Fulwood Counselling & Psychotherapy Service

Gestalt therapists view each person as having the potential to live satisfying and creative lives. Unfortunatley this potential can be held back in the form of old ideas, feelings and habitual behaviour.

The aim of Gestalt therapy is to increase awareness of how we think, feel and act in the world. When we know what we are doing and how we are doing it we have greater choice about change, growth and healing. The emphasis here is response - ability and freedom to choose.

The Gestalt approach is holistic. People are considered as whole, we cannot be understood in isolation from our environment, nor can we be understood by isolating mind from body or soul. All these aspects of our existence are inter-related from a Gestalt perspective.

The relationship between the Gestalt therapist and client is one that is based on authenticity, mutuality and confirmation. Philosophically it is supported by Dialogic Existentialism – we come to know ourselves through meeting another.