Gestalt Training & Links

“Awkwardness and embarrassment are potentially creative states where we have one foot on familiar and one foot on unfamiliar ground.” – Laura Perls

MEMBER AFFILIATED GESTALT THERAPY TRAINING PROGRAMS

PACIFIC GESTALT INSTITUTE (PGI)

1626 Westwood Blvd., Suite 104
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Contact: Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D.
Phone: (310) 446-9720
Fax: (310) 475-4704

Core Faculty:
Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D.
Lillian Norton, M.D., M.F.T.
Jan Ruckert, Ed.D.
Friedemann Schulz, M.F.T.
Gary Yontef, Ph.D.

PGI’s training focuses on contemporary relational perspectives in Gestalt therapy, with an emphasis on working with the nuances of emotional process, therapist-patient interaction, enduring relational themes, and the developmental process of psychotherapy. Relational Gestalt therapy theory is taught systematically and is interwoven into the experiential part of the program.

THE RELATIONAL CENTER
5486 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035

Phone: (323) 935-1807
Fax: (323) 935-1171

Web: http://www.relationalcenter.org

Faculty: Cathe Carlson, Sally Denham-Vaughan, Mark Fairfield, Leanne O’Shea & Carol Swanson

The Relational Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity whose mission it is to increase diversity in the helping professions and to expand access to culturally competent mental health care and organizational consulting for individuals, families, groups and organizations. We are committed to serving communities of color, sexual minorities, and people who are multiply diagnosed with mental and physical illness, chemical dependency and poverty. The Relational Center achieves these important aims through training programs to professionals and pre-professionals while embedding that training in the context of providing services directly to the general public. The Relational Center is committed to ensuring that more people of color and other minorities enter the fields of mental health care and organizational development, influence service delivery, and reshape theories of human behavior to take into account the perspectives and cultural differences of their own communities.