The therapistcourse started 1976 through a cooperation with Gestalt Institute of Toronto and their director Jorge Rosner. Another partner in this venture has been the Cleveland institute in the USA, renowned for it s work with group processes. Keeping with the core message the Therapist course has during the past 20 years undergone an intensive development and is today a psychotherapist education of high international quality, founded on the culture and conidtions of scandinavian society. Recently GA has widened it s cooperation with the rest of Europe in the field of psychotherapy. Theory and methodology, like our way of educating, is founded on the relationship between and meeting of therapist and client.
Theory is integrated with and bared on personal experiences.
Modern psychotherapeutic research has shown that it is the relationship therapist - client that has effect, irrespective of the form of therapy conducted. These results are and have always been implemented by GA since it is a central part of gestalt therapy. The therapist course starts with a group of 20 participants each autumn. Last date of application is 1 april each year. The education of four years is conducted in the form of intensive weeks and independent educational therapy, practise and tutoring.