Founder and former Dean of The Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training (GCPT), Marilyn was trained in Gestalt therapy by Fritz Perls.  Having passed on her enormous skills to us, Marilyn is now retired but remains a valued member of our community.

Shelley is the Executive Director of The Gestalt Center and a psychotherapist in private practice working with individuals, couples and groups.  She has noted expertise working with women survivors of abuse, neglect and trauma and is the founder of W.I.S.H. (Women in Search of Healing). Her dedication to supporting mental health practitioners in practice building and wellness programs is evident in her private supervision, the workshop programs and consultations with community-based agencies, hospitals and schools.  She has also advanced training in EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS) work.            

M'Lou brings her ongoing search to meet the present moment with awareness and compassion to her practice and teaching of Gestalt therapy/theory.  Her practice, started in 1973, is informed by many years of meditation, body work, and improvisational dance. 

Norman has a Harvard Ph.D in English and taught literature at Harvard, the University of Connecticut (Storrs), Queens College, the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Universities of Nantes and Nice in France.  His MSW is from Adelphi University; he graduated from GCPT, has been in private practice since 1978, and directed the Gestalt Therapy Center of Queens.

Naaz Hosseini, M.A.,LP-

Faculty, Referral Service Director

Naaz is a NYS Licensed Psychoanalyst and voice empowerment coach with a private practice in Nyack and Manhattan.  She is on the faculty of the Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training.  Her background includes craniosacral therapy, authentic movement, and professional dance, theatre and music.  Naaz combines her skills to deliver unique, transformative experiences to groups and individuals that engage The Power of Your True Voice.  Her inspirational voice and percussion CD, SoundPath, has been featured in Dance Magazine Recommends.  She conceived and hosted Gurus of Gestalt, a cable TV series.

Rosary is a NYS Licensed Psychoanalyst.  She has a masters degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University Teacher's College and received her Gestalt training at the GCPT.  She practices in Jackson Heights, where she works with individuals, couples and groups.  Areas of specialty are self-esteem, workplace issues, couples, interactive group work, OCD and pet bereavement.  As teaching faculty at GCPT, Rosary combines her skills as a training specialist with her love of gestalt therapy. 

Ken is a founding Director of the Gestalt Center of Long Island.  He currently teaches at several area Gestalt programs, as well as conducting private training and supervision for graduates in NYC and LI.  He has trained in Relational Gestalt Therapy with Lynn Jacobs, co-author of The Healing Relationship in Gestalt Therapy.

Lenore is a NY State licensed psychologist in private practice who obtained her Doctorate in Psychology from New York University in 1974.  She also graduated from the New York University Post Doctoral Training Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in 1981 while working as the Director of Mental Health at a Community Health Center.  After many years in private practice she trained as a Gestalt therapist, graduating from the GCPT in 1999 and was asked to join the faculty.  Lenore is also trained to teach self hypnosis and runs parenting workshops and Healing-Through-Writing workshops.  She took The Loving Relationship Training and works with all ages, individuals, couples, adolescents and their families.  She is now Director of the Advisor Program at the Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training.

Gladys is a bi-lingual psychotherapist, fluent in Spanish with a private practice in midtown, Manhattan.  She is a Qualified Gestalt therapist and has been trained in the Intense Feeling Process with Armand DiMele, on-air host of “The Positive Mind.”  Gladys is Workshop Coordinator and Faculty member at GCPT where she teaches and supervises psychotherapy students in the theory and practice of Gestalt therapy.  Her experience includes working with depression, anxiety, trauma, attention deficit disorder, relationship problems, low self-esteem and issues related to immigration and acculturation.

Neil is a NY State licensed, certified psychologist in private practice.  He received his doctorate from New York University in 1974.  Since then, he has conducted a variety of human potential and therapy workshops and groups in the tri-state area.  After many years of teaching psychology in colleges and universities in the Greater New York area, Neil went on to post-doctoral, clinical training:  Gestalt Psychotherapy at Esalen Institute, supervision with Ilana Rubenfeld, and Certification under Drs. Marilyn Rosanes-Berrett and Vivien Wolsk at GCPT, where he now trains therapists.

James is a licensed clinical social worker in both New York and New Jersey. James currently has a private practice in NYC (Madison Ave.) and central New Jersey, where he provides intensive short-and long-term psychotherapy to a culturally and economically diverse population of children, adolescents, adults and families. Additionally, he has experience working with a variety of social problems including, but not limited to, substance abuse, adult survivors of childhood trauma, domestic violence, mood and anxiety disorders, anger management, HIV/AIDS and other life threatening illnesses, sexual disorders and orientation issues.

Vivien is a clinical psychologist with over thirty years of practice as a psychotherapist, teacher and supervisor.  She was formerly the executive director and is now the Dean of Faculty at GCPT where she completed her Gestalt training and has been on training faculty since 1983.  Vivien regularly leads her "Shape Up Your Psyche" workshops in NYC, reaching out to the fire and police departments as well as health professionals and the general public.  She is a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers as well as making media appearances, and is working on a Shape Up Your Psyche book as well as a children's emotional fitness musical CD.

Michelle received her Masters of science in social work from Columbia University in 1995.  She is former Director of Project Connect Substance Abuse Counseling Services of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Community Center.  As a private practitioner, she offers therapy to culturally diverse people dealing with issues such as relationships, self-esteem, gender, sexuality, trauma, and childhood abuse.  She has particular expertise in working with transgender clients, and offers a supportive on-going therapy group open to women of a range of sexual and gender identities: bisexual, lesbian, pansexual, polyamorous, straight women, and women of transgender experience. She also provides workshops and trainings to agencies on topics including Introduction to Gestalt, Gestalt therapy with LGBT people, and the role of white people in fighting racism.  

Elinor Greenberg, Ph.D. - Adjunct Faculty

Elinor lectures and writes extensively on borderline, narcissistic and schizoid disorders. She received her doctorate in psychology from The New School in 1979 and has been a practicing gestalt therapist for over thirty years. Every seven to ten years, Elinor retrains in another form of psychotherapy and integrates it with her knowledge of Gestalt therapy theory and practice.  She is a certified Ericksonian hypnotherapist; she is in the National Registry for Certified Group Psychotherapists and she is a graduate of and former faculty member of The Masterson Institute where she taught and supervised students in a psychoanalytically oriented object relations approach to the theory and treatment of personality disorders. Elinor has been studying kabalistic tarot and the Western mystical tradition for the past ten years and is at present working on integrating spirituality into her practice of psychotherapy.  She is psychology consultant to The Tarot School and is on the editorial board of Gestalt Review.

Susan Berg, DSW-

Adjunct Faculty

Susan has maintained a psychotherapy and supervision practice since 1979 and was also a faculty member of the Gestalt Center of LI for many years. More recently, she was Co-Director of North Shore Counseling Associates, a low-fee counseling and training center on LI. In addition to her psychotherapy practice, Dr. Berg has taught at Empire State College, Stony Brook University PhD program and Hunter College School of Social Work master of social work program. Areas of interest for her are: PTSD and subtle trauma (e.g., racism, sexism, heterosexism), women’s issues and mental health, and the exploration of emerging experiential modalities.