Gestalt Therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which self-awareness and self-acceptance are considered keys to personal growth. The human mind and human behaviour are viewed as one complete whole. The word Gestalt is used in modern German to mean the way a thing has been “placed,” or “put together.” Gestalt therapy encourages the client to re-evaluate their perspective by challenging the client to look again at themselves, their actions, thoughts and feelings. I view each of my clients as a distinct being, with unique insight into their own existence and behaviour.

The purpose of this kind of therapy is to provide you with an environment in which you can explore unfinished business from the past, your perceptions and your feelings, in the here and now, fully understanding your own responsibility for the way in which you react. I will work with you to recognise where you are stuck, bringing this into your awareness by inviting you to assess what you are feeling in the present. You hold the keys to your own state of autonomy and can free yourself from the fixed position you are experiencing by recognising how you are reacting, how appropriate that response really is and how you could react instead. Part of my role as your therapist is to provide a safe space for you to test the alternative.