THE GESTALT CENTER OFFERS a three-year, part-time, post-graduate training program in Gestalt psychotherapy for licensed professionals, meeting on 18 alternate Friday evenings from October through May, and including three to four Sunday Seminars, a Winter Weekend Therapy Intensive and a four-day Summer Training Intensive.

GESTALT TRAINING, like our therapy, is both humanistic and experiential, combining a stimulating academic program with a strong emphasis on learning by doing.  At the heart of our program is the use of small practicum groups in which students get to experience and practice live therapy, in the presence of a supportive supervisor.

Practicum: Student therapist and client doing live therapy;

supervisor (in lavender) and group looking on.

Students also get to observe live demonstrations by faculty therapists.  We are supportive of trainees' individual needs and each is assigned an advisor who follows them through all three levels of training.

HIGHLIGHTS OF TRAINING PROGRAM

• Three-year program
• Small practicum groups
• Client referrals 2nd & 3rd year (therapist keeps client fee)
• Each student has a faculty advisor
•  Strong sense of community

ADMISSION

Our post-graduate training program in Gestalt psychotherapy is open to Social Workers, Psychologists, M.D.'s, Nurses, Educators and other qualified health and healing professionals.  

Admission is open to all qualified candidates regardless of race, religion, ethnic or national origin, or sexual orientation.  We particularly encourage and support ethnic, racial and life-style diversity in our faculty and students.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

We offer a Certificate of Completion to licensed mental health professionals and a Letter of Attendance to other qualified professionals. 

FEES

The annual cost of our training program is listed below.  Besides tuition, there are fees for case study/supervision, room and board for our intensive weekend trainings, and personal therapy, which is required of all students.

* Fees for personal therapy are set by the individual therapists, many of whom give discounts to students.  A typical fee would be $100 per session.  Some therapists charge more; some less.

PAYMENT PLANS

Monthly payment plans are available.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Applications may be submitted throughout the year and will be processed and acted upon within a month of their submission.  Candidates may enter in October or February and are encouraged to do an Intensive Weekend prior to beginning the program.  An interview is also required.

To learn more about our training program, we invite you to attend our Introduction to Gestalt workshop, where you'll see a live demonstration of Gestalt therapy, meet some of our faculty and students, and hear more details about the training program.

Click here for our current Schedule of Classes. 

To apply for our training program, please contact our offices at (212) 387-9429, or email us at gestalt@gestaltnyc.org.  You may also download our Training Application.