Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt Therapy is a counselling approach that focuses on current experience rather than ruminations about the past or future. Hence, the focus is on awareness and action. Hence, change becomes possible by no longer denying or disowning parts of oneself.

The emphasis on increased awareness is intended to confront the person with full responsibility for all his behaviour, to increase authentic self expression and relating, and to minimise self deceptive, evasive and self frustrating behaviour. (J.Greenwald, The Handbook of Gestalt Therapy, Aronson, new york, 1978 p.267).

The 'I-Thou and Here and Now' precepts summarise this style of 'presence' in therapy between therapist and client in contrast to a more clinical 'detached' style.

Gestalt Therapy is part of my "spectrum approach" to psychological counselling.