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This course explores the many ways that issues of “culture” influence the frame of psychotherapy and the relationship between client and therapist. A historical context is provided to help define “Multiculturalism, Biculturalism and Interculturalism” as discussed in the literature. A psychoanalytic perspective on the issues is then provided. Next, an analysis is provided by several Gestalt therapists. Emphasis is then given to issues of particular relevance to therapists in the United States; that is, therapist and client field-related issues with regard to race and ethnicity. Finally, the course looks at social action as it relates to Gestalt therapy theory and to our role as Gestalt therapists.
$300
10 Hours
Instructor: Patricia Tucker, LCSW, LP
In this course, students read examples and then present their own cases surrounding the following topics: Beginnings: Introductions and Engagement; Middle Phase: Core Issues and Major Theme Development; Transference and Countertransference; and Endings: Termination Issues in Treatment. This course requires participants to complete Level I of GAP training before registering.
$300
10 Hours
Instructor: Patricia Tucker, LCSW, LP
This seminar will focus on the difficult treatment issues presented by Personality Disorders. The seminar will include: an overview of the different theories and ways of looking at Personality Disorders; their characteristics and diagnosis; and different principles of intervention, with an accent on the Gestalt approach to treatment. Participants are invited to present cases from their practice in this seminar. This course requires participants to complete Level I of GAP training before registering.
$300
10 hours
Instructor: Jack Worthy, LMHC-D and Jim Mulry, LCSW
Gestalt therapy provides a comprehensive framework for object relations and self psychology psychoanalytic theories. We will review the different schools of object relations and self psychology theories, with an emphasis on how they can be utilized to broaden a Gestalt theoretical view of psychotherapy. Review of case material and use of experiential work in class will be used to enhance an understanding of object relations and self psychology from a Gestalt perspective.
$300
10 Hours
Instructor: Evan Senreich, PhD, LCSW
This course will focus on learning to attend to ourselves and our client’s somatic processes through kinesthetic awareness, and using this as orientation and guidance in developing a diagnosis of relational field. We will address the historical evolution of somatic awareness in treatment and focus on practical application of somatic awareness in our Gestalt tradition, including the concepts of kinesthesia, kinesthetic resonance, and diagnosing by the aesthetic criteria. The course will consist of 15 hours of lecture and experiential work plus a short reflection paper for people in the PA program taking this course as part of their ongoing training.
$450
15 Hours
Instructor: Jennifer Griesbach, LCSW-R
This course will examine transference/countertransference/resistance in its historical context as it emerged from an intrapsychic individualist model and developed into a model focusing on the emerging structure of the situation. We will analyze the influence of phenomenology, gestalt psychology, and existentialism, as they relate to the innovations of Gestalt therapy. Clinical material will be presented to exemplify contemporary Gestalt therapy’s use of transference/counter-transference as a functioning of the contact-boundary in a psychotherapeutic meeting. This course requires participants to complete Level I of GAP training before registering.
$300
10 Hours
Instructor: Justin Laird, LP
Saturdays, 10am-1:20pm
September 19 - October 3, 2026
Location: On Zoom
Semester: Fall 2026
In this course we will explore the multiple and intertwining cultural, biological, and psychological issues that contribute to the formation of a sense of a male or female gendered “self.” We will draw upon the works of such diverse theorists as Winnicott, Freud, Mitchell, Chodorow, Benjamin, and Gilligan, and analyze their contributions to an understanding of the role of gender in personality development.
$300
10 Hours
Instructor: Justin Laird, PhD, LP
Sundays, 12-3:30pm
October 4 - November 15, 2026
Location: On Zoom
Semester: Fall 2026
Attachment Theory is a psychological theory that provides a descriptive and empirical framework for interpersonal relationships throughout the life span. The central theme of Attachment Theory is that the infant-caregiver relationship informs styles of attachment which impact behaviors later in life. This course will explore in depth the work of John Bowlby, the first attachment theorist; Mary Ainsworth and her ground-breaking “strange situation” study; Margaret Main; and John Fonagy. The implications for psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and parental support will be addressed.
$450
15 hours
Instructor: Jordan Dann, LP-D, CiRT, SEP
Weekend workshop: Friday, 6-9pm; Saturday & Sunday, 10am-3pm
October 9 - 11, 2026
Location: On Zoom
Semester: Fall 2026
Gestalt therapy has always emphasized the experience of the present moment. This focus has served to heighten our awareness of the immediacy of living our lives, and of contact with what is. Presence is the basis for all forms of presentness. This seminar will include didactic and experiential explorations of both presentness and presence, and will address clinical applications and implications of this expansion of the Gestalt approach.
$300
10 Hours
Instructor: Alan Cohen, LCSW, LP
Weekend workshop: Saturday & Sunday, 10am-4pm
November 7-8, 2026
Location: In-person at GAP
Semester: Fall 2026
Through class discussion of course reading assignments and project preparation students will achieve a comprehensive understanding of the contextual field in which the case study prevails as the research model utilized by psychotherapists across a range of theoretical approaches.
