Susan Gregory |
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| sgregory@gestaltsing.com |
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| Susan Gregory
is a Gestalt therapist, Voice specialist, and Breath Educator in private
practice since 1991 in New York City. She is presently Vice President of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy (www.newyorkgestalt.org). In addition to working with individuals
in her consulting space in Manhattan, Ms. Gregory offers workshops for
professional and educational organizations around the world. Her articles describing her work and its subspecialties have been published in the International Gestalt Journal, Gestalt Review, the British Gestalt Journal, The Australian Gestalt Journal, Cahier de Gestalt, Free Association (National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis), and Classical Singer Magazine. Ms. Gregory is presently a member of the editorial board of the Australian Gestalt Journal. Susan Gregory has taught professional training and personal growth workshops in Montreal, Stockholm, Manchester UK, Honolulu, Christchurch NZ, San Francisco, New Orleans, Tampa, Hartford, New York, Prague, Brazil, Argentina, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Rome. In 2007, she will teach in Australia and Athens, Greece. Her workshop topics include Breathing Into Contact, The Power of Voice, Body Stories, Use Your Head and Come to Your Senses, Thriving Despite the Loss of Your First Dream, Being Comfortable in Your Body On Stage, Singing and Social Identity, Finding Your Style, Voice Use and Social Process, and Creative Encounters. She received her training in Gestalt therapy at the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, founded in 1952 by Fritz and Laura Perls. After being an Associate for eight years, she was voted into Full Membership in 2000. She has served two terms as Secretary of the Institute. She is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy where she is chairperson of the Somatics Interest Group, as well as head of the Scholarship Committee. Ms. Gregory was trained in Breath and Body Work by Carola Speads, author of Ways to Better Breathing, who was Elsa Gindler’s teaching assistant in Berlin from 1925 - 1938. Susan studied with Carola from 1963 - 1995. Susan has also taken five semesters of instruction with famed anatomist Irene Dowd, author of Taking Root to Fly. Susan Gregory is a recitalist and former principal artist with the New York City Opera. She has won awards from the Metropolitan Opera Competition and the Concorso G.B. Viotti in Vercelli, Italy. Writing in the New York Times, Peter G. Davis praised her "voice of striking individual beauty". She has recorded contemporary chamber music with the New York Philomusica. Her early singing career included appearances in musical theatre at the Saratoga Playhouse, as well as with "jazz luminaries Roswell Rudd and Lenny Pickett. She was heard nationally on NPR in Lenny Pickett’s jazz opera "Welfare", and in recital on WQXR, WNYC and WBAI. While chairperson of the voice department of the Third Street Music School, her students appeared in NBC-TV’s special "America Is". She served for nine years on the board of directors of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, NY Chapter, and is a member of the New York Singing Teachers’ Association. Ms. Gregory was graduated cum laude from CCNY of the City University of New York, after having attended the High School of Music and Art. She’s a native of Brooklyn, present resident of Manhattan, and proud mother of a recent Vassar graduate. Susan Gregory’s goal in her integrated work of Gestalt therapy/Breath Education/Voice Exploration is to help clients fulfill their creative potential and, in the words of her esteemed colleague Philip Lichtenberg, help them to become thoroughly alive. |
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