Susan L. Fischer, PhD, is editor of Gestalt Review, professor emerita of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania), and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. She is a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland’s Intensive Postgraduate Program in Gestalt Methods; and, more recently, she completed both the Cape Cod Training Program for Change and Advanced Training in the Cape Cod Model at the Gestalt International Study Center, where she is a Professional Associate. She offers writers’ workshops, coaches individuals in writing for publication, translates articles on Gestalt topics from Spanish to English, and has worked as a simultaneous interpreter with the Spanish language at Gestalt conferences (e.g., Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy in Puebla, Mexico in 2012 and in Monterey, California in 2014). Fluent in both Spanish and French, she divides her time between Brookline (Boston) and Tours, France.

Joseph Melnick, PhD, is a clinical and organizational psychologist who lives in Portland, ME, where he maintains a private practice. He has a passion for training and teaching worldwide, and is co-chair of the Gestalt International Study Center's Cape Cod Training Program, where he teaches in both the clinical and organizational areas. He has written extensively; most recently publishing the book he co-wrote with Sonia March Nevis, The Evolution of the Cape Cod Model , and before that,  Mending The World: Social Healing Interventions by Gestalt Practitioners Worldwide, co-edited with Edwin Nevis.

Nancy Amendt-Lyon, Dr .phil., is trained in Gestalttherapy and group psychoanalysis. She works in English as well as in German in Vienna with adults either individually, as couples, or in groups. She draws on many years of experience in training Gestalt therapists, group psychoanalysts, and supervisors in Austria and abroad. Her publications include numerous articles and book chapters in both of her working languages on topics relating to Gestalt therapy, gender, and issues of sociopolitical relevance.

She has edited Timeless Experience: Laura Perls’s Unpublished Notebooks and Literary Texts 1946-1985 (2016), which was published in Spanish and German in 2017. She co-edited, with Margherita Spanguolo Lobb, Creative License: The Art of Gestalt Therapy (2003), which was later published in German, French, and Italian. Her novel, Case Unclosable (2013), was published in German in 2015.

Dan Bloom, JD, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and also trains and supervises Gestalt therapists. He is past president and fellow of New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, where he teaches, and past president of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy. 

He was editor of the journal, Studies in Gestalt Therapy: Dialogical Bridges, and he co-edited the book, Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now. He is adjunct faculty at The Gestalt Associates of New York, The Center for Somatic Studies (New York), and the Istituto Di Gestalt HCC (Syracuse, Italy); and international faculty at Gestalttherapysydney (Sydney, Australia).

Peter Cole, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in Berkeley CA. He was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry with the UC Davis School of Medicine for 30 years (now retired). He is the co-director of the Sierra Institute for Contemporary Gestalt Therapy. He has a special interest in Gestalt Group Therapy and facilitates training groups for therapists internationally. His recent edited book is The Relational Heart of Gestalt Therapy: Contemporary Perspectives. He co-authored New Directions in Gestalt Group Therapy with his wife Daisy Reese. He has published numerous book chapters, articles and reviews in the Gestalt field. Two of his favorite activities are spending time with his grandchildren and playing the piano.

Ruella Frank, PhD, is founder and director of the Center for Somatic Studies. She is faculty at the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, guest faculty at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, adjunct faculty at Gestalt Institute of Toronto, and teaches throughout the United States, Europe, Eurasia, Mexico, South America, and Canada. She is author of many articles and book chapters, as well as of Body of Awareness: A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy (2001, GestaltPress, available in four languages), The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy (2022, Routledge, available in seven languages); and co-author of The First Year and the Rest of Your Life: Movement, Development and Psychotherapeutic Change (2010, Routledge, available in three languages). Her video, Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, is available in three languages (www.somaticstudies.com).

Jon Frew, PhD, ABPP, is a professor at Pacific University's School of Professional Psychology in Portland, Oregon. He is one of the directors and founders of Gestalt Therapy Training Center Northwest. He maintains a private practice and offers consultation and training services to organizations. He has been a member of the editorial board of the Gestalt Review since its inception in 1997.

Elinor Greenberg, PhD, CGP, is an internationally renowned Gestalt therapy trainer who specializes in teaching the diagnosis and treatment of Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid adaptations, having authored numerous papers on these subjects. She is a full member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, adjunct faculty to the Gestalt Center (NYC), and an Associate Editor of Gestalt Review. She is also a former faculty member of The Masterson Institute, a postgraduate training program that specializes in personality disorders. Her hobby is prepsychoanalytic systems of personal growth, such as esoteric tarot and Kabbalah.

Gary Yontef, PhD, ABPP has been a Gestalt therapist since training with Frederick Perls and James Simkin in 1965. Formerly on the UCLA Psychology Department Faculty and Chairman of the Professional Conduct Committee of the L.A. County Psychological Association, he is in private practice in Santa Monica. He is a co-founder of the Pacific Gestalt Institute, past president and faculty chair of GTILA, and has published numerous articles and chapters on Gestalt therapy theory, practice, and supervision and is the author of Awareness, Dialogue and Process: Essays on Gestalt Therapy.