$450
15 Hours
Instructor: Todd Senzon, LP-D
Thursdays, 6-8:30pm (plus individual study)
November 19, 2026 & February 4-25, 2027
Location: On Zoom
Semester: Fall/Winter 2026
In this course, we will focus on the clinical use of dreams, noticing their structure and timing in the therapeutic process, and how they arise from and impact the therapy and the treatment relationship. We will use case examples to demonstrate how images from dreams and dreamwork can be utilized as an ongoing homework practice to help patients alter habitual patterns of interrupting contact. Each participant will contribute case examples for discussion, and will prepare a paper and presentation. This course requires participants to complete Level I of GAP training before registering.
$300
10 Hours
Instructor: Susan Jurkowski, LCSW, LP
Mondays, 6-9:20pm
January 11-25, 2027
Location: On Zoom
Semester: Fall/Winter 2026
This seminar will examine the individual cases of participants, focusing on the patient’s relationships. We will look at the patient’s early development and explore its impact of on the dynamics of the patient’s adult relationships. We will look at the patient’s attempts to repair early fragmentations or to “close” unfinished gestalts, focusing on their choice of relationships and patterns of interacting within their relationships. Each seminar participant will present a written case summary, exploring the specific dynamics of one or more primary relationships. This course requires participants to complete Level I of GAP training before registering.
$300
10 Hours
Instructor: Arleen Maiorano, LCSW, LP
Saturdays, 10:00am-1:00pm (plus one Friday: Feb 12, 6-7pm)
March 6-20, 2027
Location: On Zoom
Semester: Fall/Winter 2026
This course explores impairment of functioning and other symptoms in relationship to their genesis during the socialization process, from a physical, energetic perspective. We will work with memory recollection and in-the-moment re-experiencing of painful past episodes—where cognitive understanding is coupled with appropriate affect (abreaction). This working through process will be examined and discussed in detail, along with specific techniques for dealing with negative emotions and helping patients dispel the tension and confusion associated with repressed intra-psychic conflict.
$450
15 Hours
Instructor: Todd Senzon, LP-D
This course explores the basics of Gestalt Therapy theory & practice, and the structures of interpersonal communication, with an emphasis on the role of how body and language cues, and intuitive information may alter and/or enhance overt communication and reveal unconscious messages and processes. Through lecture, demonstration and discussion, participants will gain experience in how to observe, organize, and utilize information to assess a patient’s level of functioning and direct and enhance therapeutic communication and intervention.
15 Hours
Instructor: Connie Newman, LMHC, LP, LCAT
This seminar focuses on the developmental theories of Mahler and Stern, and their practical application to Gestalt Therapy. The course includes both lecture and demonstration/participation. Various techniques and strategies are explored for integrating developmental insights into the ongoing process of a Gestalt session.
$450
15 Hours
Instructor: Jordan Dann, LP-D
This seminar focuses on developmental theory and its practical application to Gestalt Therapy. We will explore techniques, approaches, and interventions designed to engage and systematically develop a client’s presenting issues with the goal of revealing underlying themes and creative adjustments, and their relationship to early developmental experiences.
15 Hours
Instructor: Senzon, LP & Tucker, ACSW, LP/Justin Laird, LP& Jennifer Griesbach, LCSW
This course outlines the intake process & utilizes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as a guide for appropriate diagnosis. With the instructor's supervision, participants conduct practice clinic intake interviews, and submit written intakes. Emphasis is placed on the client’s psychosocial case history, diagnostic assessment, and mental status exam.
15 Hours
Instructor: Jordan Dann, LP, CIRT, SEP, Justing Laird, PhD, LP & Jeff Allison, LCSW
This course offers an introduction to Gestalt dreamwork through an exploration of various Gestalt perspectives on dreamwork, including those of Fritz Perls, Isadore From, Erving & Miriam Polster, and Rainette Fantz. We will discuss readings from each of these Gestalt teachers, as well as exploring and working together with course participants' dreams, and engaging in brief dreamwork practicum experiences followed by theoretical discussion.
$150
15 Hours
Instructor: Susan Jurkowski, LCSW, LP & Jennifer Griesbach, LCSW
This course will address the issues that form the conceptual framework of Gestalt Therapy, how they are operationalized, and the integrative experience of the process. Topics will include: field theory, body as ground, contact boundary/creative adjustment, defenses/process of interruption, support and frustration, layers and impasse, presentness and presence, and uncertainty and emergence.
10 hours
Instructors: Alan Cohen, LCSW, LP & Johanna Barrett, LCSW
This seminar consists of lectures discussing the contributions of different psychoanalytic and existential theories to develop an understanding of character. We will look at the etiology and treatment of schizoid, oral, and symbiotic character styles, and provide a framework for understanding and treatment of a client's presenting issues.
