WHAT IS
GESTALT THERAPY?

Values experience, authentic living and human relating
 

• Pays attention to the full context of your life
   

• Develops your here-and-now awareness of your experience and your relationship to others
   

• Sensitive to the ways that your past experience and future hopes may be organising your current experience
   

• Provides a holistic philosophical engagement with the nature of the human condition
   

• Believes that people are naturally inclined towards positive change and that this is best supported by awareness and acceptance
   

• Believes that the relationship between client and therapist is fundamentally important to a healing process.
   

• Therapist and client work together in a process of sustained inquiry
   

• Believes that people are always in relationship so all experience is co-created
   

• 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’