About

Leonard M. Shaw, ACSW, received his masters degree in psychiatric social work in 1963 and after working at Family Counseling service for two and a half years, entered private practice in 1966. Originally trained as a non-directive Freudian, he was heavily influenced by Carl Rogers’ work in 1964 and Frits Perls in 1967. After 11 years of studying, practicing and teaching Gestalt therapy, he started practicing what he now calls “Love-and-Forgiveness-Ego-Death-and-Surrender” therapy. However he struggled for a year before he surrendered to it. Ever since then he has been surrendering at deeper and deeper levels, much to the enrichment of his life and happiness. (The ego or “little mind” hates surrender.) His practice is in Seattle, Washington, and for 20 years he taught at training centers in Canada, Europe and the Canary Island.

Click here to read an interview with Leonard Shaw