Justin Laird

PhD, University of Texas, Austin

Justin Laird is a Certified Gestalt Therapist and is trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR through the Parnell Institute. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor with CUNY, at Brooklyn College and the School of Labor and Urban Studies. In teaching and training roles, he has facilitated conversations with small and large groups on self-compassion, burnout, vicarious trauma, mindfulness, cultural humility, implicit bias, micro-aggressions, and more.

“I appreciate how Gestalt therapy opens the possibility of feeling and experiencing the moment more fully. Or as a wise mentor shared, “Think less, feel more.”