My practice
Gestalt therapy focuses on present experience: emotions, bodily sensations and relationships. It helps bring habitual responses into awareness and offers space to experience other ways of relating to yourself and others.
A visual guide
A need emerges, takes shape in contact with the environment, and may then give way to rest.
Here and now
Attending to my experience
A sensation, emotion or tension appears.
I recognise what is happening and the emerging need.
Energy and the wish to act take shape.
I act, express myself and live the experience.
I recognise what the experience brings me.
I can rest and allow something else to emerge.
An everyday example
I notice tension when accepting a request. Paying attention, I recognise tiredness and a need for rest. I can explore how to express my limit, notice how it feels and stay with what follows.
Therapy attends to emotions, sensations and ways of relating that emerge in the session. It helps identify where contact becomes difficult and explore other ways of responding.
Gestalt therapy
Gestalt therapy favours working in the here and now. It draws on lived experience, emotions, bodily sensations, and the quality of contact with yourself, others and your environment. This approach invites a more conscious presence to what is being experienced, and the chance to try new ways of relating to others.
First step
The first session is a meeting: understanding what brings you here, answering your questions and deciding together whether this is the right fit.
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