Professional activity

Fellow, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy
Member, Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy
Full Member, Supervisor, European Association for Gestalt Therapy
Member, Society for Existential and Phenomenological Philosophy
Co-founder of the International Gestalt Therapy Study Group on Field-Emergent Self and Therapy (IG-FEST.org)

President, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, 2023-
Conference Planning Committee of the AAGT/EAGT Conference, 2016
Steering Committee, Psychology and the Other Conference, 2015 – present
President, Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, 2008 – 2010
Vice-President, Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, 2006 – 2008
President (two terms), New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, 2001 – 2005
Clinical Director, Identity House, New York, 1982 – 1983

Independent Trainer

Adjunct Faculty:

• Center for Somatic Studies, New York, NY
• Gestalt Associates of New York
• The Gestalt Center of New York

Visiting Faculty:

• Istituto di Gestalt HCC, Italy

“An Historical Overview of Resistance, Transference, Countertransference and Existential Issues in Transference, Countertransference, and Resistance, ” and “Historical Overview,” Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, New York, Fall, 2016, Spring, 2017, Fall, 2022

“Existential Psychotherapy,” The Gestalt Center, New York, October, 2016

“Resistance, Transference, Countertransference: Existential Perspective,” and “Resistance, Transference, and Countertransference: Phenomenological Perspective,” Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, New York, Fall and Spring, 2014

Presentation, “The fractured World: The Gestalt of the Situated Self”, Feb, 2023, NYIGT

Faculty, Institute Residential, Institut für Integrative Gestalttherapie (IGW), St Arboghast, Austria, 2022. 

Plenary Speaker, Third International Gestalt Conference, Nanjing, China, 2021.

Lecturer, Minsk Gestalt Institute Conference, 2021.

Plenary Speaker, IV Interdisciplinary Congress of Gestalt Psychotherapy, “Love and the Human Condition,” Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2021.

Plenary Speaker, First Conference, International Gestalt Therapy Study Group on Field-Emergent Self, 2021.

Presenter Instituto Internationale di Psicopatologia e Psicoterapia della Gestalt, 2021.

Lecturer, Ukraine Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Art, 2020.

Presenter. Conference on Coronavirus, Istituto Di Gestalt HCC, Syracuse, Italy, 2020.

Visiting Faculty, Conference and Dialogue, Gestalt Therapy Institute of Malta, 2020.

Presenter, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, 2020.

Lecture, “Skulls and Skeletons: the Dead and the Living as Support for Contacting,” Nov 17, 2019, NYC. See the full lecture here.

Lecture and Workshop, “Skulls and Skeletons: the dead and the living as support for contact,” Instituto Humanista de Psicoterapia Gestalt, Coyoacán, Mexico, Oct 24 to 27, 2019

I Formación Internacional en Terapia Gestalt y Terapia Gestalt Relacional – Centro Gestáltico de Perú – Lima (Peru), 2017

“An Introduction to Gestalt therapy,” lecture/presentation as guest faculty, Wagner College, New York City, Oct 2016

“Sequence of Contacting and Self,” A Weekend Workshop at the Summer University for the Valencia, Spain, Gestalt Therapy Institutes, San Jorge, Spain, July 2015

“Contact,” Featured International Faculty, Four Day Residential Gestalt Therapy Institute, Institut Français de Gestalt-Thérapie & Institut Belge de Gestalt-Thérapie, Angers, France, July 2015

“An Introduction to Gestalt therapy,” lecture/presentation as guest faculty, Wagner College, New York City, Oct 2011

“Relational Gestalt Therapy,” two day workshops, Brisbane and Sydney, Australia, Sept 2011

“The New York Institute Model of Gestalt Therapy,” two day workshop, Istituto di Gesalt, HCC, Siracusa, Italy, July 2006

2024

Rooting in Life “International Gestalt Conference, Lodska Szkoła Gestalt and New Gestalt Voices

“Blood on Our Soil: “The Myth of Antaeus, the Earth, and Homeland,” presentation, “Re-Starting, Re-Thinking, Reconnecting

Advanced Supervisor Training Workshop, Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Psychodrama, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Speaker, Psychopathology of the Situation in Gestalt Therapy.” Istituto di Gestalt, HCC, Siracusa, IT

Poeanary, ” The Contact-Boundary: the birthplace of contacting, the home of creativity.” Annual Conference, Kiev Gestalt University, Kiev, Ukraine.

