GESTALT THERAPY
Gestalt Therapy focuses upon the client’s experience in the present moment
The first step toward change is awareness…
What is Gestalt Therapy?
- Gestalt Therapy is a holistic approach, which focuses upon your experience in the present moment.
- The goal is for you to enhance your awareness of what you are doing and how you are doing it. It is through this awareness that change can occur.
- In Gestalt Therapy there is a strong emphasis on self-fulfilment and the development of authenticity and self-responsibility.
- Through Gestalt therapy, you learn to discover feelings that may have been suppressed or masked by other feelings and to accept and trust your emotions.
- Through this process, you gain a new sense of self as overall awareness increases.
- Ultimately, Gestalt Therapy helps people gain a better understanding of how their emotional and physical needs are connected.
• Awareness is a non-verbal sensing or knowing what is happening here and now. It is a fundamentally positive, essential quality of all healthy living.
• Gregory is curious about how people become aware of their existence and how they organise their life.
• Awareness will be focused on the client’s internal bodily, emotional and personal needs and desires.
• As the client’s awareness continues to grow the therapeutic relationship becomes a secure foundation that allows the client to explore the possibility of transformation.
• Gregory is curious about how people become aware of their existence and how they organise their life.
• Awareness will be focused on the client’s internal bodily, emotional and personal needs and desires.
• As the client’s awareness continues to grow the therapeutic relationship becomes a secure foundation that allows the client to explore the possibility of transformation.
• Support is a key in Gestalt Therapy and the necessary basis of all healthy functioning.
• Gregory helps identify many aspects of support in the client’s life in order to discover what is missing, under-used or over-used.
• Gregory is curious about how his clients can co-operate with their environment and community for mutual support, balancing their own needs with consideration of the needs of others.
• Gregory helps identify many aspects of support in the client’s life in order to discover what is missing, under-used or over-used.
• Gregory is curious about how his clients can co-operate with their environment and community for mutual support, balancing their own needs with consideration of the needs of others.
• Change through Gestalt Therapy occurs with self-recognition, self-acceptance, owning and healthy interpersonal contact between the person and their environment.
• Gregory aims to meet and understand their clients rather than to move them in any particular direction. He believes that fundamental change can occur when there is a complete acceptance of his client’s whole personhood.
• Gregory aims to meet and understand their clients rather than to move them in any particular direction. He believes that fundamental change can occur when there is a complete acceptance of his client’s whole personhood.
• Relationship between client and therapist is the critical medium for healing in Gestalt Therapy.
• A nurturing and attuned therapeutic relationship is fundamental for creating safety and healing.
• In Gestalt Therapy both, the client and the therapist are mutually responsible parts of the therapeutic process. In that process Gregory’s attention focuses both on how he impacts his client and how the client impacts him.
• A nurturing and attuned therapeutic relationship is fundamental for creating safety and healing.
• In Gestalt Therapy both, the client and the therapist are mutually responsible parts of the therapeutic process. In that process Gregory’s attention focuses both on how he impacts his client and how the client impacts him.
ANYONE CAN BENEFIT FROM GESTALT THERAPY
This type of therapy is particularly beneficial for:
- Managing anxiety and depression.
- Dealing with trauma, grief and loss.
- Recognizing and identifying feelings.
- Dealing with existential issues.
- Exploring inhibited emotions.
- Dealing with unresolved issues from the past.
- Rising awareness of present experiences.
- Treating a wide array of psychological disorders.