John C. Espy, LCSW, Executive Director, has been actively involved in the Gestalt community since 1970 and is a Certified Gestalt Therapist.  He was trained by Frederick and Laura Perls and Isadore From and is a founding member of the International Gestalt Therapy Association and was the first Publications Editor of the International Gestalt Therapy Association.  He is the former Vice-President of the Gestalt Journal and the Center for Gestalt Development.  He was the director of the Ohio Institute Of Gestalt Therapy and the Clinical Director of the Character Disorders Institute for many years.  John also received intense supervision from R.D. Laing for seven years.   He had the privilege to be a participant in a long standing  clinical supervision group with Harold Searles.  In addition John worked with Carl Whitaker and co-led a supervision group with Sheldon Kopp for many years.

John is currently completing the book Eat The Evidence: A Biography of Nathaneal Bar Jonah.  In addition he is also working on: Isadore From: A Clinical Biography.  John has conducted trainings through out the United States, Canada, Great Britain and France.   He is also working on a book on the restructuring of Gestalt Therapy Theory into a formal model of mind and has began working on a book entitled The Process of Psychotherapy.  John has taught at many universities throughout the United States.   He has been a member of the American Academy of Psychotherapists for 30 years.  

He primarily consults on difficult to diagnose cases and engages in clinical supervision.  He was a former neurotoxicologist with NASA and was with the University of California School of Medicine for many years.  He has been in clinical practice for 30 years.  John Espy has been conducting workshops and teaching neurobehavioural testing and diagnostics for more than 25 years.  He has also been training and supervising the administration and interpretation of neurobehavioural evaluative instruments for many years.  He most recently taught Gestalt Therapy and neurology at Walla Walla University and has taught at numerous graduate and medical schools throughout the United States.  He recently conducted a series of workshops on brain anatomy with dissection.  His most recent paper  entitled “Misdiagnosis Of A Hydrocephalically Induced Neuropsychiatric Disorder” was published in the Latin America Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 

Treasa Glinnwater, LCSW, is a Gestalt Therapist who was trained in Gestalt Therapy at the Esalen Institute and the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles.  For many years she was the principal organizer and an instructor in the Montana Gestalt Study Group.  She is a charter member of the International Gestalt Therapy Association, the chair of the nominations committee and the treasurer of the organization.   Treasa recently presented the paper Gestalt Therapy: Treatment of the Affective Self at the International Gestalt Therapy Conference in Montreal, Canada.   Treasa has also been published in the Gestalt Journal and The international Gestalt Journal.