Dan Bloom JD, LSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, editor, writer, clinical supervisor, and psychotherapy trainer. Dan himself trained with Laura Perls, Isadore From, Richard Kitzler, and Patrick Kelleyat the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. He is past president and Fellow of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy. Dan is also past president of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, an international community.
Dan is a faculty member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, and adjunct faculty of The Center for Somatic Studies, Gestalt Associates of New York, New York, Istituto di Gestalt HCC, Syracuse, Italy, and international faculty Gestalt therapy Sydney, Australia. He also independently trains and supervises gestalt therapists. He is Co-Editor of the online journal Gestalt and Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Gestalt Therapy: Dialogical Bridges, a comparative journal of gestalt therapy and other psychotherapeutic modalities.
He is on the editorial board of the Gestalt Review. Dan has published many articles to gestalt therapy journals and contributed chapters to gestalt therapy books. He currently divides his time supervising, teaching, editing, and writing and is committed to developing the theory and practice of gestalt therapy in new directions.