ABOUT GESTALT THERAPY
Gestalt Therapy is a powerful experiential psychotherapy focusing on contact and awareness in the here and now. By following their client's ongoing process, with special attention to both the therapeutic relationship and the client's style of interrupting that process, the Gestalt therapist can help their client to both work through and move beyond their painful emotional blocks. This frees them to begin to explore new behaviour, first in the "safe emergency" of the therapeutic relationship and/or group and then, as appropriate, in the outside world. The emphasis of the therapy is not on talking about what has happened but on fully experiencing both what is, and what can be.
Unlike psychoanalysis, Gestalt therapy does not focus on talking about the client's past. The past is not neglected, but its importance, including that of one's childhood, is not in what happened then, but in how it affects now. What we experienced as we developed, and how we adapted to that experience, come into the present as both our "unfinished business" and our character styles, or ways of being in the world. Gestalt therapists deal directly with these elements in the "here and now", working with contact styles and focused awareness to help their clients complete and work through unfinished business and learn to experience and appreciate their full beingness. By learning to follow their own ongoing process, and to fully experience, accept, and appreciate their complete selves, Gestalt Therapy clients can free themselves to move past pain, fear, anxiety, depression or low self-esteem. They can then discover who they really are, and allow themselves to develop in the ways appropriate for them.
(Excerpt from https://www.conncenter.com/)
GESTALT GROUP PROCESS
In Gestalt theory we also consider the individual and the environment as a unified field or system, in which all parts are interdependent so that a change in one part affects the others. This relationship between the individual and the environment is described by Fritz Perls (1973, p.16) as the contact boundary:
"No individual is self-sufficient; the individual can exist only in an environmental field. The individual is inevitably, at every moment, a part of some field, which includes both him and his environment".
"The nature of the relationship between him and his environment determines the human being's behaviour. With this new outlook, the environment and the organism stand in a relationship of mutuality to one another".
Currently, I offer a limited amount of 1:1 Gestalt therapy sessions. Please see my Contact page to book.
Gestalt Therapy is a powerful experiential psychotherapy focusing on contact and awareness in the here and now. By following their client's ongoing process, with special attention to both the therapeutic relationship and the client's style of interrupting that process, the Gestalt therapist can help their client to both work through and move beyond their painful emotional blocks. This frees them to begin to explore new behaviour, first in the "safe emergency" of the therapeutic relationship and/or group and then, as appropriate, in the outside world. The emphasis of the therapy is not on talking about what has happened but on fully experiencing both what is, and what can be.
Unlike psychoanalysis, Gestalt therapy does not focus on talking about the client's past. The past is not neglected, but its importance, including that of one's childhood, is not in what happened then, but in how it affects now. What we experienced as we developed, and how we adapted to that experience, come into the present as both our "unfinished business" and our character styles, or ways of being in the world. Gestalt therapists deal directly with these elements in the "here and now", working with contact styles and focused awareness to help their clients complete and work through unfinished business and learn to experience and appreciate their full beingness. By learning to follow their own ongoing process, and to fully experience, accept, and appreciate their complete selves, Gestalt Therapy clients can free themselves to move past pain, fear, anxiety, depression or low self-esteem. They can then discover who they really are, and allow themselves to develop in the ways appropriate for them.
(Excerpt from https://www.conncenter.com/)
GESTALT GROUP PROCESS
In Gestalt theory we also consider the individual and the environment as a unified field or system, in which all parts are interdependent so that a change in one part affects the others. This relationship between the individual and the environment is described by Fritz Perls (1973, p.16) as the contact boundary:
"No individual is self-sufficient; the individual can exist only in an environmental field. The individual is inevitably, at every moment, a part of some field, which includes both him and his environment".
"The nature of the relationship between him and his environment determines the human being's behaviour. With this new outlook, the environment and the organism stand in a relationship of mutuality to one another".
Currently, I offer a limited amount of 1:1 Gestalt therapy sessions. Please see my Contact page to book.