Training
A four-module professional program — Foundations, Relational Practice, Advanced Integration, and Supervision & Practicum — delivered in China, Australia, and the United States.
About Us
A community of international dialogue.
Gestalt Therapy International convenes contemporary relational Gestalt therapy training, supervision, and consultation across the USA, Australia, China, and the wider world. The work began in 1988 and is grounded in the practice of dialogue — every member, student, partner, and client treated as a participant in the field that the work makes.
The Practice
What is taught, how it is thought, and where the wider learning lives.
Three threads run through the work at Gestalt Therapy International. What is taught: short workshops, six-day intensives, and a four-year professional certificate program delivered internationally. How it is thought: through contemporary relational Gestalt — a frame sensitive to shame, attentive to support, and oriented to the co-created field. Where the wider learning lives: in the global Learn Gestalt library and at the cross-border conferences and partner schools that make the program international in fact, not only in name.
The best of traditional Gestalt — authenticity, responsibility, contact, experiment — meets intersubjectivity, character styles, somatics, and field theory. The frame is held with care, but never used as a defensive structure.
Three threads
How the work is organised.
Supervision & Consultation
Reflective and direct supervision for clinicians and managers, and organisational consultation for institutions and teams. Grounded in contemporary relational Gestalt.
Community of Dialogue
An international faculty, an advisory board drawn from partner institutions, and a global community of practitioner convenors.
Five Orientations
Gestalt is…
01
Existential
Grounded in the here and now. Each person is the best expert on themselves.
02
Phenomenological
Focused on the client's perception. Change comes from being more fully oneself.
03
Dialogical
The therapist is willing to sit in the creative void — therapy without resistance.
04
Wholistic
The wider field: past, present, future; individual, family, culture.
05
Practical
Experiential learning. How, not why. Experiments embody abstract ideas in the moment.
Governance & Compliance
A small, accountable structure.
Gestalt Therapy International is operated as a private company. The leadership team is supported by an independent compliance function and an advisory board drawn from partner institutions.
- Gestalt Therapy International
- ABN 22 161 049 734
- 26523 Huntwood Ln
- Private company · Founder-led with leadership team
The Founding Director sets curriculum and convenes strategy. The Associate Director leads the China program and partner network. The Director of the Social Work division leads clinical practice, supervision standards, and anti-oppressive framework. The Compliance Officer maintains NASW, NBCC, and HIPAA-aligned accreditation across international programming.
The leadership team is supported by an advisory board drawn from CAGA, Sangzi, and the Living Gestalt Community.
Take the next step
Meet the people who do the work.
The Our Team page profiles leadership, faculty, and the compliance function — with biographies, qualifications, and focus areas.