Jay Levin

Trainer and supervisor of level three of the gestalt therapy programme at KIGiP

Professional activity:

• Gestalt therapist

• Supervisor, EAGT supervisor

• International trainer of GATLA (Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles).

• Clinical psychologist from South Africa.

• Author of a number of publications.

• Alongside the psychological and ethical questions of work with prisoners, including political prisoners, Jay works on rehabilitation, adolescent behaviour and the future of gestalt therapy.

• For more than twenty years he has been a trainer and supervisor on international programmes.

Jay Levin about himself: «I have been counselling and teaching psychotherapy for more than twenty years.

My interest in how values shape personal behaviour is expressed in published articles that reflect my vision of a kinder world.»

Education: trained in gestalt therapy after completing a master’s degree in clinical psychology.

Certified as a gestalt therapist and a licensed mental health counsellor (LMHC) in the state of Florida.

A registered professional member of the American Counseling Association and an observer member of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy, and director of training at the Gulf Coast Gestalt Institute.

A few more facts about me: since the early 1990s I have been a visiting teacher at the GTILA / GATLA summer intensives.

Six years of work with trainers from Israel and England led to the creation of two new nationally accredited gestalt therapy institutes meeting EU standards, in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Thanks to advances in technology I provide online supervision, counselling and therapy over VOIP to therapists and clients in different countries.

Interests:

• I am interested in the «wider field» a person lives in, including its political, spiritual and social aspects, and I have published articles on some of the ethical, professional and clinical questions that arise in work with political prisoners;

• adolescent development and behaviour;

• the development and future of gestalt therapy;

• cooking (and eating what I have cooked) — that is my own personal therapy!

• learning new computer programmes;

• travelling and meeting new friends and old ones.