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.  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 clinical supervision group with Sheldon Kopp for many years. John was also involved in intelligence and high risk security related consultations. 

John recently completed the book Eat The Evidence: A Biography of Nathaneal Bar Jonah.  He is represented by Literary Agent Alice Volpe, President of The Northwest Literary Agency.  Inquires regarding Eat The Evidence should be made to Ms. Volpe at northwestlit@aol.com

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 more than 30 years.  

He consults on difficult to diagnose cases, engages in clinical supervision and has a general psychotherapy practice offering services to children, adolescents and adults.  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 more than 30 years.  John also has a specialty in the area of personality disorders and psychotic disorders. 

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.  John has also been a guest lecturer at many universities in the United States, England and France.  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.  (http://www2.alasbimnjournal.cl/alasbimn/CDA/sec_b/0,1206,SCID%253D19260,00.html)  John's article "The Character Disordered Family System," published in the 1994 Gestalt Journal, has been cited in the American Psychiatric Associations Textbook on Personality Disorders.   

He was recently asked to join the faculty of the International Forensic Linguistics Institute at Hofstra University.  The IFLI consults with international security agencies in the area of threat analysis, risk related dynamics and international terrorism.


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 been published nationally and internationally. 

She has conducted many different types of groups for the treatment of relationship issues, parenting difficulties, infant development, sexual abuse and domestic violence.  She has lectured in graduate programs on play therapy with children, self-esteem, infant development, transference and countertransference, ethics and contemporary issues. 

Treasa has also been appointed by the Governor of Montana to serve on the Board of Social Work Examiners, Professional Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy.  She is presently serving her second four year term.