The Washington Center for Consciousness Studies is led by Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D and Sharon Bauer, MSN. We are located in Washington DC.
Our address is
The Washington Center for Consciousness Studies
1834 Swann St NW
Washington DC 20009
202.234.2866 Phone
202.332.0595 Fax
We can be reached by phone or via the contact form.
Rudolph Bauer,Ph.D. is Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, ABPP and holds Consultant Status in The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He is a member of The American Academy of Clinical Psychology. He is currently Director of The Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Center of Washington D.C. as well as Co Director of The Washington Center for Consciousness Studies.
Formerly, He was Director of Psychology Training at The University of Maryland School of Medicine and was on the teaching Faculty of Johns Hopkins University. He has completed Post Doctoral work in existential phenomenology at The University of Louvain,Belgium and as well Post Doctoral work in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and Clinical Child Psychology at The Devereux Foundation. He also completed a Predoctoral Psychology internship at Devereux Foundation. He was trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy at The Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Center of La Jolla, California by Erving and Miriam Polster. He also studied Family systems at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center and participated in psychoanalytic seminars at the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis.
He has studied for over 30 years with Masters of Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhism, Kashmir Shavism and Daoist Qi Gong. He has over 30 publications in the areas of individual and group psychotherapy, clinical hypnosis, child psychotherapy, psychoanalytic object relations theory as well as experimental studies on time perspective of hope and despair.
Sharon Bauer, MSN is a psychiatric clinical nurse practitioner who is trained and certified in clinical hypnosis through the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. She is a graduate of The Gestalt Training Center of San Diego. For the past 26 years, she has been practicing psychotherapy in a private practice setting.
Prior to private practice, she worked extensively in community mental health and taught nursing at Villanova University. She is also trained and certified in Reconnective Healing. She has been a practitioner of meditation for over 25 years. She is senior faculty member of the Gestalt Training Center of Washington,D.C. as well as Co director of the Washington Center for Consciousness Studies.