Certified DSP Trainers and Supervisors:

Jennifer Bury, BFA, CMT, is a Certified Movement Therapist and certified trainer in Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy. She co-facilitates an advanced Gestalt study group, combining her background in medicine, kinesiology, and somatics into her Gestalt practice. Based in San Francisco, Jennifer has been in private practice for 30+ years teaching, supervising, and presenting across the United States, Europe and Asia.
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Billy Desmond, MSc, MBA, UKCP, ECP, is a gestalt psychotherapist, supervisor and embodied practitioner researcher with a particular interest in groups. He is a visiting guest faculty at Metanoia Institute, Gestalt Centre London and Ashridge Business School amongst others, and works between the UK and Ireland. He has co-authored a book: Introduction to Gestalt and has published chapters, journal papers and articles.

Caroline Greenwood Dower, has twenty years as an Integrative and CAT Psychotherapist, and trained in DSP with Ruella Frank in 2010-12. Caroline’s work included an NHS Consultant Psychotherapist position in Gastroenterology and Mental Health Services at Durham University, UK. Drawing from her extensive background with young adults, Caroline now undertakes PhD research at Durham University on the experience of anxiety in this population, and from a movement-oriented perspective.

Mark Gawlinski, MSc (Gestalt psychotherapy), MSc (Organisational consulting), UKCP registered psychotherapist, with a private practice in Cambridge, UK. Mark has completed the DSP teacher-training programme and offers supervision in DSP-informed gestalt psychotherapy. He is the co-founder of Cambridge Counselling Service. He has particular interests in helping people with work place and organisational challenges, in the bodily roots of experience and in the practical implications of a radical relational perspective on therapy.

Karen Ginsburg, LCSW, LMT, practices Somatic psychotherapy in Philadelphia and New York City. She is on the faculty of the Gestalt Training Institute of Philadelphia and holds certificates in Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, and Gestalt Therapy. She has also completed training in Somatic Experiencing. She was a licensed massage therapist for over a decade and integrates her background in bodywork and the performing arts into her work as a therapist and trainer.

Jennifer Griesbach, LCSW-R, is a Gestalt therapist practicing in New York, NY and a member of the faculty of Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy where she teaches and supervises. She works with individuals and couples and runs groups, and she has a special interest in working with adult adoptees. Jennifer’s background in music, movement and the performing arts informs her therapy practice and her ongoing exploration of DSP.

Miguel Islas, BA, LPC, practices gestalt psychotherapy in Mexico City. He is a faculty member, trainer and supervisor in the Gestalt Program at the Humanistic Institute of Gestalt Psychotherapy (Mexico). Miguel is certified in Body-Mind Movement (Mexico) and Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy (NYC).

Helena Kallner, MA, MSc, UKCP reg. Psychotherapist, practices Gestalt psychotherapy in Stockholm. Helena, a Senior Teacher of Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, presents workshops throughout Europe and Russia. She is presently a doctoral student at Metanoia Institute/ Middlesex University, researching psychotherapists use of movement and Kinesthetic Resonance.

Fabiola Maggio, is psychologist and Gestalt therapist, trainer and supervisor of the Istituto di Gestalt Hcc Italy. She has a deep interest in the body and has deepened her studies in New York at the Center for Somatic Studies with Ruella Frank studying her “Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy approach”; she has also attended the teacher training program with her in Stockholm. She works in her private practice and in primary schools with children with disabilities. She is also trainer of baby massage and shiatsu practitioner.

Ruth Nightingale is a UKCP Registered Gestalt Psychotherapist and Certified trainer in DSP. She is an Academic Lecturer on the Gestalt programme at Metanoia Institute in London and has a supervisory and psychotherapy practice. Her passion in all of her roles is inspiring others through movement, helping them remember what they were taught to forget.

Jacek (Jack) Panster, M.A. cert. EAGT, is a gestalt psychotherapist, an integrative bodywork and movement practitioner (IBMT), a DSP trainer and supervisor, and a gestalt teacher with interest in embodied critical inquiry. In his practice with individuals and groups, Jacek espouses radical relationality, integrating embodiment practices, transpersonal relating and nature-based explorations.

David Picó, PhD, a psychologist and doctor of computer science, is an EAGT-accredited Gestalt therapist practicing in Valencia, Spain. He is a faculty member of Centre Gestalt Valencia and Terapiados Formación and maintains an active online practice as a therapist, supervisor and trainer. He is a musician and has a special interest in expression and movement.

Severine Pluvinage, MBA, ECP, practices Gestalt therapy in Paris with individuals and groups, and in Bordeaux as a pedagogical team member at Institut Francais de Gestalt-Thérapie. She regularly publishes articles in the French Gestalt journal.

Rezeda Popova, PhD, is a gestalt therapist, supervisor, clinical and developmental psychologist, member of EAGT. She is the head of the Volga Region Institute of GT and assistant professor at the Kazan State University.  She has been organizing international training programs and editing the Russian translations of gestalt therapy books.