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Gestalt Therapy is an existential and experiential psychotherapy that focuses on the individual’s experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts in which things take place, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a result of the overall situation. It emphasizes personal responsibility, functional boundaries, addressing unfinished business, and living in awareness.  Gestalt therapy was co-founded by Fritz Perls, Laura Perls, and Paul Goodman in the 1940’s and 1950’s.

Gestalt Therapy focuses more on process (what is happening) than content (what is being discussed).  The emphasis is on what is being done, thought and felt at the moment rather than on what was, might be, could or should be.

Gestalt therapy is a method of awareness, by which perceiving, feeling and acting are understood to be separate from interpreting, explaining and judging using old attitudes.  This distinction between direct experience and indirect or secondary interpretation is developed in the process of therapy.  The client learns to become aware of what they are doing psychologically, and how they can change it.  By becoming aware of and transforming their process they develop self-acceptance, and the ability to experience more in the “now,” without so much interference from baggage of the past.

The objective of Gestalt Therapy, in addition to helping the client overcome symptoms, is to enable him or her to become more full and creatively alive and to be free from the blocks and unfinished issues that may diminish optimum satisfaction, fulfillment, and growth. (Wikipedia) www.gestalttherapy.net

Practitioners offering this specialty:  Ruth Frankenfield, Rebecca Appelfeller, Julie Nicolosi, Bob Forte