WHAT IS
GESTALT THERAPY?
Values experience, authentic living and human relating
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Pays attention to the full context of your life
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Develops your here-and-now awareness of your experience and your relationship to others
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Sensitive to the ways that your past experience and future hopes may be organising your current experience
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Provides a holistic philosophical engagement with the nature of the human condition
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Believes that people are naturally inclined towards positive change and that this is best supported by awareness and acceptance
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Believes that the relationship between client and therapist is fundamentally important to a healing process.
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Therapist and client work together in a process of sustained inquiry
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Believes that people are always in relationship so all experience is co-created
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Views health as the capacity to respond flexibly, choicefully and creatively to your environment
Translated from the German, gestalt implies wholeness, or if used as a verb
‘to make whole’