Presentness and Presence in Gestalt Therapy

ALAN COHEN, MSW, LCSW, LP (Licensed Psychoanalyst), originally studied and became a teacher of Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi almost 50 years ago, prior to his training as a Gestalt therapist in the mid-1970s. He has been interested for the past 40 years in seeing the pragmatic and theoretical mutuality between the two approaches to awareness and growth. He is one of the founding faculty of Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, a New York based postgraduate training program, where he still serves as faculty, supervisor, and Clinical Director. He has been visiting faculty for several years at the European training conferences of Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles (GATLA). He maintains a private practice in New York City.