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Gestalt Psychotherapy
WHY DO GESTALT PSYCHOTHERAPY
About Gestalt Psychotherapy
Gestalt therapy invites clients to rediscover their wholeness by getting to know and trust their feelings, take ownership of their choices, and live in a fuller and more authentic way. Gestalt psychotherapy is underpinned by the belief that we are healed in relationship and that within the present-moment experiences of the client-therapist relationship we find our way back to personal agency and authenticity.
So much more than a talk therapy, the Gestalt approach is relational and experiential. For example, if a client says they feel anxious, the Gestalt therapist might gently guide them to notice where that feeling lives in their body, what thoughts arise, and what they might need in the therapeutic relationship right now. Where before sensations and feelings may have been depressed, repressed, confused or stuck over a lifetime or after a traumatic event, expanding awareness can lead to new insights and healthier ways of responding with ourselves and others.
Gestalt means ‘whole’ or ‘pattern’ and Gestalt therapy sees each of us as a complete being (mind, body and emotions) who is connected to, shaped by, and in turn, shaping the world we live in. Creativity and experiment are valued as tools of the work with role-play, movement, or dialogue used, and tailored to each client, to bring feelings and experiences to life and to a new stage of completion.
"Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not" (Beisser, 1970)
Benefits
BENEFITS OF GESTALT PSYCHOTHERAPY
Increase self-awareness
Slow down, become present with another, noticing your embodied way of being in the world, first in the therapeutic relationship and then in your life.
Cultivate Acceptance
Discover the patterns of your emotions and behaviours and learn, through exploration, the meanings behind these patterns. Self-acceptance can come with this growing awareness.
Build resilience
Notice how you regulate, or not, in certain situations/ contexts. Experimenting with authentic expression in therapy supports you to regulate in new ways in your relationships.
Restore Wholeness
Connect to your present moment experience, needs and boundaries in relationship, expand your trust in your inherent wisdom and choices, and cultivate your authentic expression.
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-Orla Roberts
I randomly booked a Reiki session with Geraldine a few months ago during a stressful period and it led to a whole other life changing journey that I could never have anticipated. I went on to do some shamanic sessions with Geraldine. She creates a warm, welcoming safe space and she has such a kind, calming presence about her. That combined with her knowledge, and the passion she has for the work she does, creates something special.
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I feel very privileged to have taken my journey toward Reiki practicing with Geraldine. Over the four courses I feel I've gotten an excellent introduction and grounding in Reiki healing and wouldn't hesitate to recommend Geraldine as a Reiki teacher for anyone.
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Aisling:
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Aisling - Christine's Herbal Remedies were a great support for me
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WHAT'S INCLUDED?
Content of a session
No two sessions are the same. The Gestalt therapist meets you where you are at in each session. The session commences with a slowing down and a chance to feel yourself as you arrive into the space. Invitations are offered by the therapist to feel your body in the chair and to notice your breath moving through your body while the Gestalt therapist remains present to their own embodied experience.
The role of the Gestalt therapist is to remain present and attuned through their body to what is happening in the relationship with you as it unfolds, moment by moment. You may choose not to accept the invitation and your choice is respected and explored as part of the work. You may choose to remain in silence, or to dance, or to express yourself through art or the use of figures or words. The work of Gestalt therapy is to become present to what unfolds in the moment-by-moment process of the relationship between client and therapist. It is in the supportive space of the therapy room that you, as client, become aware of the patterns of emotions and behaviours that show up in the therapy room and in your relationships. Explorations are done together, as an exploration, rather than as interpretation with the goal of supporting growing awareness and integration.
Gestalt therapy is experiential – attending to what how we are experiencing ourselves in relationship with each other in the present moment; existential – the Gestalt therapist’s sharing of what resonates for them or of their experience and responses to the client can include existential themes of separation and aloneness; experimental – within the supportive therapeutic relationship we can try out new ways of being in the world. The only goal of Gestalt therapy is to support us to restore our sense of innate wholeness. Much of the work of Gestalt is supporting us to become aware and in turn to accept ourselves as we are – not just in our striving towards health but in our darker, regressive states.
Each session is 50 minutes long.
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