Associate Faculty

As long-time participants in GTTC-NW’s Buddhist Psychology and Gestalt Therapy training, we have experienced the personal and professional benefits of this powerful integration. We share a common desire to engage in a comprehensive path of learning and growth that includes the full range of the human experience. BPGT offers this comprehensive model. Eva and Steve have demonstrated, what it looks like to embody this model with wisdom and heart, and it is now our intention to carry this work forward by sharing it with others.

Sarah Voruz, PsyD

Sarah Voruz, PsyD, has been a student of Gestalt Therapy since 2009 when joined Steve Zahm’s consultation group at Pacific University. In 2013, she completed the Buddhist Psychology and Contemporary Gestalt Therapy training program with the GTTC-NW, graduated, and started her private practice under Steve's supervision. For several years she participated in the Advanced Gestalt Therapy training group with Steve and Jon Frew, and later studied contemporary Reichian psychotherapy with Daniel Schiff, PhD and Mitch Singer, MA, LMCH of the Somatic Psychotherapy Training Institute - PNW. Sarah was on the committee that organized The State of the Art of Gestalt Therapy conference in Portland, OR in 2015. Following the conference, she participated in creating a Portland Gestalt Therapist network and hosted a series of Gestalt Salons. Building opportunities to gather in meaningful community is one of Sarah’s greatest personal and professional passions and contributing to workshops is an exciting next step in her evolution of offerings.

Tiffani Van Buckley, RCC

Tiffani is credited with her Masters in Counselling Psychology (MA) from the University of British Columbia and has been a registered Clinical Counsellor for the past 15+ years. Early on in her career she connected to Buddhist Psychology informed Gestalt therapy while studying with Eva and Steve. Over the course of many years Tiffani has trained, practiced and integrated BPGT into her work and life. She is an Approved Clinical Supervisor offering supervision specifically from a BPGT lens. Tiffani also has specific training in Trauma Centered Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY-F, RYT 500), Trauma Informed Yoga & Mindfulness (TSYW), and EFT. She specializes in Trauma and is a Clinical Traumatologist (TITC-CT). Tiffani’s practice is located in Vancouver, Canada.

Ben Moltman, LPC

Ben is a psychotherapist in Eugene, Oregon. He became interested in Buddhism in his twenties and developed a regular meditation practice after listening to a series of talks by Jack Kornfield in 2001. He attended graduate school in San Francisco at the California Institute of Integral Studies where he continued his studies in Eastern religious traditions and was introduced to Gestalt Therapy.

Liz Cloud, LPC

Liz Cloud is a Licensed Professional Counselor, currently in private practice. Liz completed her graduate education at Pacific University’s School of Professional Psychology, where her interest in Gestalt Therapy was piqued. In 2015 Liz began training with Dr. Steve Zahm and Dr. Eva Gold through the Gestalt Therapy Training Center Northwest, and has been involved with the organization since. Her professional experience ranges from community mental health to outpatient settings, and she feels privileged to have served the Portland community since 2009. Liz has come to identify with the Buddhist-informed Gestalt Therapy as an integral component of her work, both personally and professionally, and is excited to continue learning and teaching from this framework.