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