Therapeutic approach
Gestalt therapy for awareness and contact
Gestalt therapy helps clients become more aware of how they feel, relate, avoid, protect and choose in the present moment.
The work
More than talking about the problem
Gestalt therapy is not only about explaining the past. It asks what is happening now: in the body, in emotions, in relationships and in the way the client meets or avoids experience. This can make old patterns visible in a direct and practical way.
The therapist pays attention not only to the story, but to the way the story is told: where energy appears, where contact disappears, where the body tightens, where emotion becomes interrupted and where something unfinished asks for attention.
Core ideas
The work becomes concrete
Awareness
What is happening now?
The present moment becomes a place where patterns can be noticed instead of only described.
Contact
How do you meet yourself and others?
The work can reveal the ways a person reaches, withdraws, protects or loses contact.
Experiment
Trying something different
Gestalt work may invite a client to notice a gesture, complete a sentence, speak more directly or explore an inner conflict in real time.
Responsibility
More choice, less autopilot
The aim is not blame. It is the possibility of seeing one’s own part clearly enough to choose differently.
For repeating patterns
When understanding is not enough
Many people can explain their patterns and still feel unable to change them. Gestalt therapy supports a more embodied and relational kind of awareness, where the client can experience the pattern as it happens and begin to choose differently.
Useful when
Gestalt therapy may support
Relationships
Repeated conflicts
The same argument, withdrawal or need for approval keeps appearing in different relationships.
Inner conflict
Two directions at once
Part of the person wants change, while another part protects, freezes or resists.
Emotion
Feeling cut off or flooded
Some clients feel too much too quickly. Others feel far away from what they actually feel.
Decision
A need for clarity
The work can help identify what is true now, not only what would look reasonable from the outside.
First step
Begin with awareness, not pressure
Sessions take place in person in Lodz or online, depending on what best supports the client. A first session can help clarify what is happening and what kind of work would be useful.