Joelle Gartner

Joelle has worked since 1998 as Gestalt psychotherapist in private practice with individuals, couples and groups. She has trained counsellors and facilitated process groups since 2001, and offered clinical supervision since 2004 for private practitioners and various counselling agencies. She has also offered non-managerial supervision to people working in the community, voluntary or statutory sector.

She is committed to developing therapeutic work with people and groups variously affected by trauma in a society emerging from conflict, including trans-generational trauma, which she has personal experience of through her parents and those of her extended family who survived the Holocaust. She is developing thinking on how external political conflict affects the internal dynamic of groups in the context of the north of Ireland. She met SE through a number of short workshops led by Larry Heller, Peter Levine, and later Steve Hoskinson, and was trained in Ireland 2013-2015 by Steve Hoskinson. She is currently a Senior Assistant (EASE accredited) with the fourth group trained by Ireland SE, and has assisted SE trainings with Steve Hoskinson, Lindat Stelte and Berns Galloway.