What is Gestalt Therapy?
A. Gestalt therapy is a growth-oriented approach that values self-awareness and self-responsibility in living. The Gestalt Approach embraces a person’s whole life experience – physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional, interpersonal and spiritual. Each of these interconnected aspects of living is considered inseparable from a person’s environment, history and culture. From a Gestalt perspective, healthy living is grounded in a person’s awareness of how they live their life, in the present, through their relationships with their world. Gestalt therapy seeks to promote a person’s awareness, facilitate connectedness to the many aspects of a person’s life experience, support creative choice and encourage responsibility in a person’s efforts to realise a meaningful and fulfilling life.
