification in biomolecular studies.
• Capacitação em Análise dos Sonhos Professional training course in dream analysis within psychoanalysis, covering dream construction, condensation, displacement, and symbolic representation. Structured across five detailed lessons for therapeutic practice. Target audience: therapists, psychoanalysts, and holistic practitioners seeking specialization in dream analysis.
• Capacitação em Numerologia Pitagórica 32-hour professional training course on Pythagorean numerology covering natal numerological maps, life cycles, challenges, achievements, and numeric compatibility tables. Target audience: holistic practitioners and numerology professionals.
• Capacitação em Radiestesia e Radiônica – Visão Quântica Professional training course covering radiesthesia and radionics history, principles, pendulums, radionic charts, geobiological radiesthesia, tele-radiesthesia, and clinical radiesthesia applications for healing. Target audience: holistic therapists and energy healing practitioners.
• Capacitação em Psicanálise dos Contos de Fadas 32-hour professional course exploring the psychological and symbolic dimensions of fairy tales through psychoanalysis, analyzing themes of love, conflict, transformation, and redemption in classic narratives. Target audience: psychoanalysts, psychologists, and therapists.
• Capacitação em Teoria Quântica 64-hour professional course exploring quantum physics fundamentals and their application in integrative therapies, covering human knowledge forms, metaphysics, and physics as an instrument for improving individual-environment relations. Target audience: therapists and holistic practitioners seeking quantum-physics-based foundations.

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Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• UNISEPE (Faculdade União das Instituições de Serviço, Ensino e Pesquisa)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUNISEPE is the primary certifying institution for IDEPES's Lato Sensu postgraduate programs. Courses are officially certified by UNISEPE's Faculty, with MEC authorization and registration at the National Library (RDA). This partnership provides IDEPES with the regulatory credentialing framework required for official postgraduate degrees in Brazil.
• UNIVR – Centro Universitário do Vale do RibeiracoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUNIVR partners with IDEPES for specific postgraduate programs such as Gestão de Terapias Integrativas e Complementares and Nutracêuticos Injetáveis na Estética Integrativa, providing MEC-authorized certification through Unisepe affiliation.
• Logos University (Logos Universit)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLogos University provides international certification options for IDEPES graduates. Programs include partnership with ABCN – Academia Brasileira de Ciências Naturais and offer optional international certification (international registration at additional cost). This partnership elevates the credential value internationally and integrates Brazilian natural science education with global standards.
• ABC – Academia Brasileira de Ciências NaturaisminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Brazilian Academy of Natural Sciences is referenced as a certification partner alongside Logos University for the Gestão de Terapias Integrativas e Complementares postgraduate program, contributing scientific credibility and certification endorsement.
• Mercado&FeirasminorOthersListed as a partner on IDEPES's website partner section. The nature of the partnership is not explicitly described but appears in the partner logo bar.
• UniVRminorOthersListed as a partner on IDEPES's website partner section. Part of the UNIVR institutional network.
• Vita-DermminorOthersListed as a partner on IDEPES's website partner section. Appears to be a health and wellness brand within the IDEPES ecosystem.
• RegiaminorOthersListed as a partner on IDEPES's website partner section.
• TCL (TCL Consultoria e Assessoria)minorOthersTCL Consultoria e Assessoria, led by Profa. Dra. Teresinha Covas Lisboa, partners with IDEPES to co-coordinate the MBA in Gestão de Instituições de Longa Permanência para Idosos (ILPI's).
• Faculdade MontessoriminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFaculdade Montessori, located in Moema, São Paulo, was the venue for IDEPES's inaugural Aperfeiçoamento Profissional em Terapias Complementares in 2006 and subsequent postgraduate programs in 2007, representing the founding partnership that enabled IDEPES's launch.
• Faculdade de Ciências da SaúdeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with IDEPES to launch the pioneering course in Gestão de Spas e Clínicas, under the coordination of Ala Szerman, expanding IDEPES's offering into the aesthetics and spa management sector.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Anhanguera: Anhanguera is a large Brazilian education network (part of Cogna/Kroton) with significant online postgraduate enrollment across health and wellness themes. Comparable for its EAD postgraduate business model, but operates as a broad incumbent rather than an integrative-therapy specialist.
• Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul: Cruzeiro do Sul is a large Brazilian higher education group with EAD postgraduate programs in health sciences. Comparable as a broader incumbent competing for the same postgraduate healthcare professional student in São Paulo and nationally.
• Estácio: Estácio is a major Brazilian higher education group with extensive EAD postgraduate offerings, including healthcare-adjacent programs. Comparable as a broader incumbent that could enter or already competes in complementary therapy postgraduate education with greater capital and brand recognition.
• UNINTER: UNINTER is one of Brazil's largest fully-online (EAD) universities, offering hundreds of postgraduate and undergraduate programs including in health and wellness. Comparable as a direct competitor in the Brazilian online postgraduate market with overlapping student demographics, although IDEPES specializes narrowly in integrative therapies where UNINTER offers broader catalogs.
• Cogna Educação: Cogna is Brazil's largest private education company (owner of Kroton, Vasta, Saber), with extensive online and on-campus higher education operations including postgraduate health programs. Comparable as the dominant incumbent that could absorb IDEPES's niche with scale advantages.

Direct peers

• IBrate (Faculdade IBRATE): IBrate is a Brazilian higher education institution with a strong focus on integrative, complementary, and traditional therapies — offering postgraduate and training courses targeting therapists and healthcare professionals, closely mirroring IDEPES's curriculum and customer base.
• Faculdade Unyleia: Unyleia is a Brazilian EAD-focused higher education institution offering a wide range of online postgraduate Lato Sensu programs, including in health and integrative themes. Closely comparable business model — online-only, MEC-authorized postgraduate specialization — making it the most direct structural peer.
• Wellpark Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde: Wellpark is a Brazilian health-focused higher education institution with programs in integrative and complementary therapies. Comparable niche focus and target audience (healthcare professionals seeking postgraduate specialization in holistic/integrative practices).
• Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde de São Paulo (FACIS): FACIS is a São Paulo-based health sciences college with postgraduate offerings in integrative and complementary medicine. Comparable for geographic market (São Paulo), target audience (healthcare professionals), and curriculum overlap in holistic and complementary therapies.

Others

• Faculdade Unisepe (UNISEPE): UNISEPE is IDEPES's primary certifying partner for MEC-authorized Lato Sensu postgraduate programs. Comparable as a Brazilian higher education institution offering its own postgraduate programs in health, and directly relevant as the regulatory vehicle behind IDEPES's credentialed offerings.

Market position

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Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/Idepes
• Instagraminstagram.com/idepes_oficial
• Xx.com/IdepesCursos
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cursos-idepes

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