Faculty

The academic collaboration between EAPTI-GPTIM and its partner Gestalt Institutes around Europe has grown over the years to become a major provider and guarantor of high-quality professional traineeship and supervised practice of Gestalt Psychotherapy. This could not come about without the commitment and passion of its team of lecturers under the directorship of Dr. Lidija Pecotić.

Throughout EAPTI-GPTIM’s history, those who came to give training over the years, included leading figures in Gestalt Psychotherapy. We have had, amongst others, Joseph Zinker and Sandra Cardoso Zinker, leading figures of Gestalt Psychotherapy in the United States, Serge Ginger, founder of the Paris School of Gestalt and Helga Matzko from the United States with her programme in the application of Gestalt Therapy in the field of addiction. As the EAPTI-GPTIM began offering programmes specialising in clinical populations, working with children and adolescents, and in working with organisations, various other lecturers contributed their expertise and knowledge, including the late Ken Evans, Paul Barber, and Gilles Delisle. Since then, our higher education institution now has an abundant faculty of lecturers coming from various countries, from different modalities of psychotherapy, and from different areas of specialisation.

Thomas Moore

Writer and therapist

Thomas Moore is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul. He has written twenty-four other books about bringing soul to personal life and culture, deepening spirituality, humanizing medicine, finding meaningful work, imagining sexuality with soul and doing religion in a fresh way.

Dan Bloom

Psychotherapist

Dan Bloom JD, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. He studied with Laura Perls, Isadore From and Richard Kitzler.

Peter Schulthess

Gestalt Psychotherapist, MSc

Peter Schulthess works in private practice in Zurich, Switzerland, since 1976. He teaches Gestalt therapy in Switzerland and several other countries, such as Germany, Macedonia, Poland, Greece, Italy, Bolivia, Russia, China, Serbia and Malta.

Elvira Duraković–Belko

Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Consultant

Dr. Elvira Duraković–Belko is a psychologist, psychotherapist, supervisor and consultant. She defended her diploma and master thesis at the University of Zagreb and obtained her PhD at the University of Sarajevo.

Michele Settanni

Psychologist

Dr Michele Settanni was awarded a Master Degree in clinical psychology, on February 24, 2004, with a score of 110/110 with honors. Thesis title: "High level of involvement in the use of psychoactive substances: a cross-cultural research between Italy and the Netherlands" Supervisor: Prof. Silvia Bonino.

Ruella Frank

Founder and director of the Center for Somatic Studies

Ruella Frank, Ph.D., is founder and director of the Center for Somatic Studies, NYC, and faculty at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy and adjunct faculty Gestalt Institute of Toronto.

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