Psychoanalytic Program
We are offering a hybrid training option, for those who cannot attend classes in person. We will be conducting on-site Friday evening classes for all who are able to attend.
Using a unique combination of lectures, live demonstrations, group seminar discussions, and a clinical internship, the Clinical Fellowship Program provides a theoretical framework which facilitates the integration and understanding of gestalt theory and experiential work.
Our Program in Psychoanalysis has been chartered since 2006 by the New York State Education Department, qualifying graduates for Psychoanalyst (LP) Licensure in NYS.
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Are You Considering a New Career as a Psychotherapist?
Candidates with a JD or a Master’s Degree in any field may apply to our psychoanalytic program to become licensed to practice psychotherapy in NYS. Using Gestalt theory as its theoretical foundation, the program is experience-rich and features lectures, demonstrations, live practicum, and a supervised clinical internship. Participants complete our Clinical Fellowship program plus additional State-required courses in psychoanalysis and become qualified to sit for the New York State Psychoanalyst Licensing exam. For more information on licensing of Psychoanalysts, please visit the New York State Department of Education, Office of the Professions.
Admission
Admission is based on review your application and personal interview. A Master’s Degree in any field is a pre-requisite required by the New York State Department of Education, Office of the Professions. To assure early consideration, please complete our application form by 8/31, and send additional requested materials. Once received, we will contact you to arrange an interview. Please note: all MA Degrees from a non-US university must be evaluated by NYS prior to program admission. For additional information, email us at info@gestaltassociates.com.
Tuition
Friday Night Courses & Practicum: $3500 per year / no materials fee. Psychoanalytic Courses: $300-$450 per each additional 10-hour or 15-hour required Psychoanalytic Course, for a total of 22 additional courses over the duration of training, as specified in the Program Outline.
Weekly Psychotherapy: At least 250 hours of individual therapy, and at least 1 year of group therapy, to meet the NYS requirement of 300 hours. Fees for therapy are arranged privately with the individual or group therapist. Prior therapy may be applied to the 300 hour requirement, depending on the prior therapist’s licensure and other qualifications.
Weekly Supervision: $40 per group session and $80 per 1-hour individual session.
Scholarships
During the current Academic year, we are offering a limited number of partial scholarships, with the goal of promoting diversity both in our training program, and in the larger profession of psychotherapy.
To Apply for a Scholarship email scholarships@gestaltassociates.org with a one page (maximum) statement describing how you would bring diversity to GAP, and also how your current economic circumstances indicate the need for a scholarship, including current monthly family income, and monthly payments for housing, childcare, and outstanding student loans. Statements will be kept confidential; please submit applications by 9/7, and we will respond promptly.
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Coursework
Trainees in the Psychoanalytic Program take all courses in the Clinical Fellowship Program plus three or four 10-15 hour Psychoanalytic courses each semester. These courses are each offered every 2-3 years on non-training Fridays, or on weekdays or weekends, depending on the availability of the instructor. All of the Psychoanalytic courses must be completed to be eligible for graduation and to be qualified to sit for the New York State Psychoanalyst licensing exam. Courses may also be taken on an elective basis. The courses may be completed in a four-year sequence, or the length of time for completion may be extended if necessary to meet the needs of the individual trainee. To access a program outline, click on this link. To access a sample schedule, click on this link. To view the program requirements on the NYS website use this link.
Clinical Work
300 direct hours of supervised clinical work are required in order to apply for the NYS Limited Permit.
450 additional direct hours of supervised clinical work are required to meet the NYS requirements for Psychoanalytic Licensure.
These can be earned while in the program, or while under the Limited Permit, for a total of 750 hours of clinical work.
This clinical work begins in Level II and continues in Levels III & IV.
NYS requires that all clinical work must occur within NYS, even if sessions are conducted using zoom.
Supervision
Candidates are supervised on a weekly basis, in Levels II, III, & IV, and clinical work is evaluated before continuation to the next Level.
In addition to this weekly supervision of ongoing clinic clients, for a total of 150 hours, 50 hours of individual case supervision is also required by NYS in order to qualify for the Limited Permit.
Analysis
A total of 300 hours of psychotherapy is required by NYS. GAP’s requirements include a minimum of 3 years of individual therapy (150 hours), and 1 year of group therapy (50 hours) which must be earned during the GAP program. The NYS therapy requirement may be completed in four years or, if necessary, may be extended to meet the needs of the individual trainee. Fees vary, depending on the individual or group therapist. Prior individual therapy may be applied to the NYS requirement of 300 hours.
Psychoanalytic Course Offerings
Continuing Education: All Psychoanalytic courses are registered with NYS as part of our Psychoanalytic Program, and are eligible for NYS Continuing Education for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Psychoanalysts, and Licensed Psychologists.
For Fall 2024 Registration information, click here. *Due to the Covid crisis, some courses are currently hosted through Zoom, depending on the decision of the instructor.
Registration & Payment Information
To register for a course, please use our registration form, in the upper right hand column, send an email to info@gestaltassociates.org, or visit the Psychoanalytic Courses Drop Down Menu on our payments page.
*Please note: One absence per class is permitted with the instructor’s approval. Participants in online courses will be sent a recording of the missed class, and a summary of course readings will be required for all online and in-person classes.
Spring 2024
Family and Couples Therapy From a Systems, Gestalt and Psychoanalytic Perspective (SC1)
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
This course is eligible for 15 Continuing Education Hours, for Social Workers, Psychoanalysts, Psychologists.
Saturdays, September 7, 21, 28; 9:00am -1pm; Friday 9/13, 6-9pm. Location: Zoom
Case Seminar, Case Studies through the Life Cycle of Treatment (CS5)
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
This course is only open to trainees enrolled in our Psychoanalytic Program and is not eligible for Continuing Education.
Mondays, September 9, 23, & 30; 5:30–8:30pm, plus 1 hour of case preparation Location: TBA
Fall 2024
The Development of Gender Identity (SC2)
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 -1pm, 10 hours; Location: Zoom
Case Seminar, Presentness and Presence (CS4)
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, 10am – 3pm, Location, Zoom or in-person TBD
Psychoanalytic Research, The Case Study in Context (ER2)
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; Dec 10, 17, 2024; Januray 7, 2025, 6-8pm, Location: Zoom
Case Seminar, The Person-in-Relation (CS7)
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, Fridays, Jan 17; Feb 14 & 28; 6-8:30 pm; Saturday 1/25, 10am-12:30pm, Location: Zoom
History of Psychoanalytic Thought (P3)
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. Instructors: Johanna Barrett, LCSW & Jennifer Greisbach, LCSW
Tuesdays, January 14, & 28; February 11 & 25, and March 11, 2025, 5 pm to 8 pm, Location: Zoom