Stephen Gyllenhaal

Stephen is the founder of the Institute. He trained with Dr. Franz Ruppert and Marta Thorsheim in Oslo and Munich. He facilitates ID sessions in North America as well as trains ID facilitators based on the IoPT method. He is a proud father and grandfather.

For over 50 years he has pursued two careers: 1) as an award-winning director of over 60 films and TV shows, including Losing Isaiah, Waterland, Homegrown, Twin Peaks, Rectify, Billions and Bosch; 2) as a “professional patient,” trying to gain clarity about his own personal issues through some form of therapy, analysis or 12 Step Program, including Cognitive Behavioral, Alderian, Attachment, Gestalt, Integrative, Jungian, Marriage and Family, Freudian and Kleinian Psychoanalysis, MPD (DID), Alanon, ACoA, SLAA and DA.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and sees himself as a fellow traveler with whomever shares the iD process with him, in either groups or in private sessions.

He has come to understand that the iD process is the most powerful psychological tool he has had the privilege to encounter and is committed to making it available to everyone in North America no matter their life circumstance or personal issues.

"The iD process is about uncovering the deepest parts of yourself and the challenges, traumas and wounds that have kept you from your joy, curiosity, power and full potential to live who you really are and contribute to the world what you really want.”