Editorial Board of Gestalt!–
The Online Journal for Gestalt Therapy

The following people comprise an international board of expertise in gestalt therapy and its various applications; they review articles proposed for publication, advocate for the journal, provide consultation, write invited reviews, editorials, and introductions, and serve as action editors:

• Talia Levine Bar Yoseph of Israel and England
  • Talia Levine Bar Yoseph, MA, DPsych, is a psychotherapist, organizational consultant, supervisor, and trainer with thirty years’ experience in Israel, Europe, and the USA. She is Co-Chair of the Jerusalem Gestalt Institute and Managing Director for Choice Consultancy and Psychotherapy.  She is a trained gestalt therapist, having trained with Erving and Miriam Polster and through the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles.  She served for seven years as the head of the Gestalt MsC at the Metanoia Institute, London, UK, and for six years she was a Delegate to the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy, a member of the executive for two years and the officer of continuing professional education. Between 1979-1981 she was head of post-graduate gestalt training at the Hebrew University, Israel. She is a member of the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy (UKCP) and the Israeli Psychotherapy Association (IPA).  She is the Editor of The Bridge – Dialogues Across Cultures (Gestalt Institute Press, New Orleans) and Gestalt Therapy: Advances in Theory and Practice (Routledge) Talia is also a member of the editorial board for Gestalt Review and was on the board for Studies-in-Gestalt Therapy – Dialogical Bridges.

• Marie-Anne Chidiac of Lebanon and England
  • Marie-Anne Chidiac, MBA, MSc, is a gestalt psychotherapist, organisational consultant, coach, trainer and supervisor. She maintains a private practice of psychotherapy and runs her own consulting company specialising in organisational change and development. She also is a tutor and deputy head on the Gestalt Psychotherapy Masters programme at the Metanoia Psychotherapy Training Institute in London and is joint course director of the Metanoia Organisational Gestalt program

• Sylvia Fleming Crocker of the United States
  • Sylvia Fleming Crocker, Ph.D., has been a gestalt therapist since 1980.  She trained with Miriam and Erving Polster and with the faculty of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles, both in L.A. and in various countries in Europe. She has given a number of training workshops and has presented at many gestalt conferences internationally. Sylvia has published numerous journal articles, chapter contributions, and the book, A Well-Lived Life: Essays in Gestalt Therapy. She is currently writing another book on dramatic gestalt dreamwork and preparing papers on the concept of "field," clinical phenomenology, and gestalt couple therapy. She is a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, and was Chair of the Theory Development Committee for five years. Sylvia has a Ph.D. in Philosophy, and she taught at the university level for twelve years before becoming a gestalt therapist.  She also has an M.A. in History and Literature of Religion (with a specialty in Eastern religions), and an M.S. in Counseling.  She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in private practice in Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming. She has two grown daughters and two cats. She gardens, cooks, does needlepoint, and is passionate about golf.

• Sarah Fallon of England
• Sarah Fallon is a Senior Psychotherapist in a UK NHS Clinical Psychology Department, where she specialises in working with personality disorder. She is a UKCP accredited Gestalt psychotherapist, an accredited Arts psychotherapist and an accredited Clinical Supervisor. Sarah has an interest in using gestalt approaches to develop the practice of other clinicians and offers ongoing gestalt supervision and consultation to psychiatrists, social workers and nurses as well as to psychological therapists. She offers gestalt placements to both psychotherapy and psychiatry trainees. Sarah is a board director of the British Gestalt Journal and holds responsibility for marketing. She convened the AAGT Conference in Manchester UK, and she also served as a board member of AAGT from 2008 - 2010 in her role of secretary. In her spare time she is an actor with Playback Theatre York; an improvisational ensemble theatre company that spontaneously performs stories that emerge from its audiences. This company has been together now for 20 years.

• Ruella Frank, of the United States
  • Ruella Frank, Ph.D., has been exploring early infant movements and their relationship to the adult since the mid-1970s. She brings many years of experience to her work as a gestalt psychotherapist -- as a professional dancer, yoga practitioner/teacher, student of various movement theories, and student of Laura Perls and Richard Kitzler. Ruella is founder and director of the Center for Somatic Studies, faculty at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy and the New York Institute for Gestalt therapy, and also teaches throughout the United States, Europe and Mexico. She is author of articles and chapters in various publications, as well as the book Body of Awareness: A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy, available in four languages (GestaltPress). Her new book, co-authored with Frances Le Barre, is titled The First Year and the Rest of Your Life: Movement, Development and Psychotherapeutic Change and is published by Routledge Press.

• Jungkyu Kim, of South Korea
  • Jungkyu Kim, Ph.D. is a gestalt therapist living in Seoul Korea. He has been a professor in clinical psychology at Sungshin Women’s University since 1988, where he teaches clinical psychology, abnormal psychology, gestalt therapy, group therapy andtherapy. He is the former president of the Korean Clinical Psychology Association (1999 –2000). He studied philosophy at Korea University in Seoul and then clinical psychology at Wilhelms University, in Bonn, Germany. He trained in gestalt therapy at the Fritz Perls Institute in Germany, with Miriam and Erving Polster in San Diego, and with Gary Yontef and Lynne Jacobs in Los Angeles,U.S.A. He was an editorial board member of the International Gestalt Journal, and he is the current president of the Korean Gestalt Therapy Association. He has been teaching and practicing gestalt therapy (both in and outside the university setting) over 20 years. He is interested in integrating mindfulness into the gestalt therapy.

• Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, of Italy
  • Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Dipl. Psychoth., is a psychologist, licensed psychotherapist, founder and director–since 1979–of the Istituto di Gestalt HCC, the first school of gestalt psychotherapy in Italy, approved since 1994 by the Minister for Universities, according to the Italian law on Psychotherapy. She is a well known gestalt therapy international trainer, a Full Member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, past-president of the Italian Federation of the Associations of Psychotherapy (FIAP), past-president and first Honorary Member of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT), and past- and Honorary President of the Italian Association of Gestalt Psychotherapy (SIPG). Since 1985, Margherita has edited the Italian journal Quaderni di Gestalt and has co-edited the international journal Studies in Gestalt Therapy–Dialogical Bridges. She has written many articles and chapters published in various languages, edited 5 volumes and written 2 books, among which was The Here-and-Now in Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy Reported in the Post-Modern Society.

• Jean-Marie Robine of France
  • Jean-Marie Robine, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and the founder of the Institut Français de Gestalt-therapie. He is an international trainer of Gestalt therapy, focusing on introducing, continuing and developing the contributions of Paul Goodman and Isadore From to Gestalt therapy theory and practice. He is a past-president of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT) and of the Societé Française de Gestalt. He is a cofounder and member of the board of Collège Européen de Gestalt-thérapie. He created, published and edited two French journals of Gestalt therapy and serves on the editorial boards of several international Gestalt journals. He also is an editor/publisher of a collection of more than 20 Gestalt Therapy books in French, originals and translations (www.exprimerie.fr). He is the author/editor of six books on Gestalt therapy which have been published in several languages. He lives in the countryside near Bordeaux, France.

• Brian J. Mistler of the United States
  • Brian J. Mistler, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and the coordinator of research at the Center for Counseling and Student Wellness, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, a private liberal-arts college in upstate New York. Mistler received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Florida, masters in conflict resolution from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom, and bachelor's degrees in Philosophy, Humanities, and Computer Science from Stetson University. He has published dozens of both scholarly and popular articles and served as a reviewer for The Humanistic Psychologist, The Clinical Social Work Journal, The Journal of Muslim Mental Health, and the Mindfulness Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Mistler currently serves on the executive board of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT) and is active in The American Psychological Association's (APA) Division 17 for Counseling, APA Division 51 for the Study of Men and Masculinity, The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), and The International Humor Studies Association (IHSA).

• Brian O'Neill of Australia
  • Brian O’Neill, B.A. (Hons), MAPS is co-director of the Illawarra Gestalt Centre, past President of AAGT and on the editorial boards of the Gestalt Review and Studies in Gestalt Therapy–Dialogical Bridges. He has published on field theory and relationship therapy, and he edited the text Community, Psychotherapy, and Life Focus: A Gestalt Anthology of the History, Theory and Practice of Living in Community (Ravenwood Press). He has collaborated with his wife Jenny in writing on gestalt couples therapy and the use of group in training and they have been training and supervising therapists for many years both in Australia and internationally. Brian is currently a senior fellow in mental health at the University of Wollongong and a senior manager of a couples and family therapy service in Queensland. As well as bringing gestalt therapy to the relationship field, he has worked extensively in Drug and Alcohol (was Head of the NSW State Drug Treatment Unit), and Mental Health (awarded the Australia and New Zealand Gold Medal for mental health achievement by the Governor General, Sir William Deane).

• Peter Philippson of England
  • Peter Philippson, MS, is a UKCP registered gestalt psychotherapist, a teaching and supervising member of the Gestalt Psychotherapy and Training Instittue, UK (www.gpti.org.uk), a founder member of the Manchester Gestalt Centre (www.mgc.org.uk), and a full member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy (www.newyorkgestalt.org). Peter is the author of numerous books and articles, and he conducts training widely and internationally. He is a past President of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy.

• Kailash Tuli of India
  • Kailash Tuli, Ph.D., is a veteran academician from the University of Delhi (India), and currently Professor of Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management at IILM Institute for Higher Education. As a widely travelled Indian psychologist he has the honour of actively participating in various International conferences, seminars and residential gestalt workshops (GATLA & GENI). He enjoyed a Senior Post-doctoral fellowship at the Vienna University during (1995-96). Nationally and internationally, he specializes in “Yoga and Psychology lectures and workshops.” His areas of interest also include Simulation and Gaming. He is the founding President of the Indian Simulation and Gaming Association (INDSAGA). His academic activities include teaching, counselling, mentoring, researching and writing articles. He is the co-author (with his zoologist wife) of the “Dictionary of Sex Education.” As a registered clinical psychologist, he is also a practitioner and counsellor, spearheading the integration of Gestalt and Yoga with a focus on their mutual confluence. In 2010 he initiated his first training group in the gestalt approach. He is on the editorial boards of various psychology-related journals, and he is a book reviewer and APA papers reviewer. He lives with his family in New Delhi.

• Maria Oneide Willey of Brazil and the United States
  • Maria Oneide Willey, MA, LMFT, graduated with a Master’s degree in psychology. She trained in the psychodynamic approach and gestalt therapy, and she completed the Cape Cod Model training program through GISC. Her professional background in Brazil includes working as a psychotherapist in private practice and as a psychologist for the Secretary of the State in the penal system and social services. Maria Oneide taught psychotherapy theories and techniques at the University of Unama, and she supervised the internship of gestalt therapy students majoring in clinical psychology. Since 2004 she has been working in Lafayette, Louisiana as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Furthermore, she does community work through the Woman’s Foundation and has started presenting continuing education workshops for mental health professionals at the University of Louisiana.