Two Gestalt therapists talk about Chair Work and other classic Gestalt Experiments. 

This episode features guest host Vikram Kolmannskog, LL.M., Ph.D.. He is Certified Gestalt Therapist and a professor of Gestalt Therapy at the Norwegian Gestalt Institute. Dr. Kolmannskog is the author of The Empty Chair: Tales from Gestalt Therapy amongst other written works. 

Contact: www.vikram.no 

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Stephanie Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the owner and Clinical Director at Goldsmith Psychological Services where she provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy as well as post-graduate supervision to associate clinicians.  Some of her specialty areas include trauma, dissociation, interpersonal relationships, eating disorders, LGBTQI issues, and whole person care. 

​Stephanie is a Certified Gestalt Therapist, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, is trained in EMDR and EFT “Tapping”, and has completed certificate training in Emotion Focused Couple’s Therapy. She is the Co-Director for Gestalt Associates Training, Los Angeles and she also provides Gestalt clinical consultation via teleconferencing to therapists all around the world. 

In addition to her work in private practice, Dr. Goldsmith is an Associate Clinical Professor at Loma Linda University. 

Contact: www.goldsmithpsychologicalservices.com

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Three certified Gestalt therapists talk about the Gestalt Formation and Resolution Cycle, Interruptions to Contact, and Self Regulation. This is an information packed episode! We hope you enjoy it. 

This episode features guests Rene Keres, PsyD and Paul Plakos, LMFT.

Rene Keres, PsyD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Redlands, CA. She works with adults and teens in individual and couples therapy. 
 
Rene is a Certified Gestalt Therapist and is a Group leader at Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles.  
 
Contact:
renekeres.com

Paul Plakos, LMFT is a therapist in Sea Ranch, California. He has several years of experience facilitating both anger management, and chemical dependency recovery groups. He enjoys working with individuals, couples, families and children. Paul also provides supervision and consultation to Gestalt therapists all around the world.

Paul is a Certified Gestalt Therapist and is a Trainer at Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles.   

Contact:
plakos.net

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Stephanie Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the owner and Clinical Director at Goldsmith Psychological Services where she provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy as well as post-graduate supervision to associate clinicians.  Some of her specialty areas include trauma, dissociation, interpersonal relationships, eating disorders, LGBTQI issues, and whole person care. 

​Stephanie is a Certified Gestalt Therapist, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, is trained in EMDR and EFT “Tapping”, and has completed certificate training in Emotion Focused Couple’s Therapy. She is the Co-Director for Gestalt Associates Training, Los Angeles and she also provides Gestalt clinical consultation via teleconferencing to therapists all around the world. 

In addition to her work in private practice, Dr. Goldsmith is an Associate Clinical Professor at Loma Linda University. 

www.goldsmithpsychologicalservices.com

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Three Gestalt therapists discuss the theoretical and philosophical concept of Phenomenology and its application to clinical practice. 

This episode features guests Nelly Nassar, PhD. and Zachary Polk, LMFT. 

Nelly Nassar, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Westlake Village, CA. She works with adults in individual and couples therapy. She also co-facilitates an online case consultation group and provides online supervision for clinicians locally and internationally. She is originally from Lebanon and her hobbies include traveling, dancing, and doing puzzles with her boys. 
 
Nelly is a Certified Gestalt Therapist and is Co-Director at Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles.  
 
Contact:
[email protected]
805-507-5549 
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/nelly-nassar-westlake-village-ca/214594

Zachary Polk, M.S. is a Licensed Marital & Family Therapist (LMFT) in private practice in St. Louis, MO. He works with adults in individual and couples therapy who struggle with complex trauma, depression, anxiety, as well as intimacy and unhealthy dependence within relationships. Zach also co-facilitates a Gestalt-oriented consultation group and provides clinical supervision and consultation to therapists locally and beyond via teleconferencing.  He is married with three sons and enjoys making music, cooking, and tending to his vegetable garden.

Zach is also a Certified Gestalt Therapist and faculty member at Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles (GATLA).

