What is Gestalt Therapy?
Gestalt Therapy is a is a humanistic and holistic Psychotherapy concerned with exploring relationship – with others and oneself. I help you to focus on your immediate thoughts, feelings and behaviour and to better understand the way they relate to others. Its approach is phenomenological, which means placing your attention on your thoughts, feelings, experiences unfolding from moment to moment as you experience and express yourself in the therapeutic process. Its a discipline that helps you become more present to yourself, which allows you to discover new, previously hidden perceptions and perspectives. This increased awareness will help you see the bigger picture and start to effect changes in your life.
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‘Gestalt’ is a German term signifying a particular formation, patterning, shape or even person. Every Gestalt is unique and so are you. Often we lose the particular flavour of our uniqueness in the pressure of submitting to other’s demands and expectations or the demands on yourself. In Gestalt Therapy you learn to listen into to your own unique sense of what is true for you.
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Gestalt Therapy was founded by Fritz Perls, who was born in Germany and was a student of Sigmund Freud. Gestalt is a therapy that is concerned with developing your ability to connect with what is true for you, supporting you in expressing this authentically to others in your life situations. In Gestalt we call this ‘finding your unique contact boundary’.
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The greater holistic awareness and increased insight into how we think, feel and act is very liberating. It builds self-confidence, frees you to address issues and helps you to live life to its fullest potential. You obtain an inner strength and tranquility, a calm sea...
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