Gestalt Therapy puts the focus on what you are experiencing in the ‘here and now’, while acknowledging how the past  impacts the present. By staying in the ‘here and now’, with self-awareness, and attending to your needs in any given experience, a clear understanding of thoughts, emotions, and behaviour can come to light and create change.

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I love Gestalt Therapy because it is gentle and not focused on the story of our lives, but more so how experiences have shaped us. The main aspects of Gestalt Therapy is the ‘here and now’, dialogue, and how we bring ourselves into relationship with others and the world through our expression.

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Phenomenology is the experience of noticing what we feel in our body, as opposed to think in our mind. We, as humans, often cut off noticing what our bodies are feeling and telling us, and live more in our heads. Gestalt Therapy gently reminds us to tap into the wisdom and voice of our body, and find ways to acknowledge and express its natural rhythm.

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Common benefits of Gestalt Therapy include, but are not limited to: 

• increasing self-awareness and self-confidence,

• an ability to make peace with the past and an improved sense of acceptance,

• increased ability to deal with life’s stressors, and

• increased self-responsibility, awareness and control for one’s own experiences, behaviours, and coping mechanisms.