Contact:

[email protected] 
www.zachpolklmft.com 

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Stephanie Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the owner and Clinical Director at Goldsmith Psychological Services where she provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy as well as post-graduate supervision to associate clinicians.  Some of her specialty areas include trauma, dissociation, interpersonal relationships, eating disorders, LGBTQI issues, and whole person care. 

​Stephanie is a Certified Gestalt Therapist, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, is trained in EMDR and EFT “Tapping”, and has completed certificate training in Emotion Focused Couple’s Therapy. She is the Co-Director for Gestalt Associates Training, Los Angeles and she also provides Gestalt clinical consultation via teleconferencing to therapists all around the world. 

In addition to her work in private practice, Dr. Goldsmith is an Associate Clinical Professor at Loma Linda University. 

www.goldsmithpsychologicalservices.com

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Three Gestalt therapists discuss the theoretical concept of Field Theory and its applications to clinical practice. 

This episode features guests David Narang, PhD and Sheri Rose-McCashin, LMFT.

David Narang, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice on the west-side of Los Angeles.  He works with adults and teens with depression and anxiety and he works with couples.  Dr. Narang is trained in multiple psychotherapies, but his theoretical home is with Gestalt, and he has been with GATLA since 2001. He is married with two sons, and in his spare time he enjoys playing his saxophone, riding his bike in the hills, and finding a good tree to meditate under. 
 
David is a Certified Gestalt Therapist and is a member of the faculty at Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles. 

Contact: http://www.strongerrelationships.com

Sheri Rose-McCashin, LMFT is a therapist in private practice on the west-side of Los Angeles.  She works both individuals and couples as well as with professionals who seek a better understanding of themselves and how to effectively deal with symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. In her free time she enjoys pop culture, current national and international affairs, gardening, cooking, time with friends and family, nature hikes, movies, theatre and involvement in her local community and neighborhood. Even though she enjoys being active she also finds it essential to take time to reflect, think, feel and be.

Sheri is a Certified Gestalt Therapist and is a member of the faculty at Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles.  

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Stephanie Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the owner and Clinical Director at Goldsmith Psychological Services where she provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy as well as post-graduate supervision to associate clinicians.  Some of her specialty areas include trauma, dissociation, interpersonal relationships, eating disorders, LGBTQI issues, and whole person care. 

​Stephanie is a Certified Gestalt Therapist, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, is trained in EMDR and EFT “Tapping”, and has completed certificate training in Emotion Focused Couple’s Therapy. She is the Co-Director for Gestalt Associates Training, Los Angeles (www.gatla.org) and she also provides Gestalt clinical consultation via teleconferencing to therapists all around the world. 

In addition to her work in private practice, Dr. Goldsmith is an Associate Clinical Professor at Loma Linda University. 

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Two Gestalt therapists discuss the importance of transparency in creating an authentic connection in the therapeutic relationship. 

This episode features special guest Anna Tanalska-Duleba from Warsaw, Poland.

Anna Tanalska-Duleba is a Psychotherapist and Supervisor in Warsaw, Poland. She  is one of the founders and a member of a team or Pracownia Terapii i Rozwoju [Psychotherapy and Development Studio; www.pratir.pl] w Warszawie. She studied
physics and graduated in philosophy in Warsaw University. She is a graduate of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles’ European program. 

She has 46 years of experience in individual, family and group therapy. She also supervises and teaches therapists in Poland and abroad (Lithuania, Scotland, Australia, Ukraine).

She likes the most to work with big families and she offers workshops on
this mode of working. Her special interest in psychotherapy is a therapist’s presence and the role of language in therapy.

Except of being psychotherapist and supervisor she translated books from Russian and English into Polish (amongst other she translated quite a few books by Irvin Yalom).

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Stephanie Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the owner and Clinical Director at Goldsmith Psychological Services where she provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy as well as post-graduate supervision to associate clinicians.  Some of her specialty areas include trauma, dissociation, interpersonal relationships, eating disorders, LGBTQI issues, and whole person care. 

