Continuing Education
Fall 2024 Courses
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Rooting the Psychotherapy Relationship in the Body, Part 2
With Jennifer Griesbach, LCSW and Michael Mitchell, LCSW
The process-oriented approach of Gestalt therapy is based on the philosophical method of exploration called phenomenology which prioritizes description over explanation. In this course, we will explore Ruella Frank’s developmental somatic approach and how it provides therapists a supportive framework for increasing sensitivity to felt experiences and exploring them descriptively. We will recognize the felt experience of trauma and how it can be addressed in a process-oriented approach. Reading the second half of her book, “The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy,” we will use discussion and experimentation to explore how we might increase our awareness of relational movement and integrate that awareness as a support into our own work. This module will focus on memory, diagnosing through movement, and developmental trauma.
This course is a continuation of Part 1 and will focus on the second half of Ruella Frank’s book. Participation in the first part is not a requirement to attending Part 2, although it is recommended that participants have read the first half of “The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy” in preparation for the first class.
Dates: Sundays, February 2, 9 and 16, 2025
Time: 2-5pm, 9 CE hours
Location: In person, at the GAP offices, 36 West 25th St., 10th Floor
Fee: $295
The Lived Experience of Grieving
with Ellen Theg, LP
Grief is part of the human condition, yet we do a poor job in our culture supporting the bereaved through losses of all kinds. In this workshop you will learn to work with the landscape of grief and will work experientially with your own losses. Moving to accept that life is different requires contact with one’s lived experience and the many levels of change that result. Normalizing this human experience, introducing concepts such as "the absent presence," and encouraging a compassionate stance for this transition though loss, will be presented through lecture and experiential exercises.
Dates: Saturday Feb. 8, 2025
Time: 10am-4pm (1 hour break), 5 CE hours
Location: In-person, at the GAP offices, 36 West 25th St., 10th Floor
Fee: $190
Psychoanalytic Courses
Psychoanalytic Courses are eligible for Continuing Education for Social Workers, Psychologists, and Psychoanalysts.
Spring Semester 2024
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. 15 hours, $450 Instructor: Arleen Maiorano, LCSW, LP
Saturdays, September 7, 21, 28; 9:00am - 1:00pm; Friday 9/13, 6:00 - 9:00pm 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; 6:00–9:00pm, plus 1 hour of case preparation Location: Zoom
Fall Semester 2024
The Development of Gender Identity
In this course we will explore the multiple and intertwining cultural, biological, and psychological issues that contribute to the formation of a sense of a gendered “self.” We will draw upon the works of such diverse theorists as Winnicott, Freud, Mitchell, Chodorow, Benjamin, and Gilligan, and analyze their contributions to an understanding of the role of gender in personality development.
10 hours, $300. Instructor: Justin Laird, PhD, LP
Saturdays, 10/5, 12, 19, & 26, 2024, 10:15am - 1:00pm Location: Zoom
Case Seminar, Presentness and Presence
Gestalt therapy has always emphasized the experience of the present moment. This focus has served to heighten our awareness of the immediacy of living our lives, and of contact with what is. Presence is the basis for all forms of presentness. This seminar will include didactic and experiential explorations of both presentness and presence, and will address clinical applications and implications of this expansion of the Gestalt approach.
10 hours, $300. Instructor: Alan Cohen, LCSW, LP
Saturday & Sunday, November 2 & 3, 2024, 10:00am – 3:00pm. Location: TBD
Psychoanalytic Research, The Case Study in Context
Through class discussion of reading assignments and project preparation students will achieve a comprehensive understanding of the contextual field in which the case study prevails as the research model utilized by psychotherapists across a range of theoretical approaches. Please Note: This class requires a significant amount of individual study outside of scheduled class hours.
15 hours, $450. Instructor: Todd Senzon, MA, LP
Tuesdays, November 12 & 26; December 10 & 17, 2024; January 7, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, 5 hours self-study. Location: Zoom
Case Seminar, The Person-in-Relation
This seminar will examine the individual cases of participants, focusing on the patient’s relationships. We will look at the patient’s early development and explore its impact of on the dynamics of the patient’s adult relationships. We will look at the patient’s attempts to repair early fragmentations or to “close” unfinished gestalts, focusing on their choice of relationships and patterns of interacting within their relationships. Each seminar participant will present a written case summary, exploring the specific dynamics of one or more primary relationships.
Please Note: SC1, Family and Couples Therapy, is now a prerequisite for this course.
10 hours, $300 Instructor: Arleen Maiorano, LCSW, LP
Fridays, January 17; February 14 & 28, 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm; Saturday January 25, 10:00 am - 12:30pm Location: Zoom
History of Psychoanalytic Thought
In this course we will delineate the last 100 years of psychoanalysis and its evolution into its many theoretical perspectives, with the goal of providing the student with a deeper historical and conceptual foundation for practice. We will trace this evolutionary tree from Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud, Heinz Hartmann and the beginning of ego psychology, object relations (Spitz, Mahler) through the Sullivanians, Melanie Klein, the British object relational school with Fairbairn and Winnicott, Erickson and Kohut and their contributions to Identity and the Self, through to contemporary Freudian theorists i.e. Kernberg, Lacan, Schafer, Loewald and finally to the relational school of psychoanalytic thought. We will also integrate how the “humanistic” schools of psychotherapy fit into this history i.e. Rogerian, Jungian, Gestalt, Bio-Energetics etc, which although distinguished by their theories and techniques, are still historically grounded in psychoanalytic theory.
15 hours, $450. Instructor: Johanna Barrett, LCSW & Jennifer Greisbach, LCSW
Tuesdays, January 14 & 28; February 11 & 25, and March 11, 2025, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Location: Zoom
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Open Houses and Introductory Events 2024
Open Houses have completed for the year.
Please contact info@gestaltassociates.org for more information.
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.
