Ruella Frank, Ph.D., holds a master’s degree in Movement Education and a doctorate in Somatic Psychology. Since the mid-1970s, Ruella has been exploring early infant developmental movements and their relationship to the adult.
She brings many years of experience as a professional dancer, yoga practitioner/teacher, long-time student of the concepts of Body-Mind Centering, and student of Laura Perls (one of the founders of gestalt psychotherapy, along with her husband, Fritz Perls, and Paul Goodman) to her work as a gestalt therapist, approaching relevant psychological concerns from an embodied and movement-oriented perspective.
Ruella is on the training faculty at the Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, adjunct faculty at the Gestalt Institute of Norway in Oslo, and the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychology in Madrid.
She trains within the United States, Europe, South America, and Mexico. Her book, Body of Awareness: A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy, Gestalt Press/Analytic Press, 2001, is now available in four languages.
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Some of Ruella Frank’s published work:
A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy.
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