Allan Whiteman
LCSW, LP, ACSW, BCD, Smith College
Allan began his training in Gestalt Therapy in 1972. He has also been a Zen student for 45 years, studied the Diamond Approach, a contemporary spiritual path, with A.H. Almaas for almost 30 years, and is an ordained teacher of the Diamond Approach.
He also did long study in the therapeutic traditions of hypnotherapy with Stephen Gilligan and brief therapy.
He helped begin a hospice program in one of the New York State prisons which is still operating.
“In Gestalt Therapy there is the potential to recognize awareness itself as a human presence, touching another human presence. In this meeting, we begin with realness and authenticity, they are not future goals."
