The Rev'd Gary Lee
Hellman is a Fellow of the American Association of Pastoral
Counselors. He has been serving as Assisting Priest t St.
John's in the Village since 1976. He has been practicing psychotherapy
in New York City since 1978 when he established the St. John's
Pastoral Counseling Center.
Father Hellman graduated
from the University of Texas at Austin in 1967. He served
in the American Peace Corps in Bihar, India providing educational
services in family planning from 1967-1968. He graduated from
General Theological Seminary in New York City and was ordained
priest in 1973. While still in seminary, he established the
Holy Apostles Center, a residential treatment center for ex-offenders.
He received his certificate in pastoral psychotherapy, group
therapy, marriage and family therapy at the Blanton-Peale
Institute in 1978 and was certified Fellow by the AAPC in
1979.
He has provided
leadership in various counseling services in New York and
New Jersey during the past 25 years. He was administrative
director of the Counseling Center for Human Development in
Queens, New York. He was director of the Pastoral Studies
Program and the Blanton Peale Institute and served on the
board from 1981 to 1986. He was founding Director of the Grace
Counseling Center in Madison, New Jersey from 1984 to 1992.
He became Director of the Counseling & Human Development
Center in Manhattan in 1992 and served as Vice President for
the Foundation for Religion and Mental Health from 1992 to
2002. He is currently president of the Psychotherapy &
Spirituality Institute.
He has pursued his
interests in interfaith dimensions of spirituality since his
service in India. He has served most recently on the Board
and council of the Temple of Understanding. Since 1987, he
has pursued his interest in sailing and in 1999-2000 sailed
in the island kingdom of tonga to be among the first to greet
the new millennium.
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