Events and Continuing Education
Open Houses and Introductory Events 2024
All open houses and introductory workshops are free. To RSVP, please e-mail info@gestaltassociates.org.
Open Houses and Introductory Workshops are not eligible for Continuing Education credit.
2024 Open Houses
Clinical Fellowship Program Open Houses
Saturday April 27: 10am-11am with Justin Laird and Jack Worthy (Zoom)
Saturday May 18: 10am-1pm with Justin Laird and Jennifer Griesbach
(Combined with Introduction to Gestalt Therapy, see below: In-person)
Tuesday May 21: 7-8 pm with Justin Laird and Jennifer Griesbach (Zoom)
Tuesday August 6: 7-8pm with Justin Laird and Johanna Barrett (In-person)
Psychoanalytic Program Open Houses
We invite all prospective Psychoanalytic Program trainees to gather to meet each other, and our Faculty, current trainee, and alumni. Learn more about the program and talk about the excitement and growing edges of changing careers and training to be a Gestalt Therapist. You are welcome to join us if you have already applied to the training program, if you are thinking of applying for this Fall, or even if you are thinking of applying to the Psychoanalytic Program in the future.
This workshop is intended for career changers who are not currently licensed in the mental health field.
With Arleen Maiorano and Justin Laird
Saturday, June 8 10am-12pm (In-person)
Saturday, June 29 10am-12pm (Zoom)
2024 Introductory Gestalt Workshops with Training Program Information
Join us for one or more introductory workshops listed below. Each workshop will allow you to meet some of our faculty, learn about Gestalt therapy in an informal presentation, and at the end of the workshop you will learn about our Post-graduate Clinical Fellowship, Practitioner and Psychoanalytic Programs, Short Courses, and Workshops. Come and experience our training approach, and have your questions about Gestalt Therapy and Post-graduate Training answered by Faculty and current and past trainees. We offer a mix of in-person and Zoom open houses.
Introduction to Gestalt Therapy and Training Programs
This workshop is perfect for individuals interested in training in Gestalt Therapy. Our time will include a brief explanation of some of the main concepts in Gestalt Therapy and an experiential portion, which will include short demonstrations of gestalt therapy in action, followed by a group discussion.
Saturday May 18: 10am-1pm with Justin Laird and Jennifer Griesbach (combined with an Open House, see above): (In-Person)
Friday August 2, 6-8pm, with Justin Laird and Jordan Dann (Zoom)
Introduction to Dreamwork
The evening will include a brief explanation of the Gestalt approach to dreamwork, and an opportunity to explore actual dream material in a group process format. Bring a dream of your own, or simply come to be part of a supportive and powerful group experience as others encounter dream images and discover the "existential message" of their dreams.
Monday, May 13, 7:30-9:30pm, with Susan Jurkowski and Justin Laird (Zoom)
Monday, August 5, 7:30-9:30pm, with Susan Jurkowski and Jennifer Griesbach (Zoom)
Introduction to Gestalt Group Therapy
This workshop offers an opportunity to experience yourself within an interactive group environment. You will be guided to explore your own experience in the moment, respond to others, and give and receive feedback as we discuss some of the basics of Gestalt therapy.
Monday, June 17, 6-8pm, with Patricia Tucker (Zoom)
Continuing Education
Spring 2024 Courses
To register for our courses, please fill out the form at sidebar or send an RSVP to info@gestaltassociates.org.
Submit payment through the Workshops Drop Down Menu on our our payments page.
If you need to cancel your course registration, please do so with 48 hours notice, or we will be unable to refund payment. You must attend a course in full to be eligible for NYS continuing education hours.
Please check back for our upcoming Continuing Education Calendar
Psychoanalytic Courses
Spring Semester 2024
Psychoanalytic Courses are eligible for Continuing Education for Social Workers, Psychologists, and Psychoanalysts.
Understanding and Working With Personality Disorders
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.