​Stephanie is a Certified Gestalt Therapist, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, is trained in EMDR and EFT “Tapping”, and has completed certificate training in Emotion Focused Couple’s Therapy. She is the Co-Director for Gestalt Associates Training, Los Angeles (www.gatla.org) and she also provides Gestalt clinical consultation via teleconferencing to therapists all around the world. 

In addition to her work in private practice, Dr. Goldsmith is an Associate Clinical Professor at Loma Linda University. 

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Two Gestalt therapists discuss the foundational concept of Dialogue in Gestalt theory and application. 

This episode features features special guest Claudia Rosenbach-Ziembinski. 

Claudia Rosenbach-Ziembinski is a Clinical Psychologist in Western Australia. She is a practising Psychotherapist with 35 years experience in private practice. Prior to completing her studies in Clinical Psychology, she worked full time as a High School Teacher and School Counsellor for ten years in Berlin. 

Her special therapeutic interests include working with depression, anxiety, family and/or relationship difficulties, such as parenting, separation and step-family issues, as well as working with teenagers and young adults, individuals dealing with midlife and/or ageing related problems, gay and lesbian issues and with individuals who have migrated from other cultures. Claudia works with both individuals and couples. She works in both English and German. 

Claudia has completed training as a Gestalt Psychotherapist in Berlin and is a graduate of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles' European program. 

Claudia is the Co-Director of the Gestalt Training Institute West Australia and in this role is involved in training psychotherapists both in Perth and other centres in Australia, as well as overseas. She was previously a Faculty Trainer at Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles Residential Training Program in Europe.

Claudia offers ongoing professional supervision to training and practising psychotherapists and psychologists. 

https://www.margaretriverpsychology.com.au/claudia.html

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Stephanie Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the owner and Clinical Director at Goldsmith Psychological Services where she provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy as well as post-graduate supervision to associate clinicians.  Some of her specialty areas include trauma, dissociation, interpersonal relationships, eating disorders, LGBTQI issues, and whole person care. 

​Stephanie is a Certified Gestalt Therapist, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, is trained in EMDR and EFT “Tapping”, and has completed certificate training in Emotion Focused Couple’s Therapy. She is the Co-Director for Gestalt Associates Training, Los Angeles and she also provides Gestalt clinical consultation via teleconferencing to therapists all around the world. 

In addition to her work in private practice, Dr. Goldsmith is an Associate Clinical Professor at Loma Linda University. 

www.goldsmithpsychologicalservices.com
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Two Gestalt therapists discuss some of the early history of Gestalt therapy in the United States and the formation of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles (later Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles and Pacific Gestalt Institute) in Los Angeles, California. Liv Estrup shares her personal story discovering Gestalt in the 1960s and on becoming an integral  part of shaping Gestalt into what it has become today.

Liv Estrup, LMFT became a faculty member with Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles in 1998 and has done training in the US, Europe, and Asia with psychotherapists from diverse backgrounds. For many years she led women’s groups, the Journey Workshop for Women, women’s sexuality groups and groups for survivors of sexual abuse. In graduate school she worked with a research team to help people quit smoking. She twice served as President of GTILA, was the Conference Coordinator for AAGT’s International Gestalt Conferences (1994 –1999) and is an Associate Editor of the Gestalt Review. Liv is a member of GTILA, CAMFT, AAMFT, and AAGT.

Liv is a Faculty Member with Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles in their Los Angeles training program, the European Summer Residential Training Program, and the Couples Training Program. She taught Gestalt therapy courses at Loma Linda University for fifteen years and has supervised privately and at a counseling center for over twenty five years. 

https://livestrup.com/

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Stephanie Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the owner and Clinical Director at Goldsmith Psychological Services where she provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy as well as post-graduate supervision to associate clinicians.  Some of her specialty areas include trauma, dissociation, interpersonal relationships, eating disorders, LGBTQI issues, and whole person care. 

