Tilda Norberg
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Tilda Norberg is a Christian therapist and author. Norberg is considered the founder of Gestalt Pastoral Care, a school of pastoral therapy that combines Christian healing practice [faith healing] with principles of gestalt theoretical psychotherapy. An ordained Methodist minister, Norberg is the author of nine books on therapy, healing and Christian theology. She is the founder of the Gestalt Pastoral Care Associates, Inc., a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the teaching and ethical practice of Christian healing using a gestalt approach. Norgard is a a graduate of Michigan State University (1963) and Union Theological Seminary, NY (M.Div., 1966), and later trained at The Gestalt Center in Princeton, NJ, and The Gestalt Institute of Canada in Vancouver, BC.
On Easter Sunday in 1958, at the age of 16, Norberg personally witnessed the crash of Capital Airlines Flight 67 while she was awaiting arrival of the flight into Tri City Airport, MI. Both of her parents were killed in the crash, and Norberg has reported that this experience profoundly affected her understanding of spirituality and the need for healing in all persons. Her book Ashes Transformed: Healing From Trauma is based on similar stories of survivors of the September 11 attacks in New York City, which she witnessed from her office in Staten Island.
From 1976 to 1982 Norberg was a member of the faculty of The New Institute for Gestalt Therapy, New York. She has maintained a private practice in Gestalt Pastoral Care since 1970 and she is the founder and since 1982 has been director of a two-year basic training program for clergy, therapists and other professionals in Gestalt Pastoral Care. In 2004 Norberg inaugurated a two-year advanced Gestalt Pastoral Care curriculum and internship program in Gestalt Pastoral Care.
In 2011 Norberg was elected the first president of the Gestalt Pastoral Care Associates, Inc., a nonprofit foundation which supports the development of training programs in gestalt care for clergy and laity. Norberg is ordained by the Metropolitan Association of the United Church of Christ and was received as a ministerial member of the New York Conference of the United Methodist Church in 1985.