10 Hours
Instructors: Jim Mulry, LCSW, LP & Jack Worthy, LMHC
Using the different theories of personality discussed in Seminar 202, treatment of several basic personality styles — narcissistic, masochistic, and rigid — will be explored through the use of videotape and lectures. Emphasis will be placed on difficult issues that arise in treatment, and participants will be encouraged to use case material to examine both effective and ineffective interventions.
10 Hours
Instructor: Jim Mulry, LCSW, LP & Jack Worthy, LMHC
This course delineates the last 100 years of psychoanalysis and its evolution into its many theoretical perspectives, with the goal of providing the student with a deeper historical and conceptual foundation for practice. We will trace this evolutionary tree from Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud, Heinz Hartmann and the beginning of ego psychology, object relations (Spitz, Mahler) through the Sullivanians, Melanie Klein, the British object relational school with Fairbairn and Winnicott, Erickson and Kohut and their contributions to Identity and the Self, through to contemporary Freudian theorists i.e. Kernberg, Lacan, Schafer, Loewald and finally to the relational school of psychoanalytic thought. We will also discuss how the “humanistic” schools of psychotherapy fit into this history i.e. Rogerian, Jungian, Gestalt, Bio-Energetics etc, which although distinguished by their theories and techniques, are still historically grounded in psychoanalytic theory.
$450
15 Hours
Instructor: Jack Worthy, LMHC-D and Todd Senzon, LP-D
This course will address family issues, dynamics and treatment from a Gestalt Psychoanalytic perspective, interweaving ideas derived from Family Systems theory. We will look at the history of the development of Family Therapy, various schools of thought, emphasizing gestalt, psychoanalytic and systems thinking and modes of treatment. We will study tapes and use role play as well as supervision of actual cases to explore various treatment interventions based on solid theoretical formulations. This course requires participants to complete Level I of GAP training before registering.
$450
15 Hours
Instructor: Jordan Dann, LP, CIRT, SEP
Utilizing a psychoanalytic and Gestalt therapy framework, the interplay of social factors in the environment and issues of LGBTQIA+ identity will be discussed in depth. Students will be presented with many of the cultural issues and struggles of this population, and the creative adjustments, defenses, and coping mechanisms frequently utilized by LGBTQIA+ clients that clinicians need to understand when working with this population in a psychotherapy setting. Assessment and treatment issues will be discussed using both case material and the student’s own experiences with the LGBTQIA+ population.
$350
10 Hours
Instructor: Jennifer Byxbee, LCAT
Faculty members will do a live therapy demonstration with a trainee, in front of a small group, providing the opportunity to observe and discuss the application of Gestalt theory to Gestalt therapy practice. Faculty member demonstrations vary, to allow exposure to as many Faculty as possible.
5 hours per semester
In this 4-day intensive workshop, trainees work in practicum/therapists dyads, in both small and large groups, under the observation of a supervisor. As trainees observe each other’s work, in a collegial and supportive atmosphere, the unique individual style of each training therapist is defined and supported.
50 hours
In practicum, trainees are provided with the opportunity to work as patient or therapist, under the moment-to-moment supervision of a faculty member.
10-15 hours per semester
This course will explore the evolution of the concepts of Transference, Countertransference, and Resistance through the lens of the four dominant schools of psychoanalysis: Drive Theory, Ego Psychology, Object Relations, and Self Psychology. We will discuss how each school approached transference, countertransference, and resistance, and compare and contrast these approaches to Gestalt therapy’s existential, relational stance in psychotherapy. The course will use practicum sessions and instructor demonstration to support trainees in recognizing course concepts as they emerge in sessions. For optimal learning, students are encouraged to have completed reading the five assigned texts before the first course meeting. However, lectures will be organized such that trainees may participate fully even if the readings are incomplete. This course requires participants to complete Level I of GAP training before registering.
$450
15 Hours
Instructor: Jack Worthy, LMHC-D and Todd Senzon, LP-D
This course will draw from concepts of transference / countertransference / resistance as presented in previous seminars and will focus on Winnicott’s models of infant emotional development and of therapeutic interaction. Our deeper appreciation of the subtleties and breadth of Winnicott’s (and related) concepts will open links to Gestalt theory and practice especially in terms of “the use of self.”
$300
10 hours
Instructor: Todd Senzon, LP
This course will focus on countertransference/transference and resistance issues. Candidates are taught how to enter and understand the world view of the client from the perspective of Gestalt, intersubjective, existential, and communication theory. Encompassing theorists ranging from Martin Buber to Gianni Francesetti, emphasis will be placed on the contributions of gestalt and existential theorists on the development of a relational theory of psychoanalysis, Case vignettes will be used to identify moments in the therapist/client relationship that clarify or move past resistance and interruptions in contact.
10 Hours
Instructors: Arleen Maiorano, LCSW, LP and Justin Laird, PhD, LP