10 hours, $300 Instructor: Justin Laird, PhD, LP
Saturdays, 3/30; 4/6, 4/13, 6/1; 10:15am – 1:00pm Location: TBA
Attachment Theory Through the Life Cycle
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 groundbreaking “strange situation” study; Margaret Main; and John Fonagy.
The implications for psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and parental support will be addressed.
15 hours, $450 Instructor: Jordan Dann, LP
Saturdays, April 20 & 27, May 11; 10am-3pm Location: TBA
Resistance, Transference, Countertransference, Existential Issues
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.
10 hours, $300 Instructor: Dan Bloom, JD, LCSW
Saturdays, May 4 & June 8; 11am-2pm and May 18 & June 22; 11am-1pm. Location: Zoom
Case Seminar, Dreamwork
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. (Note: Dream Analysis, PP3, is a prerequisite for this course, as well as a caseload of at least one current patient.)
10 hours, $300 Instructor: Susan Jurkowski, LCSW, LP
Sunday, June 3, 2-7pm; Mondays, June 17 & July 15, 7-9 30pm
Family and Couples Therapy From a Systems, Gestalt and Psychoanalytic Perspective
This course will address family issues, dynamics and treatment from a Gestalt Psychoanalytic perspective, interweaving ideas derived from Family Systems theory. We will look at the history of the development of Family Therapy, various schools of thought, emphasizing gestalt, psychoanalytic and systems thinking and modes of treatment. We will study tapes and use role play as well as supervision of actual cases to explore various treatment interventions based on solid theoretical formulations. Saturdays, xxx
15 hours, $450 Instructor: Arleen Maiorano, LCSW, LP
Saturdays, September 7, 21, 28; 9:00am -1pm; Friday 9/13, 6-9pm. Location: Zoom
Object Relations, Self-Psychology and Gestalt Therapy, an Integration
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.
10 hours, $300 Instructor: Evan Senreich, PhD, LCSW
Mondays: June 3, 10, 17, 24; 7 – 9:30 pm. Location: Zoom
Case Seminar, Case Studies through the Life Cycle of Treatment
In this course, students read examples & then present their own cases surrounding the following topics: Beginnings: Introductions and Engagement; Middle Phase: Core Issues & Major Theme Development; Transference and Countertransference; & Endings: Termination Issues in Treatment.
10 hours, $300, Instructor: Patricia Tucker, LCSW, LP
Mondays September 9, 23, & 30; 5:30–8:30pm, plus 1 hour of case preparation Location: TBA
Registration & Payment Information
To register for our courses, please fill out the form above or send an RSVP to info@gestaltassociates.org.
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Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy is approved by NYS Board for Social Work as a provider of Continuing Education, #SW-0041; by the NYS Board for Mental Health Practitioners as a provider of Continuing Education for Mental Health Counseling, #MHC-0018, Psychoanalysis, #P-0020, and Creative Arts Therapy, #CAT-0007; and by the NYS Education Dept as a provider for Psychology, #PSY-0051
*Note: As per NYS guidelines, Couples and Family Therapy courses are eligible for Continuing Education for LMHC’s, LP’s and LCAT’s, but the scope of practice of LMHC, LP and LCAT does not then allow these professions to hold out as marriage and family therapists, family therapists or couples therapists.
All Workshops and Short Courses are eligible for Continuing Education for Social Work, Psychology, Licensed Mental Health Counseling, Psychoanalysis, Marriage and Family Therapy and Creative Arts Therapy. Psychoanalytic Courses are registered with NYS as part of our Psychoanalytic Program, and are eligible for Continuing Education for Licensed Social Workers, Psychologists, and Psychoanalysts.
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*Participants must attend all course sessions in order to receive CE contact hours. Unless otherwise noted, all courses are eligible for NYS Continuing Education contact hours for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Psychologists, Licensed Psychoanalysts, Licensed Mental Health Counselors and Licensed Creative Arts Therapists.