​Stephanie is a Certified Gestalt Therapist, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, is trained in EMDR and EFT “Tapping”, and has completed certificate training in Emotion Focused Couple’s Therapy. She is the Co-Director for Gestalt Associates Training, Los Angeles and she also provides Gestalt clinical consultation via teleconferencing to therapists all around the world. 

In addition to her work in private practice, Dr. Goldsmith is an Associate Clinical Professor at Loma Linda University. 

www.goldsmithpsychologicalservices.com; www.gatla.org

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Two Gestalt therapists discuss how the principles of Gestalt theory and practice apply to organizations and the corporate world.

This episode was recorded in Perth, Australia and features special guest Doug Aberle:

Doug Aberle, MEngSc, PACFA Reg. (Clinical), has been practicing Gestalt Therapy for 40 years. Originally trained as a marriage and family counsellor, he graduated from the GATLA Summer Residential program in 2002, joining the faculty in 2003. Having had a parallel career as an engineer and corporate leader in the electricity industry, Doug has a particular interest in the application of Gestalt principles to organisations. He currently coaches and consults to senior executives alongside his practice as a Gestalt psychotherapist and supervisor. He works globally both in person and online and lives in Perth, Western Australia. His personal interests include running, gym workouts and scuba diving. https://www.marplebridge.com.au/about-doug-aberle

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Stephanie Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the owner and Clinical Director at Goldsmith Psychological Services where she provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy as well as post-graduate supervision to associate clinicians.  Some of her specialty areas include trauma, dissociation, interpersonal relationships, eating disorders, LGBTQI issues, and whole person care. 

​Stephanie is a Certified Gestalt Therapist, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, is trained in EMDR and EFT “Tapping”, and has completed certificate training in Emotion Focused Couple’s Therapy. She is the Co-Director for Gestalt Associates Training, Los Angeles and she also provides Gestalt clinical consultation via teleconferencing to therapists all around the world. 

In addition to her work in private practice, Dr. Goldsmith is an Associate Clinical Professor at Loma Linda University. 

www.goldsmithpsychologicalservices.com

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Three Certified Gestalt Therapists tackle the tricky question: What is Gestalt Therapy? Gestalt Therapy is difficult to define and doesn't lend well to an "elevator pitch" description.  Here, we discuss some of the core tenets of Gestalt theory and practice and what makes it a unique style of therapy.  

This episode features guests David Narang, PhD and Nelly Nassar, PhD.

David Narang, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice on the westside of Los Angeles.  He works with adults and teens with depression and anxiety and he works with couples.  Dr. Narang is trained in multiple psychotherapies, but his theoretical home is with Gestalt, and he has been with GATLA since 2001. He is married with two sons, and in his spare time he enjoys playing his saxophone, riding his bike in the hills, and finding a good tree to meditate under. 
 
David is a Certified Gestalt Therapist and is a member of the faculty at Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles. 

Contact: http://www.strongerrelationships.com

Nelly Nassar, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Westlake Village, CA. She works with adults in individual and couples therapy. She also co-facilitates an online case consultation group and provides online supervision for clinicians locally and internationally. She is originally from Lebanon and her hobbies include traveling, dancing, and doing puzzles with her boys.
 
Nelly is a Certified Gestalt Therapist and is Co-Director at Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles. 
 
 Contact:
 [email protected]
 805-507-5549
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/nelly-nassar-westlake-village-ca/214594

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Stephanie Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the owner and Clinical Director at Goldsmith Psychological Services where she provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy as well as post-graduate supervision to associate clinicians.  Some of her specialty areas include trauma, dissociation, interpersonal relationships, eating disorders, LGBTQI issues, and whole person care. 

​Stephanie is a Certified Gestalt Therapist, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, is trained in EMDR and EFT “Tapping”, and has completed certificate training in Emotion Focused Couple’s Therapy. She is the Co-Director for Gestalt Associates Training, Los Angeles and she also provides Gestalt clinical consultation via teleconferencing to therapists all around the world. 

In addition to her work in private practice, Dr. Goldsmith is an Associate Clinical Professor at Loma Linda University. 

www.goldsmithpsychologicalservices.com

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