Shirley Summers

Training and supervising member of Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute. She has a background in teaching, dance and movement therapy. Shirley has been practising gestalt psychotherapy for over 30 years. She has trained in level 1 sensorimotor psychotherapy (working with trauma) and in Somatic Developmental Movement. Shirley has a background in teaching and dance / movement therapy.

For the past 5 years, she has been studying and running voice and movement workshops on Daniel Stern’s “Forms of Vitality”. She is finding that her synthesis of gestalt and movement work creates a powerful base for development and change.

Shirley works mainly in Cumbria now. She runs regular groups in Edinburgh and the Lake District.