Master Class, ““When the walls keep tumbling down: re-discovering the ground of the figure during the suffering of war,” International Institute of Practical Psychology, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Workshop lecture series, “Gestalt therapy: freedom, contacting, and the other,” Pogodin Academy, Kiev, Ukraine (Online)

Presenter, Interregional Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Art, Dnipro, Ukraine

2023

Workshop, Gestalt Therapy and the Call of Freedom,” European Association for Gestalt Therapy Conference, Madrid, Spain

Keynote, “Gestalt therapy and the Call of Freedom,” Conference, and Workshop, European Accredited Training Institute- Gestalt Therapy Training Institute, Malta

Presentation, “The Fractured World: The Gestalt of the Situated Self,’ New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, NY

Trainer, “Psychopathology of the Situation,” Istituto di Gestalt, Italy

Presenter, Beyond Trauma, online conference

Presenter, international Gestalt Conference for Psychology and Psychotherapy (Online) ‘

Lecture, Gestalt Therapy as a Clinical Phenomenology, Istituto di Gestalt, HCC

2022

Presenter, Field Perspective and Interventions in Psychology, online conference

Faculty, Institute Residential, IGW, St Arbogast, Austria

Workshop, IGW, Munich, Germany

Speaker, “Dialogues on Psychotherapy at the Time of Coronavirus,” Istituto di Gestalt, Italy

Guest Faculty, Poesis, International Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Psychopathology, (IPsiG), Turin, Italy

Speaker, Conference, Kiev Gestalt University, Kiev, Ukraine

2021

Plenary Speaker, Third International Gestalt Conference, Nanjing, China

Lecturer, Minsk Gestalt Institute Conference

Plenary Speake, IV Interdisciplinary Congress of Gestalt Psychotherapy, “Love and the Human Condition,” Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina

Plenary Speaker, First Conference, International Gestalt Therapy Study Group on Field-Emergent Self

Presenter Instituto Internationale di Psicopatologia e Psicoterapia della Gestalt,

2020

Lecturer, Ukraine Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Art

Presenter. Conference on Coronavirus, Istituto Di Gestalt HCC, Syracuse, Italy,

Visiting Faculty, Conference and Dialogue, Gestalt Therapy Institute of Malta

Presenter, New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy

2019

Lecturer and Workshop Presenter, Istituto Humanista de Psicoterapia Gestalt, Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico

Featured Speaker, Development of Gestalt Therapy Conference, Istituto Di Gestalt HCC, Mondelo, Italy,

Presenter. European Association for Gestalt Therapy Conference, Budapest, Hungary

Workshop, “Out of the Night Before Being: the Other and Creative Non-Indifference,” EAGT Conference, Budapest, Hungary, Sep 2019

2016

Plenary Panel, “The Aesthetic of the Emerging Other: beauty, responsibility and evil at the contact-boundary,” Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT)/European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT) Joint Conference, “The Aesthetic of Otherness: meeting at the other in a sensitized world,” Taormina, Italy

Panel, “The Aesthetic of the Emerging other: beauty, responsibility and evil at the contact-boundary,” AAGT/EAGT Joint Conference, “The Aesthetic of Otherness: meeting at the other in a sensitized world”, Taormina, Italy

Workshop, “The Relational Function of Self: the Human and Non-human Other” AAGT/EAGT Joint Conference, “The Aesthetic of Otherness: meeting at the other in a sensitized world”, Taormina, Italy

Read more about the AAGT/EAGT Conference (including papers and pictures).

2015

Presentation, “Contacting the Other: the clinical phenomenology of gestalt therapy,” The Psychology and the Other Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2014

Workshop, “The Naked Individual: Homelessness and the relational self,” AAGT Bi-Annual Conference, Asilomar, California

2013

Panel, “Gestalt Therapy: a panel,” The Psychology and the Other Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Invited Presentation, “The Person in Gestalt therapy,” AAGT Conference, Puebla, Mexico

2010

Panel (moderator), “Field of ‘Field’”, AAGT, Philadephia, Pennsylvania

“Chasing Rainbows: Ethics in gestalt therapy, external ethics, foundational ethics,” AAGT, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

“Talking in the House of the Other,” EAGT, Berlin, Germany

2009

Plenary presenter, “Chasing Rainbows,” XI International Gestalt Therapy Congress, Madrid, Spain

2008

Keynote speaker, “When,” AAGT Conference, Manchester, UK

Workshop, “The intentionality of Contact,” AAGT Conference, Manchester, UK

Keynote, “New Feet Was Asked to Fill Other’s Shoes,” AAGT Conference, Manchester, UK

“Panel of Presidents,” AAGT Conference, Manchester, UK

2007

“The Openness of Contact,” EAGT, Athens, Greece

Workshop, “Self: Structure and Function – alive and well,” AAGT, Vancouver, BC

Keynote, “The Aesthetics of Commitment,” Laura Perls Centennial Conference, Munich, Germany

Plenary speaker, “Self: an introduction,” NYIGT conference. “Shall I Compare Thee,” NY, NY

2005

Plenary Speaker, Congresso IX, Naples, Italy

2004

“Self functioning and the temporality of contacting,” AAGT Conference, Sarasota, Florida

Keynote, “President’s Welcome,” NYIGT 50th Anniversary Conference, NY, NY

2003

Panels and workshops, EAGT Conference, Prague, Czech Republic