Billy Desmond

Billy is a Gestalt psychotherapist, supervisor, OD practitioner, and dialogical educator. His practice includes working one to one, with couples and with groups across different cultures and organisational contexts. He is a committed embodied practitioner-researcher with a particular interest in expressive form and early developmental movement.

Billy has previously worked with Ashridge /Hult Business School as OD consultant and faculty. He is is guest faculty at different Gestalt training institutes in the UK and Europe. He is a certified trainer of Ruella Frank’s Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy. He regularly presents at conferences and has published several peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters on subjects such as; group work, experiential ways of knowing, sustainability, spirituality, sexuality and homophobia. He has co-authored a book, Introduction to Gestalt (Sage, 2013).

He is a former board member of the International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT) and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Gestalt Review and Gestalt Book Series. Billy teaches across all modules of the MA/Postgraduate Diploma at the Gestalt Institute of Ireland and leads the Action Research practitioner-researcher final year of the MA in Gestalt Psychotherapy.