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

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

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

Each candidate is required to present a case formulation in Gestalt terms, utilizing a client that has been seen in their ongoing supervised caseload for at least one year. A comprehensive research paper summarizing this presentation will be submitted and discussed with other seminar participants. The paper will include a psychosocial history, mental status exam, and an analysis of treatment focusing on the patient/therapist relationship and ethical and psychodynamic issues that have emerged in the course of treatment.

• 10 Hours

• Instructors: Susan Jurkowski, LCSW, LP & Justin Laird, PhD, LP