Before getting into my background as a psychologist in the areas of special education, clinical field-hospitals, private clinics-training and consulting :

I wish first of all to pay tribute to my late beloved friend and father. A fine man who developed the pledge of Hippocrat for physicians into a daily message of love to his patients. A special touch of care through the way he looked and examined them, with warmth, sensitivity but also clarity and decisiveness.

He read stories to me but they were not imaginary ones, filled with legends and heroes. They were filled with sensible words describing human needs and not only their physical ones.The suffering of a patient was a complex story he was supposed to sense first, and then understand to be able to treat not only the disease but the human being.

He taught me to understand the others as understandable but also as a complex human entity. The contradictory reactions were part of being, a part to be accepted and respected.

I owe very much to David Gorton, my trainer and Director of The Gestalt Therapy & Training Center, a dear friend and academic counselor for many years.

I learned to use the Gestalt approach in a simple humanistic way far away from the sophistication of thoughts and intellectual reflexion. The direct way when mind and feeling are unified into the expressions of words, gestures and movements.
                                                Thank you, David.