Dr. M. Pat Korb is founder and director of the Gestalt center of Gainesville in Gainesville, Florida. She is co-author of Gestalt Therapy: Practice and Theory (Pergamon Press, 1989). Pat holds an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the University of Florida. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida, is listed in the Gestalt Directory, and is a founding member of the International Gestalt Therapy Association (IGTA) -- now the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy [1]. Downtown Clock Tower, housing the restored clock bell from the 1885 courthouse Gainesville is the largest city and county seat of Alachua County, Florida. ... The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university located in Gainesville, Florida. ...

Dr. Korb trained under Gertrude Krauss, herself a student of Fritz Perls. Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls (July 8 1893, Berlin - March 14, 1970, Chicago), better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist of Jewish descent. ...