Open Houses and Introductory Events 2025
Open Houses & Introductory Workshops
Learn more about our programs that prepare you to be a Gestalt Therapist.
• Clinical Fellowship: open to mental health professionals who are licensed or license-track
• Psychoanalytic Program: appropriate for career changers, who have a master’s in any discipline and
want to engage in a lively training program that prepares you to sit for the licensing exam to practice in
NYS as a Licensed Psychoanalyst.
• One-year Introductory Program: for people who want to learn more about gestalt therapy.
Members of the faculty, current students and recent alumni will be present to answer questions about our programs. We offer a mix of in-person (36 West 25th St., 10th floor, in Manhattan) and Zoom open houses.
Saturday April 19 (Zoom) 10am-11am Justin Laird
May 3: (Zoom) 10am-11am Justin Laird
Tuesday May 20: (Zoom) 7-8pm Justin Laird
Saturday June 7: 10am-1pm with Justin Laird and Jennifer Griesbach (combined with Introduction to Gestalt Therapy, see below): (In-person)
Tuesday August 5: 7-8pm with Justin Laird (Zoom)
Psychoanalytic Program Open Houses:
We invite all prospective Psychoanalytic Program trainees to gather to meet each other, current trainees, faculty and alumni. Learn more about the program and talk about both 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.
Arleen Maiorano and Justin Laird
Saturday, June 14 10am-12pm (Zoom) Arleen Maiorano & Justin Laird
Saturday, July 12 10am-12pm (In-person) Arleen Maiorano & Justin Laird
Introductory Workshops:
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. 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.
Saturday June 7: 10am-1pm with Justin Laird and Jennifer Griesbach (combined with an Open House, see above): (In-Person)
Friday August 1, 6-8pm (Zoom), with Justin Laird and Jack Worthy
Introduction to Dreamwork
These workshops 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.
May 19th, 7:00-9:00pm, with Susan Jurkowski and Justin Laird
August 18th 7:00-9:00pm, with Susan Jurkowski and Jennifer Griesbach
Introduction to Gestalt Group Therapy (In-person)
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 23, 6-8pm, with Patricia Tucker
Please contact info@gestaltassociates.org,
to sign up for Open Houses, Introductory Workshops, or for more information.
**Please note: Registration for each Open House or Introductory Workshop event will close at 5pm, the day before the event is scheduled**
Continuing Education Workshops
Working with Memory in a Present Focused Therapy
With Jennifer Griesbach, LCSW and Michael Mitchell, LCSW
In this four-hour experiential and didactic workshop, Michael and Jennifer will explore questions around how we work with bodily process in psychotherapy with special attention to memory, personal history, and how past is present in the here and now relational work of gestalt therapy. Based on the “Moving into Memory” chapter of Ruella Frank’s book The bodily roots of experience in psychotherapy, and working with ideas of time consciousness and kinetic-kinesthetic remembering, we will use experiments, teaching and discussion to go deeper into the theory and practice of working with memory as a function of present experience. This workshop is appropriate for gestalt therapists, therapists working in other relational, somatic modalities who are interested in learning more about gestalt and developmental somatic psychotherapy, and for gestalt therapists in training.
Dates: Sunday, May 18, 2025
Time: 2pm - 6pm, 4 CE hours
Location: In person, at the GAP offices, 36 West 25th St., 10th Floor
Fee: $95
Psychoanalytic Courses
Psychoanalytic Courses are eligible for NYS Continuing Education for Social Workers, Psychologists, and Psychoanalysts.
Resistance, Transference, Countertransference: Winnicott
This course will draw from concepts of transference/countertransference/resistance as presented in previous seminars and will focus on Winnicott’s models of infant emotional development and of therapeutic interaction. Our deeper appreciation of the subtleties and breadth of Winnicott’s (and related) concepts will open links to Gestalt theory and practice especially in terms of “the use of self.” 10 hours, $300
Instructor: Todd Senzon, MA, LP
4 Thursdays, March 27, April 3, 10, 17: 6 - 8:30pm, Location: Zoom
An Historical Overview of Resistance, Transference, Countertransference (RTC1)
This course will explore the evolution of the concepts of Transference, Countertransference, and Resistance through the lens of the four dominant schools of psychoanalysis: Drive Theory, Ego Psychology, Object Relations, and Self Psychology. We will discuss how each school approached transference, countertransference, and resistance, and compare and contrast these approaches to Gestalt therapy’s existential, relational stance in psychotherapy. The course will use practicum sessions and instructor demonstration to support trainees in recognizing course concepts as they emerge in sessions. For optimal learning, students are encouraged to have completed reading the five assigned texts before the first course meeting. However, lectures will be organized such that trainees may participate fully even if the readings are incomplete. 15 hours, $450
Instructor: Jack Worthy, LMHC.
3 Saturdays, April 19, May 3 & 17: 10am - 3pm Location: In-Person
Ethical Considerations in Analytic Practice
Intrinsic to ethical practice is the therapist’s respect both for the patient and for the complex and profound relationship, the “space between,” that is co-created by the patient/therapist meeting. We will discuss the philosophical, legal, and professional foundations that come together to form the core of current ethical practice. 15 hours, $450
Instructor: Arleen Maiorano, LCSW, LP.
5 Fridays, May 23, June 13 & 20, July 11 & 18: 6 – 9 pm, Location: Zoom
Developmental Theory, Bowlby, Mahler & Stern
This seminar focuses on the developmental theories of Mahler and Stern, and their practical application to Gestalt Therapy. The course includes both lecture and demonstration/participation. Various techniques and strategies are explored for integrating developmental insights into the ongoing process of a Gestalt session. 15 hours, $450
Instructor: Arleen Maiorano, LCSW, LP.
5 Thursdays: May 22, 29; June 5, 12, 19: 6-9pm, Location: Zoom
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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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Social Work
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Psychologists
Mental Health Counseling
Creative Arts Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapy
*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.
