Perry Klepner

Bio

Perry Klepner, LCSW, Full member, Fellow, and past president, 1993-95, of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. Mentors/principal teachers include Laura Perls, Isadore From, and Richard Kitzler. I maintain a private practice in New York City and Kingston, NY, and provide individual and couples therapy, supervision, and training.. I am currently facilitating ongoing experiential PHG Study Groups reading this foundational text line-by-line. Since 1995 I have facilitated, organized, trained, and authored articles on GT Process Groups at IAAGT and EAGT conferences and have been facilitating a support group for Ukrainian Gestalt therapists since April, 2022. I have authored articles and conducted workshops in Gestalt therapy theory/practice worldwide.

Publications
“Introduction, PHG Volume II Mobilizing the Self,” Perls, F.S., Hefferline, R.H., Goodman, P. (1951/2024). Mobilizowanie self. In: idem, Terapia Gestalt: Pobudzenie i Wzrost w Osobowości Człowieka, Vol II, trans. P. Mierkowski, M. Paruzel-Czachura, J. Sienkiewicz-Urbaniak, B. Konieczniak,Warszawa: OZO.
“Exploring Intimacy, A Gestalt Therapy Approach,” Dan Bloom and Brian (Eds.) The New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy in the 21st Century: An Anthology Of Published Writings since 2000. April, 2014.
“Process Groups- A Gestalt Therapy Conferencing Experiment and The AAGT. 2010 Biennial Conference” Dan Bloom and Philip Brownell, (Ed’s.) Continuity. and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now, the 10th Biennial Conference of the. Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy. Cambridge Scholars. Pub. 2011.
“Isadore From: My Teacher and Colleague – His Contributions to Gestalt Therapy and Influence On My Practice, International Gestalt Journal, 2010 Volume 33, Number 2.
“Living, Loving and Laughter In An HIV/AIDS Group,” Feder, Bud and Frew, John, (Ed’s.) Beyond the Hot Seat Revisited – Gestalt Approaches to Group. The Gestalt Institute Press. 2008.
“Contact Interrupting,” New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy 50th Anniversary Conference Compendium Papers, June 12-15, 2003.
“Contact Interruptions – An Historical Perspective of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy,” New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy 50th Anniversary Conference Compendium Papers, June 12-15, 2003.
“Exploring Intimacy, A Gestalt Therapy Approach,” The Gestalt Journal, Fall1999 Vol. XXII, No2;
“Living, Loving and Laughter In An HIV/AIDS Group,” in B. Feder and R. Ronall. .(Editors), A Living Legacy Of Fritz and Laura Perl’s: Contemporary Case Studies, 1996.
“The Work of Isadore From, A Critical Appreciation,” Quaderni di Gestalt, Studies. In Gestalt Therapy, International Edition, Human Communication Center. Publishing House, Ragusa – Siracusa, Italy, 1995/96, No.4 -5.
“AIDS/HIV and Gestalt Therapy,” The Gestalt Journal, Fall, 1992.

Papers and Presentations:
“Reading ‘Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality’” The New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, December 17, 2023, January 7, 2024.
“The New York Institute at 65; Experiences of Community.” The New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. May, 1, 2018.
“Seeing In The Dark –The Contact Boundary: Where, What, How -A Conversation and Experiment.” The New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. April, 2015.
“Mastering Gestalt Therapy by Perls, Hefferline and Goodman.” The Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy Biennial International Conference. Asilomar, CA. Sept., 2014.
“Mastering Gestalt Therapy by Perls, Hefferline and Goodman, A Practitioners Guide to Understanding the Theory and Practice of the Self,”
The Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training. April, 2014.
“Giving Substance To Shadows – A Gestalt Therapy Experiment,” The New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. April, 2013.
“What Is Gestalt Therapy”, Pace University. March, 2013.
“Mastering Gestalt Therapy-Transform Your Understanding of Perls,
Hefferline and Goodman.” The Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training. March, 2013.
“Gestalt Therapy In a Sexual-Addiction Recovery Group.” The 40th Anniversary Addictions Institute, National Association of Social Workers, Fordham University. June, 2008.
“Form and Process in Gestalt Therapy Groups.” New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. November, 2008.
“Awareness, Consciousness & Interpretation.” The New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. January, 2006
“The Power of Contact.” Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy Conference. November, 2004.
“Exploring Aggression and Conflict.” Driemaandelijks Tijdschrift Van Het Vlaams- Gestalt Netwerk. May 11–13, 2003.
“Contact Interruptions.” New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. June, 2002.
“Boundary Disturbances: Clinical, Social and Political Implications.” The New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. February, 1997.
“Intimacy and The Theory and Practice of Gestalt Therapy,” The 16th Annual Gestalt Journal Conference, 1994.