STEPHAN TOBIN, Ph.D. - Stephan A. Tobin, Ph.D. has been practicing as a clinical psychologist, teacher of psychotherapy
methods and theories of psychotherapy for over 35 years. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan. He was certified as a Gestalt therapist by Fritz Perls and Jim Simkin and was also certified in EMDR He founded a growth center; was co-founder and director of a mental health clinic; and was co-founder of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles. He has taught in the departments of psychiatry and psychology at UCLA and part time at other universities. He has trained therapists in the fundamentals of Gestalt Therapy and, psychoanalytic Self Psychology throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, and has presented workshops at numerous professional conferences. He has published articles on Gestalt Therapy, on the integration of existential-humanistic psychology with psychoanalysis and on the integration of Gestalt Therapy and EMDR. Dr. Tobin is also on the editorial board of the Journal
of Humanistic Psychology.